Pull Ups Quotes - Page 2

• I'd been on a road trip right out of college, with a buddy of mine. It was uneventful. We didn't get laid. Although one time it was about 800 degrees and we were in Texas. We had shorts on and nothing else and somehow a motorcycle cop pulls up beside me and says, 'Come on, get on it, get on, go, go, go!' So I speeded up and it turns out we're in a huge state funeral. There are about 40 black Cadillacs in a row and then a green van called Mr Greenjeans, with two guys with no clothes in it.

  John Travolta

  College, Texas, Two

  Source: movies.about.com

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• I have friends in different parts of the world, and they'll all go online at the same time and all pull up a movie and hit play, at the same moment, and then they'll comment to each other about it. They're sharing an experience, even though they're on different parts of the planet.

  J. Michael Straczynski

  Play, Different, World

  Source: collider.com

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

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  Book, Littles, Kind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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

  Tim Vine

  Funny, Humor, Names

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• There are things I've kept over the years and then someday I might pull up a program of some tune that I've done and I go "Wow, I know what to do with this now".

  Terry Bozzio

  Years, Might, Wow

  Source: beintheloopchicago.com

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• In Bangladesh a prostitute normally wouldn't even undress for a man. He pays, she pulls up her sari, and he's done in 20 seconds.

  Michael Glawogger

  Men, Done, Sari

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• The hardest thing for a basketball player to do is dribble two really hard dribbles. You are flying, and then pull up and shoot a ball from 15, 17 feet. It's the hardest thing in the game.

  John Calipari

  Basketball, Player, Games

  Source: sports.usatoday.com

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• Once I pull up to the stadium, for me it's all business. This is my job and I take it really serious.

  Ashlyn Harris

  Jobs, Serious, Stadiums

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• I make my friends pull up their profiles and I'm like, "Show me everything."

  Margot Robbie

  Profile, Show Me, Shows

  "Margot Robbie Is Fascinated by Dating Apps". Interview with Faran Krentcil, www.elle.com. September 19, 2016.

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