Tin Sign Quotes & Sayings

I inherited my ability from both parents; my mother's ability for spending money, and my father's ability for not earning it. — Laurence J. Peter

I can have fairly crippling self-criticism. It doesn't really put me in a vulnerable state, I just get glum and intolerable, but it certainly is a vulnerability. — Damian Kulash

The interior was dim like a cave. The ceiling, pressed tin, was stalactited with hooks from the days when the shopkeeper would hang it with buckets, watering cans, coils of rope and paired boots. Refrigerator cases lined a side wall, shallow crates of withered fruit and vegetables the back, and in the vast middle ground were aisles of rickety shelving, stacked with anything from tinned peaches to tampons. The sole cash register was adjacent to the entrance, next to ranks of daily newspapers and weekly and monthly magazines and a little bookcase thumbtacked with a sign, Library. If you were a farmer in need of an axe or some some sheep dip you headed for the far back corner. If you wanted to buy a stamp, you headed a couple of paces past the library. — Garry Disher

I don't ever remember them telling us or teaching us that the only way we could be more successful is if other people were less successful. They never inculcated the belief that somehow, in order for us to climb the ladder, other people have to come down from the ladder. — Marco Rubio

The emotion is the music and the script is the libretto. — Gregory Peck

You who seek an end of love, love yields to business: be busy, and you will be safe. — Ovid

To be a better person, spend less time filling out your personal scorecard and more time being kind . . . to you. — Philip Chard

I was told I make intelligent comics, and then I made a comic about a horse that pooped. — Kate Beaton

The New Look of Batman is more illustrative and realistic. — Bob Kane