#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. ↗

— Marshall McLuhan

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Altogether, St. Louis is a growing place, and the West has a large hand and a strong grasp. ↗

— Maria Mitchell

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

— Eugenio Montale

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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. ↗

— Ben Nicholson

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I so wanted to perform, and I grasped every opportunity. ↗

— Trevor Nunn

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One of the things you do as a writer and as a filmmaker is grasp for resonant symbols and imagery without necessarily fully understanding it yourself. ↗

— Christopher Nolan

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What is the student but a lover courting a fickle mistress who ever eludes his grasp? ↗

— William Osler

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You know, I was such a big Beatles fan, and when I'd buy a new album I'd invariably hate it the first time I heard it 'cause it was a mixture of absolute joy and absolute frustration. I couldn't grasp what they'd done, and I'd hate myself for that. ↗

— Andy Partridge

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The question confronting the Church today is not any longer whether the man in the street can grasp a religious message, but how to employ the communications media so as to let him have the full impact of the Gospel message. ↗

— Pope John Paul II

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I believe Georgia should aspire to nothing less than greatness. And I believe greatness is within our grasp. ↗

— Sonny Perdue

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