Quotes About Putty

#1. In a sense, the story, or poem or verse or whatever it is you're writing, you can kind of think of it as a kind of projectile. Imagine it is a kind of projectile which has been specially shaped to be aerodynamic, and that your target is the soft grey putty of the reader's brain.

Alan Moore

#2. Edward suggested we stick all the pictures on the walls of the dining room. "And put pin holes in your nice clean walls," I said. "Don't be barbaric," Edward said. "We'll use sticky putty.

Laurell K. Hamilton

#3. I was lying on my bed, contemplating Mason's death when Amy strolled into our cabin.
"Hey, what are you doing?"
"Wondering what would cause more damage, a paint-brush in the eye or a putty knife shoved up someone's nostril," I answered, scowling at the ceiling.

Tiffany King

#4. I knew then that I'd give in if he asked. All this fighting-this resisting-it was just because deep down, I knew that all he had to do as say the words and I'd be putty in his hands. Yeah, he could be smug and an all-around ass, but...I still wanted him. Bad. In a way I'd never experienced before.

Kelley R. Martin

#5. People without memory are putty.

Naomi Klein

#6. If we find life out there, and it's not us, we will deem it not intelligent. But what may be equally as likely is that we find life that's vastly more intelligent than we are. If that's the case, we are putty in their hands.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#7. Sometimes people can surprise the hell outta you. Sometimes they can tear your heart out and turn it to putty, can't they?

Marisha Pessl

#8. The fact that people can forget these simple truths when intellectualizing about children shows how far modern doctrines have taken us. They make it easy to think of children as lumps of putty to be shaped instead of partners in a human relationship.

Steven Pinker

#9. Say that again said the red gash in the white putty.

Samuel Beckett

#10. If you use a proprietary program or somebody else's web server, you're defenceless. You're putty in the hands of whoever developed that software.

Richard Stallman

#11. Feeding a baby is like filling a hole with putty - you get it in and then you sort of shave off all the excess around the hole and get it back in, like you're spackling.

Anne Lamott

#12. I'm putty in her hands. Out of her hands, I'm more like clay.

Jarod Kintz

#13. They were so ignorant! Young men and women, educated very carefully to be apolitical, to be technicians who thought they disliked politics, making them putty in the hands of their rulers, just like always. It was appalling how stupid they were, really, and he could not help lashing into them.

Kim Stanley Robinson

#14. Memories are like putty. We make of them what we will.

Marty Rubin

#15. Prior to Magellan, due to the fact that we knew it was so hot on Venus, we thought that the rocks at the surface would behave more plastically, more like Silly Putty than like solid rock in the way that we think of it, like the rocks that I'm sitting on.

Ellen Stofan

#16. If England was what England seems, And not the England of our dreams; But only putty, brass, and paint, 'Ow we'd chuck 'er- but she ain't!

Rudyard Kipling

#17. They say the way to a man's heart is through his stomach, right?" I said. "How about Tristan and I make you and Jax a romantic dinner? And you bake him a cake for dessert. We'll warm him up with a gourmet meal, but once he tastes your cake, he'll be putty in your hands.

Kristie Cook

#18. He was trying to pave his way to heaven by plastering over his sins with the putty of religious zeal.

Karen Marie Moning

#19. But of course there's no logic to San Francisco generally, a city built with putty and pipe cleaners, rubber cement and colored construction paper. It's the work of fairies, elves, happy children with new crayons

Dave Eggers

#20. And even if we were hunting vampires, what the hell is the Silly Putty for?

Pittacus Lore

#21. I thawt I thaw a putty tat." "I did, I did thee a putty tat" Finished with his Tweety Bird imitation, he grinned unpleasantly at me. "Now, then, luv, let's get down to business

Jeaniene Frost

#22. With him, I've become like putty- rendered powerless by his magnificence- and his to mold into whatever he desires.

Giorge Leedy

#23. Broken! Busted! Everybody has something to repair. Before buying new, let Mighty Putty fix it for you.

Billy Mays

#24. Earnings can be pliable as putty when a charlatan heads the company reporting them.

Warren Buffett

#25. Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.

Douglas Sirk

#26. He took my hands, holding them between us. "Please, just do this for me. Don't ask questions." he turned my hand over and kissed my palms. "Don't ask to be hurt. Don't fight. Just love me." His voice was soft enough to turn stone to putty, and all desire to defy him left me.

C.D. Reiss

#27. There were moments when life at school became a matter of utter indifference to him. Then the putty of his everyday concerns dropped out and, with nothing more to bind them together, the hours of his life fell apart.

Robert Musil

#28. I really love Andrew Dominik's movies. When you work with someone whose movies you really love and who you have a lot of admiration for, you turn into putty in their hands.

Scoot McNairy

#29. I made you collapsible. I put you in and raised you with string and made you stay
there with putty.

Cath Crowley

#30. Sport provides the spectacle, the metaphor, the religious ritual, the putty to fill the cracks in countless lives.

Phillip Adams

#31. I struggle to listen, to sit, and to study-
I would rather play and create art with my brushes and putty.

I wish I could focus on things that I know-
Like cars, Mars, and playing with dough.

Brenda Lochinger

#32. I wondered if he'd appreciate my help: maybe if I attacked her with a pool chair and beat her into putty, she'd be distracted enough to leave him alone.

Jane Harvey-Berrick