Pawing Quotes

#1. The unworthies in power feel danger, like cows uneasily pawing the ground with a great Moo.

William S. Burroughs

#2. I shall probably be found in some gutter, icicles dangling from all of my orifices, alley cats pawing over me to draw the warmth from my last breath.

Michael LaRocca

#3. Reacher glanced back. The guy on the right was about to transition from unconscious to concussed. The guy on the left was squirming halfheartedly and pawing at everything between his ribcage and his knees.

Lee Child

#4. The toddler started making this whine/moan noise while pawing at Tabitha. I know as a woman I'm supposed to have this innate love of babies, but the truth is, they kind of remind me of zombies. They stumble around, arms out, moaning. And if they get a hold of you, they suck the energy out of you.

Cindi Madsen

#5. Guy's own erection was so hard it ached, as if it were an angry dog begging to be let out and pawing at the door.

Edmund White

#6. She is not like me. She knows only the tree of life. She has not seen its twisted roots pawing stones and coffins.

Hannah Kent

#7. I know my father blamed himself, since he is the one who discovered me pawing through his pornography in the basement as a child. Even then, I marveled at the strangeness of the women in the magazines, their hair feathered in a style I struggled to believe was ever in fashion.

Valentine Glass

#8. Business owners are like joggers. If you stop a jogger, he goes on running on the spot. If you drag an owner away from his business, he goes on running on the spot, pawing the ground, talking business. He never stops hurtling onwards, making decisions and executing them.

Jean Baudrillard

#9. I happened to look up and there it was. All over and done with, at last. I sat on for a few moments with the ball in my hand and the dog yelping and pawing at me. (Pause.) Moments. Her moments, my moments (Pause.) The dog's moments.

Samuel Beckett

#10. I can see that everyone else is doing exactly what they wanted with the rest of their lives. They're all at the gate, pawing the dirt and ready to run, and I've already got a lame leg and am this close to being taken around back of the stable to be put out of my misery.

Sarah Dessen

#11. And then it changed. I wasn't letting him anymore. He was taking, pawing, grabbing. I pushed, I cried out, I squirmed, but like I said it's a shitty game and he didn't feel like playing by the rules anymore.

Taylor Rhodes

#12. The Christmas parties were orgies of drinking and singing and groping and pawing. Cartoon staffers invested their own money in preparatory liquor.

Joseph Barbera

#13. How agreeable to watch, from the other side of the high stile, this mighty creature, this fat bull of Bashan, snorting, champing, pawing the earth, lashing the tail, breathing defiance at heaven and at me ... his heart hot with hate, unable to climb a stile.

Rose Macaulay

#14. You're dying to meet my needs. You can't look away from my luscious half-naked body. The minute I opened the door you were pawing at me. It was like you were in heat or something.

Kylie Scott

#15. Seeing me shivering, he stretched a front leg toward the sweatshirt, pawing the edge and snarling when he realized he couldn't grab it.
"The lack of opposable thumbs is going to take some getting used to, huh?"

Kelley Armstrong

#16. Particle physicists may freeze a second, open it up, and explore its dappled contents like surgeons pawing through an abdomen, but in real life, when events occur within thousandths of a second, our minds cannot distinguish past from future.

James Gleick

#17. I used to take my short stories to girls' homes and read them to them. Can you imagine the reaction reading a short story to a girl instead of pawing her?

Ray Bradbury

#18. Congress, 535 commoditized temple monkeys pawing through the ruins of America in search of bribes. The bicameral whorehouse on Capitol Hill works like a vending machine. You put coins in the slot, select your law, and the desired legislation slides out.

Fred Reed

#19. I'm not going to have some reporters pawing through our papers. We are the president.

Hillary Rodham Clinton

#20. The race of humankind would perish did they cease to aid each other.

Walter Scott

#21. Courage and fear were one thing too.

John Steinbeck

#22. A well lived life means weathering a few storms. Our lessons don't come from sunny days on the beach, they come from copping a few waves on the head.

Tony Curl

#23. What he would tell her instead, he hadn't yet decided, but now was not the time to think about such things. Now was the time to sit with his little family of two people, and cry.

J. Ryan Stradal

#24. Once your mindset changes, everything on the outside will change along with it.

Steve Maraboli

#25. I believe above the storm, the smallest prayer will still be heard. I believe that someone in that great somewhere hears every word.

LeAnn Rimes

#26. The dull parts of life spread out in your memory and crowd out the exciting parts until they just seem like little flashes. (Ron Weasley)

G. Norman Lippert

#27. Why are you behaving like this? You know how much I love you ... and I
believe you love me as much, so why are you avoiding me?

Santonu Kumar Dhar

#28. This has been such a Monday! I wish I stayed in bed, and I wish that yesterday had never happened.

Lisa Mantchev

#29. When I warned them [the French] that Britain would fight on alone whatever they did, their generals told their Prime Minister and his divided Cabinet, In three weeks England will have her neck wrung like a chicken. Some chicken! Some neck!

Winston Churchill

#30. When you recognize what your talents are, a happy life is developing them to the greatest extent you can.

Ellen Burstyn

#31. But how can anyone put a bridle on man's vanity and arrogance? But how can Purity walk the earth without covering her feet with mud?

Nikos Kazantzakis