Snaps Quotes - Page 7

• I'm sorry that I can't snap my fingers and undo 50 years of bad American foreign policy.

  Harry Browne

  Sorry, Years, Fingers

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• I think it's easiest to teach by example. My dad didn't tell us to work hard; we just saw how hard he worked. I know I have shortcomings - like a short fuse - but I've learned you can't come home from a long day of work and snap at the kids.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Dad, Hard Work, Home

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• There was a time when I kept track of it all; when my mind worked like a giant lint brush being swept over the fuzzy surface of popular culture. But these days, pop culture seems to have gotten fuzzier and fuzzier; notoriety comes and goes in the snap of a finger.

  Susan Orlean

  Track, Mind, Giants

  "William, Kate, and Justin Bieber" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. April 28, 2011.

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• The only good thing I could say about Dr. Vegas was that it was fun working with Amy Adams. I like to feel I picked somebody great as my leading lady and was borne out. Oh, and I learned how to snap on a medical glove very easily.

  Rob Lowe

  Fun, Vegas, Amy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• If I see someone not laughing, the first thing I'm thinking is, "OK, am I cursing too much? Am I doing a joke he doesn't understand? Is he resting?" Then he starts becoming my focal point. Once I see him laugh, I'm like, [snap] "All right, now I'm funny."

  Leslie Jones

  Thinking, Laughing, Too Much

  "The Conversation: Saturday Night Live's Leslie Jones". Interview with Allison Glock, www.espn.com. February 17, 2017.

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• I like when people don't feel the need to have everything add up perfectly. I don't think we need that, what I think we need is to let ourselves have room to move and understand that life is a journey. And with that comes freedom. I think the more you try to compartmentalize and snap it all into place you may rob yourself of an experience that's really important for you.

  Denison Witmer

  Moving, Journey, Thinking

  Source: sojo.net

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• The funny thing about facing imminent death is that it really snaps everything else into perspective.

  James Patterson

  Death, Funny Things, Perspective

  James Patterson (2007). “The Angel Experiment”, Little, Brown and Company

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• And my parents finally realize I'm kidnapped and they snap into action immediately: They rent out my room.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Humorous, Parenting

  In Eric Lax Woody Allen and his Comedy (1975) ch. 1

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• Only then did I see. Something was amiss with Patrick's snap-on one piece, or "onesie" as we manly dads like to call it. His chubby thighs, I now realized, were squeezed into the armholes, which were so tight they must have been cutting off his circulation. The collared neck hung between his legs like an udder. Up top, Patrick's head stuck out through the unsnapped crotch, and his arms were lost somewhere in the billowing pant legs. It was quite a look.

  John Grogan

  Dad, Cutting, Looks

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• It takes long practice, yes. You have to work. Did you think you could snap your fingers, and have it as a gift? What is worth having is worth working for.

  Philip Pullman

  Thinking, Practice, Long

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• There's lots of kinds of chains. You can't see most of them, the one's that bind folks together. But people build them, link by link. Sometimes the links are weak, snap like this one did. That's another funny thing, now that I think of it. Sometimes when you mend a chain, the place where you fix it is strongest of all.

  Bruce Coville

  Thinking, Funny Things, People

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• Maybe your history just repeats and repeats until it batters you enough to snap the seams that hold you together

  David Levithan

  Together, Enough, Repeats

  Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2014). “Naomi and Ely's No Kiss List”, p.86, Egmont UK

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• Some people tap their feet, some people snap their fingers, and some people sway back and forth. I just sorta do 'em all together, I guess.

  Elvis Presley

  Song, Feet, People

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

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• I will remember what I was, I am sick of rope and chains - I will remember my old strength and all my forest affairs. I will not sell my back to man for a bundle of sugar cane; I will go out to my own kind, and the wood-folk in their lairs. I will go out until the day, until the morning break - Out to the wind's untainted kiss, the water's clean caress; I will forget my ankle-ring and snap my picket stake. I will revisit my lost love and playmates masterless!

  Rudyard Kipling

  Morning, Lost Love, Kissing

  Rudyard Kipling (1993). “The Jungle Book”, p.140, Wordsworth Editions

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• There's all kinds of those moments in your life where either through a weird set of circumstances, or a song you hear, or a smell you smell, or one person says something totally out of the context without the meaning that you assigned to it, but you snap back to the way you were when you were 14 or 15. We all deal with that.

  Patton Oswalt

  Song, Smell, Way

  Interview with Dan Hyman, www.gq.com. December 14, 2011.

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• Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.

  Neil Armstrong

  Thinking, Wells, Bites

  "Apollo 11 crew recalls giant leap 35 years later". Interview With Miles O'Brien, www.cnn.com. July 21, 2004.

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• They're betting on how long I'll live!" I burst out. "They're not my friends!" "Well, try and pretend!" snaps Effie. Then she composes herself and beams at me. "See, like this. I'm smiling at you even though you're aggravating me.

  Suzanne Collins

  Long, Trying, Beam

  Suzanne Collins (2009). “The Hunger Games”, p.110, Scholastic Inc.

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• A good analogy is stretching a rubber band. You can stretch and stretch and even feel the tension increase in the muscles in your hands and arms as the gap from one end of the band to the other widens. But at some point you reach the limits of elasticity of the band and it snaps. The same thing happens with human systems.

  John L. Casti

  Hands, Band, Analogies

  Source: bigthink.com

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• They thought depression was like bieng 'depressed'. They thought it was like being in a bad mood, only worse. Therefore, they tried to get him to snap out of it.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Depression, Bad Mood, Mood

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• Lestat: I despise you! I ought to destroy you-finish what I started when I made you. Turn you into ashes and sift them through my hands. You know that I could do it! Like that! Like the snap of mortal fingers, I could do it. Burn you as I burnt your little house. And nothing could save you, nothing at all.

  Anne Rice

  Hands, House, Ashes

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• Good. If you checked your e-mail every five minutes, or keep texting and Tweeting in the middle of our conversation, I might snap your neck out of sheer principle.

  Jeaniene Frost

  Necks, Principles, Texting

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• I'm glad you came here and got the help you needed," Neil says, and he shakes my hand in that way that people do in here to remind themselves that you're the patient and they're the doctor/volunteer/ employee. They like you, and they genuinely want you to do better, but when they shake your hand you feel that distance, that slight disconnect because they know that you're still broken somewhere, that you might snap at any moment.

  Ned Vizzini

  Distance, Doctors, Hands

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• Why do they not teach you that time is a finger snap and an eye blink, and that you should not allow a moment to pass you by without taking joyous, ecstatic note of it, not wasting a single moment of its swift, breakneck circuit?

  Pat Conroy

  Eye, Live In The Moment, Mindfulness

  Pat Conroy (2010). “My Losing Season”, p.302, Random House

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• But if you are a poor creature--poisoned by a wretched up-bringing in some house full of vulgar jealousies and senseless quarrels--saddled, by no choice of your own, with some loathsome sexual perversion--nagged day in and day out by an inferiority complex that makes you snap at your best friends--do not despair. He knows all about it. You are one of the poor whom He blessed. He knows what a wretched machine you are trying to drive. Keep on. Do what you can. One day He will fling it on the scrap-heap and give you a new one. And then you may astonish us all - not least yourself.

  C. S. Lewis

  Blessed, Giving, House

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• So we both strip off our boots and socks and, while there’s some improvement, I could swear he’s making an effort to snap every branch we encounter

  Suzanne Collins

  Effort, Encounters, Boots

  Suzanne Collins (2008). “The Hunger Games”, p.315, Scholastic Inc.

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