Vise Quotes
15 quotes by 14 authors
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Mortality is, in reality, a very, very short period. It is literally a snap of the fingers compared to an eternity. It is so short…
— Hartman Rector, Jr.
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To crank myself up I stood on a jack and ran myself up. I tightened myself like a bolt. I inserted myself in a vise-clamp…
— Annie Dillard
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What the whole community comes to believe in grasps the individual as in a vise.
— William James
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In the New World, you'll kick your own ass and I'll wash my own brain. I'll be my own parents and you'll be you own…
— Rob Brezsny
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Science fiction is not about the freedom of imagination. It's about a free imagination pinched and howling in a vise that other people call real…
— Bruce Sterling
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We all come into existence as a single cell, smaller than a speck of dust. Much smaller. Divide. Multiply. Add and subtract. Matter changes hands,…
— Anthony Doerr
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Perl is like vise grips. You can do anything with it but it is the wrong tool for every job.
— Bruce Eckel
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I sometimes feel like I'm caught in a vise. Some people feel like I'm some kind of hero. Others hate me.
— Rodney King
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There is only one way to read, which is to browse in libraries and bookshops, picking up books that attract you, reading only those, dropping…
— Doris Lessing
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The intentions of a tool are what it does. A hammer intends to strike, a vise intends to hold fast, a lever intends to lift.…
— Philip Pullman
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Nix still held Benny's hand, and her grip tightened to an almost crushing force, grinding his hand bones together. It hurt, but Benny would rather…
— Jonathan Maberry
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Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise…
— Doris Lessing
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Self-love is not opposed to the love of other people. You cannot really love yourself and do yourself a favor without doing people a favor,…
— Karl Menninger Dr
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It never really matters what the radio play, ruff ryder roc a fella, they made me who I am, that was detroit vise a versa…
— Rock City
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One cannot know peace without knowing war You cannot know war without knowing Peace You cannot know light without Darkness you cannot know Darkness without…
— Michael T0X1C
Who Wrote These Vise Quotes
14 authors contributed a total of 15 Vise Quotes as follows: