Pull Quotes - page 5

I didn't set fire to the building." "No, but you did pull it into the river." "That put the fire out! (Anthony Horowitz)
You can be merry with the king, you can share a joke with him. But as Thomas More used to say, it's like sporting with a tamed lion. You tousle its mane and pull its ears, but all the time you're thinking, those claws, those claws, those claws. View quote
Hilary Mantel
It was time to pull my moral socks up and behave myself. View quote
Charlaine Harris
As it was, I couldn't escape the feeling that I was out of my element. I found myself thinking of a book I'd left half-read at home and wishing I'd stuck it in my purse so I could pull it out now. View quote
Charlaine Harris
When someone is drowning and you try to save them, they're more likely to drown you before you pull them out. View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
You can't die, Vik. You're a mechbot. (Syn) They can pull me apart and reprogram me. Trust me, that's death. Now shush before they find us. Remember – hide, people, hide. (Vik) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
Amazing things happen when you pull individual pieces of information together into larger linked datasets: meaning emerges, as you produce facts from figures. View quote
Ben Goldacre
People putting their clothes on backwards. Isn't that a sign of something going on wrong? Are you not paying attention? People with their hat on backwards, pants down around the crack. Isn't that a sign of something or are you waiting for Jesus to pull his pants up? View quote
Bill Cosby
Carol Burnett put it best when she described labor pains. She said, "Take your bottom lip, and pull it over your head." View quote
Bill Cosby
When you throw punches at actors, you stop, you pull it, and it looks like you pulled it. When you throw punches at cartoon characters, they are not there, so you can swing through. It looks like you really decked them. View quote
Brendan Fraser
Sparhawk grinned. "If Martel finds out that he's drinking again, he'll reach down his throat and pull his heart out." "Can you actually do that to a man?" "You can if your arm's long enough, and if you know what you're looking for.[...]. (David Eddings)
this blue shirt i have is practically the same color as my jeans, and looking all-blue is something only cookie monster can pull off. View quote
David Levithan
Your humor is your compass and your shield. You can hone it into a weapon or you can pull its strands out to make your very own cotton-candy blanket. You can't exist on a diet of humor alone, but you can't exist on a diet without it, either. View quote
David Levithan
As technology improves, on-screen avatars look more and more like real people. When they start looking too real, though, we pull away. These almost-humans aren't quite right; they look creepy, like zombies. View quote
James Surowiecki
I think one of the reasons that we like conspiracy theories is I think that we like to feel like there is a group of people who are so smart and powerful that they can pull the wool over an entire country or in fact even an entire world's eyes. That certainly makes us feel like somehow we're protected, even if it's not in our best interest. View quote
Jason Ritter
Normally if you are in a boat, you can follow a fish around, but if you are on the shore, you have to pull it. View quote
Jeremy Wade
Blot out the moon, Pull down the stars. Love in the dark, for we're for the dark So soon, so soon. View quote
Jean Rhys
Each character I play has different dimensions. I'm not interested in words that pull them together. View quote
Alan Rickman
I pull my lower lip all the way in between my teeth. If I try hard enough, maybe I can gobble my whole self this way.... I didn't try hard enough to swallow myself. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
I can say that even in the midst of my most cynical comic stripping: Opus shone through with a bit of heart, anchoring the ugly proceedings with a comforting pull of emotion. View quote
Berkeley Breathed
I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session. (Garry Shandling)
Happiness is being on the beam with life - to feel the pull of life. View quote
Agnes Martin
Sydney is rather like an arrogant lover. When it rains it can deny you its love and you can find it hard to relate to. It's not a place that's built to be rainy or cold. But when the sun comes out, it bats its eyelids, it's glamorous, beautiful, attractive, smart, and it's very hard to get away from its magnetic pull. View quote
Baz Luhrmann
A part of her wanted to tell him she still loved him, and that even though this love was hopeless and long over, it still consumed her year after year. It was a tangled hairball of feelings and she couldn't pull forth any one strand. View quote
Ann Brashares
I have always believed that if you need to take your clothes off to get your man, you've begun to lose the battle. If you pull it off right, you can do it in a very classy way... Being sexy is about suggestion; it's about the tease. It's not about being obvious and forcing yourself out in the open. That takes all the fun out of being a woman. View quote
Bipasha Basu