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“I think you have everyone kind of pulling on the same end of the rope. It's not like you're Robin Williams and everyone else is a deaf mute. It's like - there's plenty of help.”

Thinking Kind Ends Helping Like You Plenty Pulling Rope Deaf Mute Robins

Author:Michael McKean

“Out in the ocean, a rope is put around the man's neck. The other end of the rope is attached to an old jukebox and it is thrown overboard. The man invariably follows.”

Men Ends He Man Ocean Necks Thrown Rope Overboard Jukebox

Book:The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight: A Novel

Source: The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight: A Novel

“To vindicate the sanctity of human life by taking it is an outrage upon reason. The spectacle of a human being dangling at the end of a gallows-rope is a degradation of humanity.”

Humans Ends Reason Humanity Human Beings Human Life Rope Outrage Degradation Sanctity Capital Punishment Gallows Sanctity Of Human Life

Book:Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

Source: Intuitions and Summaries of Thought

“When you're not playing up to your capability, you gotta try everything, to motivate, to get them going. All of them have to be on the same end of the rope to pull together. It's playing for the name on the front of the shirt, not the back. Individualism gets you trophies and plaques. Play for the front, that wins championships. I try to remind them of that.”

Trying Ends Play Together Winning Names Fronts Shirts Capability Individualism Championship Rope Trophies Playing Up

Author:Tommy Lasorda

“The whole business is the crudest sort of stratagem, since we have no way of foreseeing it to the end. It is a mere paying out of rope on the chance that somewhere along the length of it will be a noose.”

Way Ends Whole Chance Mere Length Rope Stratagem Nooses Foreseeing

Book:Great Tales of the Golden Age of Science Fiction

Source: Great Tales of the Golden Age of Science Fiction

“You fall so deeply in love with your grandbaby. It's so so so much easier than being a parent, because you really don't have much responsibility. And just when you are at the end of your rope with exhaustion, the parents take the baby away. So it's the best of both worlds.”

World Ends Fall Parent Responsibility Love You Baby Easier Grandparent Rope Exhaustion Being A Parent Best Of Both Worlds Deeply In Love

Author:Anne Lamott

“About three years went by and I had become exhausted - really at the end of my rope almost - and I thought I couldn't last much longer... and at the very end, when I thought of giving it all up, suddenly I thought it was good. I knew that I now understood something about it and I painted it as easily as you can imagine.”

Giving Years Ends Lasts Three Imagine Understood Three Years Exhausted Rope Exhaustion Giving It All

Author:Milton Resnick

“There is no ideal length, but you develop a little interior gauge that tells you whether or not you're supporting the house or detracting from it. When a piece gets too long, the tension goes out of it. That wordtensionhas an animal insistence for me. A piece of writing rises and falls with tension. The writer holds one end of the rope and the reader holds the other endis the rope slack, or is it tight? Does it matter to the reader what the next sentence is going to be?”

Writing Littles Long Doe Ends Matter Fall Next House Animal Pieces Reader Ideals Sentences Tension Length Interiors Rope Insistence Gauges Rise And Fall Does It Matter

Author:John Jeremiah Sullivan