Pull

Famous quotes containing the word pull:

    Suddenly he found he had pressed the spring of the grenade. He struggled to pull it out of his pocket. It stuck in the narrow pocket. His arm and his cold fingers that clutched the grenade seemed paralyzed. Then a warm joy went through him. He had thrown it.
    Anderson was standing up, swaying backwards and forwards. The explosion made the woods quake.
    John Dos Passos (1896–1970)

    And girls you have to tell to pull their socks up
    Are those whose pants you’d most like to pull down.
    Philip Larkin (1922–1986)

    Finance is a gun. Politics is knowing when to pull the trigger.
    Mario Puzo, U.S. author, screenwriter, and Francis Ford Coppola, U.S. director, screenwriter. Michael Corleone (Al Pacino)