Tin Quotes
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They've started this filthy floodlit cricket with cricketers wearing tin hats and advertisements for contraceptives on their boots.
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More Tin Quotes
Scientology , how about that? You hold on to the tin cans and then this guy asks you a bunch of questions, and if you pay enough money you get to join the master race. How's that for a religion ?
frank zappa— Concert address to audience at the Rockpile, Toronto (May 1969)
There rise her timeless capitals of Empires daily born,
Whose plinths are laid at midnight, and whose streets are packed at morn;
And here come hired youths and maids that feign to love or sin
In tones like rusty razor-blades to tunes like smitten tin.
— Naaman's Song, Stanza 2.
And I often dream of chemistry at night, dreams that conflate the past and the present, the grid of the periodic table transformed to the grid of Manhattan. […] Sometimes, too, I dream of the indecipherable language of tin (a confused memory, perhaps, of its plaintive “cry”). But my favorite dream is of going to the opera (I am Hafnium), sharing a box at the Met with the other heavy transition metals my old and valued friends Tantalum, Rhenium, Osmium, Iridium, Platinum, Gold, and Tungsten.
oliver sacks— p. 317 (Uncle Tungsten (2001))
Life is rather like a tin of sardineswe're all of us looking for the key.
Alan Bennett— 1960 Beyond the Fringe.
Honoria?is one of those robust, dynamic girls with the muscles of awelter-weight and a laugh likea squadronof cavalry charging over a tin bridge.
Plum— 1925 Carry On, Jeeves,'The RummyAffair of Old Biffy'.
I cannot remember things I once read A few friends, but theyare in cities. Drinking cold snow-water from a tin cup Looking down for miles Through high still air.
— 1959 Riprap,'Mid-August at Sourdough Mountain Lookout'.
We’re making tin gods out of those poor buffoons in Hollywood; I dote on movies and appreciate the scanty art therein but I consider the profession about the most debased and debasing I know.
robert e. howard— From a letter to Tevis Clyde Smith (week of February 20, 1928)
To have news value is to have a tin can tied to one’s tail.
thomas edward ("t. e.") lawrence— Letter (1 April 1935); published in The Letters of T.E. Lawrence (1988), edited by Malcolm Brown.
"Shall I look too?" said Pooh, who was beginning to feel a little eleven o'clockish. And he found a small tin of condensed milk, and something seemed to tell him that Tiggers didn't like this, so he took it into a corner by itself, and went with it to see that nobody interrupted it.
a. a. milne— Chapter Two (The House at Pooh Corner (1928))
It's terriblethe faint sound of a hard boiled egg firmly cracked on a tin counterit's terrible this faint soundwhen it stirs the memory of a starving man
jacques prévert— La Grasse Matinée - Sleeping In
I saw within the wheelwright’s shedThe big round cartwheels, blue and red;A plough with blunted share;A blue tin jug; a broken chair;And paint in trial patchwork squareSlapping up against the wall;The lumber of the wheelwright’s trade,And tools on benches neatly laid,The brace, the adze, the awl;
vita sackville-west— "Making Cider", p. 100
When freedom rises from the killing floor,No lock of iron or rivet can restrain the door.And no kind of army can hope to win a warLike trying to stop the rain or still the lion`s roar,Like trying to stop the whirlwind scattering seeds and sporesLike trying to stop the tin cans rapping out jailhouse semaphore.
joe strummer— Joe Strummer and Bono, "46664", written for Nelson Mandela's HIV/AIDS festival in 2003
This is the third time that, in the course of six years, during which I have had the lead of the Opposition in the House of Commons, I have stormed the Treasury Benches: twice, fruitlessly, the third time with a tin kettle to my tail which rendered the race hopeless. You cannot, therefore, be surprised, that I am a little wearied of these barren victories, which like Alma , Inkerman, and Balaclava , may be glorious but are certainly nothing more.
benjamin disraeli— Letter to Lady Londonderry (22 February 1854), in Benjamin Disraeli, Letters: 1852-1856 (1997), p. 405.
Vast quantities of U.S. bombers, tanks and guns have been sent against Ho Chi Minh and his freedom-fighters; and now we are told that soon it will be 'advisable' to send America GI's into Indo-China in order that the tin, rubber and tungsten of Southeast Asia be kept by the "free world"-meaning white Imperialism .
Paul Robeson— p. 378 (Paul Robeson Speaks (1978))
jal, juochuri, mithye katha ei tin niye kalikata.
— English translation from Bengali: Forgery, swindling and falsehood, these three make up Kolkata.
— 18th century saying quoted by Sumanta Banerjee in The World of Ramjan Ostagar, The Common Man of Old Calcutta, published in Calcutta – The Living City Vol I, Oxford University Press, paperback edition, 1995, p 82.
What is the Ninth Symphony compared to a tin Pan Alley hit played on a hurdy-gurdy and a memory?
Karl Kraus— Sprüche und Widersprüche (Dicta and Contradictions)
Lambert, who admired Duke Ellington and proclaimed his harmonic roots in Frederick Delius (who in his turn had taken them from Debussy), was a fearless reconciler of what the academies and tin Pan Alley alike presumed to be eternally opposed…In 1972, on a plane from New York to Toronto, I found myself sitting next to Duke Ellington, who spoke almost with tears in his eyes of the stature of Lambert.
Constant Lambert— Anthony Burgess Little Wilson and Big God ([1987] 1988) pp. 110-11.
I'd just love to see a great love story, and nobody makes them anymore. You have great actresses like Cate Blanchett — she's fabulous in Pushing tin and Elizabeth — and you don't use them.
madeleine stowe— Interview appearing at reel.com (10 July 1999)
"Beautiful things may be admired, if not loved," asserted the tin Man. "Flowers are beautiful, for instance, but we are not inclined to marry them. Duty, on the contrary, is a bugle call to action, whether you are inclined to act, or not. In this case, I obey the bugle call of duty."
l. frank baum— The Tin Woodman of Oz, Chapter 2, "The Heart of the Tin Woodman" (1918)
"I shall take the heart," returned the tin Woodman; "for brains do not make one happy, and happiness is the best thing in the world."
— L. Frank Baum, The Wonderful Wizard of Oz.
The British in India had called Shimla by various names Viceroy’s Shooting Box, Abode of the Little tin Gods and even Mount Olympus.
— Raghuvendra Tanwar, in "Shimla : Another age, another time".
No tin hat brigade of goose-stepping vigilantes or bibblebabbling mob of blackguarding and corporation- paid scoundrels will prevent the onward march of labor, ordivert its purposetoplay itsnatural and rational part in the development of the economic, political, and social life of our nation.
— 1937 Address, 3 Sep. Recalled on his death11 Jun1969.
