What really excites me is the unknown, and getting to grips with something you have no idea about.
I like normal stuff people fear - like spiders and heights. I'm frightened by the unknown, by things that are hard to figure out and get a grip on.
Dead battles, like dead generals, hold the military mind in their dead grip.
I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.
In the grip of a neurological disorder, I am fast losing control of words even as my relationship with the world has been reduced to them.
I paint and sculpt to get a grip on reality... to protect myself.
Leif gripped Benny's shoulders to hold him back, but he broke free and chased the truck, pumping his tiny arms and legs with great furry. "I love you!" he called out, when he was just ten feet away. I gripped the metal bars, my throat choked with emo...
Roosevelt: The entire outer skin will be like this. Tyler: It's titanium, laminated with kevlar. Roosevelt: Go ahead. Shake his hand. [the robotic arm extends to shake Morton's hand] Bob Morton: Come here often? How you doin'? Bob Morton: [cringes as...
There aren't traditions of freedom in a place like Iraq. They're going to have to come to grips with a concept that they hadn't been allowed to conceive before.
Populism is not a style, it's a people's rebellion against the iron grip that big corporations have on our country - including our economy, government, media, and environment.
There are two things panic patients hate to do. They hate to take medication - and they hate to go to doctors. They hate to come to grips.
The harder you grip the bat, the more you can swing it through the ball, and the farther the ball will go.
If you don't have people that the reader cares about and stories that are gripping, you've got nothing.
'Solutionism' for me is, above all, an unthinking pursuit of perfection - by means of technology - without coming to grips with the fact that imperfection is an essential feature of liberal democracy.
I wear Blundstones for hiking. They're like a work boot with a bit of grip, so you can wear them all day. They're quite groovy.
When jumping is the sole option, you jump, and try to make it work.
There is no doubt that someone who tries to throw a curve or pitch at any early age before he's developed, before his hand is big enough to grip the ball correctly, will damage his arm.
sloughing my skin / escaping it's grip / stripped of my wit / it hurts to be me .
At one of my lowest points, sugar had a painful grip on me. I'd buy/binge and then beat myself up over my behavior.
To come to grips with creativity, I must ask creative, adventurous questions - the kind which, in all likelihood, cannot be answered.
I've had to come to grips with a God that fits my own experience, which is, my God could not be offering protection and not have protected my boy.
