Quotes of: Clutches Keyword

People attach too much importance to intangibles like heart, desire and clutch hitting.

Nate Silver

After sixty-one years together, she simply clutched my hand and exhaled.

Water for Elephants

The same things we've done the past couple of seasons. We've worked on the engine and clutch. We'll try and pick up the performance and consistency of the car and go back out there.

Larry Dixon

Love is like quicksilver in the hand. Leave the fingers open and it stays. Clutch it and it darts away.

Dorothy Parker

Often the grind of book promotion wearies you of your own book - though at the same time this frees you from its clutches.

Julian Barnes

Dreyfus: [Last lines as he clutches a detonator] I'm saving the human race [triggers an explosion]

Dawn of the Planet of the Apes

When I wake I ask myself, how much longer before they will just let me die?" - Tier, Clutch

Life

There are boys lying awake, hating themselves. There are boys screwing for the right reasons and boys screwing for the wrong ones. There are boys sleeping on benches and under bridges, and luckier unlucky boys sleeping in shelters, which feel like sa...

Two Boys Kissing

We clutch our bellies and roll on the floor... When I say this, it should mean laughter, not poison.

Crush

Are you going to kiss me?" I blabbered stupidly. "I'm working up the nerve," he said softly.

Double Clutch

on. I’m getting cold.’ Clutching the pluckers, I call her. ‘Right,

William Walker's First Year of Marriage: A Horror Story

How grudging memory is, and how bitterly she clutches the raw material of her daily work.

Lawrence Durrell

Kent steepled his fingers in consideration. Blood-red rubies flashed in the sunlight, like the eyes of a demon clutched in his hands.

V.S. Carnes

I have this vintage Valentino clutch. Ughhh, it's so pretty! Also, I'm not a big fur person, but I'll do a vintage fur every now and then.

Beth Riesgraf

There is the staircase, there is the sun. There is the kitchen, the plate with toast and strawberry jam, your subterfuge, your ordinary mirage. You stand red-handed. You want to wash yourself in earth, in rocks and grass What are you supposed to do w...

Margaret Atwood

An oppressive odor of decay now mingled with the stench of mold and seemed to clutch at the very breath in their lungs.

The Leopard Mask

The vicar's handshake was warm and reassuring, but shaking hands with Mavis was like clutching a bunch of dead twigs.

Two Old Fools in Spain Again

Anthony looked down at his evil clutches -- hands, he reminded himself, hands -- and grinned anew.

The Viscount Who Loved Me

In vogue and cosmopolitan they clutch their Pomeranians and walk among the millionaires or watch from swayback steamer chairs

The Watch That Ends the Night

This is agony cried Mr Salteena clutching hold of a table my life will be sour grapes and ashes without you.

The Young Visiters

The moment eternal - just that and no more - When ecstasy's utmost we clutch at the core While cheeks burn, arms open, eyes shut, and lips meet!

Robert Browning