Pry Quotes

66 quotes by 58 authors

Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that… — Jonah Lehrer
You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers. — Charlton Heston
I have always been spurred on by my not finding expressed anywhere the kinds of perspectives that I thought these issues most perspicuously needed and… — Kenny Smith
The night was at her disposal. She might walk back to Great Mop and arrive very late; or she might sleep out and not trouble… — Sylvia Townsend Warner
Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill. — Marcus Aurelius
Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon… — William Hazlitt
Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for. — Reynolds Price
As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that. — Frank Ocean
There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings… — John M. Ford
I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition. — Colin Farrell
If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone. — Hunter S. Thompson
Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down. — Collis Potter Huntington
Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. — Walker Evans
Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep… — Pauline Kael
When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of… — Maya Lin
On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut. — Marvin Olasky
I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her… — Ayelet Waldman
Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die? — Tim Burton
Is it thy will, thy image should keep open My heavy eyelids to the weary night? Dost thou desire my slumbers should be broken, While… — William Shakespeare
Life is too small a container for certain individuals. Some of them, such as Alobar, huff and puff and try to expand the container. Others,… — Tom Robbins

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