Quotes About Pulley

#1. Certainly a rope and pulley would have worked best. But not everybody around here went to Kim Il Sung University.

Adam Johnson

#2. And the kittykats would have to erect scaffolding and a pulley to get him down. Mind you, I wouldn't put that past them. Sometimes when they are behind the sofa supposedly purring, I think they are drilling.

Louise Rennison

#3. We might even purposely create time for boredom on a summer day, so they have to go to the garage and see what interesting fun they can have with a pulley, some rope, and a roll of duct tape.

Daniel J. Siegel

#4. This water was indeed a different thing from ordinary nourishment. Its sweetness was born of the walk under the stars, the song of the pulley, the effort of my arms. It was good for the heart, like a present.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#5. From "Famous"
I want to be famous the in the way a pulley is famous,/or a buttonhole,not because it did anything spectacular,/but because it never forgot what it could do.

Naomi Shihab Nye

#6. On the village green an inclined strong, down which, clinging the while to a pulley-swung handle, one could be hurled violently against a sack at the other end, came in for considerable favour among the adolescent, as also did the swings and the cocoanut shies.

H.G.Wells

#7. On coming out of the chapel, a well can be seen on the left. There are two in this yard. You ask, Why is there no bucket and no pulley to this one? Because no water is drawn from it now. Why is no more water drawn from it? Because it is full of skeletons.

Victor Hugo

#8. I will come for you. Roll my strength into a ball for you. Throw myself across chance for you. I will be the bridge or the pulley because you are the dream.

Jeanette Winterson

#9. I grunted, hauling the rope hand over hand. A plaintive squeak came from the pulley system with each draw, as if I had strapped some unfortunate mouse to a torture device and was twisting with glee.

Brandon Sanderson

#10. Sure, I watched the workmen come and lower large pieces of rotten sheetrock and lift new clean panels on a pulley
from that same window months ago, and I could have written then, but I must have sensed her coming, the smoker, so I waited.

Kristen Henderson

#11. Nicholas Temelcoff is famous on the bridge, a daredevil. He is given all the difficult jobs and he takes them. He descends into the air with no fear. He is a solitary. He assembles ropes, brushes the tackle and pulley at his waist, and falls off the bridge like a diver over the edge of a boat.

Michael Ondaatje

#12. The safest way to success is to write according to the capacity of the stupidest member of the audience.

Natasha Pulley

#13. The creeping sense that he might have seen him reading the book came up from the ground, but that was more anxiety than evidence.

Natasha Pulley

#14. It was embarrassing to be associated with a man who thought Newton was a town.

Natasha Pulley

#15. These bankers here ain't no different than anybody else. They lie, they cheat, they steal. Difference is, they don't get caught.

D.M. Pulley

#16. Under the gas lamps, mist pawed at the windows of the closed shops, which became steadily shabbier nearer home. It was such a smooth ruination that he could have been walking forward through time, watching the same buildings age five years with every step, all still as a museum

Natasha Pulley

#17. Is it white wine? Red tastes like vinegar.'

'Of course it's white wine, I'm Japanese.

Natasha Pulley

#18. I'll give you a cake if you get him in the stream by the end of the afternoon,' Mori said to Six.

'Hold on,' Thaniel said. 'No making criminals of the orphans, Fagin.'

'But I want some cake,' Six frowned. 'And his name isn't Fagin.

Natasha Pulley

#19. no matter how many times you move or how big and fancy your house gets, you're still stuck with yourself.

D.M. Pulley

#20. Being solitary isn't a disease that needs a cure.

Natasha Pulley

#21. science can save a man's life, but imagination makes it worth living. Take

Natasha Pulley

#22. Englishmen were rained on too often to come up with anything that imaginative.

Natasha Pulley

#23. The Ancient Greeks? If they had steam engines, why didn't they have trains?'
. . .
'They were philosophers; they put two and two together and got a goldfish.'
(p. 76)

Natasha Pulley

#24. Nobody wants a house in Osaka,' he said, and it was strange to hear him switch suddenly to foreign pronunciation in the middle of his English. 'It would mean you had to live in Osaka.'

'What's wrong with it?'

'It's like . . . Birmingham.

Natasha Pulley

#25. People shouldn't be throwing away their history when it's still doing archery practice forty miles up the road.

Natasha Pulley

#26. My cousin should be careful of tying his shoelace is a melon field......anyone might think he was stealing

Natasha Pulley

#27. What's that?' Thaniel said, curious. The postmarks and stamps weren't English or Japanese.

'A painting. There's a depressed Dutchman who does countryside scenes and flowers and things. It's ugly, but I have to maintain the estates in Japan and modern art is a good investment.

Natasha Pulley

#28. Loyalty is a continuous phenomenon, you don't score points for past action,

Natasha Pulley

#29. I'm a Buddhist. You might have a Christian obligation to catch pneumonia while you sit for two and a half hours listening to some twerp in a dress drone on about the virtue of wedded life but, dear as you are to me, I don't.

Natasha Pulley

#30. Your science can save a man's life, but imagination makes it worth living.

Natasha Pulley

#31. William had played [rugby] at Eton when it first became popular, and now he only spoke of it in a reverent tone he normally saved only for women and rifles. . . . .
[in contrast] Cricket had rules: one was not allowed to stamp on the head of another player and pass it off as enthusiasm.

Natasha Pulley

#32. but she studied classics, the most pointless subject in the university.

Natasha Pulley

#33. . . .She started to feel a bubble of lightness coming up through her ribs. It had been very fragile at first, but she thought now it was made of something stronger than suds. . .
(p. 121)

Natasha Pulley

#34. No,"Ito said gently, "we will not be needing soldiers. Accountants will do nicely."
Mutsuhito frowned. "How does one storm a castle with accountants ?"
"One buys it, sir.

Natasha Pulley

#35. The cab took them past other libraries and townhouses, then the redbrick walls of Keble College with their zigzag patterns, which looked ridiculous and spoke, Grace suspected, of the general unavailability of proper Cotswolds sandstone.

Natasha Pulley

#36. He was from Glasgow. Everything past "good morning" was a blur.

Natasha Pulley

#37. As to why you've got it, silly things help with nerves.

Natasha Pulley

#38. Mori smiled properly. The lines around his eyes were deeper than usual now. They made him look like an old photograph of a young man, often crushed, but ironed carefully so that only the ghosts of the marks remained.

Natasha Pulley

#39. Science had to have some mystery otherwise everyone would find out how simple it was.

Natasha Pulley

#40. It is not summer, England doesn't have summer, it has continuous autumn with a fortnight's variation here and there.

Natasha Pulley

#41. In Japan, first names are only for who you're married to, or if you're being rude,' the watchmaker explained.

Natasha Pulley

#42. . . . More octo . . .pi?' Thaniel said, knowing that it sounded wrong, though so did puses and podes. He tried to think where he had heard it last , but he did not often have business with more than one octopus at a time.

Natasha Pulley

#43. Think of horse races. People like to bet on the one with three legs and a wheeze.They don't bet on that one because they think it will win, but because they can see how very glorious it would be if it were to win

Natasha Pulley

#44. Mori looked across and was, briefly, a languageless, inhuman thing rescued from the sea and asked for an impious favour.

Natasha Pulley

#45. There was a cheer, and he took his first deep breath for months. He hadn't been aware of breathing shallowly. It had happened gradually; someone had put a penny on his chest every hour since November, and now the weight of thousands of pennies had lifted at once

Natasha Pulley

#46. When a sign says don't walk on the grass, one hops.' He

Natasha Pulley

#47. Everybody, professors and students and Proctors the same, knew that if the sign said 'do not walk on the grass', one hopped. Anybody who didn't had failed to understand what Oxford was.

Natasha Pulley

#48. The water in the drains below the cobbles muttered.

Natasha Pulley