Grabbing Quotations

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.

India does not have a problem of people grabbing share from a fixed pie. India is one of the few nations where the pie is getting bigger.

What's similar between 'Daily Show' and 'RJ Berger' is that people are grabbing me - not quite the groovy intelligentsia Starbucks barista, but the Latina nurses at my gynecologist's office - and telling me they love the show.

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 memory that's just slipping out the window into thin air.

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.

Rap has so many possibilities that need to be explored. There are different factions of rap, but some are in a rut. Rap doesn't have to be about boosting egos and grabbing your crotch and dissing women. There's a way to make political and social issues interesting and entertaining to the young rap audience.

'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 extraordinary and quite wonderful.

I still do lots of gigs where I'm the support act and people are chatting through my set, but I've got better at grabbing attention. I mean, my parents would play on bills with people like Judas Priest and get booed all the way through. But they stuck it out, got tough.

I believe everyone should have a pair of 'party pumps,' something with a little bit of sparkle that is attention grabbing and makes you happy.

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 lot of energy because I'm not in the wrong. I'm a millionaire, and I'm not thinking about grabbing an old woman's purse.

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 the pleasure of it that's moving you forward, that's pulling you in and grabbing you and pulling you forward?

We are a very tight family, we spend a lot of time together. With our kids, the first question that came out of their mouth was 'are we still going to have dinner together as a family?' It has been important for Anthony and I to make sure that happens. Sometimes it means grabbing a pizza here at the store, but we are still together.

We remixed them in 5.1, which doesn't sound like much, but let me tell you it's really a crazy, complicated thing to take these things that you did almost 15 years ago and revisit 'em in this format that only became available a couple years ago. A lot of bands can't do that because they don't have their own recordings. But we've always recorded ourselves, so it's a matter of me just going to the back room and grabbing the tapes and sort of putting them back on the reel. It's a weird treat.

Short-game shots are so much easier when the ball is grabbing and holding. Before it was skidding and repelling.

Money funds are still grabbing about 50 percent of share of the money that's coming into mutual funds, ... So I think investors are a little bit guardedly optimistic, but still a little concerned about the outlook in terms of the volatility and the economy, probably.

Obviously I saw him trip. I thought he was going to get up. He wasn't grabbing anything, and it looked like he was smiling. But when I got to him, he said, 'It's blown out.' He knew.

People who are grabbing that brown sugar because they think it's healthier are basically deluding themselves.

On one play, I remember hitting him out of bounds, grabbing his throat and squeezing it like it was Silly Putty, ... 'You cheap shot artist!' Brunell screamed at me. 'You're going down, Brunell! I looked at your friggin' face every day for a friggin' year! I've waited all year for this!'

I was so used to grabbing the hose, running in with the guys.

I was suddenly surprised by a man grabbing me from the back, with his arm across my throat, which prevented me from crying out.

I grabbed Trot Nixon's bats today and I'm grabbing any bat that feels good now.

I grabbed him and now I'm mad at him for walking away and he's mad at me for grabbing him.

I can easily see Asian automakers grabbing another three or four percentage points next year. I can see them taking 50 percent of the market eventually without breaking a sweat.

Basically, you're not supposed to lay your hands on a recruit. You don't really want to have drill instructors grabbing a recruit by the collar, which is what happened here, and you don't want to have them hitting them with elbows.

If that was an indication the clutching and grabbing is going to be gone now. I really noticed it on the power plays. You know that crosscheck on the back? I didn't feel it. That'll really make a difference with Derian Hatcher, Richard Matvichuk, Chris Prong ... hold it. He's on our team now.

He's grabbing the ball strongly. He's catching the ball in traffic now. It's positioning. It's conditioning. It's getting your head under the rim.

He has great hands and I think his defense helps him in the sense that they force a lot of bad shots and he's there to gobble them all up. Teams aren't shooting a high percentage so there's a lot more rebounds to be had and he's doing a great job of grabbing them.

Having guys pull for each other, everyone grabbing an oar, you can have a lot of fun. It's an old T.K. saying, ... 'If everyone grabs an oar and moves his share of water, we'll be OK.' That's what we're after.

Having extra time to get started has made things easier. I have time to make breakfast instead of grabbing just a small bowl of cereal.

He's a football guy, ... He's always around the office. He's always looking at tape. He's always grabbing guys and talking football.

He's playing hard defensively, grabbing rebounds and taking the ball to the basket. It's been a long road, but he's really stepped it up.

I wouldn't necessarily say that Target is stealing market share away from Wal-Mart because Target's customers are slightly more upscale. Where it's outperforming Wal-Mart is in grabbing market share away from department store chains.

J-Kidd is grabbing me, pulling me and I am telling him to calm down.

It is about grabbing what you see on the Web, organizing it, and sharing with it with somebody.

I think the hooking and the holding and the clutching and the grabbing is the main thing that they had to get rid of.

I thought another young man who had one of the better games he's played all season was Spencer. He got some huge rebounds. It was nice to look down there and see this guy way up in the air grabbing the ball and it was Spencer. And then offensively, he was attacking.

I said to the players that their accomplishment is extraordinary in winning three of four Super Bowls. But they know as well as anybody that a bounce of the ball here or a missed tackle there or a tackle that was made by grabbing a guy's jersey, those are the small margins of victory.

Our magazine isn't covering shuffleboard; we're covering people who are still grabbing surfboards even though they're 60 or 70 or older. The people who've seen this magazine love it. Through word of mouth alone, we've already generated more than 7,000 sign-ups on our website.

Listening to Mr. Bettman, they're going to continue to crack down on all the obstruction and stick fouls that's been called all season. The old days of the Hudson Bay Rules, just tackling and grabbing and holding, won't be there. So we'll continue to see the five, six power plays a game.

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.

We played extremely well defensively, and that's what we had to do down the stretch. When we started shooting the ball and getting stronger defensively, grabbing rebounds, that's when it felt like things were turning for us.

We are committed to building on the success of last year's event and at the same time grabbing the opportunity to promote Bahrain as a hub for tourism and business in the region.

The people behind Goldenberg and Anglo Leasing scandals or land grabbing would be free to confess publicly and return whatever property they stole from Kenyans.

Tracks are grabbing at this like it's a panacea. I'm concerned it's not the answer.

We definitely didn't have the size to match up with him. On the defensive end, he was grabbing all of our misses. You've got to play perfect against a guy like that.

We shot probably 30 percent. They were tipping in rebounds of their misses, and every time there was a rebound, there was a Charlestown jersey grabbing it. They're athletic, but I've seen us on occasion be just as athletic.

We think they are targeting certain pieces, because sometimes they leave something more expensive sitting right next to what they grab, and they seem to be grabbing the same stuff from everybody.

When you are looking at snacks throughout the day, look at what's going on. Are you going to be running errands all day? If so, pack snacks at home so you're not grabbing something out of a vending machine.

We've had a good crowd. People are grabbing the deals. But talking to our consumers we have to note that gas prices and heating bills are still at the back of their minds even as they shop.

We've had a good crowd. People are grabbing the deals,

We're taking more individual accountability and taking more pride in stopping their man. We're getting very important stops and finishing it by grabbing rebounds.

We knew after the first game that we had to limit their second chance baskets and their ability to run down the court with the basketball. Working inside we were able to make sure our guards got back on defense and we did a good job of boxing out and grabbing rebounds.

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 someone else's program, and then extending them and mixing them to make them their own.

We turned it around in the second half on the defensive end. USC attacked the basket and we had to make adjustments at halftime. Leon is grabbing a lot of rebounds and that helps.

Body (Wallace) was blocking shots left and right, grabbing rebounds. The kid's a monster. I am just glad he's on my side.

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.

Father White had a penchant for grabbing me and other boys, ... He had no problem because no one would believe us.

There's no other time in the year where commercials can take center stage. Commercials are always the things that are playing when you're going to the bathroom or grabbing a soda from the fridge.

The word from talking to the officials and other people (at the game) is that it was grabbing and a couple of shoves, kind of like a rugby scuffle.

The sell-off is due to all the locals grabbing profits before the end of the day, nothing more.

Sometimes it is important to have a different and original idea itself to promote something. Often times, creativity is the key for attention grabbing and instant impact.

says Koby. ''He took us shopping. On the first day he took us to a big Wal-Mart and he was like a kid in a big toy store. Grabbing a bunch of stuff saying, 'You're going to need this, you're going to need that.' It was funny.

After getting my blood tested and having a nutritionist show me exactly which foods work best as fuel for me, I can feel the machine working efficiently, my body grabbing at the food after workouts.

Adam has been frustrated; there's a lot of holding and grabbing going on him away from the ball. He's a fiery competitor. Besides his play, his great attribute is how he competes.

Arthur Hamlin was running ball around the end. One of my teammates tripped. He was trying to keep from falling, but I thought he was grabbing at Arthur. I knocked him up in the air and he landed on his head. I was saying, 'Yeah I got you.' When he rolled over, I said, 'Oh my God! I blocked my own man.' It was so muddy, you couldn't tell.

This isn't a new generation of servers aimed at grabbing a lot of new-to-Sun business. That's what the Galaxy server it just announced is for. But this is a good upgrade.

They were grabbing and holding Jones' jersey all night long, but then we got the offensive (penalty) call. We had a touchdown taken away from us last week at McCutcheon.

They threw me down ... then, they took my head and started banging it on the ground, face first into the cement, ... It was so quick I had no time to react -- to grabbing anything or anything.

They're very quick in what they're doing. They're just grabbing cash and leaving. They go so far and that usually leads to their downfall, we usually catch them.

A lot of this became grabbing the bucking bronco and going, because you couldn't plan. What you want to do is, you don't want to get in the way of what's already happening.

They had a good game plan of grabbing and holding and keeping Steve from getting open looks. The credit goes to them. They played a great game.

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 are there every week.

At any given time, any of our girls can step up and have a big game, whether it's making baskets or grabbing rebounds or whatever it may be.

I tried to break my fall. Me and him were falling toward the ground, and as I grabbed him, I guess he thought I was grabbing him in an aggressive way and he tried to get aggressive, and he made us fall. I didn't want to let go because I didn't know what he'd do if I let go because he was really aggressive. I didn't mean to.

That's the difference between the sophomore Kim Maida and the senior Kim Maida. The sophomore Kim Maida would have tried to make that play by grabbing the ball, not knowing if she could hold on to it. The senior Kim Maida knows to just slap it away.

It's crazy. I don't want to say you feel violated, but everybody's touching you all over the place. I've got both legs up, with some people grabbing one leg while some other people were tugging on the other leg. I've never had so many hands on me. But I've got nothing to hide.

It was a pretty scary moment. To see a 38-year-old man grabbing his chest like that? You read all the time about people dropping dead. You just don't know.

It was kind of crazy. I'm getting stepped on, people were grabbing me, it was pretty special. It was the best stepped-on feeling ever.

(It was) like a giant hand reaching down from the sky, grabbing me like a frog, and throwing me full force into a concrete wall. I looked back just in time to see the water as it hit me ... I felt my life flash before my eyes ... I slammed into the rock, on my side. And I could feel the cracking of bone.

It was pretty neat to see our kids pick up each other. It's one of the cool things about coaching, to see a group of kids rally behind each other like that. We talked about grabbing hold of the rope and everybody pulling together. And that's what happened.

They were physical. They were banging me. I came off screens and they were grabbing me.

They were physical, they were banging me. Coming off screens, they were grabbing me. It was one of those games.

After trying the latest fashion from New England, it seems many Iowa Democrats are grabbing their old Midwestern favorites again.

That's as good as we've played all year. A lot of (the offense) came off our defense with some steals and grabbing some long rebounds which started fast breaks.

I'm not impressed with the state of music and the lyrics, guys on stage grabbing their Johnson. That's why people still cling to (old) Motown. It's music they can listen to with their kids.

I'm doing a lot more handmade gifts. When I go to a party, I cook whatever it is I need to bring instead of just grabbing a bottle of wine.

If I were the minister I'd be grabbing the chief executive by the ear and pulling him over and asking him what's going on.

I have never seen anything like this. Here is a shot, take it, and nobody is grabbing it.

I have never seen anyone who doesn't hang on. It's so tempting. Even I have trouble not grabbing on when I get tired.

If you do fall through the ice, a PFD will help you stay buoyant while grabbing the ice picks to get a grip to pull yourself up on the ice.

I like to stand out in the crowd. So anytime a designer offers up items that are a little attention grabbing or pushing the boundaries ever so slightly, I'm always game for that.

I remember after he left walking up the steps and grabbing the door and my boss was coming behind me. I must have had a big smile because in my mind I wanted to say, 'You didn't tell me he was that good looking.' Of course, you have a male boss and you're not going to say that because you want to be professional.

In transition, teams are getting to him early, making it that much harder for him. They're grabbing him. ... That's respect. Now he's become a focal point for teams.

In these competitive markets and with Wal-Mart breathing down your neck, it's all about grabbing the opportunity to expand in regions where you've got critical mass. It's better to be successful in a few countries and leave it at that than be in every country and be struggling.

I think my God-given abilities just took over. I felt hands grabbing at me. I don't remember where I went or how I got out. I just knew that I got out and started looked for receivers.

(His ability) is no secret, ... (Georgia) figured that out the other night, holding him, grabbing him by the face-guard, making sure he didn't get off the line of scrimmage. They figured out real fast we're trying to get him the ball. We're always trying to get him the ball in a lot of different ways.

I don't know if you can have a perfect game. But it seemed liked they were getting open and grabbing onto everything I threw. The offensive line was great. I didn't get sacked.

He told me he needed one more but I was up in the air (already grabbing the ball).

You can’t just keep grabbing at me every time you see me. It’s not a substitute for actually talking.

I couldn't believe it. When I passed the ball I was under the basket. My focus was on grabbing the rebound when it looked like the shot missed, then it hit the backboard and went in.