Pliers Quotes:

Bent out of shape from society's pliers, cares not to come up any higher, but rather get you down in the hole that he's in.

- Bob Dylan

topic: Song, Pliers, Care

There are symbolic dreams-- dreams that symbolize some reality. Then there are symbolic realities -- realities that symbolize a dream. Symbols are what you might call the honorary town councillors of the worm universe. In the worm universe, there is nothing unusual about a dairy cow seeking a pair of pliers. A cow is bound to get her pliers sometime. It has nothing to do with me.

- Haruki Murakami

source: FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jul 25, 2014

topic: Dream, Reality, Pliers, Dairy, Dairy Cows

politics and religion in the United States work like the twin grips of a pair of pliers on a critical mass of the masses.

- Roseanne Barr

source: Roseanne Barr (2012). “Roseannearchy: Dispatches from the Nut Farm”, p.14, Simon and Schuster

topic: United States, Pliers, Politics, Critical Mass

There's always 30 or 40 Christians standing around, saying, "It's a shame that he has to die." And Jesus is saying, "Well, maybe I wouldn't have to if somebody would get a ladder and pair of pliers!!"

- Sam Kinison

source: HBO Special, 1985.

topic: Christian, Jesus, Pliers

Think of the tools in a tool-box: there is a hammer, pliers, a saw, a screwdriver, a rule, a glue-pot, nails and screws.--The function of words are as diverse as the functions of these objects.

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

topic: Thinking, Glue, Nails, Screwdrivers, Pliers

In the first century CE, Roman authorities punished St. Apollonia by crushing her teeth one by one with pliers. Colin often thought about this in relationship to the monotony of dumping: we have thirty-two teeth. After a while, having each tooth individually destroyed probably gets repetitive, even dull. But it never stops hurting.

- John Green

source: John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.93, Penguin

topic: Crush, Hurt, Two, Pliers

If you caught your kid raising cats in tiny boxes, forcing them to live in their own feces without clean air or sunlight, pulling their teeth and claws out with pliers to keep them from hurting each other…you’d rush him to a psychiatrist. But you support that very behavior every time you buy meat, eggs, dairy or fur.

- Dan Piraro

topic: Hurt, Cat, Kids, Hurting Each Other, Pliers

My daughter told me she wasn't afraid of spider but that she was afraid of my smoking. She said that she was afraid of my dying. So I went downstairs, picked up a pair of pliers and a blowtorch and showed her what real fear was.

- Robert Clarke

topic: Daughter, Real, Smoking, Pliers

Nix still held Benny's hand, and her grip tightened to an almost crushing force, grinding his hand bones together. It hurt, but Benny would rather have cut that hand off than take it back at that moment. If it would help Nix through this, he'd give her a pair of pliers and a vise so she could do a proper job.

- Jonathan Maberry

topic: Crush, Hurt, Jobs, Pliers

Before I was married, I didn't consider my failure to manage even basic hand tools a feminist inadequacy. I thought it had more to do with being Jewish. The Jews I knew growing up didn't do 'do-it-yourself.' When my father needed to hammer something he generally used his shoe, and the only real tool he owned was a pair of needle-nose pliers.

- Ayelet Waldman

topic: Growing Up, Father, Real, Pliers