Ayelet Waldman

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.

Israeli Novelist

Seth Shostak

It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a pair of pliers, it will eventually blunder into science, technology, and radio.

American Scientist

W. Bruce Cameron

Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.

American Author

Jamie Hyneman

An indispensable tool is a pair of diagonal cutting Knipex pliers. There isn't any other hand tool of any other brand that stands up to it.

American Entertainer

Pliers are often used when fingers aren't strong enough to grip or manipulate small items.

Handling Objects

Pliers are a common tool, essential in various mechanical or craft situations, like fixing a bike chain.

Toolbox Essential

While pliers can grip tightly, they're not the best for tasks requiring high precision, such as electronics work.

Not for Precision

In dentistry, pliers aren't for general use but for specific tasks like extracting teeth or shaping dental devices.

Dental Procedures

Pliers in a medical setting, unlike common pliers, are typically sterile and designed for safety and precision.

Medical Context

Medical pliers often have rubber or plastic grips to provide better control and reduce slipping during a procedure.

Handles and Grips

 is that they actually use the coal briquettes, which are used all through China, but they heat up the boards, and with pairs of pliers they pull off all the components. They're trying to get all the valued metals out of those components. But the toxic smells -- when you come into a town that's actually doing this kind of burning of the boards,

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 and it will give be treated with respect because even though it doesn't have venom and it's not able to bite you it's got a jaw that just clamps and it will stay on you and it's really difficult to get them off I remember training with somebody that got bitten by one and we had to use pliers to actually open the

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 one we would use to keep a tool close to us and allows you to hook onto your tool so you won't lose them needlenose pliers are very useful things to have around they're really big openings because your gloves are big and bulky here's a hammer that we use in space it's got some

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 for traumatic brain injury and I'm writing a book analyzing the data from our first 250,000 SuperBetter pliers so when you add it all up games are treating pain preventing trauma curing depression changing real-world behavior for good I would say these are very

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 So my grandfather, their son, became a traveling salesman, and he lived boom and bust. So my dad grew up answering the door for debt collectors and pretending his parents weren't home. He actually took his braces off himself with pliers in the garage,

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 So this is a little wire-bending tool. After many years of bending gears with a pair of pliers, I made that tool, and then I made this other tool for sort of centering gears very quickly -- sort of developing my own little world of technology.

Arthur Ganson: Moving...

 like this I get a pair of pliers and some code anger and I gather them together in some kind of ropey bath so I just created the widest tightrope in the world what did I need what I needed the wider shoes in the world so I found some

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 They tied her up in a basement and starved her. They used pliers to take out her fingernails. At one point, she managed to escape from this torture chamber to a neighbor's house, and when she went there, instead of protecting her,

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 pilots as well so I'm actually needing to use my little pair of pliers to break it up very fine so obviously from a small little ant alight I want to know which one you might think that is so and

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 amazing automatically and we just affixed it to this car we found it in the dashboard and with a screwdriver and a pair of pliers we hammered it on and it's astoundingly actually removes the