Mary Tyler Moore

There are certain things about me that I will never tell to anyone because I am a very private person. But basically, what you see is who I am. I'm independent, I do like to be liked, I do look for the good side of life and people. I'm positive, I'm disciplined, I like my life in order, and I'm neat as a pin.

American Actress

Normani Kordei

Society tends to pin women against each other, but we need to treat each other with kindness and compliment one another instead. Because women's voices are the strongest when they're together.

American Musician

Patrice Evra

For as long as I am still motivated, I will keep putting my boots on and not pinning them up.

French Athlete

Ali Smith

The things in life which try to pin us down are the things we have to try to work against.

Scottish Writer

Amor Towles

Early on in the writing, there is often a sentence that pins down a character for me.

American Novelist

Taylor Hanson

You never get to pick how you get pinned and how people perceive you.

Vic Morrow

Then you'd have found me pinned beneath a large metal pipe.

American Actor

Joan Allen

I'm hard to pin down. I tend to look different in films.

Jamal Murray

I know how to come off a handoff and a pin down.

Canadian Athlete

John Calipari

American Coach

While often used for sewing, 'pin' can refer to small metal items used in various situations.

Not only sewing

'Pin' implies a temporary and not damaging way to attach things together.

Physical attachment

To 'pin' something often means securing it in a spot where it's very visible.

Securing position

A 'pin' in banking is secret and used for security, not to be shared lightly.

Confidential number

Using 'pin' for blame focuses on finding the specific person responsible.

Assigning blame

'Pin' in mechanics refers not to size, but to its role as a crucial part in a device.

Technical component

'Pin' used as a verb can mean to hold something firmly, it cannot move.

Restrict movement

In bowling, 'pins' are the objects players aim to knock over with the ball.

Bowling targets

 and that doctor little the science and personality guy would come over and we'd say there's about to be a party and he'd say no I'm an introvert I'm an introvert and then we'd have to go put him in the back room and then maybe the French mathematician with the beautiful cravat and the mysterious spider pin which he told me he does not divulge why he wears

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 And they're just so gorgeous and you see pictures of them, but nothing compares to real life. The chicks are so cute and when they're alarmed, they sort of crane their necks up and they end up looking like bowling pins because they're just these little white sort of dumpy shape

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 That became the most studied event in the history of astronomy. It yielded a treasure trove of data that’s helped pin down the speed of gravity, bolster important theories in astrophysics, and provide evidence for the origin of heavy elements like gold and platinum.

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 soap and water, and hand sanitizer. So which is better? The coronavirus that causes COVID-19 is one of many viruses whose protective outer surface is made of a lipid bilayer. These lipids are pin shaped molecules whose heads are attracted to water,

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 with my machine gun ready. He lunges for his Luger. I knock it out of his hand. He lunges for his cyanide pill. I knock that out of his hand. He snarls, comes at me with otherworldly strength. We grapple, we fight, I manage to pin him down

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 in this last leg of our journey we venture deep into the heart of the remote and rugged sarichat reserve yeah to plant more camera traps and pinning all our hopes on spotting a snow leopard it's like a ghost of the mountains

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 the Big Bang is an amazingly difficult thing to wrap your brain around which isn't surprising when you're trying to think about the universe being smaller than a head of a pin

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 the raiding parties head out to the last place they had found food where they had pinned down the few winged termites

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 raiding parties head out to the last place they had found food where they had pinned down the few winged termites