#snatch

My heart burnt within me with indignation and grief; we could think of nothing else. All night long we had only snatches of sleep, waking up perpetually to the sense of a great shock and grief. Every one is feeling the same. I never knew so universal a feeling. ↗

— Elizabeth Gaskell

#burnt #could #else #every #feeling

Medicine sometimes snatches away health, sometimes gives it. ↗

— Ovid

#away #gives #health #medicine #snatches

Ever since I was younger I wanted to be on stage, singing my songs in a glittering costume. And that happened and is still happening. I have to remember that this is what I wished for and be grateful because there are 500 other girls right behind me that are ready to snatch it up. ↗

— Katy Perry

#because #behind #costume #ever #glittering

When you snatch little pieces of other people's lives and try to palm them off as your own, that's more disgusting than anything. Robin Williams is a huge thief. Denis Leary is a huge thief. His whole stand-up career is based on Bill Hicks, a brilliant guy who died years ago. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#anything #based #bill #brilliant #career

Who breathe where you will, come into me and snatch me up to yourself. ↗

— Richard Rolle

#come #into #me #snatch #up

I subscribe to that school of thespian - to be a wandering minstrel or traveling player, a thing ofrags and patches, of ballads, songs and snatches. ↗

— Julian Sands

#i #patches #player #school #snatches

Do thou snatch treasures from my lips, and I'll take kingdoms back from thine. ↗

— Richard Brinsley Sheridan

#i #kingdoms #lips #snatch #take

When one by one our ties are torn, and friend from friend is snatched forlorn; when man is left alone to mourn, oh! then how sweet it is to die! ↗

— Anna Letitia Barbauld

#die #forlorn #friend #how #left

A hundredth of a second here, a hundredth of a second there - even if you put them end to end, they still only add up to one, two, perhaps three seconds, snatched from eternity. ↗

— Robert Doisneau

#end #eternity #even #here #hundredth

There's not a hip-hop artist that didn't snatch of piece of Bob Marley. It's totally impossible. ↗

— Wyclef Jean

#bob #bob marley #hip-hop #impossible #marley