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It's the way to educate your eyes. Stare. Pry, listen eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. -- Walker Evans
Pry not into the affairs of others, and keep secret that which has been entrusted to you, though sorely tempted by wine and passion. -- Horace
Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. Die knowing something. You are not here long. -- Walker Evans
On sensitive issues, talk isn't cheap - it takes real courage to pry open topics nailed shut. -- Marvin Olasky
Everyone has a book inside of them - but it doesn't do any good until you pry it out. -- Jodi Picoult
I intend to do the Penn & Teller show until they pry my cheesy magic wand from my cold dead fingers. -- Penn Jillette
I have no interest in anybody's life that way so it defeats me why people go to that length to pry. -- John Byrne
As a writer, as a creator, I'm giving you my experiences. But just take what I give you. You ain't got to pry beyond that. -- Frank Ocean
I love the grandiosity, how sweepingly entertaining films can be. And I think there's a place for films that pry more into the human condition. -- Colin Farrell
I like mechanical things; my first book was a mechanics guide - that was what my parents couldn't pry away from me; that was the blanket. -- Philipp Meyer
There are readers who want every point to be clearly and unambiguously set forth, and there are those who want to pry ideas and meanings out for themselves. -- John M. Ford
Secret government programs that pry into people's private affairs are bound up with ideas about secrecy and privacy that arose during the process by which the mysterious became secular. -- Jill Lepore
When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business. -- Maya Lin
I'd managed to bite a very large hole in the side of my tongue before they could pry my teeth apart. By all evidence, and there's no denying it, that thing I had on the set was a fit. -- Dick York
There are ways of avoiding becoming tabloid fodder and therefore giving people license to pry into your private life. And there's a distinction between being an actor and being a celebrity. You may become a celebrity through acting, but you don't need to do so. -- Damian Lewis
If art means as much to you as it does to me, or even if you're just exploring the art world for the first time, I invite you to turn off the boob tube, pry the Wii controllers from your kids' hands, and drag them to a museum. -- Lynda Resnick
I don't know if I ever feel totally great about a record when I put it out. With every record that I put out, someone has literally got to come pry it from me because when I listen to my own music, I just hear flaws in it. -- Eminem
I pity the young woman who will attempt to insinuate herself between my mama's boy and me. I sympathize with the monumental nature of her task. It will take a crowbar, two bulldozers and half a dozen Molotov cocktails to pry my Oedipus and me loose from one another. -- Ayelet Waldman
Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to keep what you want from ending, do it. Pry the door open or, if need be, wedge your foot in that door and keep it open. -- Pauline Kael
It's hard for me to pry with people I know. -- Norah Jones
Minds are like oysters. They spoil if you pry them open. -- Willa Gibbs
He who would pry behind the scenes oft sees a counterfeit. -- John Dryden
It hurts when God has to PRY things out of our hand! -- Corrie Ten Boom
Aunts are discreet, a little shy / By instinct. They forbear to pry ... -- Phyllis McGinley
I'll retire when they pry my cold, dead fingers off of my Bible. -- R. C. Sproul
You can have my gun when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers. -- Charlton Heston
It is the way to educate your eye and more. Stare, pry, listen, eavesdrop. -- Walker Evans
Leverage is everything-don't begin to pry until you've got the long arm on your side. -- Oliver Wendell Holmes
They can have my beer when they pry it out of my cold, dead hand. -- Ben Schwalb
Where the apple reddens never pry - lest we lose our Edens, Eve and I. -- Robert Browning
Whatever is not nailed down is mine. What I can pry loose is not nailed down. -- Collis Potter Huntington
You'll get my assault weapon when you pry it out of my curious six-year-old's cold dead hands. -- Anthony Jeselnik
I have learned to hold all things loosely, so God will not have to pry them out of my hands. -- Corrie Ten Boom
If it is not nailed to the floor, it's mine. If I can pry it loose, it is not nailed down. -- Oscar Wilde
Son, are you happy? I don't mean to pry, but do you dream of Heaven? Have you ever wanted to die? -- Tim Burton
Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or wish them ill. -- Marcus Aurelius
Speaking personally, you can have my gun, but you'll take my book when you pry my cold, dead fingers off of the binding. -- Stephen King
Southerners ask intimate questions in the way monkeys groom each other for lice, not to pry but to make you feel cared for. -- Reynolds Price
If you want to dig, if you want to pry, do it on your time, but I'm going to be a woman of dignity. -- Sandra Bernhard
If you have half a story and you don't know the rest, you use what you have to pry the rest out of someone. -- Hunter S. Thompson
I'd like to say I'm not self-absorbed compared to others, but that's hard to say since I'm far too self-absorbed to pry into others' self-absorption. -- Anonymous
To pry into the secrets of this world, we must make experiments. But experiment is a clumsy instrument, afflicted with a fatal determinacy which destroys causality. -- Banesh Hoffmann
I can counterfeit the deep tragedian; Speak and look back, and pry on every side, Tremble and start, at wagging of a straw, Intending deep suspicion. -- William Shakespeare
Persons who undertake to pry into, or cleanse out all the filth of a common sewer, either cannot have very nice noses, or will soon lose them. -- William Hazlitt
Skepticism, not cleanliness, is next to godliness. Skepticism is the father of freedom. It is like the pry that holds open the door for truth to slip in. -- Gerry Spence
The ultimate in disposing one's troops is to be without ascertainable shape. Then the most penetrating spies cannot pry in nor can the wise lay plans against you. -- Sun Tzu
Whatever you are holding onto in this life, hold it loosely so it won't hurt when the Lord has to pry your fingers open to take it away. -- Priscilla Shirer
Along with others, I have tried to pry economists away from narrow assumptions about self interest. Behavior is driven by a much richer set of values and preferences. -- Gary Becker
To the divisive forces that would take freedom away, I want to tell you something: You can have my gun. You can pry it from my cold dead hands! -- Charlton Heston
Lawyers must pry into the recesses of the human heart, and become well acquainted with the whole moral world, that they may discover the abstract reason of all laws. -- Henry St John, 1st Viscount Bolingbroke
Join me in standing up against any actual knowledge about guns. Let the CDC know they can take away our ignorance when the pry it from our cold dead minds. -- Stephen Colbert
If aught can teach us aught, Affliction's looks, Making us pry into ourselves so, near, Teach us to know ourselves, beyond all books, Or all the learned schools that ever were. -- Sir John Davies
Now I've laid me down to die I pray my neighbors not to pry Too deeply into sins that I Not only cannot here deny But much enjoyed as life flew by. -- Preston Sturges
Then we upon our globe's last verge shall go, And view the ocean leaning on the sky: From thence our rolling Neighbours we shall know, And on the Lunar world securely pry. -- John Dryden
Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea that has unleashed so many of our new ideas. -- Jonah Lehrer
We sack, we ransack to the utmost sands Of native kingdoms, and of foreign lands: We travel sea and soil; we pry, and prowl, We progress, and we prog from pole to pole. -- Francis Quarles
The Framers [of the Constitution] . . . created the federally protected right of silence and decreed that the law could not be used to pry open one's lips and make him a witness against himself. -- William O. Douglas
Best friends are always together, always whispering and laughing and running, always at each other's house, having dinner, sleeping over. They are practically adopted by each other's parents. You can't pry them apart. -- Jerry Spinelli
His shoulder bumped mine again. "Can I ask you something?" I didn't answer. He was going to ask me anyway. People don't say that if they don't want to pry something out of you. -- Lilith Saintcrow

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