Prised Out Quotes

#1. There are certain books that should be taken away from young writers; that should be prised out of their clutching fingers and locked away until they are all grown up and ready to read them without being smitten.

Anne Enright

#2. Sometimes I fall, but landing every jump isn't the point. It's the attempt. It's the effort.

Sarah Hughes

#3. Light fell, and so did my confidence.

Ruta Sepetys

#4. If only the Fates had granted him a longer stay in this

Alison Weir

#5. I like playing with a good crowd.

Sergio Garcia

#6. I would like to think that television would be representative of the world we live in.

Niecy Nash

#7. They prised open the door in the morning. The beatific expression on his face was exactly what one would find in a temple deity or the just dead - an unsmiling smile. The absurdity and humour was there if one could just see it, the question and answer staring one in the face

Srividya Srinivasan

#8. We do not master a scientific theory until we have shelled and completely prised free its mathematical kernel.

David Hilbert

#9. And how funny, strange, that a thing can grow so powerful even when planted in the wrong place. Ideas too, I muttered. Ideas.

Louise Erdrich

#10. Harriet was silent, thinking, and then she said, "It is too hard to be a person. You don't only have to go on and on. You have to be
" she looked for the word she needed and could not find it. Then, "You have to be tall as well," said Harriet.

Rumer Godden

#11. Eventually, mercifully, the waitress prised the spoons out of our hands and took the dessert stuff away, and we were able to stumble zombielike out into the night.

Bill Bryson

#12. You're - psychotic. There's something wrong with you."
"I know," Benteley agreed. "I'm a sick man. And the more I see, the sicker I get. I'm so sick I think everybody else is sick and I'm the only healthy person. That's pretty bad off, isn't it?

Philip K. Dick

#13. Fear first made gods in the world.

Statius

#14. After a desperate fight, to know to congratulate your opponent, if he has beaten you, to shake his hand and go for a drink with him, in my eyes these things are particularly important.

Yannick Noah