Top 88 Nail Quotes

To be completely honest, I don’t believe that Palin has any intention of actually running for president. Granted, trying to predict Sarah Palin’s next move is like trying to nail Jell-O to the wall.

Even if an actor might not nail the moves in a way than a stunt person might, I wanted to bring the character of ‘Hanna’ into everything that she did.

I am not a super-talented guy, I’m just a dude who will fight you tooth and nail.

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.

Bureaucrats: they are dead at 30 and buried at 60. They are like custard pies; you can’t nail them to a wall.

Nail polish is like the icing on the beauty cake.

I am not metrosexual. I am not macho. I am normal. I don’t even wear nail paint.

The Democratic party of Florida has put a temperance plank in its platform and the Republican party of every state would nail that plank in their platform if they thought it would carry the election.

How you go about testing is just very different to just being in the situation of qualifying, having to go out, having to nail the lap.

My main goal is Vitali Klitschko. I figure eight rounds, I nail him with a right hand, a left-right combination and it’s a wrap.

One of the first jokes I wrote was this nail salon bit that ended up blowing up on YouTube. That’s kind of what propelled me into standup.

I just wear very nice pyjamas. When I’m at home, I love to watch movies and relax because when I’m modeling, I’m always travelling. When I’m not working I don’t put much make up, but I do love nail polish for that little bit of fun colour.

It is true that in France, women put on less things. If they have a necklace, they don’t put on earrings; if they have nail polish, they don’t put on all their rings and all their bracelets.

I don’t have makeup on all the time, but when I want, I have fun with my friends choosing clothes and putting nail polish on.

I haven’t frequented a nail salon in a long time.

That’s the thing about ‘Torchwood’: It will pull the rug out from under you. It goes along being cute and campy and gay, and then, all of a sudden, it’ll nail you.

The end of the mid finger on my left hand is wider than normal, the nail distorted and a scar in the end. This was from when I managed to shove it in the path of a mower blade.

Bad company is like a nail driven into a post, which, after the first and second blow, may be drawn out with little difficulty; but being once driven up to the head, the pincers cannot take hold to draw it out, but which can only be done by the destruction of the wood.

If you can hear music, you can hear the musicality of the way someone speaks. It’s easier to nail down the way that they talk. So much of it is listening, just like in acting. If you’re listening, you pick up the nuance of why a person behaves the way that they behave.

You have to figure out what’s important and keep the main points, though I will swing a little outside the box. It affords me the freedom to find out who the character is, and it’s been a positive technique for me. I’m not saying everyone should change words, but if you can do it with confidence, you may nail it.

I realized that, when you’re 18, your world is wide open. But as each year passes, one more nail goes into the coffin, killing you dreams and aspirations. And by the time you reach 25, you’ve been beaten down and become a realist. And my advice is you can’t let these things get you down.

It’s OK if you fail a few times. Just keep getting back up until you nail it.

I always encourage people to learn the basics and nail the basics. Take the time to customize your resume and cover letter to reflect your qualifications, your research on the specific company and position, and how you believe you can add value.

Once I’ve got that world title I’ll never want to lose it. I’ll fight tooth and nail to keep it.

I always start drawing any job by planning out to some degree the locales and trying to nail the characters. If they’re existing characters, I’ll draw them several times on rough paper just to get a feeling for them. The ideal when you’re drawing a comic is to have everything in your head, not to have to refer to notes.

My name is Kurt Schwitters… I am an artist and I nail my pictures together.

You need a screwdriver for screws and a hammer for nails. Anybody that’s trying to screw in a nail with a screwdriver… that ain’t too smart.

I don’t think God cares if I wear nail polish or not. I don’t think that’s a deal breaker for him.

I’m a nail biter and have been my whole life.

There are no nail salons in Paris – it is very expensive to do a manicure. I sometimes get one done.

My grandmother had this high-tech security system – a rusty nail she used to lock the door.

Dramatically, the moment in ‘Gravity’ that was hardest to nail down is when Ryan is in the Soyuz capsule and she realizes that she’s out of fuel. That’s when the character’s arc gets defined.

Trump is the worst. I mean, he is like a shape shifter. You can’t nail him down. It is like the last gasp, the last bastion of old white males, of white supremacy and hegemony.

Everyone always asks, ‘Did you ever rebel? Did you dye your hair blue? Did you wear black nail polish?’ I mean, of course, there have been episodes when you wear weird-colored lipstick… But generally, I think I was pretty much the way I am now.

One of the first production deals I signed, the guy wanted my name to be Minaj and I fought him tooth and nail. But he convinced me. I’ve always hated it.

I’ll fight like a wildcat until they nail the lid of my pine box down on me.

Steve Bannon was my right-hand man for, like, seven years. He’s a hammer. And when you’re a hammer, everything looks like a nail. He’s very sure and very smart. Very driven, very patriotic. He’s not most of the things that people say.

I toured in Europe first, before I did any touring in the U.S. It was with Jimmy Nail and others.

Convincing people to give your way a try will work if you neutralize – and sometimes you have to cauterize – the ones who really are against change. They’re the kind of person who, if you tell them it’s raining outside, they’ll fight you tooth and nail.

It’s true, most of my days are spent alone in a dark room! I don’t really want anyone to see me trying and failing to nail the 40th take of a simple piano cue.

‘The Queen Is Dead’ is not merely the Smiths’ best album, but it is one of those timeless, perfect, inexhaustible artifacts that could only have been made by a gang of sullen, sun-deprived rock & roll boys fighting off adulthood tooth and nail.

Piper insisted she had to be out of breath when we played this one scene, so she ran around the block. Thank God she wasn’t doing a crucifixtion scene; we would have had to nail her to the wall.

There’s a picture of me as a little girl, and I’m waiting to go onstage, and I am biting the last bit of nail I have left on my finger.

It’s more fun to write stuff when you know someone’s going to nail it.

In Hollywood today, it’s cool for guys to wear nail polish and earrings in their lips and tongues. I don’t get it.

If you only have a hammer, you tend to see every problem as a nail.

I don’t like to fly. I’ve never been a good flyer. I have a lot of friends that have permanent nail marks in their arms… The moaning that comes from me when there is turbulence. It’s awkward for everyone around.

I’ll still try to nail acting jobs, but with ‘Eastbound,’ creating it is what gives me the ultimate pleasure at the end of the day.

Since I started acting, I had to quit a lot of bad habits. I’ve tried to stop biting my nails, because people always look at your nails during auditions. Truth be told, I still have a ‘cheat nail,’ but I’ve been cheating less and less.

That first meeting – the one where the hero and heroine start the slow burn that takes the whole story to turn into true love – is the single most important part of the whole book. Nail it, and you’ve won yourself readers.

I feel like my objective in music is to take a hammer and nail and chip away a piece of my heart and give it to someone, so I feel, with merch, it’s a tangible parallel of that.

Anyone in the Tooth & Nail or Drive-Thru scene was my thing.

I admire writers such as Elmore Leonard who can nail a character in three or four lines of dialogue, so he doesn’t need pages of back story or clumsy exposition.

Chemistry is one of those things: it’s hard to nail down what it is or how you get it.

When I was 13 I would come to school with makeup and nail polish and I had teachers who would say, ‘We can’t teach you and you’re not allowed in class.’

I didn’t want ‘Hotel Transylvania’ to be the nail in the coffin for cartoony animation. Because if the movie failed, I could see people blaming that aspect of it. I was really nervous about that.

Hitachi Nail Guns were as good as gold in this city for years. I had 300 on pawn, and then when they stopped building houses in Vegas I wound up with 300 Hitachi Nail Guns that I can’t give away.