Famous quotes containing the word nails:
“Old Nestor—whose wit was mouldy ere your grandsires had nails on their toes.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)
““There comes Emerson first, whose rich words, every one,
Are like gold nails in temples to hang trophies on,
Whose prose is grand verse, while his verse, the Lord knows,
Is some of it pr—No, ‘t is not even prose;
I’m speaking of metres;”
—James Russell Lowell (1819–1891)
“Writing is not chewing your nails and picking your teeth, but a matter of public interest.”
—Alfred Döblin (1878–1957)