Like Pulling Teeth Quotes

#1. It's like pulling teeth to get me to do photo shoots. And I don't mind doing interviews if they're by phone, but I hate to go sit down and have to meet somebody somewhere, you know what I mean.

Toby Keith

#2. I'm kind of a private person, and sometimes it's like pulling teeth to get me to talk.

Morris Chestnut

#3. It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here.

Jennifer Lawrence

#4. Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#5. We usually use that mostly on the weekends because we have access to the range during the week. But I can tell you a number of times they have had a training holiday at Fort Benning, so nobody trains, and to drag him in is like pulling teeth.

Nancy Johnson

#6. Writing is like pulling teeth out of your penis.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#7. I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist.

Graham Nash

#8. Sometimes writing everyday is like pulling teeth, painful, but necessary.

Wendy Swore

#9. Writing is like pulling teeth.
From my dick.

David Rakoff

#10. The most difficult book I wrote was the fourth in a series of linked children's books. It was like pulling teeth because the publisher wanted exactly the same but completely different. I'd much rather just do something completely different, even if there's a risk of it going wrong.

Mark Haddon

#11. Go and make interesting mistakes, make amazing mistakes, make glorious and fantastic mistakes. Break rules. Leave the world more interesting for your being here.

Neil Gaiman

#12. Some people are weatherwise, but most are otherwise.

Benjamin Franklin

#13. I like him in sweaters. I get the urge to cuddle and pet him like a stuffed animal.

Jenny Han

#14. Baby," Ty whispered against Zane's lips. He had never felt this sort of heat and longing for another person. He didn't know how Zane did it, but Ty knew that there would never be anyone else for him.

Abigail Roux

#15. Long lives aren't natural. We forget that senior citizens are as much an invention as toasters or penicillin.

Douglas Coupland

#16. Freedom is from within.

Frank Lloyd Wright

#17. White Chocolate. Intense, sweet. But not deep. Okay for prom dates or flings, but not to get serious..Milk chocolates are guys you could date for like a few months, and dark chocolates are for love.

E. Lockhart

#18. Computation has finally demystified mentalistic terms. Beliefs are inscriptions in memory, desires are goal inscriptions, thinking is computation, perceptions are inscriptions triggered by sensors, trying is executing operations triggered by a goal.

Steven Pinker

#19. Fate, then, is the nothing of anxiety.

Soren Kierkegaard

#20. The big reason why we don't have space colonies and regular trips to the moon is that flying into outer space is just plain 'hard.' The business of safely transporting people off the Earth is a costly affair that requires a lot of technology.

Ben Parr

#21. The harshest tyranny is that which acts under the protection of legality and the banner of justice.

Baron De Montesquieu

#22. I'm certainly not thrilled with everything the Eagles did, but there are some things I'm quite proud of.

Don Henley

#23. Before I even had the chance to try, a current of energy washed through me, pulling a gasp from my lips. Strength and familiarity tripled through the air between us. The powerful sensation swarmed over me like a thousand little teeth nibbling on my skin, and shook me to the core.

A.K. Morgen

#24. Where destruction is the motive, unity is dangerous. For example, if I have evil intent and I galvanize that evil intent with many others, the capacity to destroy is immense. Where goodness is the motive, unity is phenomenal and actually has some good issues to it.

Ravi Zacharias

#25. We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.

Anne Lamott

#26. A newspaper story, like anything else, is more attractive from a distance, when it first comes to you, than it is when you get in close and agonize over the details. Which I presume is how Yardley got in the habit of keeping himself at a distance.

Pete Dexter

#27. I give myself up to darkness; and wish I may never again be required to lift my head to the light.

Sarah Waters