Grabbing Quotes
91 quotes by 83 authors
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I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform.…
— Manolo Blahnik
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Not everyone knows how to be alone with others, how to share solitude. We have to help each other to understand how to be in…
— David Spangler
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We of the richer societies, who have had access to more energy than we have the experience to wield intelligently are making decisions we are…
— Alfred W. Crosby
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We're not going to deputize a whole bunch of American citizens to start grabbing people or turning them in, in part because the ordinary American…
— Barack Obama
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That's what I am, Frank thought, an ordinary genius. He had unlocked the secret of radio. The sport of the ordinary! Brillliant me like Reed…
— Garrison Keillor
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I love grabbing my wife and going to a distant location to film.
— Donald Sutherland
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I love walking around and grabbing coffee and sitting in a park and people watching… I love Greenwich Village.
— Joe Manganiello
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And when you try too hard, it doesn't work. Try grabbing something quickly and precisely with a tensed-up arm; then relax and try it again.…
— Benjamin Hoff
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Up with life. Stamp out all small and large indignities. Leave everyone alone to make it without pressure. Down with hurting. Lower the standard of…
— John D. MacDonald
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The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off…
— George Reisman
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Here is a neuron that fires when I reach and grab something, but it also fires when I watch Joe reaching and grabbing something. ...…
— Vilayanur S. Ramachandran
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My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention. Even though my work is appearing in magazines I am trying…
— David LaChapelle
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Accomplish but do not boast, accomplish without show, accomplish without arrogance, accomplish without grabbing, accomplish without forcing.
— Laozi
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When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy ... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds.
— Jonny Wilkinson
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I hang on to the statement of scientists that there is no time. Therefore, join me in telling everyone you are thirty-two. This allows me…
— Beatrice Wood
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The semi-colon is a burp, a hiccup. It's a drunk staggering out of the saloon at 2 a.m., grabbing your lapels on the way and…
— James Scott Bell
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The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous…
— Dale Carnegie
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What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities
— Bear Grylls
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You may be asking yourself, 'Am I the right type of person to go to this rally?' The fact that you would even stop to…
— Jon Stewart
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Don't blend in; instead, clash with your environment. Stand out. Be different. That's what will draw attention to your ideas. Nothing has intrinsic attention-grabbing power…
— Nancy Duarte
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