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Letter "G" » grab
«The law of grab is the primal law of infancy»
«Well, all the plays that I was trying to write were plays that would grab an audience by the throat and not release them, rather than presenting an emotion which you could observe and walk away from.»
Author: Arthur Miller
(Playwright)
| About:
Writing
| Keywords:
grab, presenting, release, The Throat, throat, walk away
«When you have a dream you've got to grab it and never let go»
«When you're a kid, what fun the game is! You grab a bat and glove and ball, that's it. I know what Ted Williams and Stan Musial meant when they said it got tougher to get in shape every year.»
Author: Eddie Mathews
| Keywords:
every year, glove, grab, Musial, Stan Musial, Ted Williams, tougher, Williams
«The way to fight a woman is with your hat - grab it and run»
«Sometimes oppurtunities float right past your nose. Work hard, apply yourself, and be ready. When an opportunity comes you can grab it.»
Author: Julie Andrews
(Actress, Singer)
| Keywords:
apply, float, floated, grab, grabbed, grabs, nose, nosed, nosing, on the nose, under his nose, under your nose
«Once in one's life, for one mortal moment, one must make a grab for immortality; if not, one has not lived.»
«Ross: What if there is only one woman for everybody? You know. What if I get one woman and that's it? Unfortunately in my case there was one woman... for her. Joey: Ross, relax that's like saying there's only one flavour of ice-cream for you. Let me tell you something Ross, there's lots of flavours out there. There's rocky road, cookie dough and bing! Cherry vanilla. You can get them with jimmies or nuts, or whipped cream. Welcome back to the world, grab a spoon! Ross: I honestly don't know wether I'm hungry or horny. Chandler: You stay out of my freezer.»
«The Lord gave us farmers two strong hands so we could grab as much as we could with both of them»
«LYRE, n. An ancient instrument of torture. The word is now used in a figurative sense to denote the poetic faculty, as in the following fiery lines of our great poet, Ella Wheeler Wilcox:I sit astride Parnassus with my lyre, And pick with care the disobedient wire. That stupid shepherd lolling on his crook With deaf attention scarcely deigns to look. I bide my time, and it shall come at length, When, with a Titan's energy and strength, I'll grab a fistful of the strings, and O, The word shall suffer when I let them go! --Farquharson Harris»
Author: Ambrose Bierce
(Editor, Journalist, Writer)
| Keywords:
bide, biding, deign, deigns, denote, denotes, Ella Wheeler Wilcox, faculty, fiery, figurative, fistful, grab, Harris, instrument of torture, lyre, Parnassus, poetic, strings, Titan, wheeler, wire
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