Pricking Finger Quotes

#1. When we're threatened, it's very easy to appeal to our basic natures.

Paul Haggis

#2. Whether we athletes liked it or not, the 4-minute mile had become rather like an Everest: a challenge to the human spirit, it was a barrier that seemed to defy all attempts to break it, an irksome reminder that men's striving might be in vain.

Roger Bannister

#3. Now listen little pigs, I'm gonna let you off the hook if you open the door.

Sam The Sham

#4. The Voice has always been an alternative paper. They have always understood that that was part of their role.

Sydney Schanberg

#5. Quite frankly, I'm tired of taking insulin and pumping my stomach every three days and pricking my finger and drawing blood out of it every day - it's a tedious, meticulous, annoying disease that never goes away. And I want to get rid of it like everybody else does.

Elliott Yamin

#6. Sleep, that deplorable curtailment of the joy of life.

Virginia Woolf

#7. Getting eaten by a giant crocodile was bad enough.
The kid with the glowing sword only made my day worse.

Rick Riordan

#8. An athletic trainer must put in 1,460 days of training to get a license in Michigan. An emergency medical technician needs only 26.

Anonymous

#9. He had this domineering way about him that totally ketchuped my tater tots - it was like he knew what I wanted more than I did.

Nicole Peeler

#10. How do you eat your roots?

Kamila Shamsie

#11. The backside of heroism is often rather sad; women and servants know that. They know also that the heroism may be no less real for that. But achievement is smaller than men think. What is large is the sky, the earth, the sea, the soul.

Ursula K. Le Guin