Grasp Quotes
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People never grasp the fact that they're going to have to go through the same thing again. They get to the sort of five-year stretch or the seven-year itch or whatever these tension points are that seem to be organic, built in, like the tide coming in and going out. It's like every time the tide goes out you quit--you move your house or something.
John Lennon The Beatles
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I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.
Claude Monet
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There are so few people who can come into this league at 18 years old and be able to grasp what is going on and ... put in all the work and still produce and get so much better in the first three years. He's done the right things. I'm not so sure how I would have acted if I was given $100 million.
Eric Snow
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Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.
Eugenio Montale
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Beware as you get the octopus on board. Suddenly he relaxes his grasp, and shhots out a jet of ink, which smarts considerably.
Wilfred Grenfell
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A toy car is a projection of a real car, made small enough for a child's hand and imagination to grasp. A real car is a projection of a toy car, made large enough for an adult's hand and imagination to grasp.
Michael Frayn
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If you want to be happy, then it is within your grasp. The book you are holding can have a profound impact on your thinking and your attitude and can help you to do more, be more, and achieve more!
Willie Jolley
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My brain can’t manage to repair the losses, and the only thing I really grasp is that I am lost.
Arthur Cravan
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Tool - something with a use on one end and a grasp on the other end.
Stewart Brand
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I am guided by the same intelligence and inspired by the same imagination which scatters the moon beams across the waves and holds the forces of nature in it's grasp.
Ernest Holmes
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The body is not a thing, it is a situation: it is our grasp on the world and our sketch of our project.
Simone de Beauvoir
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I believe that once people really grasp what is at stake for their health and their lives, and for the health and lives of their children, they will do everything in their power to protect the living world.
Eric Chivian
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I think the intelligent thing about it is that you have to carefully listen to it all to grasp it, and because I'm not in every scene - colossal disappointment to everybody that it may be - I'm not getting the full picture here today while recording it.
Paul Darrow
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It was very natural for me to want to disappear into dark theater, I am really very shy. That is something that people never seem to fully grasp because, when you are an actor, you are meant to be an exhibitionist.
Nicole Kidman
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I have spent many years holding so tightly to things - wants, desires, etc. - but inevitably, they or something even better only arrives when I release the grasp.
Allison McAtee
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I had the impression that, although I was absorbing much of that sight, many things, too many, were scattering around me without letting me grasp them.
Elena Ferrante
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Maintain a firm grasp of the obvious at all times.
Jeff Bezos
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We have to have a grasp of where we are from a budgetary standpoint. We have to have better accountability and we have to run it like a business.
Eric Hyman