Pry Quotes

Genius is always allowed some leeway, once the hammer has been pried from its hands and the blood has been cleaned up. (Terry Pratchett)
On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut. View quote
Marvin Olasky
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 view, you don't pry into other people's business. View quote
Maya Lin
Tall windows show Infinity; And, hard reality, The candles weep and pry and dance Like lives mocked at by Chance. The rooms are vast as Sleep within; When once I ventured in, Chill Silence, like a surging sea, Slowly enveloped me. View quote
Edith Sitwell
It is the way to educate your eyes, and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. View quote
Walker Evans
The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay plans against you. View quote
Sun Tzu
We certainly don't yet know all the answers. But the universe is about to be pried open. View quote
Lisa Randall
Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die? View quote
Tim Burton
His shoulder bumped mine again. "Can I ask you something?" I didn't answer. He was going to ask me anyway. People don't say that if they don't want to pry something out of you. View quote
Lilith Saintcrow
I'd managed to bite a very large hole in the side of my tongue before they could pry my teeth apart. By all evidence, and there's no denying it, that thing I had on the set was a fit. View quote
Dick York
Lay me on an anvil, O God. Beat me and hammer me into a crowbar. Let me pry loose old walls. Let me lift and loosen old foundations. (Carl Sandburg)
Boston State-house is the hub of the solar system. You couldn't pry that out of a Boston man if you had the tire of all creation straightened out for a crow-bar. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. View quote
Walker Evans
Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding. View quote
Stephen King
The way to find out about our place in the universe is by examining the universe and by examining ourselves-without preconceptions, with as unbiased a mind as we can muster. We cannot begin with an entirely clean slate, since we arrive at this problem with predispositions of hereditary and environmental origin; but, after understanding such built-in biases, is it not possible to pry insights from nature? View quote
Carl Sagan
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 what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open. View quote
Pauline Kael
I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry. View quote
John Byrne
I know you want to study me psychologically. That's reasonable and I appreciate it. At least you don't lecture to me and pry into my affairs. You have a good technique as a psychiatrist. Let the other fellow talk and stick his neck into the noose. I don't mean that the way it sounds. But you hardly say anything. Someday I'm going to ask you questions. View quote
Hermann Göring
Several years ago, the United States started accusing Russia of violating the INF Treaty, without providing any evidence. We basically had to pry the information from the US, information that would help us understand... what they meant. The US eventually mentioned the 9M729 missile, claiming that it had been tested on certain days at a certain testing site, and that the range violated the treaty's provisions. Our data concerning these tests showed the opposite. The missile's range is allowed under the treaty. View quote
Sergey Lavrov
Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference. View quote
Sydney J. Harris
How, then, shall I respond to him who asks, "What was God doing before he made heaven and earth?” I do not answer, as a certain one is reported to have done facetiously (shrugging off the force of the question). "He was preparing hell,” he said, "for those who pry too deep.” It is one thing to see the answer; it is another to laugh at the questioner--and for myself I do not answer these things thus. More willingly would I have answered, "I do not know what I do not know,” than cause one who asked a deep question to be ridiculed--and by such tactics gain praise for a worthless answer. (Augustine of Hippo)
She [Lee's mother] was muddled and mischievous as a chimney-jackdaw, she made her nest of rags and jewels, was happy in the sunlight, squawked loudly at danger, pried and was insatiably curious, forgot when to eat or ate all day, and sang when sunsets were red. She lived the easy laws of the hedgerow, loved the world and made no plans, had a quick holy eye for natural wonders and couldn't have kept a neat house for her life. View quote
Laurie Lee
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. View quote
Frank Ocean
Trouble came only where I expected it, from One-Eye, whose motto is that anything not nailed down is his and anything he can pry loose isn't nailed down. View quote
Glen Cook
There is nothing else for people to do. They do not think. They feel no passion, no hatred, no sadness; they feel nothing but fear, and a desire to control. So they watch, and poke, and pry. View quote
Lauren Oliver