Pinch Yourself Quotes

#1. I always had the desire to perform. If it wasn't my career now, I'd still be doing amateur dramatics. It's just something you love, and when you get paid to do it, you pinch yourself every day.

Mathew Baynton

#2. Sometimes, you pinch yourself. I get to do such incredibly fun things with people who are of such an incredible caliber. It's really, really awesome.

David Costabile

#3. Be so good as to cease to cast yourself in fictions. Pinch yourself, or slap yourself across the face if that's what it takes, but understand, please, that you are nonfictional, and this is real life.

Salman Rushdie

#4. I pinch myself every night when I hear the overture starting. I'm so overwhelmed by the whole process, and humbled and giddy all at the same time because I can't believe it's me that gets to sing these songs every night.

Tituss Burgess

#5. As soon as we finished filming, I felt like I had been woken up from a magical dream and had to pinch myself to remember that it was real. Every scene is now a blur. I feel like I will be watching it for the first time with the rest of the world. I am nervous. But excited.

Lucy Fry

#6. I never think I have finished a nude until I think I could pinch it.

Pierre-Auguste Renoir

#7. I was taking a nap in the theater one day while I ditched English, when I looked up and saw Jess on the stage. I had to pinch myself, because I figured either I was dreaming or else I'd died and gone to heaven - which given my history was probably not where I'd end up.

Carolee Dean

#8. Absent love, fear will do nicely in a pinch.

Pierce Brown

#9. I feel so fortunate to get paid to be an actor. I pinch myself. I get it from writing, I get it from baking, gardening ... I sort of open myself to the creative flow, which is hard to do, by the way.

Lauren Bowles

#10. say the words out loud / yes / the ones that make your heart pinch / say them out loud

N.L. Shompole

#11. White is for witching, a colour to be worn so that all other colours can enter you, so that you may use them. At a pinch, cream will do.

Helen Oyeyemi

#12. If put to the pinch, an ounce of loyalty is worth a pound of cleverness.
(Get Out or Get in Line, 1928)

Elbert Hubbard

#13. Wayne claimed to have memorized the names of all of the different possible combinations of Twinborn. Of course, Wayne also claimed to have once stolen a horse that belched in perfect musical notes, so one learned to take what he said with a pinch of copper.

Brandon Sanderson

#14. All you need is a pinch of Grace," I whisper, sprinkling it on the pie. "And a dash of Hope," she follows, tossing more on top. "To make life sweeter." I turn and press a kiss to her cheek. "And help love grow," she whispers, kissin' my cheek back, her tears mixin' with my own.

K.C. Lynn

#15. But in a pinch, he was a capable coder too. He just wasn't especially fast. So when he was finally done coding and debugging his program and ran a successful test, it was past eleven on Tuesday night. He hadn't slept but for a few hours on Sunday night, and the lack of sleep had cooked him.

Matthew FitzSimmons

#16. A pinch of praise is worth a pound of scorn. A dash of encouragement is more helpful than a dipper of pessimism. A cup of kindness is better than a cupboard of criticism.

William Arthur Ward

#17. Character begins to form at the first pinch of anxiety about ourselves.

Yevgeny Yevtushenko

#18. The biggest mistake is trying to pinch down on the ball and ripping out a big divot, often hitting the ground before the ball. You'll dig up some turf, but you won't create much backspin.

Ernie Els

#19. I have just been working with Maggie Gyllenhaal, who is also a mum, on a movie called 'Hysteria.' She is everywhere because of the nature of film work. Not that I'm name dropping or anything like that. I have to pinch myself when I remember who I've been working with.

Ashley Jensen

#20. Jaeden laughed under her breath. Caia, it's called a crush. Believe me, Ryder makes me feel the same horrible mixture of happiness and despair. Add a pinch of lykan volatility and you've got yourself the teenage hormonal party from Hades.

Samantha Young

#21. I wouldn't say that cutting was pleasurable, but there is a sense of euphoria that follows cutting yourself. The quick pinch of pain and the sight of blood snaps you back to the surface and you start to appreciate being alive.

Shirley Manson

#22. Baby, If you think, he is sweet and caring to you.. and flirts only with you, you have started liking him.. Pinch wake yourself up.. His inbox tells his story..

Himmilicious

#23. Part of the beauty of the show in a way is that he's not perfect, but you can always count on him to do the right thing in a pinch. That's why he inspires people and inspires me.

Stephen Collins

#24. If I've got a good pinch-hitter, I hate to have him stay on the bench with men on the bases in an early inning. He may end the game right there.

Casey Stengel

#25. I'd rather have a book, but in a pinch I'll settle for a set of Water Pik instructions.

Anne Fadiman

#26. The number of times he'd had to pinch his nose to keep his soul in so that he'd make no noise while peering through the parlor keyhole...

Emma Trevayne

#27. When I stood up there as a pinch hitter, I honestly believed I was the best hitter in the game. That's the only attitude to have.

Manny Mota

#28. Yeah, touring can get rough some times and draining, but I always have to pinch myself and realize that I'm doing what I love.

Jonny Lang

#29. The stroke of death is as a lover's pinch, which hurts and is desired.

William Shakespeare

#30. You could touch for a couple of bucks. The window of the booth went up and you stuck out the bills. They might tell you not to pinch, but I was a stroke type anyway. Some guys, I guess they want to leave a mark. Me, I just like the feel.

Sam Lipsyte

#31. Welcome to my world! I've been through it all, and I often pinch myself to believe my luck. I design jewlery, create cosmetics, perform comedy, act, lecture, write books, travel, have a fabulous daughter, and a phenomenal grandson-and I feel I'm the luckiest woman on the planet.

Joan Rivers

#32. I'm the luckiest guy in the world. I wake up every day just fired up. My one rule is, don't let anyone pinch me, because I don't want to wake up.

Mark Cuban

#33. Is he for real? A hot guy who makes me laugh and loves poetry? Someone pinch me.

Colleen Hoover

#34. Deal with your wins and losses alike. With tequila, lemon and a pinch of salt.

Saleem Sharma

#35. I don't know why I got so lucky. I have to pinch myself often and say, 'Is this just a dream?'

Heidi Klum

#36. I'm glad I have you for my boyfriend." "Me too," I said. "Sometimes I have to pinch myself." She pinched my arm and smiled. "You're so cute.

Richard Paul Evans

#37. I pinch myself because of the understanding that I've been blessed with a real rare opportunity that few Americans ever get - to serve their government and their people at this level.

Marco Rubio

#38. Frying gives cooks numerous ways of concealing what appeared the day before and in a pinch facilitates sudden demands, for it takes little more time to fry a four-pound carp than to boil an egg.

Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#39. I just pinch myself, because I think if there's anything I can be proud of, I've survived success, which I think is difficult these days.

TobyMac

#40. He's such a cobweb, a pinch would annihilate him.

Emily Bronte

#41. If I take my time to ready you" (if he could take his time, amended his brain), "I think it will be not much worse than a pinch.

Diana Gabaldon

#42. Calvin the zombie searches for food. Horribly, the undead feed upon the living! ... Although, in a pinch, a PBJ will do, if you eat it messily enough.

Bill Watterson