Pull Ups Quotes - Page 2

Each new book that comes out kind of pulls up the old ones a little bit.

Bryan Lee O'Malley

Book, Littles, Kind

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Driving down the wrong road and knowing it, The fork years behind, how many have thought To pull up on the shoulder and leave the car Empty, strike out across the fields; and how many Are still mazed among dock and thistle, Seeking the road they should have taken?

Damon Knight

Taken, Should Have, Years

Damon Knight (1986). “Man in the Tree”

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In the end I would always pull up with a sense of glory, that loving is the strong side. It's feeble to be an object. What's the point of being loved in return, I'd ask myself.

Katherine Dunn

Strong, Return, Sides

Katherine Dunn (2011). “Geek Love: A Novel”, p.425, Vintage

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It's a question of discipline,' the little prince told me later on. 'when you've finished washing and dressing each morning, you must tend your planet. you must be sure you pull up the baobabs regularly, as soon as you can tell them apart from the rosebushes, which they closely resemble when they're very young. It's very tedious work, but very easy.

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Morning, Discipline, Littles

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Man designs for himself a garden with a hundred kinds of trees, a thousand kinds of flowers, a hundred kinds of fruit and vegetables. Suppose, then, that the gardener of this garden knew no other distinction between edible and inedible, nine-tenths of this garden would be useless to him. He would pull up the most enchanting flowers and hew down the noblest trees and even regard them with a loathing and envious eye. This is what the Steppenwolf does with the thousand flowers of his soul. What does not stand classified as either man or wolf he does not see at all.

Hermann Hesse

Flower, Eye, Men

Hermann Hesse (1983). “Steppenwolf”, Bantam

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there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails.

Charles Bukowski

Waiting, Rail, Train

Charles Bukowski (2016). “On Love”, p.9, Canongate Books

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That moment - to this ... may be years in the way they measure, but it's only one sentence back in my mind - there are so many days when living stops and pulls up and sits and waits like a train on the rails. I pass the hotel at 8 and at 5; there are cats in the alleys and bottles and bums, and I look up at the window and think, I no longer know where you are, and I walk on and wonder where the living goes when it stops.

Charles Bukowski

Cat, Thinking, Years

Charles Bukowski (2016). “On Love”, p.9, Canongate Books

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A radical generally meant a man who thought he could somehow pull up the root without affecting the flower. A conservative generally meant a man who wanted to conserve everything except his own reason for conserving anything.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

Flower, Men, Roots

"The Evolution of Words and Meanings", The Illustrated London News, July 3, 1920.

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I think, like everybody else in New Hampshire, when I pull up to fill up my car and I pay $50, I get upset. And I'm wondering if these prices are legitimate.

Judd Gregg

Thinking, Car, Upset

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One killer exercise that's really great is pull-ups with your legs out level. That's my favourite. It's such functional core strength, and that's why I can climb up trees and down vines.

Bear Grylls

Exercise, Tree, Vines

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Oh, where are my manners? Do sit down. Pull up a small child.

Terry Pratchett

Children, Manners, Small Child

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In Kilanga, people knew nothing of things they might have had - a Frigidaire? a washer-dryer combination? Really, they'd sooner imagine a tree that could pull up its feet and go bake bread. It didn't occur to them to feel sorry for themselves.

Barbara Kingsolver

Sorry, Feet, People

Barbara Kingsolver (2008). “The Poisonwood Bible”, p.163, Faber & Faber

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If I tell you my character has grey hair, you will not see her. If I tell you she has a tiny scar at the upper left corner of her lip from which protrudes one grey whisker—you will make up the rest of her face with absolute clarity. If I tell you my character is waiting in a car, you won’t be ‘caught,’ but if I tell you he pushes his fingers down in the crack of the car seat where the ancient leather has pulled away from the seat frame, and pulls up a small coin purse with a faded note in it—you will be mine.

Pat Schneider

Character, Hair, Car

Pat Schneider (2003). “Writing Alone and with Others”, p.79, Oxford University Press, USA

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I exercise about 40 minutes a day, and I'll run one day and do circuit training the next day. I live in an area where there are brilliant hills and mountains, so I get a good hill run with my dog. At home, I'll do the circuit training with old weights, along with pull-ups in the trees and that sort of stuff.

Bear Grylls

Running, Dog, Home

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A lot of young people regard a threat against one person's sexual freedom as a threat against all of them, and that's absolutely how they should regard it. But it's heartening to look at the polls on young people on gay people, gay marriage, and sexual-freedom issues. They're terrific, and that's why the religious right is so desperately trying to lock in their current bare majority for prejudice: because their constituents are dying. They're losing votes every time the ambulance pulls up to the old folks' home. Let's hope it pulls up a little more frequently.

Dan Savage

Religious, Home, Gay

Interview with Tasha Robinson, www.avclub.com. February 8, 2006.

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A Jewish man pulls up to the curb and asks the policeman, "Can I park here?" "No" says the cop. "What about all these other cars?" "They didn't ask!"

Henny Youngman

Funny, Humor, Men

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I can do things at 45, not because I can do a bunch of pull-ups, it's because I do Yoga!

Tony Horton

Yoga, Because I Can, Bunch

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My husband said 'show me your boobs' and I had to pull up my skirt... so it was time to get them done!

Dolly Parton

Husband, Done, Skirts

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We can think of Lent as a time to eradicate evil or cultivate virtue, a time to pull up weeds or to plant good seeds. Which is better is clear, for the Christian ideal is always positive rather than negative.

Fulton J. Sheen

Christian, Weed, Thinking

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I met this gangster who pulls up people's pants. Name's Wedgie Kray.

Tim Vine

Funny, Humor, Names

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My discussion with Keith Richards about the creative process led me to believe that there's an invisible presence of a stream of ever-flowing creativity that we overhear-all you have to do is pull up the antenna and dial it in. This presence allows you to maintain your sense of origin and move forward.

Billy Gibbons

Music, Moving Forward, Believe

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There are elites that are real leaders and role models. There are elites that are really selfish and want to pull up the ladder once they've reached the roof.

Thomas Friedman

Selfish, Real, Role Models

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Having a [teenage] daughter is like riding a young horse over an unknown steeplechase course. You don't know when to pull up the reins, when to let the horse have its head - or what.

Grace Kelly

Daughter, Horse, Teenage

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I don't really like the gym. I like to fool my body. I run around the beach and then there's scaffolding so I can just do different pulls-ups there.

Kellan Lutz

Running, Beach, Different

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Last September 16th, I was walking in downtown Seattle when this pick-up truck pulls up in front of me. Guy leans out the window and yells, "Go back to your own country," and I was laughing so hard because it wasn't so much a hate crime as a crime of irony.

Sherman Alexie

Country, Xenophobia, Hate

"Sherman Alexie: Up All Night". "Now" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. October 4, 2002.

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