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• Many of us carry memories of an influential teacher who may scarcely know we existed, yet who said something at just the right time in our lives to snap a whole world into focus.

  Laurent A. Daloz

  Teacher, Memories, Focus

  Laurent A. Daloz (2012). “Mentor: Guiding the Journey of Adult Learners (with New Foreword, Introduction, and Afterword)”, p.58, John Wiley & Sons

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• A house o' women is as dead as a house wi' no fire, to my thinkin'. I'm not a spider as likes to corner myself. I like a man about, if he's only something to snap at.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Men, Fire, House

  D. H. Lawrence (2016). “D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)”, p.532, Book House

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• I've had my moments of feeling miserable in my life, as has everyone, but it's not often that you actually get the opportunity to indulge that feeling. Mostly when people are depressed or miserable, they have to snap out of it because it doesn't work. It doesn't suit day-to-day life.

  Tom Hollander

  Opportunity, People, Feelings

  Source: collider.com

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• A joke is like building a mousetrap from scratch. You have to work pretty hard to make the thing snap when it is supposed to snap.

  Kurt Vonnegut

  Scratches, Building, Jokes

  Kurt Vonnegut (2011). “A Man Without a Country”, p.128, Seven Stories Press

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• There are moments, particularly in times of stress, when haste does not make waste, when our snap judgments and first impressions can offer a much better means of making sense of the world.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Stress, Mean, First Impression

  "Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking". Book by Malcolm Gladwell, January 11, 2005.

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• I know where I'm supposed to be at the time of the snap. Now, where the play dictates I'm going to go is a different story.

  Troy Polamalu

  Play, Different, Stories

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• However many snaps I play for, when I'm on the field I go 120 percent.

  Jason Pierre-Paul

  Play, Fields, Percent

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• I haven't heard anything so great for a long time; Beethoven snaps his fingers at the whole world.

  Frederic Chopin

  Long, People, World

  Frederic Chopin (2013). “Chopin's Letters”, p.72, Courier Corporation

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• I grew up with siblings, so if I could just snap my fingers and have four [children], I would have four

  Kim Kardashian

  Children, Sibling, Four

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• A gun I had been brought down by a gun. It was practically comical. Cheaters, I thought. I’d spent my life focusing on hand to hand combat, learning to dodge fangs and powerful hands that could snap my neck. A gun? It was so… well, easy. Should I be insulted? I didn’t know. Did it matter? I didn’t know that either. All I knew in that moment was that I was going to die, regardless.

  Richelle Mead

  Powerful, Gun, Cheater

  "Last Sacrifice". Book by Richelle Mead, December 7, 2010.

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• You're in a rather odd mood today." I'm soaking wet, Eloise." No need to snap at me about it, I didn't force you to walk across town in the rain." It wasn't raining when I left,". There was something about a sibling that brought out the eight-year-old in a body. I'm sure the sky was gray," Clearly, she had a bit of the eight-year-old in her as well.

  Julia Quinn

  Sibling, Rain, Eight

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• Keeping pushing, Andrei, and you and I are going to play a game. (Esperetta) And what game is that, Princess? (Andrei) Find the Ball in My Hand. (Esperetta) I don’t see a ball, Princess. (Andrei) Oh, you will, just as soon as I snap it off your body. (Esperetta)

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Princess, Hands, Games

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• It was unnerving, the way she could go from cool efficiency to sarcastic to sweet within the space of thirty seconds. I found it very manipulative and controlling. It put the other person constantly on-guard. And it was extremely intimidating because you never knew when she was going to snap. I made a mental note to refine these skills within myself.

  Augusten Burroughs

  Sarcastic, Sweet, Skills

  Augusten Burroughs (2011). “Take Five: Four Favorite Essays Plus One Never-Been-Seen Essay: Four Favorite Essays Plus One Never-Been-Seen Essay”, p.40, Macmillan

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• People don’t really want to know anything about you. They just want you to fit into their little predetermined slots. They decide what you are in the first two seconds, and they only get nervous or upset if you don’t live up to their snap judgments.

  Lilith Saintcrow

  Two, People, Upset

  "Strange Angels". Book by Lilith Saintcrow, 2009.

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• If you had to chose one half of your son, which one would it be?" What kind of a question is that?!" No need to snap. It was just a question.

  Johnny Depp

  Son, Needs, Half

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• Mew," the kitten retorted, locking gazes with him. It had the expression common to all kittens, that of a tyrant in the becoming. 'I was comfortable, and you dared to move,' those jade eyes said. 'For that you must die.' When it became apparent to the cat that its two or three pounds of mass were insufficient to break Locke's neck with one mighty snap, it put its paws on his shoulders and began sharing its drool-covered nose with his lips. He recoiled.

  Scott Lynch

  Moving, Cat, Eye

  Scott Lynch (2007). “Red Seas Under Red Skies”, p.387, Del Rey

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• Oh, I know that. You know me, baby, I cannot be broken. Takes a giant to snap me in half.

  Zadie Smith

  Baby, Broken, Giants

  Zadie Smith (2006). “On Beauty”, p.183, Penguin UK

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• THE PRESOCRATIC PROBLEM [all snap flags] Parmenides named his gun The Hot Power of the Stars. His gun was one, uncreated, imperishable, timeless, changeless, perfect, spherical. Spherical was the problem.

  Anne Carson

  Stars, Gun, Perfect

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• In every job that must be done, there is an element of fun. You find the fun and - SNAP - the job's a game!

  Julie Andrews

  Teacher, Jobs, Fun

  Song: A Spoonful of Sugar

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• Peter curled his hands into fists at his sides. 'Kiss me,' he said. She leaned towards him slowly, until her face was too close to be in focus. Her hair fell over Peter's shoulder like a curtain and her eyes closed. She smelled like autumn-like apple cider and slanting sun and the snap of the coming cold. He felt his heart scrambling, caught inside the confines of his own body. Josie's lips landed just on the edge of his, almost his cheek and not quite his mouth. 'I'm glad I wasn't stuck in here alone,' she said shyly, and he tasted the words, sweet as mint on her breath.

  Jodi Picoult

  Sweet, Heart, Eye

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #3: Vanishing Acts, The Tenth Circle, and Nineteen Minutes”, p.1147, Simon and Schuster

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• America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within the system, but too early to shoot the bastards. On the road to tyranny, we've gone so far that polite political action is about as useless as a miniskirt in a convent. ... Something's eventually going to happen. Government will bloat until it chokes us to death, or one more tyrannical power grab will turn out to be one too many. ... Maybe it'll be one more round of "reasonable gun control" or one more episode of burning children to death to save them from "child abuse." Whatever, something will snap.

  Claire Wolfe

  Children, Gun, America

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• I work with a lot of different editors at different publishers and magazines and so on, and having a system of shared folders makes keeping track of things a snap.

  William Gurstelle

  Editors, Track, Different

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• And like a soprano shattering glass, Juliet heard something snap deep inside. It was the sound of her heart breaking.

  Alexandra Potter

  Heart, Glasses, Sound

  Alexandra Potter (2004). “Calling Romeo”, p.307, Simon and Schuster

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• I'd much prefer to hear somebody like Ed Thigpen [drummer with New York session group Stuff, and featured on innumerable hits] take a solo. I mean, that's what it is. I'd much rather hear that than the jazz/rock thing because it's blowing an aspect of jazz that I really like...the level where you can snap your fingers to it and you can groove to it. You can do anything to it.

  Van Morrison

  New York, Mean, Rocks

  Interview with Ritchie Yorke, ritchieyorke.com. April 21.

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• The diseased, anyway, are more interesting than the healthy. The words of the diseased, even those who can manage only a murmur, carry more weight than those of the healthy. Then, too, all healthy people will in the future know disease. That sense of time, ah, the diseased man’s sense of time, what treasure hidden in a desert cave. Then, too the diseased truly bite, whereas the healthy pretend to bite but really only snap at the air. Then, too, then, too, then, too.

  Roberto Bolano

  Men, Air, People

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