“He [Lenny Dykstra] might be Nails, but I'm frickin' bayonets.”

— Charlie Sheen

On The Alex Jones Show February 24 2011

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American film and television actor 1965

George MacDonald Fraser book Quartered Safe Out Here

Source: Quartered Safe Out Here (1992), p. 141.

“Ay,' he said aloud. There is no translation for this word and perhaps it is just a noise such as a man might make, involuntarily, feeling the nail go through his hands and into the wood.”

Ernest Hemingway book The Old Man and the Sea

The Old Man and the Sea (1952)

“Oh, a passing, skeptical kind of interest. I'm a hammer-and-nails kind of guy.”

Nick Cave (1957) Australian musician

Cave on his interest in Eastern and nontheistic spirituality
God and religion

“My nails are my rhythm section, when I'm writing a song all alone. Some day, I may cut an album, just me and my nails.”

Dolly Parton (1946) American singer-songwriter and actress

As quoted in "Dolly Parton: Gee, She’s So Nice" https://www.rogerebert.com/interviews/dolly-parton-gee-shes-really-nice (7 December 1980), by Roger Ebert, Roger Ebert
1980s

“Raffi: Well, um, Taylor said only girls wear nail polish and so I, so I said but I'm a boy and I'm wearing nail polish, and so you're wrong!
Clarice: Raffi, I'm proud of you! That was a very smart thing to say!
Raffi: And then I kicked him.”

Alison Bechdel book Dykes to Watch Out For

#314, "Boy Trouble" (1999), collected in Post-DTWOF (2000).
Dykes to Watch Out For

“The slow-rising central horror of "Watergate" is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it.”

Hunter S. Thompson (1937–2005) American journalist and author

Rolling Stone (2 August 1973)
1970s

“One man stands as free men stand
As if his soul might be
Brave, unbroken; see his hand
Nailed to an oaken tree.”

Elinor Wylie book Nets to Catch the Wind

Nets to Catch the Wind (1921), A Crowded Trolley Car

“My name is Schwitters, Kurt Schwitters... I'm a painter and I nail my pictures... I'd like to be accepted into the Dada Club”

Kurt Schwitters (1887–1948) German artist

Quote in his letter to Hans Richter, c. 1916; as quoted in 'Hannover-Dada' by Hans Richter; as quoted in I is Style, ed. Siegfried Gohr & Gunda Luyken, commissioned by w:Rudi Fuchs, director of the Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, NAI Publishers, Rotterdam 2000, p. 151
1910s

“He was very awkward, he was swaying back from the punches and that made it very difficult to nail him.”

Ricky Hatton (1978) English former professional boxer

Ricky Hatton on his fight with Colombian Carlos Maussa. http://www.tamesideadvertiser.co.uk/sport/s/206/206746_a_stitch_in_time.html
Ricky on other boxers (Sourced)

“Trouble came only where I expected it, from One-Eye, whose motto is that anything not nailed down is his and anything he can pry loose isn’t nailed down.”

Glen Cook book Shadow Games

Source: Shadow Games (1989), Chapter 38, “Invaders of the Shadowlands” (p. 194)

“He [Lenny Dykstra] might be Nails, but I'm frickin' bayonets.”

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