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“We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.”

Feels Ends Natural Sentences Teeth Prose Tape Pulling Fluid Pouring Right Words

Book:Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

Source: Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life

“People are deeply imbedded in philosophical, i.e., grammatical confusions. And to free them presupposes pulling them out of the immensely manifold connections they are caught up in.”

People Connections Philosophical Caught Confusion Pulling Caught Up Manifold

Book:Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

Source: Philosophical Occasions, 1912-1951

“I always felt mean, jogging back over the logging road,As if I had broken the natural order of things in that swampland;Disturbed some rhythm, old and of vast importance,By pulling off flesh from the living planet;As if I had committed, against the whole scheme of life, a desecration.”

Ifs Mean Whole Order Felt Natural Planets Broken Importance Committed Flesh Rhythm Schemes Pulling Disturbed Jogging Natural Order Logging

Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“The double pleasure of pulling down an opponent, and of raising oneself, is the charm of a politician's life.”

Pleasure Politician Oneself Opponents Charm Pulling

Book:Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works

Source: Phineas Redux: Trollope's Works

“If you want truth to go round the world you must hire an express train to pull it; but if you want a lie to go round the world, it will fly: it is as light as a feather, and a breath will carry it. It is well said in the old proverb, 'a lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on'.”

Ifs World Want Wells Said Light Lying Truth Is Breaths Train Rounds Boots Pulling Feathers Well Said Old Proverb

Author:Bruce Springsteen

“All things tend toward entropy. The whole universe is moving outward, the stars pulling away from one another, God knows what falling through the cracks between them.”

Knows Whole Moving Fall Universe Stars All Things Chaos Cracks Pulling God Knows Entropy Moving Out Pulling Away

Book: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

Source: 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

“Our old - fashioned system is better than any new - fangled voting machine. Not only is it guaranteed to work, but there is something I find appealing in putting a mark on a piece of paper for the candidate of your choice, as opposed to pulling a lever as if you were gambling on a slot machine in Las Vegas.”

Ifs Choices Pieces Paper Machines Mark Candidates Voting Gambling Pulling Old Fashioned Vegas Las Vegas Levers Slot Machines

Book:My Years as Prime Minister

Source: My Years as Prime Minister

“I think, on both sides of the camera or the novel: Distraction. I'm obsessed with: Can I get this actress or my third act to work? I'm distracted. I'm interested in that so I don't sit home and think, "Gee, life is meaningless. We're all going to die. The universe is pulling apart at breakneck speed."”

Thinking Home Life Is Dies Universe Sides Novel Thirds Cameras Speed Actresses Obsessed Distraction Meaningless Pulling Both Sides Distracted

Author:Woody Allen

“Community is a place where the connections felt in our hearts make themselves known in the bonds between people, and where the tuggings and pullings of those bonds keep opening our hearts.”

People Heart Felt Community Known Connections Opening Pulling Tugging Opening Our Hearts

Author:Parker J. Palmer

“What is doing the damage is the fact that the U.K. is pulling in more imports, which shows the continued strength of the economy and the strength of sterling.”

Facts Shows Economy Importance Damage Pulling Imports Sterling

Author:Adam Cole

“Pulling yourself up again is the most important part of your life. Getting out of the bottom that you put everything into - yourself!”

Important Failure Bottom Pulling

Author:Milton Resnick

“Success is the 'discovery,' the creation of an idea, pulling something out of the depths of your mind that never existed before. To further complete that success, a painting is made as a communication tool for that idea.”

Mind Made Ideas Creation Painting Communication Discovery Tools Depth Pulling

Author:Jim Rowe

“Pulling a crystalline, cogent rule out of the murk of the court's First Amendment, public forum, and Establishment Clause doctrine is an act of creation too complicated for mere mortals.”

Firsts Creation Court Mere Complicated Doctrine Mortals Establishment Amendments Pulling First Amendment Forums Clauses Mere Mortals Establishment Clause

Author:Dahlia Lithwick

“It is a mistake to think of these men as visionary dreamers, playing around at Philadelphia with abstract conceptions of political theory, pulling a whole scheme of government out of the air like a rabbit out of a hat. True, many of them had read and studied enough about the science of politics to put the average statesman of today to shame. But political science was to them an extremely practical topic of discussion, dealing with the extremely practical business of running a government--not, as today, a branch of higher learning reserved for the use of graduate students.”

Source: 55 Men, Story of Constitution

“You can solo-climb Everest without using oxygen or you can pay guides and Sherpas to carry your loads, put ladders across crevasses, lay in 6,000 feet of fixed ropes, and have one Sherpa pulling you and another pushing you. ... The goal of climbing big, dangerous mountains should be to attain some sort of spiritual and personal growth, but this won't happen if you compromise away the entire process.”

“You can't use stress, anxiety, frustration, and worry to deal with your stress, anxiety, frustration, and worry. It's like pulling up to a burning building with a flame thrower. The energy of the problem can't be the energy behind a successful solution.”

Use Problem Energy Deals Behinds Worry Successful Building Anxiety Solutions Stress Burning Flames Frustration Pulling Burning Buildings Throwers

Author:Bill Crawford

“On the day I was signed, Mr. Finley, the owner of the Athletics at that time came up to me and said, 'When you were six you ran away from home, and when your parents found you at a nearby lake, you had already caught two catfish and were pulling in a third. Now repeat it back to me.'”

Said Two Home Found Parent Six Thirds Caught Ran Repeats Lakes Owners Pulling Yankees Athletics New York Yankees Away From Home Found You Catfish

Author:Catfish Hunter

“Sasha gets a raw deal from the press. She makes one mistake in her program and people rip her for not pulling it off when it counts. But she never falls apart. She never just completely folds and misses everything. Usually it's just one mistake.”

People Fall Sports Deals Mistake Missing Program Presses Just One Pulling Falling Apart Folds Rip One Mistake

Author:Brian Boitano

“He's pulling him off! The Spanish manager is pulling his captain off”

Football Managers Captains Pulling Commentators

Author:George Hamilton

“You've got to keep close to your spouse I think, which is a very hard thing to do in America, with everything always pulling you away. I would advise all married people to spend two hours talking to each other. That's my moral for the day.”

People Thinking Two Hard America Hours Talking Moral Married Things To Do Pulling Spouse Advise Hard Things

Author:Robert M. Pirsig

“My parents joined in the 60s and at that time it was really important - there was a group mentality. I could be pulling this out of my ass, but I feel our generation approaches things on a more individual basis, like we're more personal and don't need to be a part of a group.”

Needs Feels Important Individual Parent Generations Groups Approach Bases Ass Mentality Pulling Our Generation

Author:Taraka Larson

“Some of your best songs come from a desperate attempt to escape, so sitting in an airport for hours I can just start pulling out little fragments of songs from my head. A lot of times a melody will just occur to me and be my companion for a couple of months.”

Littles I Can Song Hours Months Couple Sitting Desperate Companion Melody Pulling Fragments Airports

Author:Andrew Bird

“Once people see you pulling off one role, they think youre a safe bet to do a similar role.”

People Thinking Roles Safe Pulling

Author:Margot Robbie

“On Death Valley, I fought this werewolf, and he was picking me up and slamming me down. They put padding down in the garbage so he could really slam me down. They're flying around and I'm doing these jumping flying triangles pulling the guy down. It's just fun.”

Guy Fun Flying Valleys Pulling Jumping Garbage Werewolf Slam Triangles

Author:Caity Lotz

“Geniuses were like storms or cyclones, pulling everything into their path, sticks and stones and dust.”

Path Genius Stones Sticks Storm Dust Pulling Sticks And Stones Cyclones

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“life itself is always pulling you away from the understanding of life.”

Understanding Pulling

Author:Anne Morrow Lindbergh

“Every day that goes by shortens our opportunity of booking it successfully. Whether it's members pulling their condos for personal use, whether it's a convention booking our conference center, whether it's golf packages being booked .. not hearing makes it that much harder to accommodate them.”

Book Use Opportunity Members Harder Golf Hearing Conventions Pulling Conferences Packages Accommodate

Author:Bill Vaughan

“My mother had demonstrated that the best way to defeat the numbing ambivalence of middle age is to surprise yourself - by pulling off some cartwheel of thought or action never even imagined at a younger age.”

Way Age Action Mother Middle Surprise Defeat Best Way Pulling Middle Ages Ambivalence Numbing Cartwheels

Author:Gail Sheehy

“Is it in destroying and pulling down that skill is displayed? The shallowest understanding, the rudest hand, is more than equal to that task.”

Hands Understanding Skills Equal Tasks Critics Destroying Pulling

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Edmund Burke (Illustrated)

“Songwriting ability is a gift. After a while, you come to realize, "I've really been blessed. I can write these things and it makes me happy, and it makes millions of people happy." It's an obligation, it's bigger than you. It's the only true magic I know. It's not pulling a rabbit out of a hat; it's real. It's your soul floating out to theirs.”

People Knows Writing I Can Real Soul Realizing Ability Millions Magic Bigger Blessed Obligation Your Soul Hats Songwriting Pulling Floating Rabbits Make Me Happy

Author:Tom Petty

“I think most people when you say slavery tend to see a group of anonymous people pulling cotton sacks in great plantation fields, and that is largely true.”

People Thinking Groups Fields Slavery Pulling Cotton Plantations

Author:Alex Haley

“I really felt sometimes like I was physically pulling the plot, and it was heavy. I'm sure it didn't look great that I was going into my dressing room at lunch.”

Looks Sometimes Felt Rooms Heavy Plot Lunch Pulling Dressings Dressing Rooms

Author:Shelley Long

“Writing for the stage is different from writing for a book. You want to write in a way that an actor has material to work with, writing in the first person not the third person, and pulling out the dramatic elements in a bigger way for a stage presentation.”

Way Want Writing Firsts Persons Book Different Actors Stage Materials Elements Thirds Bigger Dramatic Pulling Presentation First Person Third Person

Author:Brian Greene

“History, the winnowing wind, never halts. We see the chaff rise, forget the waiting grain, seed of the future, fallen to the threshing floor. We never learn, but live on, slit-narrow, as if our living were a pencil line traced upon paper, behaving as trapped denizens of a flat world hemmed in by the bigoted horizon of our own making. Yet the meaning of living is a pushing back, a pulling down of the great walls and domes of fear and ignorance, is relinquishing the nest for the sky, ignorance for understanding. The look back is also a look forward.”

“One person seeking glory doesn't accomplish much. Success is the result of people pulling together to meet common goals.”

People Persons Together Goal Results Common Glory Seeking Accomplish Pulling Common Goal Pulling Together

Author:John C. Maxwell

“Hockey is a unique sport in the sense that you need each and every guy helping each other and pulling in the same direction to be successful.”

Needs Helping Guy Sports Successful Unique Being Successful Hockey Pulling Helping Each Other

Author:Wayne Gretzky

“you could see the roads crisscrossing over the fields. When cars went by, far away, the beams were so bright they seemed to be ropes of light pulling the cars behind.”

Light Behinds Car Fields Far Away Pulling Rope Beam

Author:Cynthia Kadohata

“Confidence: It's the difference between the girl with the perfect body in a one-piece bathing suit, pulling at it and thinking she's not thin enough or doesn't have big enough boobs - and the girl who people call a bit overweight, but meanwhile, she's wearing a bikini and guys are saying, "God, she's sexy." It all has to do with how you feel about yourself - it's about projecting the attitude, I'm OK with who I am.”

“I'm more interested in pulling out strands of joy from both myself and the audience. I'm not saying the music or songs are "light," just that when they're performed with the correct commitment it's a source of real pleasure, for me anyway.”

Real Light Joy Song Pleasure Audience Source Commitment Pulling Strands

Author:Michael Gira

“Africa does not have an uncle abroad who will come to bail it out of its political and economic woes. It is important that African countries wake up and pool whatever resources they have and jointly deal elements pulling our continent down a death blow.”

Doe Important Country Political Deals Economic Elements Resources Wake Up Blow Pool Continents Pulling Uncles Woe Bail

Author:Bernard Membe

“Many people have the right aim in life, they just never get around to pulling the trigger. The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps -- we must step up the stairs.”

People Enough Vision Steps Aim Staring Pulling Venture Triggers Stairs Step Up Pulling The Trigger

Author:Vance Havner

“Certain temperaments respond to anxiety by pulling inward. Their instincts tell them ' Don't go out to meet the world - you'll have a panic attack. Inside is where safety is.”

World Certain Anxiety Safety Instinct Panic Inward Pulling Temperament Panic Attacks

Author:Aimee Liu

“You know, when I am working, I take really, really good care of myself. I eat really well, and I exercise, and again, I have this team of people pulling me together every day.”

People Knows Wells Care Together Team Exercise Pulling

Author:Michelle Pfeiffer

“I believe in fate. Sometimes that means an old bearded guy sitting on a cloud and pulling the strings; sometimes it means random atoms swirling through a cheerless universe; sometimes it means everything being preordained thanks to your karma credit from your previous lives.”

Believe Mean Sometimes Guy Universe I Believe Fate Sitting Clouds I Believe In Credit Karma Thanks Strings Atoms Pulling Previous Life

Author:Kyle MacLachlan

“I went through a period of pulling away from everything - acting, people - not sure if I would ever have a voice in this business.”

People Ifs Voice Acting Periods Not Sure Pulling Pulling Away

Author:Selma Blair

“I know what I look like. I'm not a babe who's automatically going to be the leading-lady type. I think I would always be cast as the friend. I probably tend to look crap more often than I look good. I like messing around and pulling funny faces and doing funny walks.”

Thinking Knows Looks Faces Walks Type Casts Crap Pulling Babe Leading Ladies Funny Face

Author:Ashley Jensen

“In March winter is holding back and spring is pulling forward. Something holds and something pulls inside of us too.”

Spring Winter March Pulling Holding Back

Book:The Shape of a Year

Source: The Shape of a Year

“I am a member of the London Library, and on almost every single job I do, there is some benefit to be had in going there and pulling two or three books off the shelves.”

Two Book Jobs Three Members Benefits Library London Pulling Shelves

Author:Ed Stoppard

“Successful tape reading is a study of Force; it requires ability to judge which side has the greatest pulling power and one must have the courage to go with that side.”

Reading Force Sides Ability Study Successful Judging Investing Tape Pulling

Book:Studies in Tape Reading

Source: Studies in Tape Reading

“My friend Kathy is the only person who'll be halfway honest with me. 'Did you ever see a cowboy film, where someone has been caught by the Indians and tied between two wild stallions, each pulling in opposite directions?' she asked.I nodded mutely.'That's a bit what giving birth is like.”

Giving Persons Has Beens Two Film Bits Honest Birth My Friends Opposites Caught Tied Pulling Cowboy Halfway Giving Birth Stallions

Book:Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities

Source: Under the Duvet: Shoes, Reviews, Having the Blues, Builders, Babies, Families and Other Calamities