Suzy Menkes Shoes? I have loved them all: ’60s pumps; white Courreges ankle boots; platform soles from the first time around, in the ’70s; more boots – ankle, calf, and knee-high; 1980s sneakers; pin heels and wedges; Mary Janes and stilettos. – Suzy Menkes
Susanna Clarke You can get this feeling of the English or Scottish or Irish or Welsh fairy, but it is by nature very elusive. It would be possible to pin down a German fairy, but the English one just vanishes, becomes the shadow under the trees. – Susanna Clarke
Sunil Mittal We lived by very complex import and export policies, a very complex industrial licensing regime. Very few people could get licences, which were required right from manufacturing a pin to manufacturing a car, and generally went to people who found favour with the government. – Sunil Mittal
Steve Hilton It’s hard to pin me down because I’m a bit of Bernie Sanders, a bit of Rand Paul, bit of John Kasich. – Steve Hilton
St Lucia With Prince especially… he was a really great songwriter and keyboardist and singer and was so good at so many different things, you couldn’t pin him down. That really inspires me. – St Lucia
Simon Schama I would want the British reader to feel that religion in America isn’t an absurd thing – a sign of a pin head athwart a gigantic body. – Simon Schama
Sam Taylor-Johnson I’m the lightest sleeper. I can hear a pin drop. It’s been worse since I was ill. I think your inner ear is always half open, listening out for the faintest danger sign. – Sam Taylor-Johnson
JrRoy Blount The more you try to pin a word down, the more you realize that it has its own cape, sword and little hat. – Roy Blount, Jr
Roman Reigns Anytime you’re out there in between those ropes, you always have to worry about fatigue. If you think about it, people get tired just doing cardio. You get tired doing cardio just by yourself. Now imagine running around, picking somebody up, picking you up, trying to pin you, trying to hold you down. It gets very tiring. – Roman Reigns
Rolf-Dieter Heuer We have reached a milestone in our understanding of nature. The discovery of a particle consistent with the Higgs boson opens the way to more detailed studies, requiring larger statistics, which will pin down the new particle’s properties, and is likely to shed light on other mysteries of our universe. – Rolf-Dieter Heuer
Roger McGuinn You can see it on the Internet: There’s an argument going on continually about, ‘What is folk music?’ And I don’t really want to get involved in that. It’s an endless argument, a ‘How many angels can dance on the head of a pin?’ kind of argument. – Roger McGuinn
