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Quotes About Grip

I think a firm grip helps you control the club and prevents it from turning in your hands. Another thing about feel is, if you make a change in your grip, it takes time for your brain to adapt.
~ Arnold Palmer
I better make the plot good. I wanted to make it grip people on the first page and have a big turning point in the middle, as there is, and construct the whole thing like a roller coaster ride.
~ Mark Haddon
As the alcohol overcomes my mind, I hear the glass bottle shatter on the floor. This seems appropriate since I have obviously lost my grip on everything.
~ Suzanne Collins
My lips are just forming his name when his fingers lock around my throat.
~ Suzanne Collins
Flying is one of the safest jobs in the Army as long as you don't drop out. If you do drop out, you are a dead man, and dropping out means, usually, that you have made a mistake or let go of your grip.
~ Eddie Rickenbacker
Worry is as useless as a handle on a snowball.
~ Mitzi Chandler
F*ck that - why is your GPS in your kitchen Because that's where I was when I took it out of my phone What the hell, V. Butch tightened his grip on his cell and wished there were an app that let you reach through a phone and b#tch slap someone. ~Butch and Vishous, Lover Unleashed.
~ J.R. Ward
There aren't any syringes." "I've got some." Red Sox came over and held a sterile pack out. When she tried to take it from him, he kept a grip on the thing. "I know you'll use this wisely." "Wisely?" She snapped the syringe out of his hand. "No, I'm going to poke him in the eye with it. Because that's what they trained me to do in medical school." Bending
~ J.R. Ward
Each schema has its own emotional hallmark, a distinctive gut-level, wrenching feeling that takes us over when the schema has us in its grip.
~ Tara Bennett-Goleman
When you're spinning a two-seam, getting on the side of the ball to get more run or sink can be good, but it can really be detrimental to your four-seam.
~ Gerrit Cole
Silence held the bubble of the world in its grip.
~ Neil Gaiman Terry Pratchet
We shook and the guy gripped my hand like it was the last cold beer in hell.
~ Nelson DeMille
Those fierce animal passions of his were his masters, not his slaves, and he was as much their victim as those he punished when he was in their grip. And despite what he had done to me tonight, I knew that his desire was real. Even if all his need was for a living body and arms to hold him, it was still a bitter desperate need.
~ Teresa Denys
Facebook needs to maintain its vise-like grip on our attention to become a conduit of not only advertising but also commerce, so that it can take a cut of everything.
~ Om Malik
I had some nerve damage that was kind of messing up my grip a little.
~ Calvin Johnson
Solo espero que recuerdes que cuando un hombre se aferra con demasiada fuerza a algo, esto termina escapándosele entre los dedos- afirmo.
~ Nora Roberts
I have a very firm grasp on reality — I can reach out and strangle it any time.
~ Author Unknown
If you can pick the baby up without him squirting our of your hands like a bar of soap in the shower, he's not oiled up enough.
~ James Lileks
Time to go home, Detective Bennett," Mary Catherine said in her musical brogue as she suddenly broke my grip and playfully pushed me toward the door.
~ James Patterson
In standup, you must be able to hypnotize the audience.
~ Johnny Lever
If we tried to rely entirely on reason and pressed it hard, our lives and beliefs would collapse – a form of madness that may actually occur if the inertial force of taking the world and life for granted is somehow lost. If we lose our grip on that, reason will not give it back to us.
~ Thomas Nagel
The judge sat that animal bareback like an indian and rode with his grip and his rifle perched on the withers and he looked about him with the greatest satisfaction in the world, as if everything had turned out just as he planned and the day could not have been finer.
~ Cormac McCarthy
Together. Even in death. His fingers tightened their grip around her hand. A double statue of silver. Romantic. What would their faces show? Fear? Or love?
~ Cornelia Funke
biology, with devastating effects."2 Why the resistance? Because the social sciences have been in the grip of an orthodoxy that is scared stiff of biology.
~ Charles Murray