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Quotes About Grabs

I'm a sucker for a funny script. And then, as soon as I don't wanna be, one comes along and grabs me.
~ Meg Ryan
We cannot allow American taxpayers to foot the bill for tax revenue grabs in Europe and elsewhere.
~ Kevin Brady
We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet, are up for grabs.
~ Carl Sagan
No doubt, intuitions deserve respect. ...[but] I think that it is always up for grabs what an intuition is an intuition of. At a minimum, it is surely sometimes up for grabs.
~ Jerry Fodor
When the news feels too normal, we stop paying attention. But bad news grabs us by the throat—which we willingly bare—especially when it's the kind of news that feels proximal but somehow doesn't quite touch us.
~ Andrew Mayne
Though all these are important, this way of defining discipleship showed that I, like many Westerners, approached the gospel primarily as information." Unfortunately, such an approach tends to produce efforts at evangelism that are thinly disguised power grabs. We try hard to foist our belief system onto others, debating with people until they declare our way the best.
~ Ann Spangler
In many ways, a teaser trailer these days has just become a short version of the full-length trailer, as opposed to something that grabs you and teases you and makes you go, 'Whoa, what is this?'
~ Rick Famuyiwa
The time we are living in is the greatest opportunity to be queer, and it is almost the most dangerous time because everything is up for grabs.
~ Binyavanga Wainaina
Finding one good script is a huge challenge. So I do a film whose script comes and grabs me. Once I finish that, I look forward to the next movie.
~ R. Madhavan
The spirit of the great outdoors and the spirit of America is freedom - let's keep freedom alive by preventing woke bureaucrats from trampling on property rights with more land grabs.
~ Lauren Boebert
Tone is up for grabs in what we do - what's the tone of the scene.
~ James L. Brooks
I juxtapose and slice up reality and fiction quite easily. I'm aware that it is up for grabs and a powerful tool to explain how we take control.
~ Wangechi Mutu
I think the best writers use the language they use every day when they talk to friends. When we talk to each other, we tend to talk in short grabs rather than in long flowing sentences. I think that's not a bad way to write.
~ Morris Gleitzman
Stacy just watches her body in amazement as the hand clutches onto her leg and pulls. Another hand emerges and grabs her other thigh, trying to pull itself out of there.
~ Carlton Mellick III
What I'm saying—I take a good snapshot. Slices of life, the kids and all, I mean. And it's important to have the record, those memories. But what you do, it just grabs emotions right out.
~ Nora Roberts
Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous possessive love that grabs at what it can.
~ Yann Martel, Life of Pi
The emotion of a song's lyrics has always been what grabs me deeply.
~ Bill Medley
The most interesting stuff happens when an authoritarian government removes itself a little and gives this margin of freedom. And then art is grabbed with both hands.
~ Pawel Pawlikowski