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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.

If you sit at your desk and reach and grab a cup of coffee, you don't look directly at the cup, focus on it, and get your fingers lined up before grabbing the coffee. In real life, you reach for...

Quotes by Louis B. Rosenberg

I myself have appeared on countless panels alongside people with whom I've disagreed, at times even vehemently - and yet, the thought of closing out those segments by grabbing their notes and ripping them up has never even crossed my...

Quotes by Kat Timpf

There's certainly pressure to find your audience early. You need to paint the picture, but it's tough trying to find the balance between a show that people can tune in on any given week while still grabbing the people who...

Quotes by Jorge Garcia

When you're obsessive, like me, searching for something unattainable can become unhealthy... it's like falling through the air and grabbing at the clouds.

Quotes by Jonny Wilkinson

Even though my brother and I loved scrumping - we loved the act of climbing trees and grabbing fruit - there was always fear we would be caught. We feared we'd be imprisoned, sent to Australia.

Quotes by Jim Crace

I was broke when I lived in New York City during college, so I'd spend weekends walking around town, grabbing something to eat, and interacting with strangers. That ritual has stuck with me.

Quotes by Jenji Kohan

When I was, like, 12, I remember grabbing a mic, pretending it was a guitar, and performing in front of my friends. I didn't know at the time I wanted to be an artist.

Quotes by J Balvin

Semiotics is really interested in the questions like, what keeps you watching something, what keeps you - you know, what keeps you listening to a story on the radio? Like, what keeps you turning the pages in a book? What's...

Quotes by Ira Glass

Now you have people in Washington who have no interest in the country at all. They're interested in their companies, their corporations grabbing Caspian oil.

Quotes by Gore Vidal

James Bond has a license to kill, rockstars have a license to be outrageous. Rock is about grabbing people's attention.

Quotes by Gene Simmons

Actors are always grabbing each other on stage, looking in each other's eyes, making a moment so private, the audience doesn't know what they're doing.

Quotes by Edward Herrmann

I love grabbing my wife and going to a distant location to film.

Quotes by Donald Sutherland

I swear to God, if my kids, when they're 18, if they come to me and say, 'Dad, I love pumping gas. I love getting up in the morning, I love grabbing the handle, I love the smell of the...

Quotes by Dana White

Preschoolers have a way of grabbing your attention. Mine help me not to be a baseball player at home.

Quotes by Dan Quisenberry

Once you realize that everyone is in the same boat, that everyone is just as insecure and childlike as everyone else, that all these jokers in D.C. ruining our world are just greedy kids grabbing for marbles - I think...

Quotes by Conor Oberst

I may have gotten my first job from 'Backstage.' I remember going to the Equity offices, and I signed up for an audition. I left. I was grabbing a coffee somewhere and looking at 'Backstage' and saw that there was...

Quotes by Colin Donnell

Well, there's nothing better than putting your feet up on a Sunday afternoon and grabbing a good book.

Quotes by Chris Klein

A double leg in MMA is completely different than what you would do in wrestling because the posture's different. You're standing upright as opposed to bent over; you're slipping a punch as a opposed to grabbing a guy's elbow and...

Quotes by Chael Sonnen

When things are right and things are focused, it's a game to me, and I'm there just stalking and punching and grabbing and tearing people up.

Quotes by Cat Zingano

The book that blew the doors off the house, grabbing me with its breathtakingly deep and irresistible view of the universe and our relation to it, was 'Intelligent Life in the Universe' by I. S. Shklovskii and Carl Sagan. I...

Quotes by Carolyn Porco

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.