Top 195 Grabbing Quotes & Sayings

When I give notes on a script, I say, 'Guys, I may drift, but it's part of the process.' So I'm aware that I'm drifting, but I'm grabbing a lot of stuff.

You know, I'm really known for being an energy guy and working hard on the floor, grabbing a lot of rebounds.

I don't believe in beating people up just for the sake of grabbing a headline.

Like many indelible family memories, carving a pumpkin begins with someone grabbing a really sharp knife.

Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.

TODD!" I yell again and I reach him and his Noise opens even farther and wraps around me like a blanket and I'm grabbing him to me, grabbing him to me like I'll never let him go and he calls out in pain but his other arm is grabbing me back - "I thought you were dead," he's saying, his breath on my neck. "I thought you were dead." "Todd," I say and I'm crying and the only thing I can say is his name. "Todd.

One gains at least two to three times more experience grabbing the tiger by the tail than reading about it in a book.

Idleness for me is not a giving up on life but a spirited grabbing hold of it.

Sometimes I have two or three players around me, grabbing me.

There is only what you want and what happens. There is only grabbing on and holding tight in the darkness.

Some of the most lasting contacts and friendships that I have developed began by just grabbing a drink or breaking bread with a stranger at an industry event.

I love grabbing my wife and going to a distant location to film.

I don't know about you, but I feel like my day begins by blinking my eyes open, grabbing my phone, and just pouring poison directly into my cerebellum.

My kids are four years apart. They're constantly fighting, hitting each other, grabbing the toy away from the other.

You can’t just keep grabbing at me every time you see me. It’s not a substitute for actually talking.

A quiet, non-attention grabbing, 'Hey, just wanted to say that I enjoy your work' is perfect.

I'm doing a lot more handmade gifts. When I go to a party, I cook whatever it is I need to bring instead of just grabbing a bottle of wine.

My work is about making candy for the eyes. It's about grabbing your attention.

When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy ... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds.

Draymond Green is one of the best in the league at grabbing a defensive rebound and starting the break.

When I was, like, 12, I remember grabbing a mic, pretending it was a guitar, and performing in front of my friends. I didn't know at the time I wanted to be an artist.

Death and loss, they plague you. So do memories. Like the Mississippi's incessant slap against the levees, they creep up with deceptive sweetness before grabbing your heart and pulling it under.

There's something so grabbing about people who will do anything for one another.

When a person's primary objective is to maximize material pleasures while minimizing discomforts, then life becomes a constant process of "pushing" (trying to push away from discomforts) and "grabbing" (trying to acquire or hold on to that which gives pleasure). With the loss of inner balance that accompanies a habitual "pushing and grabbing" approach to life, a deeper pain ensues-that of becoming aware of the ultimate unsatisfactoriness of the pleasure-seeking/pain-avoiding process itself.

Theres something so grabbing about people who will do anything for one another.

Well, listen, you know, the Czech saying is, you know, when you are drowning you are grabbing even a little twig. That's what all Czechs were doing, grabbing for... with the hope for this little twig.

Right, left, Greens, Baathists, whatever: it comes down to grabbing and holding power and using ideology - or religion, race - as a justification.

I've always had a fortunate knack for grabbing young talent and giving them a break.

At the end of a career you're desperate more than ever for medals, grabbing as much as you can as you go.

When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds.

What Scouting says to people is: Every child has a right to have an adventure. Life is about grabbing opportunities

Is there anyone in this apartment who hasn’t seen me naked?” I demanded, grabbing the sheet and the phone. “I genuinely hope so, Cassandra.

The semi-colon is a burp, a hiccup. It's a drunk staggering out of the saloon at 2 a.m., grabbing your lapels on the way and asking you to listen to one more story.

Your muse is amused and willed to further renewal during the process of mindless grabbing of reference material or errant imaginings.

Somebody said that I'm a bit like a sponge, grabbing things here and there, soaking stuff up. [As a director] you have to be, really.

As he heard me approach, he quickly leaped up, grabbing a nearby loaf of bread and holding it in front of him as if struck by a sudden desire to make a sandwich.

None of my visits to Bangalore go without a visit to Gandhi Bazaar's Vidyarthi Bhavan. Grabbing a dosa and a coffee there is a must.

The world is so full of people who are grabbing and self-seeking. So the rare individual who unselfishly tries to serve others has an enormous advantage. He has little competition.

Life for most people is a bad dream. They live in pain, grabbing at what they can for pleasure. As they grow old, they despair. Things don't work out the way you planned.

I hate these platforms that are all over the place today; they are all about grabbing attention. They are suburban! I never do a platform. Well, I did, in the 1970s, but that was a bad experience.

When things are right and things are focused, it's a game to me, and I'm there just stalking and punching and grabbing and tearing people up.

I'm making throws where I don't have to second guess, putting the ball where it needs to be, and when I'm making each throw, there's no grabbing or pulling in there, and it feels comfortable and fluid.

I like to stand out in the crowd. So anytime a designer offers up items that are a little attention grabbing or pushing the boundaries ever so slightly, I'm always game for that.

With 'Scratch,' our goal is to allow people to mix together all kinds of media, not just sounds, in creative ways. We want people to start from existing materials - grabbing an image, grabbing some sound, maybe even bits of someone else's program, and then extending them and mixing them to make them their own.

We have Borna virus genes. We're part Borna virus, which is weird, but apparently our cells and our genomes in a weird way might actually be grabbing these viruses, grabbing genetic material from the viruses that are infecting it and pulling them into their own genome.

Grabbing readers by the imagination is a writer's job.

Well, there's nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book.

In basketball, there's a lot of pushing, grabbing, and shoving going on that nobody else sees. That's why I'm training with MMA fighter Donald 'Cowboy' Cerrone.

There's something really raw and exciting about grabbing a lump of clay and creating something unique out of it.

Everything goes out of the window when you start an Ashes series. It's about grabbing the moment.

I love walking around and grabbing coffee and sitting in a park and people watching… I love Greenwich Village.

When I'm out there flying around, blocking shots, dunking the ball, grabbing rebounds it brings everybody's spirits up and gets them going.

I believe everyone should have a pair of 'party pumps,' something with a little bit of sparkle that is attention grabbing and makes you happy.

There is a point when tears don't work to wash things away anymore. Grabbing for breath has now broken my fingers.

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

The Daily Mirror called me a 'money-grabbing reptile' once. I could cope with the reptile part, but 'money-grabbing' hurt.

Grabbing hold of facts in the midst of shock is very Erudite of him.

it’s like swimming upstream. Or … falling down a cliff and grabbing at branches, trying to invent the branches as I fall.

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

There's a big difference between grabbing attention and rewarding attention.