Steel Trap Quotes

#1. In opera tradition, when opera die-hard fans, there is a replacement of singer or singer wasn't at his or hers vocal best, doing something, they boo. Especially now that they pay hundreds of dollars for the ticket.

Mikhail Baryshnikov

#2. That silence intimidates puzzles me. Silence is to me normal, comfortable." Later he added, "I will admit to feeling a little contempt for those who can't keep quiet.

Michael Finkel

#3. Many years ago, I was in a Broadway show and I had to wear a fox fur around my shoulders. One day my hand touched one of the fox's legs. It seemed to be in two pieces. Then it dawned on me ... her leg had probally been snapped in two by the steel trap that had caught it.

Bea Arthur

#4. Sometimes, to escape a bad relationship and reclaim our lives, we have to break a piece of our heart off, like a wolf chews its leg off to escape a steel trap.

Bryant McGill

#5. Gradually my whole concept of time changed until I thought of a month as having twenty-five days of humanness and five others when I might just as well have been an animal in a steel trap.

Florence King

#6. Genius or jock, it didn't seem to matter. Boys were born with a gene that kept girls, no matter how smart they might be, from understanding them.

Charity Tahmaseb

#7. One wants to tell a story, like Scheherezade, in order not to die. It's one of the oldest urges in mankind. It's a way of stalling death.

Carlos Fuentes

#8. It is only by believing that you can save your life. Only when you believe in your true Father, only when you know who you are and who lives within you, can you be truly saved.

Rachelle Dekker

#9. [On entering the restaurant business:] Food has the dubious advantage of being legitimate, and one's customers somehow manage to live longer without sex than food, if you call that living.

Sally Stanford

#10. Time can trap you, she thought, wind around things as transparent as glass and strong as steel and before you know it you're caught. Nothing moves. It mattered terribly but was unchangeable.

Anne Leonard

#11. I'ts better with the right hand than with the wrong girl

Jorgen Willumsen

#12. Her life, she realized, had all the charm of a steel trap.

Anna Godbersen

#13. I have a mind like a steel trap. Stuff gets in there and WHAM! it never gets back out again.

Bill Austin

#14. People didn't get nice by accident, did they? They had parents who were nice. Nice to their kids, nice to others.

Jude Watson

#15. How confusing. Could it be that our narrator is unreliable? No such chance. Mind like a steel trap, I have.

Daniel Handler

#16. If peace is not In Nature's beauty, Then where is it, where?

Sri Chinmoy

#17. I have this kind of mild nice-guy exterior, but inside my heart is like a steel trap.

Dan Aykroyd

#18. Please, Jonas. Men got brute strength and size. Women got hot bodies and steel-trap minds. It's our leg up in your little male-dominated society.

Jackson Pearce