Grabbing Quotes - Page 3

• Here is a neuron that fires when I reach and grab something, but it also fires when I watch Joe reaching and grabbing something. ... It's as though this neuron is adopting the other person's point of view.

  Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

  Fire, Views, Brain

  "The neurons that shaped civilization". TEDIndia Talk, www.ted.com. November 2009.

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• For God's sake, Stiff," he says. "You don't have to follow me," I say staring at the maze of bars above me. I shove my foot onto the place where two bars cross and push myself up, grabbing another bar in the process. I sway for a second, my heart beating so hard I can't feel anything else. Every thought I have condenses into that heartbeat, moving at the same rhythm. "Yes, I do," he says.

  Veronica Roth

  Moving, Heart, Two

  Veronica Roth (2013). “The Divergent Series Complete Collection: Divergent, Insurgent, Allegiant”, p.71, Harper Collins

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• The shouts of triumph become infectious, and I lift my voice to join in, running toward my teammates. Christina holds the flag up high, and everyone clusters around her, grabbing her arm to lift the flag even higher. I can't reach her, so I stand off to the side, grinning. A hand touches my shoulder. "Well done," Four says quietly.

  Veronica Roth

  Running, Hands, Voice

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Divergent Series (Books 1-3) Plus Free Four, The Transfer and World of Divergent”, p.94, HarperCollins UK

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• This is your heritage,' he said, as if from this dance we could know about his own childhood, about the flavor and grit of tenement buildings in Spanish Harlem, and projects in Red Hook, and dance halls, and city parks, and about how his own Paps, how he had beat him, how he taught him to dance, as if we could hear Spanish in his movements, as if Puerto Rico was a man in a bathrobe, grabbing another beer from the fridge and raising it to drink, his head back, still dancing, still steeping and snapping perfectly in time.

  Justin Torres

  Beer, Men, Cities

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• Is there anyone in this apartment who hasn’t seen me naked?” I demanded, grabbing the sheet and the phone. “I genuinely hope so, Cassandra.

  Karen Chance

  Phones, Naked, Sheets

  Karen Chance (2011). “Hunt the Moon: A Cassie Palmer Novel”, p.34, Penguin

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• Grabbing hold of facts in the midst of shock is very Erudite of him.

  Veronica Roth

  Facts, Midst, Shock

  Veronica Roth (2013). “Insurgent (Divergent Trilogy, Book 2)”, p.18, HarperCollins UK

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• Taking a deep breath that smelled of rain, she was poised to move when a hand clasped her elbow. Memories of another hand grabbing her sent panic shooting through her veins. She swung around. "Whoa. You okay?" Lucas lightened his clasp around her arm. Kylie caught her breath and stared up at the werewolf's blue eyes. "Yeah. You just...surprised me. You need to whistle when you come up on me.

  C.C. Hunter

  Memories, Rain, Moving

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• You do realize you just insulted me, right?" "How so?" "You implied that I can't protect her or my people." I looked at him. "That's not at all what I meant." "Apologize and I'll let it go." I kept my hands firmly on the iron rail before me. Grabbing the weight bar and walloping the Beast Lord upside the head wouldn't be the best diplomatic move. "I'm sorry, Your Majesty." There. I was civil. It almost killed me.

  Ilona Andrews

  Sorry, Moving, Hands

  Ilona Andrews (2008). “Magic Burns”, p.109, Penguin

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• I once saw Arnold Schwarzenegger kill a man in a movie by grabbing his head and twisting it until the neck broke. Was that difficult? Could a man do it without a lot of practice?

  David Wong

  Men, Practice, Saws

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.301, Titan Books

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• TODD!" I yell again and I reach him and his Noise opens even farther and wraps around me like a blanket and I'm grabbing him to me, grabbing him to me like I'll never let him go and he calls out in pain but his other arm is grabbing me back - "I thought you were dead," he's saying, his breath on my neck. "I thought you were dead." "Todd," I say and I'm crying and the only thing I can say is his name. "Todd.

  Patrick Ness

  Pain, Names, Arms

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• "Oh My God," I blurted, grabbing onto Phin as we faced the open bedroom door. "It's the axe murderer." "I doubt he would knock," she said, but she was whispering, too, and didn't move away from me.

  Rosemary Clement-Moore

  Moving, Doors, Doubt

  "Texas Gothic". Book by Rosemary Clement-Moore, 2011.

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• And we did, and it wasn’t bad. We ate the whole stupid can, we were so hungry. And when it started to get dark you pointed to the sky, and told me there was a star for every thing you loved about me.” I’m gasping, feeling as though I am about to drown; I’m reaching for him blindly, grabbing at his collar.

  Lauren Oliver

  Stars, Stupid, Dark

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.15, Harper Collins

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• Save yourselves!" Percy warned. "It is too late for us!" Then he gasped and pointed to the spot where Frank was hiding. "oh no! Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin!" Nothing happened. "I said," Percy repeated, "Frank is turning into a crazy dolphin." Frank stumbled out of nowhere, making a big show of grabbing his throat. "oh no," he said, like he was reading from a teleprompter, "I am turning into a crazy dolphin.

  Rick Riordan

  Crazy, Reading, Dolphins

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• Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.

  Gore Vidal

  Country, Oil, People

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• The truth is that economic competition is the very opposite of competition in the animal kingdom. It is not a competition in the grabbing off of scarce nature-given supplies, as it is in the animal kingdom. Rather, it is a competition in the positive creation of new and additional wealth.

  George Reisman

  Animal, Opposites, Competition

  "Capitalism: A Treatise on Economics". Book by George Reisman, 1995.

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• Up with life. Stamp out all small and large indignities. Leave everyone alone to make it without pressure. Down with hurting. Lower the standard of living. Do without plastics. Smash the servo-mechanisms. Stop grabbing. Snuff the breeze and hug the kids. Love all love. Hate all hate.

  John D. MacDonald

  Hurt, Hate, Kids

  JOHN D. MACDONALD (1971). “A TAN AND SANDY SILENCE”

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• And when you try too hard, it doesn't work. Try grabbing something quickly and precisely with a tensed-up arm; then relax and try it again. Try doing something with a tense mind. The surest way to become Tense, Awkward, and Confused is to develop a mind that tries too hard-one that thinks too much.

  Benjamin Hoff

  Confused, Thinking, Awkward

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• I love walking around and grabbing coffee and sitting in a park and people watching… I love Greenwich Village.

  Joe Manganiello

  Coffee, People, Sitting

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• James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

  Gene Simmons

  Rocks, People, Attention

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• If I go into a sandwich shop or anywhere that features 'Today's specials' on a chalkboard more than 10 feet away, I have to ask for a printed menu. I smile at people I don't know on the street and ignore those I do. When at home, I often find myself grabbing my 'back-up' glasses to search for the better-loved pair I have left on top of my dresser.

  Sloane Crosley

  Home, Glasses, Feet

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• You can’t just keep grabbing at me every time you see me. It’s not a substitute for actually talking.

  Cassandra Clare

  Talking, Substitutes

  Cassandra Clare (2012). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instruments Series (5 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels, City of Lost Souls”, p.1611, Simon and Schuster

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• Well, there's nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book.

  Chris Klein

  Book, Sunday, Feet

  "Chris Klein, 'American Reunion' Star, On Being Left Out Of 'American Wedding' And Life After His 'Mamma Mia' Audition". Interview with Mike Ryan, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2012.

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• You have to strike hard from the beginning and create a depressurizing zone between the viewer's own life and the one onscreen. The creators of James Bond got it right: the attention-grabbing scene of each Bond movie is the very first one, before the opening credits.

  Claude Lelouch

  Firsts, Attention, Credit

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• There is one notable thing about our Christianity: bad, bloody, merciless, money-grabbing, and predatory. The invention of hell measured by our Christianity of today, bad as it is, hypocritical as it is, empty and hollow as it is, neither the deity nor his son is a Christian, nor qualified for that moderately high place. Ours is a terrible religion. The fleets of the world could swim in spacious comfort in the innocent blood it has spilled.

  Mark Twain

  Christian, Son, Blood

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• On a more technical level, a story takes a lot of words. And to generate words and phrases and images and so on, that will compel the reader to continue reading - that stand a chance of really grabbing a reader - the writer has to work out of a place of, let's say, familiarity and affection. The matrix of the story has to be made out of stuff the writer really knows about and likes. The writer can't be stretching and (purely) inventing all the time. Well, I can't, anyway.

  George Saunders

  Reading, Work Out, Phrases

  Source: und.edu

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