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Quotes About Straps

The scariest part is when you are coming down the wave and there is all this water coming down the wave and your feet are coming out of the straps.
~ Garrett McNamara
...cursing my heels and debating whether it was faster to stop and take them off--damn ankle straps!--or keep running with the potential neck breakers. Wouldn't that make a charming epitaph? Here lies Cat. Killed not by fang, but Ferragamos.
~ Jeaniene Frost
Adrian opened his mouth, undoubtedly ready with some inappropriate and mocking comment. Lissa gave him a sharp headshake that kept him quiet. "Aren't there any, I don't know, sleeveless options?" The saleswoman's eyes widened. "No one has ever worn straps to a funeral. It wouldn't be right." "What about shorts?" asked Adrian. "Are they okay if they're with a tie? Because that's what I was gonna go with." The woman looked horrified.
~ Richelle Mead
It was a belt canteen of flexible synthetic divided into half-litre pockets. The weight was taken by shoulder straps and a tube ran up the left suspender, ending in a nipple near his mouth, so that he might drink without taking it off.
~ Robert A. Heinlein
What's it like to wear an eternal Olympian overall held up by the burning straps of mortal shortfall?
~ Anne Carson
Donkeys walk in a flock on their front two legs by wearing knotted straps as an identification marks around own necks or on some body parts and some brays as if says or raises slogan of their master's name.
~ Anuj Somany
He had no choice in the matter, if he left her hanging by the straps she'd end up being banged against the side of the aircraft. Not good for her, not good for the plane's stability. You always fastened down a cargo, you didn't leave it loose in the back of a plane. That was all he was doing, he told himself putting his arms around her to hold her limp body still, letting her head loll back against his shoulder. Keeping the cargo secure. It was his own damn fault he was getting hard again.
~ Anne Stuart
For swimsuits, a halter top with thick straps works wonders. It supports bigger busts, and the ruching gives fullness if you're smaller.
~ Shoshanna Lonstein Gruss
I'll never forget the first time I rode a bike with pedal straps. I stopped at a traffic light and fell over like Arte Johnson in 'Laugh-In.'
~ Joe Maddon
hot-water tanks, lashed to one another with straps of steel like comrades in a doomed adventure.
~ Michael Chabon
Chilton went behind Dr. Lecter and, with a glance at the camera, undid the straps and removed the mask with a flourish. "Senator Martin, meet Dr. Hannibal Lecter." Seeing what Dr. Chilton had done for showmanship frightened Senator Martin as much as anything that had happened since her daughter disappeared. Any confidence she might have had in Chilton's judgment was replaced with the cold fear that he was a fool. She'd have to wing it.
~ Thomas Harris
The problem with the suspenders my mother bought for him is that he hasn't adjusted the straps since he got them. So instead of attaching somewhere around his midsection, the suspenders clip onto his pants three inches below his nipples. Now picture the suspenders attached to sweatpants. This vision is what first led me to coin the term camel balls.
~ Chelsea Handler
So Jane was getting married. Well, more power to her. In fact, let me tighten those straps. Any word from the governor on the pardon? No? All right, then, more power to her.
~ James Lileks
match, straps were cut and some work would
~ Thomas Wright
Ah, Hollywood. One day, you and I will play Operation. And I'll be the drunk, mad doctor with the hedge trimmer & you will wear the straps
~ Warren Ellis
Her shoes were short heels, open toe, no straps, red leather, high-class-tart stuff.
~ John Grisham
Love is a tie that binds; matrimony straps them together
~ Robert Frost