Snapping Quotes

• Reading is an escape, an education, a delving into the brain of another human being on such an intimate level that every nuance of thought, every snapping of synapse, every slippery desire of the author is laid open before you like, well, a book.

  Cynthia Heimel

  Book, Reading, Brain

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• I was never the girl who walked down the centre of the hallway snapping people out of her way.

  Piper Perabo

  Girl, People, Way

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• Democracy is constructed like an edifice, freedom by freedom, right by right, until it reaches its snapping point.

  Abdoulaye Wade

  Freedom, Democracy, Edifice

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• Man is not merely the sum of his masks. Behind the shifting face of personality is a hard nugget of self, a genetic gift.... The self is malleable but elastic, snapping back to its original shape like a rubber band. Mental illness is no myth, as some have claimed. It is a disturbance in our sense of possession of a stable inner self that survives its personae.

  Camille Paglia

  Men, Self, Personality

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.100, Vintage

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• The more horses you yoke the quicker everything will go - not the rending of the block from its foundation, which is impossible, but the snapping of the traces and with that the gay and empty journey.

  Franz Kafka

  Horse, Block, Gay

  Franz Kafka (1946). “The great wall of China: stories and reflections”

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• And now I realize Lindsay's not fearless. She's terrified. She's terrified that people will find out she's faking, bullshitting her way through life, pretending to have everything together when really she's just floundering like the rest of us. Lindsay, who will bite at you if you even look in her direction the wrong way, like on of those tiny attack dogs that are always barking and snapping in the air before they're jerked backward on the chains that keep them in one place.

  Lauren Oliver

  Dog, Air, People

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• Sometimes one waits too long for the perfect moment before snapping the picture. You never realize that you needed was to change perspective.

  Miguel Syjuco

  Patience, Long, Perfect

  Miguel Syjuco (2010). “Ilustrado”, p.437, Pan Macmillan

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• If you've seen a crab's mouth, all foamy and gross with whiskers and snapping bits, you can imagine this one didn't look any better blown up to billboard size.

  Rick Riordan

  Looks, Mouths, Size

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.16, Penguin UK

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• I gave myself a mental shake. Snapping out of a slump, that was what today was all about.

  Charlaine Harris

  Slumps, Today, Shakes

  Charlaine Harris (2009). “Sookie Stackhouse 8-copy Boxed Set”, p.1019, Penguin

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• Any day you had gym class was a weird school day. It started off normal. You had English, Social Studies, Geometry, then suddenly your in Lord of the Flies for 40 minutes. Your hanging from a rope, you have hardly any clothes on, teachers are yelling at you, kids are throwing dodge balls at you and snapping towels - you're trying to survive. And then it's Science,Language, and History. Now that is a weird day.

  Jerry Seinfeld

  Teacher, School, Kids

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• Girls love guys who dance, and I'm definitely going to be the first one on the dance floor. Usually, you just see guys sitting around, but I definitely don't hold back when it comes to dancing. I like to keep [my dancing] toned down initially. It's a lot of snapping first off, just to get a feeling.

  Jacob Artist

  Girl, Dancing, Guy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm that same David Crockett, fresh from the backwoods, half-horse, half-alligator, a little touched with the snapping turtle; can wade the Mississippi, leap the Ohio, ride upon a streak of lightning, and slip without a scratch down a honey locust [tree].

  Davy Crockett

  Horse, Turtles, Ohio

  Davy Crockett (1834). “Sketches and eccentricities of Col. David Crockett,: of West Tennessee”, p.164

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• Nothing so mystical. Human beings hunger for killing, that is all. It only takes a few politicians to stoke division, or a few demagogues encouraging hatred to set your kind upon one another. And then before you know it, you have a whole nation biting on its own tail, going round and round until there is nothing left but the snapping of teeth.

  Paolo Bacigalupi

  Hatred, Teeth, Tails

  Paolo Bacigalupi (2012). “The Drowned Cities: Number 2 in series”, p.128, Hachette UK

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• There are many reasons, of course, why someone might snap their fingers and grin. If you heard some pleasing music, for instance, you might snap your fingers and grin to demonstrate that the music had charms that could soothe your savage breast. If you were employed as a spy, you might snap your fingers and grin in order to deliver a message in secret snapping-and-grinning code.

  Daniel Handler

  Order, Secret, Spy

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• He was sure that he was not the cause of the abrupt silence. His passage through the canyon had not previously disturbed either birds or cicadas. Something was out there. An intruder of which the ordinary forest creatures clearly did not approve. He took a deep breath and held it again, straining to hear the slightest movement in the woods. This time he detected the rustle of brush, a snapping twig, the soft crunch of dry leaves-and the unnervingly peculiar, heavy, ragged breathing of something big.

  Dean Koontz

  Breathing, Silence, Bird

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• There is hardly an American male of my generation who has not at one time or another tried to master the victory cry of the great ape as it issued from the androgynous chest of Johnny Weissmuller, to the accompaniment of thousands of arms and legs snapping during attempts to swing from tree to tree in the backyards of the Republic.

  Gore Vidal

  Men, Swings, Tree

  Gore Vidal (1969). “Reflections Upon a Sinking Ship. (1. Ed.)”, Boston : Little, Brown

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• I’ve always hated Mondays, the whole lot of them. Too much whiplash, snapping the tired masses to attention. God’s way, perhaps, of reminding us that we are not masters of our fate, no matter how deluded we became during the weekend respite.

  Jonathan Hull

  Monday, Tired, Fate

  Jonathan Hull (2001). “Losing Julia”, Island Books

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• It's possible to think of photography as an act of editing, a matter of where you put your rectangle pull it out or take it away. Sometimes people ask me about films, cameras and development times in order to find out how to do landscape photography. The first thing I do in landscape photography is go out there and talk to the land - form a relationship, ask permission, it's not about going out there like some paparazzi with a Leica and snapping a few pictures, before running off to print them.

  Michael Kenna

  Running, Photography, Thinking

  Interview with Brooks Jensen, www.michaelkenna.net. October 2003.

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• Sleep doesn't come easy when a broken twig conjures images of a hulking mental patient snapping the arms off children, over by the bin.

  Craig Stone

  Children, Sleep, Broken

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• Every question was like the snapping of a little thread about my heart.

  Dorothy Wordsworth

  Heart, Littles, Thread

  Dorothy Wordsworth, Pamela Woof (2008). “The Grasmere and Alfoxden Journals”, p.84, Oxford University Press

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• I think a photograph, of whatever it might be - a landscape, a person - requires personal involvement. That means knowing your subject, not just snapping at whats in front of you.

  Frans Lanting

  Mean, Thinking, Knowing

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• I love super crispy, almost burned, snapping-crispy bacon.

  David Lynch

  Burned

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• Ladies and gentlemen, today we're here to honor electricity, the charge that charges everything from those electrons snapping in our brain to our father the sun. What's the sun It's kind of like a brain. Electromagnetic field, solar flares sparking back and forth from those nerve cells. We're all one, folks, giant blobs of electricity, all of us. Positive & negative, electromagnetic fields just circling each other. Positive, negative, north, south, male and female. Looking for that electric moment. Magnet to magnet, opposites attract.

  Robin Green

  Father, Cells, Opposites

  "'Northern Exposure' ('Full Upright Position')". Comedy, Drama, Fantasy, November 07, 1994.

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• I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my teens on a manual typewriter (had to trade it for a new one due to keys snapping from metal fatigue) so I am not a pen or typewriter fetishist.

  Charles Stross

  Writing, Keys, Typewriters

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• It doesn't matter if I'm off the beat. It doesn't matter if I'm snapping to the rhythm. It doesn't matter if I look like a complete goon when I dance. It is my dance. It is my moment. It is mine. And dance I will. Try and stop me. You'll probably get kicked in the face.

  Daniel Pearce

  Trying, Looks, Matter

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