Quotes About Grip

The reputation of a girl ... is a delicate thing. Like a mynah bird in your hands. slacken your grip and away it flies.

Get your hand off me," I exclaimed, voice loud with misplaced anger as I yanked away from his grip. "I'm a professional, not some distraught girlfriend." Well, I was that too, but I knew how to act at a crime scene.

Shit," Ku'Sox said speculatively, and he loosened his grip until my heels dragged on the floor again. "I've heard that several times now. Is that the word of choice? I do so like all-encompassing words. Verb, adjective, noun. Yes, you are shitted.

You are quite . . . long," she said. "Have you ever measured it?" A glint flashed in Cameron's eyes. "No." "I must fetch a tape measure then." Cameron seized her wrist in an impossibly strong grip. "You are not going anywhere or fetching anything. Not now.

In the grip of madness, materialism begins to look like an admirable belief system.

I love watching Anthony Kim play, but I'm not a fan of the way he grips down a good two inches on his full-swing shots. Choking down lightens the club's swing weight and effectively makes the shaft stiffer. It also makes it difficult to hit the ball high enough for all situations.

In Formula 1 there is so much grip, you can attack the corner so hard and be so aggressive in corner entries, and that doesn't really work in IndyCar. You have to bring that back a bit and be more precise in the mid-corner to exit.

I didn't try to pull away; things that can bench-press Toyotas don't let go.

My good sense bitch-slapped my estrogen and told her to get a grip.

I think science is real. And I think it's important that we grip this and deal with it, both at home and abroad.

Death is both a certainty and an unknown, Chuck says. It's hard to get a grip on it.

If she let go or otherwise lost her grip, of course, it would solve all her problems. Permanently.

The nightmare of materialism, which has turned the life of the universe into an evil, useless game, is not yet past; it holds the awakening soul still in its grip.

Even in sleep, the wizard had an iron grip.

It's most difficult to bowl with wet ball.

As artists we have an extraordinary and rare privilege to tell the stories of our people, our land, our culture. They grip us, tear us apart, and put us back together. We are our stories.

Any of the others can clutch a phantom!

To get the feel of how the slider should roll off of your index finger, use this grip and practice at half speed and roughly half the distance to the mound.

Life is a child playing round your feet, a tool you hold firmly in your grip, a bench you sit down upon in the evening, in your garden.

Always take hold of things by the smooth handle.

A ballplayer spends a good piece of his life gripping a baseball, and in the end it turns out that it was the other way around all the time.

Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.

The greatest propaganda coup of the American Right has been to convince its citizens that we are in the grip of a liberal conspiracy.

In tennis, there is the forehand, the backhand, the overhead smash and the drop volley, all with a different grip.