#nail

As the writer, you're always a presence in the song. If you get close to what human beings are like, you're writing about common experience. We all do much the same things, so if you nail somebody, then you've also nailed yourself. ↗

— Richard Thompson

#also #always #beings #close #common

We found that the most exciting environments, that treated people very well, are also tough as nails. There is no bureaucratic mumbo-jumbo... excellent companies provide two things simultaneously: tough environments and very supportive environments. ↗

— Tom Peters

#bureaucratic #companies #environments #excellent #exciting

My nails are a disaster. If I play guitar when my nails are long, I just tear them off. ↗

— Liz Phair

#guitar #i #just #long #nails

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails. ↗

— Plato

#feet #flat #man #nails #two

I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild. ↗

— Iggy Pop

#i #like #me #more #music

People get on a show and they fought tooth and nail. Almost 95% of the actors out there want to be on a television series. Then as soon as they get onto one, no, no, I want to be a movie star. This television series stuff, no, no no. ↗

— Victoria Pratt

#fought #get #i #movie #movie star

I have significant concerns about reducing the 188th Fighter Wing's capabilities, and will fight tooth and nail against attempts to reduce its personnel or take away aircraft. ↗

— Mark Pryor

#against #aircraft #attempts #away #capabilities

Though I still have no semblance of a life outside of Nine Inch Nails at the moment, I realize my goals have gone from getting a record deal or selling another record to being a better person, more well-rounded, having friends, having a relationship with somebody. ↗

— Trent Reznor

#being #better #better person #deal #friends

What the country needs is dirtier fingernails and cleaner minds. ↗

— Will Rogers

#country #fingernails #minds #needs

No brilliance is needed in the law. Nothing but common sense, and relatively clean finger nails. ↗

— John Mortimer

#clean #common #common sense #finger #law