Pinned

Famous quotes containing the word pinned:

“I know the purity of pure despair,
My shadow pinned against a sweating wall.”
—Theodore Roethke (1908–1963)

“And so they have left us feeling tired and old.
They never cared for school anyway.
And they have left us with the things pinned on the bulletin board.
And the night, the endless, muggy night that is invading our school.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“Women is fine once you got ‘em pinned down, boss, but when they ain’t pinned down they’re hell.”
—John Dos Passos (1896–1970)