Snaps Quotes - Page 11

• The way of Providence is a little rude. The habit of snake and spider, the snap of the tiger and other leapers and bloody jumpers, the crackle of the bones of his prey in the coil of the anaconda-these are in the system, and our habits are like theirs.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Snakes, Rude, Atheism

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (2008). “The Spiritual Emerson: Essential Works by Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.78, Penguin

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• To me, acting is a matter of absolute concentration. You can laugh and giggle with your friends up to the minute the director says, "Action!" Then you snap your mind into shape and into the character that you're playing and relate to the people that you're acting with and forget everybody else that you've been joking with.

  Elizabeth Taylor

  Character, Laughing, People

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• As soon as I knew that I would be all right, I was sure that I was dead and didn't know it. I moved through the days like a severed head that finishes a sentence. I waited for the moment that would snap me out of my seeming life.

  Amy Hempel

  Would Be, Moments, Sentences

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.106, Simon and Schuster

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• We believe the ice sheet was not around all the time. It was only around during cool snaps of the climate

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Believe, Ice, Climate

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• You see? Characters in books do not read books. Oh, they snap them shut when somebody enters a room, or fling them aside in disgust at what they fancy is said within, or hide their faces in one which they pretend to peruse while somebody else lectures them on matters they'd rather not confront. But they do not read them. 'Twould be recursive, rendering each book effectively infinite, so that no single one might be finished without reading them all. This is the infallible message of discovering on which side of the page you are on.

  Michael Swanwick

  Book, Reading, Character

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• How many times can our emotions be tied to someone else's - be pulled and stretched and twisted - before they snap? Before they can never be mended again?

  Stephanie Perkins

  Emotion, Twisted, French Kiss

  Stephanie Perkins (2010). “Anna and the French Kiss”, p.333, Penguin

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• It's always the same when you don't get enough snaps. If we can get it going, stay on the field, the beauty of the offense is they'll all get involved in it. You've got to have drives, you've got to make first downs. You can't get players involved if you only have three plays and out. That's not real good.

  Herman Edwards

  Real, Player, Firsts

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• Occasionally pick up speed-for 2 minutes, tops-then settle back into your former pace. Sometimes this is all you need to snap out of a mental and physical funk. Pick a downhill stretch if you can, and really lengthen your stride.

  Mark Plaatjes

  Needs, Pace, Sometimes

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• These days I think the composers of music influence me more than any photographers or visual creators. I see something exciting or lovely and think to myself: 'If Papa Haydn or Wolfgang Amadeus or the red-headed Vivaldi were here with a camera, they'd snap a picture of what's in front of me.' So I take the picture for them.

  Ralph Steiner

  Thinking, Lovely, Cameras

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• When we accept our own wild beauty, it is put into perspective, and we are no longer poignantly aware of it anymore, but neither would we forsake it or disclaim it either. Does a wolf know how beautiful she is when she leaps? Does a feline know what beautiful shapes she makes when she sits? Is a bird awed by the sound it hears when it snaps open its wings? Learning from them, we just act in our own true way and do not draw back from or hide our natural beauty. Like the creatures, we just are, and it is right.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Beautiful, Wild Beauty, Wings

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• I've enjoyed the accommodations offered by police departments from Florida to Hawaii. Any time I saw a badge, something in me would snap.

  Grace Slick

  Florida, Police, Hawaii

  "Somebody to Love?". Book by Grace Slick, 1998.

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• In a dynamical system, or a massively complex dynamical system such as we live in, when there is a moment of bifurcation, which is the technical mass jargon for “the snap”, that is the only time you get to do anything about the evolution of the system. So according to this self-inflating view, we live at an especially important special moment in history where when we think something or do something it has actually an enormous effect on the future. What we do has some influence on the creation of the future more than at other times in history.

  Ralph Abraham

  Thinking, Self, Views

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• I really think that it's better to retire, in Uncle Earl's terms, when you still have some snap left in your garters.

  Russell B. Long

  Uncles, Thinking, Garters

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• ..Since depression is a genetic biological illness, like diabetes, or low thyroid, it wasn't lack of character, laziness, or something I could "snap out of"-it would be like trying to snap out of a toothache.

  Peter McWilliams

  Depression, Character, Trying

  Peter McWilliams (1997). “Life 101: Everything We Wish We Had Learned about Life in School--but Didn't”, Mary Book / Prelude Press

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• She leaped into space, high, higher than she'd ever been in her life. She came down with a clean snap, and the crowd scattered like birds from the swing of her feet.

  Emma Donoghue

  Swings, Feet, Space

  Emma Donoghue (2000). “Slammerkin”, p.384, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• So give up waiting as a state of mind. When you catch yourself slipping into waiting . . . snap out of it. Come into the present moment. Just be, and enjoy being. If you are present, there is never any need for you to wait for anything. So next time somebody says, “Sorry to have kept you waiting,” you can reply, “That's all right, I wasn't waiting. I was just standing

  Eckhart Tolle

  Giving Up, Sorry, Waiting

  Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.87, New World Library

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• I sometimes think it's like a weird elastic band. The more tragic your work is, the quicker you snap back. There's a catharsis in telling a miserable old tale; you get rid of demons.

  Anne-Marie Duff

  Thinking, Catharsis, Band

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• Winter is a terrible time for thin people - terrible! Why should it hound them down, fasten on them, worry them so? Why not, for a change, take a nip, take a snap at the fat ones who wouldn't notice? But no! It is sleek, warm, cat-like summer that makes the fat one's life a misery. Winter is all for bones.

  Katherine Mansfield

  Summer, Cat, Winter

  Katherine Mansfield (2006). “The Collected Stories of Katherine Mansfield”, p.413, Wordsworth Editions

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• Men don't understand how their mannerisms can get on women's nerves so that you feel you just have to snap.

  Agatha Christie

  Men, Nerves, Feels

  Agatha Christie (1989). “Murderers abroad: five complete novels”, Outlet

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• Any time you lose a few in a row, you have to hit reset and come back tomorrow and do the best you can to forget about how the past series went. It's frustrating. Individually it's frustrating. I'm trying to figure it out. And I know as a team, it sucks losing a few in a row any time. So you know, we'll snap out of it.

  Adam LaRoche

  Team, Past, Trying

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• All disasters stem from us. Why is there a war? Perhaps because now and then I might be inclined to snap at my neighbour. Because I and my neighbour and everyone else do not have enough love. Yet we could fight war and all its excrescences by releasing each day, the love which is shackled inside us, and giving it a chance to live.

  Etty Hillesum

  War, Fighting, Giving

  Etty Hillesum (1985). “An Interrupted Life: The Diaries of Etty Hillesum, 1941-1943”

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• Enslave a man and you destroy his ambition, his enterprise, his capacity. In the constitution of human nature, the desire of bettering one's condition is the mainspring of effort. The first touch of slavery snaps this spring.

  Horace Mann

  Spring, Ambition, Men

  Horace Mann (2008). “Slavery”, p.33, Applewood Books

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• I want to be out there every single snap, every single play.

  Peyton Manning

  Play, Nfl, Want

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• With my dad passing away, he's always watching me-a big smile on his face, watching every snap on the 50-yard line.

  Russell Wilson

  Dad, Nfl, Passing Away

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• SNAP is a critical anti-hunger program that feeds millions of low income Americans, including children, veterans, and seniors who would not otherwise have the resources to buy groceries.

  Dan Maffei

  Senior, Children, Low Income

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