Grasp Quotes

Do not be taken in by 'insiderisms.' Fledgling columnists, eager to impress readers with their grasp of journalistic jargon, are drawn to such arcane spellings as 'lede.' Where they lede, do not follow.

I am a hidden meaning made to defy. The grasp of words, and walk away With free will and destiny. As living, revolutionary clay.

In fact, it is often times a detriment for the Government to preemptively legislate on an issue before we can either define it or grasp its impact.

I don't believe anybody can really grasp everything that's even in one textbook.

You have it within your grasp to be regarded as one of the greatest legislative sessions in the history of the state. If you're bold and if you're ready to aggressively reach for our future, all the ingredients are here. The opportunities are waiting for us.

Student journeys which were important to me were Sicily, Greece, and Egypt, where I really saw these buildings, and that is where you're able to grasp what things mean.

A true leader always keeps an element of surprise up his sleeve, which others cannot grasp but which keeps his public excited and breathless.

You have to remember we're just performers, that we seldom have any kind of grasp on real life.

All too many Muslims fail to grasp Islam, which teaches one to be lenient towards others and to understand their value systems, knowing that these are tolerated by Islam as a religion.

Now science has presented us with a hope called stem cell research, which may provide our scientists with many answers that have for so long been beyond our grasp.

It is far better to grasp the universe as it really is than to persist in delusion, however satisfying and reassuring.

Sure, science involves trial and error. Scientists refine theories each day. But as they do, they help us grasp more clearly the wonders of the world and the universe.

The conversational overachiever is someone whose grasp exceeds his reach. This is possible but not attractive.

To grasp the full significance of life is the actor's duty; to interpret it his problem; and to express it his dedication.

Leaders grasp nettles.

China's cinema has been rising for some time; it has more exposure, so my chances of becoming internationally known are better. But the first thing I have to do is learn English. If I can grasp the language, then perhaps I can think about the U.S.

Star Trek has brought so much of what I want within my grasp.

The spoken word was the first technology by which man was able to let go of his environment in order to grasp it in a new way.

Conducting, I tried it once off the cuff, and quickly realized there were subtle aspects that I was missing. There is a lot more to it that I was able to grasp simply by watching conductors.

Happiness is a butterfly, which when pursued, is always just beyond your grasp, but which, if you will sit down quietly, may alight upon you.

Poetry is the art which is technically within the grasp of everyone: a piece of paper and a pencil and one is ready.

Beauty, like truth, is relative to the time when one lives and to the individual who can grasp it. The expression of beauty is in direct ratio to the power of conception the artist has acquired.

I ascribe a basic importance to the phenomenon of language. To speak means to be in a position to use a certain syntax, to grasp the morphology of this or that language, but it means above all to assume a culture, to support the weight of a civilization.

I am following Nature without being able to grasp her, I perhaps owe having become a painter to flowers.

Sometimes it takes years to really grasp what has happened to your life.

Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

I didn't grasp the basic principle of being a promoter, which was: Put on music but also generate an income. I was on the dole most of the time.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

It is important that the audience should understand every syllable of every word, for only then can they grasp the meaning of the song.

It's slightly complicated for people to grasp the idea of a head of state in human form.