Quotes About Pull

Sex and death, the magnetic poles of fiction, attract us children's writers no less than adult authors, but we have to be more leery of their pull.

One of the things that concerns me is that so few people who go and get an education elsewhere... feel any real... pull for returning home.

If anything could have pulled me out of retirement, it would have been an Indiana Jones film.

When you come in the club, people are trying to get your attention, so they pull your hand. It's like, why are you pulling on me?

I'm of the belief that you pursue your interests, you pull it all in, and you sort it out later.

There's definitely a push and a pull to 'legitimize' electronic music live by playing the same way that a band would play.

I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.

I've never played in Vegas. I've only been to the airport, but even the airport was exciting. Just flying in, looking out the window, you feel the pull of it, like it's some evil force pulling you in, like Mordor.

I love doing emotional scenes. As I've had a perfect life, I don't really have much to pull from. But it's really fun and not that challenging. It's almost pretty easy. The hardest thing is to try and make people laugh. That's a really hard thing.

The pull of history has been a strong theme in my life as a novelist.

Should he make a note? He felt for the smooth shape of his pen in his pocket. 'Theme for a novel: The contrary pull ... " No. If this notion were real, he needn't make a note. A notion on which a note had to be made would be stillborn anyway, his notebook was a parish register of such, born and dead on the same page. Let it live if it can. ("Novelty")

Two forces pervade human life, the Gita says: the upward thrust of evolution and the downward pull of our evolutionary past.

that is a measure of how much you and the planet Earth attract each other;

I lived in Wisconsin for a while, so I keep my eyes on the Packers. I grew up in San Diego, so there's the Chargers, but outside of that, I'm really kind of lame because I don't have a specific team I pull for.

There are scenes from books I'm happy with. I tend to think my books are all broken. But then my favourite reads are almost always books that don't, in the end, pull off what they set out to do.

Power draws you in; it's something we can gravitate toward.

I can see through almost any scam, especially one perpetrated by the federal government. I can see through it... they can't pull the wool over my eyes, it's absolutely freakin' impossible to pull the wool over my eyes about the government.

There are going to be times when we disagree with our leadership, but ultimately, we've got to work hard to pull our leadership to the right and to move a conservative agenda forward and unite as conservatives if we're going to get things done.

Repression in the human psyche is tightly bundled. When it has been pulled out of the sprung package so often it is perhaps difficult to push it back in the box.

Dark comedy is very difficult. You have to bring the audience in and push them away at the same time.

I am governed by the pull of the sentence as the pull of fabric is governed by gravity.

Pull and pull strongly for your able strength / Must pull down heaven upon me

Everyone knows that hidden pull is there, but we go on living our lives, pretending we don't. We keep our gazes fixed, day after day, on the things we want to see.

current began its pull toward the ocean,