Quotes about pin
A collection of quotes on the topic of pin, likeness, use, down.
Quotes about pin

Letter to Catherine L. Moore (7 February 1937), in Selected Letters V, 1934-1937 edited by August Derleth and Donald Wandrei, pp. 407-408
Non-Fiction, Letters

Variant: But she knows she has a curse on her,
a curse she cannot win.
For if someone gets too close to her,
the pins stick further in.
Source: The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy and Other Stories

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
Mitch All Together (2003)

Canto 3
Phantasmagoria (1869)

Letter to Woodburn Harris (25 February-1 March 1929), quoted in "H.P. Lovecraft, a Life" by S.T. Joshi, p. 487
Non-Fiction, Letters

Quotes, 1960 - 1970
Source: LIFE http://books.google.com/books?id=XUoEAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA49, Vol. 64, nr. 3, 19 January 1968, p. 49

Source: 1930s, In Praise of Idleness and Other Essays (1935), Ch. 1: In Praise of Idleness.

Motherhood, Hollywood and Cate, The Age, 9 May 2005 http://www.theage.com.au/news/TV--Radio/Cate-on-Denton/2005/05/09/1115584884935.html,

“The significance of a myth is not easily to be pinned on paper by analytical reasoning.”
"Beowulf: The Monsters and the Critics" (1936), p. 14
Context: The significance of a myth is not easily to be pinned on paper by analytical reasoning. It is at its best when it is presented by a poet who feels rather than makes explicit what his theme portends; who presents it incarnate in the world of history and geography, as our poet has done. Its defender is thus at a disadvantage: unless he is careful, and speaks in parables, he will kill what he is studying by vivisection, and he will be left with a formal or mechanical allegory, and what is more, probably with one that will not work. For myth is alive at once and in all its parts, and dies before it can be dissected.
Source: Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage
Source: Passion and Purity

“There are open wounds, shrunk sometimes to the size of a pin-prick but wounds still.”
Source: Tender Is the Night
Source: My Double Life

Source: The Unabridged Journals of Sylvia Plath
“Just to make sure the odd humanoid aberration doesn't get away, always pin it through the nuts.”
Source: Magic Burns

"Sisters of Mercy"
Songs of Leonard Cohen (1967)
Context: Yes, you who must leave everything that you cannot control,
It begins with your family, and soon it comes round to your soul.
Well I've been where you're hanging, I think I can see how you're pinned:
When you're not feeling holy your loneliness says that you've sinned.

“They say that nameless things change constantly—that names fix them in place like pins.”
Source: Ironside

“I found myself pinned to the hallway wall by six feet, two inches of hard, hot male.”
Source: Reflected in You
“Do I look like the kind of person who wastes time turning goats into pin cushions?”
Source: Night World, No. 1

Go Rin No Sho (1645), The Fire Book

"The Characteristics of Propaganda" in Readings in Propaganda and Persuasion : New and Classic Essays (2006) edited by Garth S. Jowett and Victoria O'Donnell, p. 48, note 47

[In the Company of the Holy Mother, 348]

“I love to dream, but do not wish
To have a pin prick rouse me.”
J'aime à réver, mais ne veux pas
Qu'à coups d'épingle on me réveille.
La Conversation; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 815-16.

“You ain't worth a greased lack pin to ram you into hell.”
Source: Of Mice and Men (1937), Ch. 6, p. 101
“The moon is a silver pin-head vast,
That holds the heaven's tent-hangings fast.”
"The Use of the Moon", p. 178.
Poetry of the Orient, 1865 edition

The Killing Season, Episode three: The Long Shadow (2010–13)
Quoted in The Guardian ( 24 December 1984 http://pqasb.pqarchiver.com/guardian/doc/186552854.html)
Section 1.16
The Crosswicks Journal, A Circle of Quiet (1972)

2000 Chairman's Letter
Letters to Shareholders (1957 - 2012)

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Source: Autobiography of a Brown Buffalo (1972), p. 92.

Cited in: Gerald Ashley, Terry Lloyd (2010), Two Speed World: The Impact of Explosive and Gradual Change, p. 103

Trash City Interview http://members.tripod.com/hc_faq/5.2.1.1.htm (1992)

Paul Dini reflects on 25 years of Harley Quinn http://ew.com/books/2017/09/05/paul-dini-25-years-of-harley-quinn/ (September 5, 2017)

October, A Child's Calendar (1965)

“350. A Pin a Day is a Groat a Year.”
Compare Poor Richard's Almanack (1737) : A pin a day is a Groat a Year.
Introductio ad prudentiam: Part II (1727), Gnomologia (1732)
"Slightly Foxed", line 25.
The Dorking Thigh, and Other Satires
What is an American? in You Are An American http://www.huffingtonpost.com/larisa-alexandrovna/you-are-an-american_b_5928.html.

Blue Collar Comedy Tour: The Movie (2003)
Here's Your Sign
Source: Where There's a Will: Thoughts on the Good Life (2003), Ch. 20 : Law or Justice

Quoted on Out Serve Magazine, "Brig. Gen. Tammy Smith Makes Statemant" http://outservemag.com/2012/08/brig-gen-tammy-smith-makes-statement/, August 16, 2013.

“He had never acted in his life, and couldn't play the pin in Pinafore.”
The Luck of the Bodkins (1935)

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Source: Sky http://viaf.org/viaf/13641853/|
Source: From Library of Congress Name Authority File of U.S.A. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81126660.html|

A Life Decoded by Craig Venter, p. 129 http://books.google.com/books/about/A_Life_Decoded.html?id=jx9JsHry1PgC&pg=PA129

“Whilst twilight's curtain spreading far,
Was pinned with a single star.”
Death in Disguise (Boston edition, 1833), line 227. A number of variants are reported:
While twilight's curtain gathering far
Is pinned with a single diamond star.
Now twilight lets her curtain down,
And pins it with a star.
Compare: "And drew my midnight curtain with fingers bloody red", Thomas Hood, Dream of Eugene Aram; "The moon is a silver pinhead vast, That holds the heavens tent-hangings fast", William R. Alger, "The Use of the Moon", Poetry of the Orient (1865), p. 178.

“Insecurites are about as useful as trying to put the pin back in the grenade.”
Lyrics, A Crow Left of the Murder... (2004)

The very idea that people would be interested in the facts about this dress is massively insulting to the human race.
from "This Charming Man", interview by Simon Garfield, Timeout March 1985
In interviews etc., About politics and society

The Life and letters of Samuel Palmer, Painter and Etcher (AH Palmer, London, 1892)