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Gripping Quotes

Dave Pelzer quote: "Gripping my arm, Mother held it in the orange-blue flame. My..."
Gripping my arm, Mother held it in the orange-blue flame. My skin seemed to explode from the heat. Dave Pelzer
Isaac Asimov quote: "Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which..."
Grip the nettle firmly and it will become a stick with which to beat your enemy. Isaac Asimov
Gripped with bitter cold, ice-locked, Petersburg burned in delirium. One knew: out there, invisible behind the curtain of fog, the red and yellow columns, spires, and hoary gates and fences crept on tiptoe, creaking and shuffling. A fevered, impossible, icy sun hung in the fog - to the left, to the right, above, below - a dove over a house on fire. From the delirium-born, misty world, dragon men dived up into the earthly world, belched fog - heard in the misty world as words, but here... Yevgeny Zamyatin
Grips slipped. Hers had from every surface. She's shaped nothing after all, only been crushed and reshaped. No wonder she felt for the brownstones, the cripples, now filling chaotically with no regard for her plan. Jonathan Lethem
When we are in the grip of craving or fury, head-over-heals in love our recoiling in dread, it is the limbic system that has us in its grip. Daniel Goleman
Philosophers are divided on the question of whether the narrative therein unfolded [the Crossman Diaries] is grippingly boring or boringly gripping. Clive James
The American grips himself, at the very sources of his consciousness, in a grip of care: and then, to so much of the rest of life, is indifferent. Whereas, the European hasn't got so much care in him, so he cares much more for life and living. David Herbert Lawrence
Poem Written in a Copy of BeowulfAt various times, I have asked myself what reasonsmoved me to study, while my night came down, without particular hope of satisfaction, the language of the blunt-tongued Anglo-Saxons. Used up by the years, my memoryloses its grip on words that I have vainlyrepeated and repeated. My life in the same wayweaves and unweaves its weary history. Then I tell myself: it must be that the soulhas some secret, sufficient way of knowingthat it is immortal, that its vast,... Jorge Luis Borges
But Moominpappa wasn't listening, because just at that moment he had got the right grip on a big round boulder, and with a great thud it rolled down the slope. It made two very clear sparks and left a faint but enchanting smell of gunpowder behind. Now it was lying at the bottom, just where it should lie. It was wonderful to roll stones, first pushing with all one's might, then feeling them beginning to move just a little at first -- then a little more -- and then giving way and rolling into... Tove Jansson
Besides," said Kennedy, "the time when industry gets a grip of everything and uses it to its own advantage may not be particularly amusing. If men go on inventing machinery they'll end up by being swallowed by their own machines. I've always thought that the last day will be brought about by some colossal boiler heated to three thousand atmospheres blowing up the world."And I bet the Yankees will have had a hand in it," said Joe. Jules Verne
You've sort of made up for it tonight,' said Harry. 'Getting the sword. Finishing off the Horcux. Saving my life.' 'That makes me sound a lot cooler than I was,' Ron mumbled.'Stuff like that always sounds cooler than it really was,' said Harry. 'I've been trying to tell you that for years.'Simultaneously they walked forwards and hugged, Harry gripping the still sopping back of Ron's jacket. J. K. Rowling
Your narrative may fail to grip if you haven't taken any care to find out how well or badly your audience member is faring (or feeling). Christopher Hitchens
C. S. Lewis quote: "You keep a grip of my heels, Pole, and Scrubb would hold on to..."
You keep a grip of my heels, Pole, and Scrubb would hold on to yours. The we'll all be comfortable. C. S. Lewis
I could not say I believe. I know! I have had the experience of being gripped by something that is stronger than myself, something that people call God. Carl Jung
Walter Mosley quote: "Mrs. Turner gripped my baby finger. It's amazing how a man can..."
Mrs. Turner gripped my baby finger. It's amazing how a man can feel sex anywhere on his body. Walter Mosley

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