Pull a thread here and you’ll find it’s attached to the rest of the world.
Houdini used to pull rabbits out of a hat, but he never tried to make a living out of selling them when he had pulled them out of the hat
We should not focus on ideas that divide us and pull us apart.
The one who doesn't pull his weight is not asked to pull, while the one who does, pulls for two.
Well, pull up an ice block and lend an ear. Now you know how Santa uses these flying reindeer to pull his sleigh.
If you feel an overwhelming urge to act spontaneously, pull in the reins
There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.
Doing art that has a happy ending, that doesn't seem really corny, is extremely difficult to pull off convincingly.
Among the gods, there is a dispute as to which one of them originally thought of Christianity; or, as they call it, the Great Leg Pull. Apollo has the best claim, but a sizeable minority support Pluto, ex-God of the Dead, on the grounds that he has a really sick sense of humour. How would it be, suggested the unidentified god, if first we tell them all to love their neighbour, pack in the killing and thieving, and be nice to each other. Then we let them start burning heretics.
As if our happiness, our good fortune, might rub off, contestants ask us for a light: they brush up against us in the halls, pull strands of hair off our clothing. Whenever we leave our bed, our room -- not often -- two or three are sure to be lurking just outside our door.
To hell with that. If a guy can pull a big erg, I can teach him how to row.
I think about the cosmic snowball theory. A few million years from now the sun will burn out and lose its gravitational pull. The earth will turn into a giant snowball and be hurled through space. When that happens it won't matter if I get this guy out.
A tactful man can pull the stinger from a bee without getting stung.
Maybe I can pull at my breast in a kind of futile attempt to develop a woman's breast. It's not that simple to become a woman. But I think what was important, when I think back on that work, is something like The Little Engine That Could. It's me saying, I think I can, I think I can. Though I'm doing something I obviously can't, it's the process toward it that is important. The will toward it, the effort. . . My work was about getting to a place that you couldn't get to.
Every city has a town outside with a lake. I pull out my fishing pole and fish. I've been doing that for a long time.
Even today I am willing to volunteer to do the dirty work for Israel, to have everyone hate us, to pull the rug from underneath the feet of the Diaspora Jews, so that they will be forced to run to us crying. Even if it means blowing up one or two synagogues here and there, I don’t care.
Every rock song is some variation of 'Pull down your pants'
Music is in the air; it's my job to pull it out.
I see women in their 30s getting plastic surgery, pulling this up and tucking that back. It's like a slippery slope - once you start you pull one thing one way and then you think, 'Oh my God, I've got to do the other side. '
Love is what moves the world, I've always thought. . . it is the only thing which allows men and women to stand in a world where gravity always seems to want to pull them down. . . bring them low. . . and make them crawl.
