Quotes of Pry - somelinesforyou

“ I shan't be pulling the levers there but I shall be a very good back-seat driver. ”

- Margaret Thatcher

“ Mind is the great lever of all things. ”

- Daniel Webster

“ Reagan won because he ran against Jimmy Carter. If he ran unopposed he would have lost. ”

- Mort Sahl

“ Because in order to beat Jimmy, I had to get around the ball a little bit quicker so I wasn't always on defensive and catching the ball on last stride, that I had little more time. Once I was able to get little bit quicker, then it has helped me a lot. ”

- Ivan Lendl

“ After college, I went to London to record with Jimmy Webb on a project. ”

- Ringo Starr

“ Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't. ”

- Ted Rall

“ The mightiest lever known to the moral world, imagination. ”

- William Wordsworth

“ The heroism of the role,... was playing up the vulnerability of the role, and that was all Jimmy. ”

- James Caan

“ There's a statue of Jimmy Stewart in the Hollywood Wax Museum, and the statue talks better than he does. ”

- Dean Martin

“ Jimmy and I were always partners. ”

- Rosalynn Carter

“ Without Jimmy Dean, the Beatles never would have existed. ”

- John Lennon

“ Jimmy says he'll never tell a lie. Well, I lie all the time. 1 have to — to balance the family ticket. ”

- Lillian Carter

“ Men are Moved by two levers only: fear and self interest. ”

- Napoleon Bonaparte

“ Let the key guns be mounted, make a brave show of waging war, and pry off the lid of Pandora's Box once more. ”

- Amy Lowell

“ Research is formalized curiosity. It is poking and prying with a purpose. ”

- Zora Neale Hurston

“ Many a secret that cannot be pried out by curiosity can be drawn out by indifference. ”

- Sydney J. Harris

“ Where the apple reddens never pry — lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I. ”

- Robert Browning

“ Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down. ”

- Collis P. Huntington

“ We have not the reverent feeling for the rainbow that a savage has, because we know how it is made. We have lost as much as we gained by prying into that matter. ”

- Mark Twain

“ The camera is a killing chamber, which speeds up the time it claims to be conserving. Like coffins exhumed and pried open, the photographs put on show what we were and what we will be again. ”

- Peter Conrad

“ If you can't pray a door open, don't pry it open. ”

- Lyell Rader

“ For prying into any human affairs, non are equal to those whom it does not concern. ”

- Victor Hugo

“ What is not nailed down is mine. Anything that I can pry loose was not nailed down. ”

- Harlen Ellison

“ It was my dream that I had clenched in a fist of discontent and wouldn't release. But time had now pried every finger open. There is peace in an open and upraised hand that isn't grasping for anything. ”

- Laurel Lee

“ EAVESDROP, v.i. Secretly to overhear a catalogue of the crimes and vices of another or yourself. A lady with one of her ears applied To an open keyhole heard, inside, Two female gossips in converse free — The subject engaging them was she. "I think," said one, "and my husband thinks That she's a prying, inquisitive minx!" As soon as no more of it she could hear The lady, indignant, removed her ear… ”

- Ambrose Bierce
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