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Grabbing Quotes

Attention, instinct, and grabbing the moment

These grabbing quotes describe a sitcom that grabbed hearts through comedy, and a performer's instinct for grabbing a microphone and running with it. See Attention quotes for more on capturing focus.

I was singing in a mall, and I picked a girl to come up onstage with me. As I was grabbing her hand, I fell off the stage. It felt like I was in the air forever, flying like Superman.

Quotes by Aaron Carter

'Friends' played in this territory of being funny, and then also just grabbing your heart. And not afraid of that. It was a comedic soap opera. Not being afraid to have an audience feel something, laugh and cry, was quite...

Quotes by Warren Littlefield

As authors evolve and try to trace the precedents that have shaped their work, it sometimes becomes a matter of identifying the shadowy figure in the back row of the mental photograph, or of grabbing at the tail of a...

Quotes by Virginia Euwer Wolff

If someone's intimidated by me, that's something they have to deal with. When I walk down the streets of New York and an old woman grabs her purse when I pass by, I'm not going to give it a whole...

Quotes by Ving Rhames

Always Quotes

I guess drag queens, by nature, have to do everything. When you start being a drag queen, you're grabbing the microphone, hosting the shows. Then, you're setting the microphone down and doing the number. You're spending the day before doing...

Quotes by Trixie Mattel

Trump has become the star of our 24-hour political news cycle, and every pundit in America seems to be grabbing for some of the reflected light from his explosive campaign.

Quotes by Tom Steyer

Among a great many other things that chess teaches you is to control the initial excitement you feel when you see something that looks good. It trains you to think before grabbing and to think just as objectively when you're...

Quotes by Stanley Kubrick

The Tory party is like a rugby union match in which all 30 players are wearing the same strip. They're not sure who they are grabbing round the knees, but they're having a lot of fun doing it.

Quotes by Simon Hoggart

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

Quotes by Shanola Hampton

Attention Quotes

To me, there are certain things you lay claim to proudly and others you hope the people look over them, and for me, the NWA title throwdown is something that I wear like a badge of honor and what we...

Quotes by Shane Douglas

What a fine line there is between artistry and insanity. There's no formula for it, and I think a lot of people when they're around you - even those closest to you - when you're in that whirl of creativity...

Quotes by Ronnie Dunn

Once or twice in the height of 'Happy Days' excitement, which had more to do with Henry Winkler as The Fonz than ever had to do with me, we were kind of like a boy band for a year or...

Quotes by Ron Howard

My pet peeves are people touching me a lot. Random dudes grabbing me and slapping me across the back. They're not doing it on purpose, but it's like they forget I'm a person. But you can't do anything about it....

Quotes by Rob Gronkowski

In a way I spend my entire life stealing from everything - from the past, from cities I love, from where I grew up - grabbing things, taking not only from architecture but from Italy, art, writing, poetry, music.

Quotes by Renzo Piano

Coffee Quotes

Starving to be skinny isn't my thing. When I don't eat, it affects my mood! On-set, I fuel up with small meals and I'm always grabbing high-protein snacks, like almonds. Chai lattes with espresso also keep me going.

Quotes by Nina Dobrev

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...

Quotes by Mitchel Resnick

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.

Quotes by Milos Forman

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

Quotes by Mikey Garcia

There's shouting, there's blood, there's boogers, there's a whole thing. I mean, there's spitting, there's fighting, there's ripped jerseys. There's someone grabbing someone's throat. I mean, it's why you have football.

Quotes by Mike Leach

Doing Quotes

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.

Quotes by Manolo Blahnik

Frequently Asked Questions

What do grabbing quotes describe?
They describe shows that grab your heart through comedy, writers grabbing inspiration from memory, and instinctive reactions on a busy street.
Is there a quote about a TV show grabbing hearts?
Yes, one describes a beloved sitcom as blending comedy with moments that genuinely grab the audience's heart.
Do any quotes mention performers grabbing attention?
Yes, one describes how starting out in drag means grabbing the microphone and hosting the show from the very first moment.
Is there a quote about writers and inspiration?
Yes, one describes authors grabbing at shadowy influences from memory while tracing where their work really came from.
Do grabbing quotes mention street-level caution?
Yes, one notes how a passerby might instinctively grab their purse out of unfounded wariness. See Attention quotes for more.

Other lines touch on writers grabbing inspiration from memory, or the wary instinct of grabbing a purse when a stranger passes. Browse Always and Doing quotes for more.