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"If we choose a weak and foolish speculation as a primary textbook illustration (falsely assuming that the tale possesses a weight of history and a sanction of evidence), then we are in for trouble - as critics properly nail the particular weakness, and then assume that the whole theory must be in danger if supporters choose such a fatuous case as a primary illustration."
"I only feel the pressure when we are coming up against a deadline and it's like, actually no we really have to nail this in a week!"
"It sounded like a piece of blackboard being dragged over the nails of a wall of severed fingers."
"When you are a hammer, all of your problems will look like nails to you."
"This is the moment of your defeat; you have just put in the last nails in the coffin of communism."
"Don't expect to make a living on it. Be able to hammer a nail or do retail, doing your music on the side!"
"If you nail a tool shed closed, how do you put the hammer away?"
"Each thought is a nail that is driven In structures that cannot decay; And the mansion at last will be given To us as we build it each day."
"There are two kinds of writers. There are architects and gardeners. The architects do blueprints before they drive the first nail. The gardeners just dig a hole and plant the seed and see what comes up."
"Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its head flush to the plank."
"Every nail driven should be as another rivet in the machine of the universe, you carrying on the work."
"There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one, Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on."
"I’d given up on the white picket fence after Kisten had died—finding out my kids would be demons was the nail in the coffin."
"Studying chimps, I came to the conclusion that being evil is something that only humans are capable of. A chimp would never plan to pull another's nails out. The chimps' way of aggression is quick and brutal. I compare them to gang attacks."
"A chimp would never plan to pull another's nails out."
"Yeah, in every film that I've been lucky enough to do with Tim, there's always some form of torture, and the nails were Tim's idea. They were the length of the fingers and stuff, but it was okay because I had a troop of people who would help me go to the bathroom. They had to have treatment afterwards but they're okay now. That is true."
"I love the look of buffed nails. They look neat and chic without actually having to paint your nails-and it takes no time!"
"Blot out, correct, insert, refine, enlarge, diminish, interline. Be mindful, when invention fails. To scratch your head and bite your nails."
"I still bite my nails."
"I haven't frequented a nail salon in a long time."
