Top 171 Nails Quotes

Words matter. These are the best Nails Quotes from famous people such as Gina Barreca, Leigh Bardugo, Matt LeBlanc, Teddy Geiger, Niecy Nash, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.

Two things I do for maintenance: I get a manicure once

Two things I do for maintenance: I get a manicure once a month, and I see my therapist about every six weeks. I am happy to report that, at this point, my nails crack more often than I do.
Gina Barreca
There’s so much power in the idea of becoming monstrous. I think we see that in the way some women and girls choose to adorn themselves now. They don’t care about being pretty or palatable. They paint their lips black, dye their hair green, file their nails into claws.
Leigh Bardugo
This whole acting thing was always just for me and was always an absolute shot in the dark. If it didn’t pan out, I had my hammer and tool belt, banging nails again tomorrow if I had to.
Matt LeBlanc
Painting my nails was one of the things I liked to do, and I was so terrified of, like, ever letting anybody see my nails painted.
Teddy Geiger
I recently finished a job, an HBO movie ‘Getting On,’ a very dark comedy. It comes from a British series of the same name. In this role I have no hair, no make up and no nails. I play a very small role; she is not over the top and sassy.
Niecy Nash
We can appear to be tough as nails, but guys have a level of insecurity and vulnerability that’s exponentially bigger than you think. With the primal urge to be alpha comes extreme heartbreak. The harder we fight, the harder we fall.
John Krasinski
I definitely think prom should feel sophisticated. I’m not really into cutouts and all that. I would go for a more simple look – maybe a dark-colored dress and a red lip and long wavy hair; and for nails, a French tip is always classic and cute!
Kylie Jenner
Throughout my years in From First to Last, I was always dabbling and making electronic music on my own time. The first records I ever owned were crossover electronic rock, like Prodigy, Marilyn Manson and Nine Inch Nails.
Skrillex
Nine Inch Nails’ sound is dominated by clanging synths and sardonic, shrieking vocals.
Michael Azerrad
I wash my face and put moisturiser on; I’ve never had a facial, and I don’t get my hair or my nails done. I just do it all myself.
Imelda May
When I first came to New York I did nails, and I really didn’t get a lot of money.
Amanda Lepore
The Taliban outlawed wearing polish in the late 1990s, punishing some offenders by amputating a fingertip. Importing polish was banned only in July 2001, which suggests that women were still wearing painted nails within the safety of their homes.
Virginia Postrel
I love pampering myself, so going for a massage or getting a mani-pedi makes me feel instantly better. When my nails are done I feel so much better – it’s the little things that make me so happy, and you literally feel polished.
Jessica Lowndes
Ladies, I’ll let you in on a lil secret: guys don’t notice your nails.
Beau Mirchoff
The only thing I admit I can’t do with my long nails done is trying to get my card out of the ATM.
Rosalia
Having your nails and hair done can make you walk around saying, ‘I look good today.’ But challenging your mind can also make you feel good.
Leah LaBelle
I do love to get my nails done.
Cynthia Erivo
My wild days are made up of wigs, a spray tan, nails, fashion, and looks… I feel the most beautiful when I’m getting into my mode and it can take a really long time, like 3 to 4 hours sometimes.
Nikita Dragun
Before, I would go out and get my hair blow-dried or my nails done but now that I’m a mum my ‘me time’ happens when the boys go to bed. I’ll jump in the bath and put a leave-in conditioner on my hair and paint my nails.
Frankie Bridge
I’ve worked with Nails Inc. for years, and it’s been a joy. I love their products. I have two baskets of Nails Inc. polishes upside down to read the names, colour coded.
Poppy Delevingne
Still falls the rain – dark as the world of man, black as our loss – blind as the nineteen hundred and forty nails upon the Cross.
Edith Sitwell
If you have bad hair and you bite your nails, nobody expects that you can’t direct plays.
Phyllida Lloyd
I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting.
Abbi Jacobson
We’re in a world where there’s famine and hunger and people are dodging bullets and having their nails pulled out in dungeons so it’s very hard for me to place any high value on the work that I do to write a song. Yeah, I work hard but compared to what?
Leonard Cohen
I hate nothing more than having my nails painted. I feel like I’m in time out.
Troian Bellisario
The preparations for my very first exhibition in 1984 consisted of banging a line of nails in roughly the right place and hanging plates on them. I don’t think a tape measure or a spirit level was involved and the whole process took less time than the session in the pub afterwards.
Grayson Perry
Starting out, I bet I didn’t get a lot of parts because of my strange voice. I’m not consciously thinking, ‘Hey, sound like a squeaky dog toy mixed with a bagful of rusty nails.’ It’s just what my voice has done.
Charlie Day
I inherited them, so I got it like that. But I hear you can actually get dimples for a certain price if you really want them. I was getting my nails done once, and this lady asked me, ‘Are those real? In my country, they pay a lot of money for those.’ And I was like, ‘Really?’ I think she was from Malaysia.
Camille Guaty
I’m sure there is a group of people that assume Nine Inch Nails is just noise and chaos – or whatever it might be dismissed as, and sometimes is.
Trent Reznor
Barbies, nails, and fashion – I’ll take everything in baby pink, please.
Jeffree Star
In this industry, there are only two ways up the ladder. Rung by rung or claw your way to the top. It’s sure been tough on my nails.
Jack Nicholson
I hardly ever watch my own work. I just end up picking

I hardly ever watch my own work. I just end up picking myself apart! I can’t even stand to hear myself on voicemail. the sound of my own voice is like nails on a chalkboard. The same goes for my records.
Grey DeLisle
There’s always been an element of ‘right time, right place’ to Nine Inch Nails. When we stepped onstage at Woodstock ’94, I could sense it. I get goosebumps thinking about it now. Like, ‘I don’t know how we did this, but somehow we’ve touched a nerve.’
Trent Reznor
Everything that I have is natural – braid, nails – I practically never use cosmetics. They often ask me in the provinces about my braid.
Yulia Tymoshenko
I do take care of myself; I get my nails done, and I have a skin doctor, but that’s it. I’m clean and groomed.
Marianne Faithfull
I feel like, with a television show, you’re always biting your nails hoping you’re going to get that next season.
Jonathan Groff
Pithy sentences are like sharp nails which force truth upon our memory.
Denis Diderot
If you’ve got cool nails, you wake up and you’re like, ‘Oh, I’m happy now.’
Maisie Williams
I don’t have a stylist, and I do most of my shopping online, just because it’s easier. I don’t have any nails to manicure, and it takes me 30 minutes to get ready for a night out, as long as I’ve decided what to wear first.
Zara Phillips
When I was younger, I used to bite my nails so bad. I used to play sports; I played, like, every sport. I would be playing soccer, and I’d be in the middle of the field just zoned out, biting my nails, and I’d, like, miss the ball going past me.
Kendall Jenner
What they’re not ready for is guys like you and I and Nails and all the other gnarly gnarlingtons in my life, that we are high priests, Vatican assassin warlocks. Boom. Print that, people. See where that goes.
Charlie Sheen
I lived a fairly average, anonymous small-town life till I got the idea to do Nine Inch Nails. Then I locked myself in a studio for a year, and then got off the tour bus two years after that, and I didn’t know who I’d turned into.
Trent Reznor
I’m lucky if I get my nails done, period.
Darby Stanchfield
My eldest daughter’s been to a few sets of mine and gets spoiled when she’s doing her nails, her hair. Though more often than not, you bring them to set, and they realize the filming process is pretty boring.
Tom Ellis
Writers divide into those who write biting their nails and those who don’t. Some writers write licking their finger.
Italo Calvino
A lot of people have something to say about ‘Wuthering Heights,’ but nobody quite nails it.
Andrea Arnold
It is very easy to try to type cosmopolitan.com and accidentally type foxsports.com, if you just got your nails done.
Katie Nolan
In my 20s I was such a serious, boring-looking person. I would never do my nails. I never even danced. But I was taught by the women. They had gone through hell, but they would dance and sing. I came to realise I can’t argue for a happy world if I am not happy myself.
Zainab Salbi
I’m definitely low maintenance, but I do have a lot of massages, and I have this girl who comes to my house to do my nails. My friends will come over ,and we’ll all get our nails done or have waxes.
Kate Moss
With Nine Inch Nails, it’s all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent’s waking up on and what he’s been eating lately and what he’s been into. Because he’s preparing the whole meal.
Zakk Wylde
Some kinds of nails, such as those used for defending the soles of coarse shoes, called hobnails, require a particular form of the head, which is made by the stroke of a die.
Charles Babbage
As a technology, the book is like a hammer. That is to say, it is perfect: a tool ideally suited to its task. Hammers can be tweaked and varied but will never go obsolete. Even when builders pound nails by the thousand with pneumatic nail guns, every household needs a hammer.
James Gleick
I have an odd fetish with nails. I was always doing beauty blogs about nails, and it would be on Fridays called ‘Friday’s Fingertip Fetish.’ It became so popular that a nail polish company approached me, and Fingertip Fetish was born.
Adrienne Bailon
Heath Herring is tough as nails, and he fights hard.
Cain Velasquez