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• He [Vince Spadea] was about as down and out as you could see from a Top 20 player. Then to claw his way back through the minor leagues and do it the hard way where he wasn't young, wasn't getting wildcards, wasn't getting any help. I guess he decided he was just going to do it.

  Andy Roddick

  Player, League, Down And

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• Folk caught up in a riot aren't our cousins and sisters, our brothers and uncles. They are part of a big animal with many arms and claws, armed with stones and sticks.

  Tamora Pierce

  Cousin, Brother, Uncles

  Tamora Pierce (2012). “Beka Cooper: The Hunt Records”, p.243, Random House Books for Young Readers

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• After claws and feathers, he took skin and bone, shaped it like an hour glass and made the angels moan.

  Elton John

  Religious, Angel, Glasses

  Song: Since God Invented Girls, Album: Reg Strikes Back

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• When I really have to push and grope and scratch and claw to make a story work, that's a telltale sign that maybe something conceptually isn't right.

  David E. Kelley

  Scratches, Stories

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• Once I climbed into a mountain lion's cage and she bounded at me and put her paw on my face, but she kept her claws withdrawn.

  Edward Hoagland

  Mountain, Lions, Paws

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• Anger seek it prey,-- Something to tear with sharp-edged tooth and claw, Like not to go off hungry, leaving Love To feast on milk and honeycomb at will.

  George Eliot

  Anger, Leaving, Tears

  George Eliot (1839). “Theophrastus Such, Jubal and other poems and The Spanish gypsy”, p.341

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• It is stern work, it is perilous work, to thrust your hand in the sun
  And pull out a spark of immortal flame to warm the hearts of men:
  But Prometheus, torn by the claws and beaks whose task is never done, would be tortured another eternity to go stealing fire again.

  Joyce Kilmer

  Heart, Men, Fire

  Joyce Kilmer (1917). “Main Street, and Other Poems”

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• I must stop him from being one of those who call themselves good because they have no claws.

  Irvin D. Yalom

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• Divorce is simply modern society's version of medieval torture. Except it lasts longer and leaves deeper scars. A divorce releases the most primitive emotions; the ugliest, raw feelings. Emotionally wounded people do their best to inflict pain upon the other party, but rather than using claws they use divorce lawyers.

  William Shatner

  Pain, Party, Divorce

  William Shatner (2009). “Up Till Now”, p.136, Pan Macmillan

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• What greater prestige can a man like me (not too gifted, but very understanding) have than to have taken a cheap, shoddy and utterly lost kind of writing, and have made of it something that intellectuals claw each other about?

  Raymond Chandler

  Taken, Writing, Men

  Raymond Chandler (2014). “The World of Raymond Chandler: In His Own Words”, p.278, Vintage

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• Some people think their fingers are toes or claws, but they're actually finger bones.

  Ann Burton

  Thinking, People, Toes

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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• Over the road there was a church: a modern gray building, which constantly played a recording of church bells. Strange it was. Why no proper bells? I never went in but I bet it was a robot church for androids, where the Bible was in binary and their Jesus had laser eyes and metal claws.

  Russell Brand

  Jesus, Eye, Church Bells

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• There are so many people who are conscientious and caring about others. I've spent time working in countries where I really noticed the absence of civic concern, care for other people. I've been in other countries where I feel a palpable, almost tooth-and-claw attitude between people - Machiavellian, me and mine. And you can take for granted being here, with all the bloviating and the media, on a day-to-day level, people in this country are really pretty concerned for each other.

  Edward Norton

  Country, Attitude, Caring

  Interview with Bennett Miller, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 3, 2014.

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• I realized that after finding this thing that allowed me to express myself - acting - and being encouraged by a few people that I could do it, I had kind of grabbed onto it and dug in my claws in a way that was maybe a bit unhealthy. I allowed myself to get into a headspace where I lived or died by what I achieved in this particular field.

  Andrew Garfield

  People, Acting, Way

  Interview with Terry Gilliam, www.interviewmagazine.com. September 17, 2010.

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• There is no doubt, that man is not built to be a carnivorous animal. What a sweet, pleasing and innocent sight is the spectacle of a table served that way and what a difference to a make up of fuming animal meat, slaughtered and dead! Man in no way has the constitution of a carnivorous being. Hunt and voracity are unnatural to him. Man has neither the sharp pointed teeth or claws to slaughter his prey. On the contrary his hands are made to pick fruits, berries and vegetables and teeth appropriate to chew them.

  John Ray

  Sweet, Men, Animal

  "Humanimal". Book by Vergil Z. Ozeca, p. 171, 2010.

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• If thou art of elephant-strength or of lion-claw, still peace is, in my opinion, better than strife.

  Saadi

  Art, Elephants, Lions

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• Who trusted God was love indeed And love Creation's final law Though Nature, red in tooth and claw With ravine, shrieked against his creed.

  Alfred Lord Tennyson

  Law, And Love, Teeth

  'In Memoriam A. H. H.' (1850) canto 56

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• Julia Louis-Dreyfus is just perfect in 'Veep.' She gets to show off the spiky claws beneath her patrician finesse. The obvious way to play 'Veep' would be to make Louis-Dreyfus a folksy heroine, one with more common sense or populist heart than her enemies. But she isn't one.

  Rob Sheffield

  Heart, Play, Common Sense

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• I feel the monster of grief again, writhing in the empty space where my heart and stomach used to be. I gasp, pressing both palms to my chest. Now the monstrous thing has its claws around my throat, squeezing my airway. I twist and put my head between my knees, breathing until the strangled feeling leaves me.

  Veronica Roth

  Grief, Heart, Breathing

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.34, HarperCollins UK

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• As far as history goes I am dead. If there is something beyond I shall have to bounce back. I have found God, but he is insufficient. I am only spiritually dead. Physically I am alive. Morally I am free. The world which I have departed is a menagerie.

  Henry Miller

  Departed, Dawn, Alive

  "A Henry Miller reader".

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• The small gargoyle had gone entirely white to match the ceiling, and only the rims of his ears, his long clawlike nails, and a thick stripe down his whip-like tail were still gray. He was crawling along the ceiling like a bat, wings held to make sharp angles and claws extended. It just about broke my creepy meter.

  Kim Harrison

  Wings, White, Long

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• Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize their militaries, saluting the uniforms of killers as cat owners stroke their animals' lovely fur and forgive their claws and fangs. He'd never seen anything in a cat's face but simpering incuriosity and self-interest; you only had to tease one with a mouse-toy to see where it's true heart lay...cats were all about using people

  Jonathan Franzen

  Country, Using People, Heart

  Jonathan Franzen (2010). “Freedom: A Novel”, p.548, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

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• History could claw upward as well as down. The powerful could be deafened by the cries of the poor.

  Salman Rushdie

  Powerful, Cry, Poor

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• [Fireheart] was interrupted by a screech from Cloudtail. "Fireheart! Fireheart, Brightpaw isn't dead!" Fireheart spun around and raced across the clearing to crouch beside Brightpaw. Her white-and-ginger fur, which, she had always kept so neatly groomed, was spiky with drying blood. On one side of her face the fur was torn away, and there was blood where her eye should have been. One ear had been shredded, and there were huge claw marks scored across her muzzle.

  Erin Hunter

  Eye, Blood, Should Have

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• Of all evil I deem you capable: Therefore I want good from you. Verily, I have often laughed at the weaklings who thought themselves good because they had no claws.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Evil, Want, Laughed

  Friedrich Nietzsche (1977). “The Portable Nietzsche”, p.144, Penguin

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