Quotes About Pulling Teeth

#1. We all often feel like we are pulling teeth, even those writers whose prose ends up being the most natural and fluid. The right words and sentences just do not come pouring out like ticker tape most of the time.

Anne Lamott

#2. It was like pulling teeth trying to get me to L.A. I hated it for so long, but now I've got this great life here.

Jennifer Lawrence

#3. Sometimes photographing people is like pulling teeth, trying to get some sort of personality.

Sam Taylor-Johnson

#4. We usually use that mostly on the weekends because we have access to the range during the week. But I can tell you a number of times they have had a training holiday at Fort Benning, so nobody trains, and to drag him in is like pulling teeth.

Nancy Johnson

#5. Writing is like pulling teeth out of your penis.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#6. I don't have to ask anyone's permission to do anything. It's nice not have to get decisions out of three, sometimes four people, which can be like pulling teeth. So the amount of control that I have over what I'm doing is better for me as a solo artist.

Graham Nash

#7. Sometimes writing everyday is like pulling teeth, painful, but necessary.

Wendy Swore

#8. Writing is like pulling teeth.
From my dick.

David Rakoff

#9. The most difficult book I wrote was the fourth in a series of linked children's books. It was like pulling teeth because the publisher wanted exactly the same but completely different. I'd much rather just do something completely different, even if there's a risk of it going wrong.

Mark Haddon

#10. It's like pulling teeth to get me to do photo shoots. And I don't mind doing interviews if they're by phone, but I hate to go sit down and have to meet somebody somewhere, you know what I mean.

Toby Keith

#11. I'm kind of a private person, and sometimes it's like pulling teeth to get me to talk.

Morris Chestnut

#12. Before I even had the chance to try, a current of energy washed through me, pulling a gasp from my lips. Strength and familiarity tripled through the air between us. The powerful sensation swarmed over me like a thousand little teeth nibbling on my skin, and shook me to the core.

A.K. Morgen

#13. So we may use our books to form a barricade against the world,
interweaving their words with our own to ward off the heat of the day.

Peter Ackroyd

#14. Emily Dickinson once wrote, 'hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,' and she was right, but she forgot to mention that despair is the thing with claws that tears out your heart. Kind of a major oversight there, Em." pg. 25

Suzanne Sullivan

#15. There are some women whose pregnancy would make some sly bachelor smile.

Honore De Balzac

#16. He leans forward slightly, lips pulling back against his even, white teeth. It's so aggressive and animalistic I expect to see fangs. "I am your rightful king, Silver-born for centuries," he replies, seething. "The only reason you're still breathing is because I can't burn the oxygen from this room.

Victoria Aveyard

#17. Government is supposed to be about how we do things together, and we can do that much more together if we use technology smartly right now.

Jennifer Pahlka

#18. I say, 'Use it or lose it.' I have my own fitness regime, which is centred around stretching, free-weights and fast walking. I also have a trainer half of the year, as I spend my summers in the south of France where I swim a lot.

Joan Collins

#19. I must have an heir. Do you understand?" He grit his teeth and said, as if he were pulling the words, bloody and torn, from his very heart, "I must marry a woman who can bear children.

Elizabeth Hoyt