Tin Quotes

When a defining moment comes along, you define the moment, or the moment defines you.

Gotta be more than grabbing nines to buck tin in, gotta be more than just to lust women, gotta be more than platinum Rolexes.

All the same,' said the Scarecrow, 'I shall ask for brains instead of a heart; for a fool would not know what to do with a heart if he had one.' 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.

Getting to places like Bangkok or Singapore was a hell of a sweat. But when you got there it was the back of beyond. It was just a series of small tin sheds.

You know a constellation of imperishable values. Live by the mighty truth and power of God. Live above the sludge of a sick society. Live among dispirited humans as the vanguard of peace and good news. Remember, our Commander in Chief has no use for tin soldiers.

Now I know I've got a heart because it is breaking. - Tin Man

There are forces working in the world as never before in the history of mankind for standardization, for the regimentation of us all, or what I like to call making muffins of us, muffins all like every other muffin in the muffin tin. This is the limited universe, the drying dissipating universe that we can help our children to avoid by providing them with ‘explosive material capable of stirring up fresh life endlessly'.

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.

Nothing's more determined than a cat on a hot tin roof.

Leaves like rusty tin for the desolate mind that has seen the end- the barest glimmerings. Leaves aswirl with gulls made wild by winter.

There, in the tin factory, in the first moment of the atomic age, a human being was crushed by books.

Round and round we spin, with feet of lead and wings of tin.

Always remember that, nine times out of ten, you probably aren’t having a full-on nervous breakdown – you just need a cup of tea and a biscuit. You’d be amazed how easily and repeatedly you can confuse the two. Get a big biscuit tin.

The drowsy stillness of the afternoon was shattered by what sounded to his strained senses like G.K. Chesterton falling on a sheet of tin.

Cats will amusingly tolerate humans only until someone comes up with a tin opener that can be operated with a paw.

A tin horn politician with the manner of a rural corn doctor and the mien of a ham actor

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

Like a cat on a hot tin roof.

It's hard to ravish a tin of sardines.

Thank goodness for all the things you are not, thank goodness you're not something someone forgot, and left all alone in some punkerish place, like a rusty tin coat hanger hanging in space.

But it is my total conviction that all the trappings of good leadership are generic and widely applicable whether you are standing in a khaki queue with your mess tins or on an automobile production line.

Gas grills are a no-no. Gas is a petroleum product. Rather than a smokey flavor, it will add a a petroleum-based weird taste into your meat. However, if you already have a gas grill, you can bring in some smoke flavor by tightly rolling wood chips in tin foil really tight and placing them on the top of your burners.

Time goes by so fast. Nothin' can outrun it. Death commences too early--almost before you're half-acquainted with life--you meet the other.

The path of civilization is paved with tin cans.

Kipling, the grandson of a Methodist preacher, reveals the tin-pot evangelist with increasing clarity as youth and its ribaldries pass away and he falls back upon his fundamentals.

Standing in the corridor was a large plastic bin on wheels. He looked inside. Empty tins of dog food. That explained the spaghetti with meat sauce. Oh well, he'd eaten worse.

He seems determined to make a trumpet sound like a tin whistle.

Some men are, in regard to ridicule, like tin-roofed buildings in regard to hail: all that hits them bounds rattling off; not a stone goes through.

I see myself in the mold of Rin Tin Tin. It didn't go to his head either.

There's a lot of fantasy about what Scotland is, and the shortbread tins and that sort of thing.

The French cook; we open tins.

Suburban houses and tin sheds are often the objects of ridicule.

Politicians. Little Tin Gods on Wheels.

You don't just have to be influenced by rock, or goth, anymore. It's okay to say, 'My influences are Tin Pan music from Bali and Rihanna.' There are still so many combinations that haven't been done yet.

Hagi could open a tin of beans with his left foot.

If there is any bad feeling I hope it's against me and not my players - I may put my tin helmet on without them seeing!

Oh, I see;" said the Tin Woodman. "But, after all, brains are not the best things in the world." Have you any?" enquired the Scarecrow. No, my head is quite empty," answered the Woodman; "but once I had brains, and a heart also; so, having tried them both, I should much rather have a heart.

Here I sit, alone at 60, Bald and fat and full of sin Cold the seat, and loud the cistern As I read the (Harpic) (Lysol) tin

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

The Tin Woodman knew very well he had no heart, and therefore he took great care never to be cruel or unkind to anything.

It wasn't that Nanny Ogg sang badly. It was just that she could hit notes which, when amplified by a tin bath half full of water, ceased to be sound and became some sort of invasive presence.

I made a tin man costume with tin foil and furnace parts because I thought it would help me be more heartless.

Some people liked Rudolph Valentino. I liked Rin Tin Tin.

I asked if I could read for the role of Kevin Costner's caddy in Tin Cup. It was a fun learning experience, even though Cheech Marin got the part.

Modernized by tin roofs and T-shirts, Third World poverty is no longer picturesque.

Are you kidding? I'm supposed to put my books in this filthy tin coffin?

For having expressed an opinion, however far-fetched, we straightway become its slave, ready to die defending it, and even ready to believe it. And many continue to be martyrs to causes which have ceased to exist, their crowns rusting upon their heads as tin wreaths rust upon forgotten tombs.

Bush to USSS: 'We need to get back to Wash. We don't need some tin horn terrorist to scare us off.'

It's as if a child with a brush and too much enthusiasm has been set free with a tin of black paint inside me.