Top 50 Tin Quotes

When I was about 7 years old, I built a leprechaun trap out of a cardboard box, a biscuit tin and some toilet paper tubes.

My first phone was two tin cans tied together with string, and it worked pretty good.

My buildings are not particularly expensive. It is not a tin shed. If you want a tinny car, you pay for that.

Tins with ringpulls tend to belong to those with slightly more disposable income; look at the Basics and Value ranges next time you are in the supermarket and you will see that they require a tin opener to get into them.

I think when you grow up – cement floors, tin roofs, having to amuse yourselves… you know, the importance of work – I think these are benefits that I’ve had.

I wouldn’t call my work Modernist. I would rust if I try to think about labels. I’d feel like the Tin Man in ‘The Wizard of Oz.’

When I was a kid, I could make music out of anything, whether it be a rubber band, a tin can. Whatever it was I made music out of it and so that was my knack.

I used to come down from New Rochelle and go to Radio City. They’d have a floor show and a movie. I’m showing my age, but I saw ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ and ‘Broken Arrow’ with Jimmy Stewart. It was a great way for a kid to see a movie.

That has been everybody’s challenge, above the dancing, the singing, the lines: getting into who these characters would be in 2015. Today’s Tin Man is heartfelt, but he wouldn’t be soft. Today’s Dorothy would be sassy.

I first met my husband on the day we got married, when I was 20. I moved to be with him in Leeds, 165 miles from Luton. The kitchen was absolutely tiny. But I got my first hand-held mixer and first set of scales and first blue cake tin from Tesco and that was very exciting.

The only thing I took to Glastonbury in 1990 was a ton of tin foil!

Much of the music I remember from camp was unofficial: the songs a counselor would play for us on acoustic guitar or that an older camper would sing after telling us a tale of his hard-knock life. We couldn’t get enough of ‘One Tin Soldier’ or ‘Cat’s in the Cradle.’

I don’t think you should have to defend your actions to people who say: ‘You’ve put some paintings on a wall, and if this doesn’t have any deep meaning, then why?’ What about the Dadaists? What were they doing? Weren’t they just having a laugh with their tin hats?

If you consider each individual tin as just the building block for a larger recipe, it doesn’t really make much difference whether it comes from a tin, or whether it’s fresh because it’s just being used in a lot of other things.

This morning I lay in the bathtub thinking how wonderful it would be if I had a dog like Rin Tin Tin. I’d call him Rin Tin Tin too, and I’d take him to school with me, where he could stay in the janitor’s room or by the bicycle racks when the weather was good.

I loved ‘Tin Cup’ because even though that character had her own career and was strong, she was pretty confused. I think she was my favorite character because she was well-rounded. She didn’t have it all together.

I remember when I was writing ‘The Tin Drum,’ I had the totally misguided idea of giving Oskar Matzerath a sister, and he just wouldn’t have it. There was no space for a sister, yet I had the character of the sister in my head. In fact I used her in later novels, in ‘Cat and Mouse’ and ‘Dog Years,’ Tulla Pokriski.

We lived in Dudley, near Cramlington, surrounded by five pits: my father would wash outside in a tin bath. He was the hardest man in the village.

In my heart, I’m just a kid from the council houses. I can remember the old cottage and my dad coming round with the tin bath. I’m not a rich man.

I’m a one-nation Conservative and that means exactly what it says on the tin.

A tin roof is one of the greatest indicators of prosperity in the developing world.

As a child I read all kinds of stuff, whether it was ‘Asterix and Obelix’ and ‘Tin Tin’ comic books, or ‘Lord of the Rings,’ or Frank Herbert’s sci-fi. Or ‘The Wind in the Willows.’ Or ‘Charlotte’s Web.’

I class myself with Rin Tin Tin. People in the Depression wanted something to cheer them up, and they fell in love with a dog and a little girl.

The War on Drugs employs millions – politicians, bureaucrats, policemen, and now the military – that probably couldn’t find a place for their dubious talents in a free market, unless they were to sell pencils from a tin cup on street corners.

For those, like me, who can’t rely on being given a home smoker this Christmas, you can build your own approximation with just a roll of tin foil and a big wok or pan for which you have a lid.

‘Tin Cup’ was great because I loved the comedy aspect of it, so that was good.

When I was a kid I used to go to the movies, double features in outdoor theaters, and my parents used to take us to see like, ‘Cat On a Hot Tin Roof’ or something like that, with Elizabeth Taylor.

I’m trying to bring something new to the Tin Man. He may be the one without the heart, but he’s the most heartfelt guy there. It’s a more manly heartfelt, a ‘don’t feel sorry for me’ – type of heartfelt. I don’t want to say tougher, because that just sounds stupid. But the Tin Man is a man’s man.

‘Cockneys vs. Zombies’ does exactly what it says on the tin.

We envision a more Germany-style economy, where 20 percent of our workforce is in manufacturing. And we’re not talking about banging tin in the back room. We’re talking about high technology across the board, whether it’s computer chips or cars or anything in between.

I’m reading scripts just like everybody else. Tin cup in hand, knocking on doors, trying to get a job. It’s tough. They don’t make as many films these days, and there’s a lot of guys that are fighting for jobs.

‘The Tin Drum’ is one of my favourite books of all time – I’ve probably got 12 or 15 copies with different covers, different translations – but it’s also just about my favourite film.

The big one I missed out on was ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof.’ MGM wanted me for it, and Warner Bros. wouldn’t give me permission to do it.

No-one posts photos of themselves on Instagram when you’re eating spaghetti hoops out of a tin going ‘Why?’

Banning paper and plastic and making shoppers carry their groceries home in their mouths like dogs is just the thing to make a little tin humanist in the Obama West Wing think he’s admiral of the Uzbek Navy.

With Ed Wood, it was this sort of blending of Ronald Reagan, the Tin Man from ‘The Wizard of Oz,’ and Casey Kasem.

The first meal was an object lesson of much variety. My father produced several kinds of food, ready to eat, without any cooking, from little tin cans that had printing all over them.

I played Big Mama in ‘Cat on a Hot Tin Roof’ when I was 20 years old at the University of Michigan.

After all we did for Britain, selling that corduroy and making it swing, all we got was a bit of tin on a piece of leather.

The simplest fix for better grilling is to line the inside of your barbecue with tin foil. It dramatically affects how evenly the heat is distributed. That crusty black hibachi or Weber grill is doing your food no favors.

My first memory of playing music was when I was 3 years old in Puerto Rico. I played percussion on a tin can behind my uncle, who played the cuatro.

I used to say Edinburgh was a beautiful actress with no talent. I thought it was just like a shortbread tin. I think that’s because I did six Festivals in a row there, and I never saw the real Edinburgh, just a lot of deeply annoying Cambridge Footlights kids wanting to be actresses.

One year, my family and I dressed up in the theme of ‘Wizard of Oz’ for Halloween. We all went as the different characters. I was the Tin Man!

The war imbued my tin soldiers with quite a new interest. It was impossible to have boxes enough of them.

There’s a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying in to Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands saying that they’re going to be trimming down and streamlining their businesses. There’s a message there.

There’s not one Tin Pan Alley song on my record.

It’s good to be finally able to afford food for a change. It’s good to move on from potatoes and tin soup.

If we have to dig a trench and put our tin hats on at times we will do it and we proved we can do that as well as play.

All I can really tell you about my father is that he did odd things like put tin foil on a bottle of beer after having a few sips, then put it in the refrigerator to perhaps have on another night.

I was at the Apollo Theater all the time, skipping school, and I worked in a barbershop. That’s how I started with doo-wop. Now I’ve come full circle. I did all kinds of music. I used to work on Broadway and Tin Pan Alley.