Braces Quotes - Page 3

• The right shot at the right moment does not come because you do not let go of yourself. You do not wait for fulfilment, but brace yourself for failure.

  Eugen Herrigel

  Letting Go, Failure, Waiting

  Eugen Herrigel (1964). “Zen”

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• Everyone feels like an underdog, at some point in their life. Even the best-looking people and the most athletic probably have a phase in their life - a year or two - where they're awkward or they have braces.

  Charlie Day

  Years, Two, People

  Source: collider.com

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• You can't brace yourself for famine if you've never known hunger.

  David Sedaris

  Hunger, Famine, Known

  David Sedaris (2009). “Naked”, p.191, Hachette UK

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• When you're up against a trouble, meet it squarely, face to face. Lift your chin and set your shoulders, plant your feet and take a brace. When it's vain to try to dodge it, do the best that you can do. You may fail, but you may conquer. See it through!

  Edgar Guest

  Feet, Trying, May

  Edgar Albert Guest, “See It Through”

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• There were moments where I was being kicked in the stomach, and even though I had this brace on to protect me, I still had to prepare myself for it . You can't be relaxed when that's happening. You have to brace your muscles. I can remember thinking as it was about to happen "Wasn't that how Houdini died?" I think it was.

  Emily Mortimer

  Thinking, Remember, Moments

  Source: collider.com

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• People think my friend George is weird because he wears sideburns...behind his ears. I think he's weird because he wears false teeth...with braces on them.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Thinking

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• When I was a kid I wanted to be a musician. I used to play the trumpet. I practiced all the time, but I got braces and I couldn't play it anymore, so I had all of this free time.

  Zach Woods

  Kids, Musician

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• In the future, every human will have a digital model of their body stored in computers. When someone needs a new shoe or a new bra or a new prosthesis or a new brace, s/he'll just fabricate it from the digital model themselves and then the device or article will be delivered to the home without even having to go to a retail store. The shoe, the bra, the brace, it'll be the person's apparel, the person's device, no one else's. It'll be exquisitely comfortable and functional. So this whole notion today where we have sizing to fit across humans is just utterly absurd.

  Hugh Herr

  Home, Shoes, Body

  Source: abilitymagazine.com

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• I always had a weak chin because we couldn't afford to correct my bite, which could have been corrected with braces. So the chin was always weak. And I always was - kind of hated my profile. And I thought wouldn't it be nice someday to feel the rain on your chin without having to look up.

  Carol Burnett

  Nice, Rain, Looks

  "Carol Burnett: The 'Fresh Air' Interview". "Fresh Air" with Dave Davies, www.npr.org. January 29, 2016.

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• You know the awkward class photo when you're sitting there for your school picture and you're 14 or something and you've got braces, and you don't know how to smile, and you've got a hard-on.

  Rob Huebel

  School, Class, Awkward

  "Rob Huebel on meeting Paul McCartney and how he knows Bigfoot exists". "11 Questions" with Marah Eakin, www.avclub.com. January 29, 2016.

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• When I got my braces removed, I felt more like a real woman, any traces of my childhood were stripped, just like the cold metal that inhabited my mouth for 2 years.

  Christy Carlson Romano

  Real, Years, Childhood

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• Sometimes, if you're like me, [God] will brace or reprove in a highly personal process not understood or appreciated by those outside the context.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Sometimes, Appreciated, Process

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• If I "try" to play, I fail; if I force the play, I crush it; if I race, I trip. Any time I stiffen or brace myself against some error or problem, the very act of bracing would cause the problem to occur. The only road to strength is vulnerability.

  Stephen Nachmanovitch

  Crush, Errors, Race

  Stephen Nachmanovitch (1991). “Free Play: Improvisation in Life and Art”, p.64, Penguin

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• I was in rare fettle and the heart had touched a new high. I don't know anything that braces one up like finding you haven't got to get married after all.

  P. G. Wodehouse

  Heart, Married, Findings

  P.G. Wodehouse (2000). “How Right You Are, Jeeves”, p.124, Simon and Schuster

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• Not fair? Oh, I'm sorry I get this lovely laptop computing device when all you get is the ability to walk, control your hands, and know you'll survive until your eighteenth birthday." Then the kid was going, "Uh, I didn't mean..." But Tad wasn't done yet. While the whole class watched in horror, he put his hands through the metal support braces on the arms of his wheelchair and forced himself to stand up. Then he took a shaky little step to the side, gestured toward the chair, and said, "Why don't you take a turn with the laptop? You can even have my seat.

  Jordan Sonnenblick

  Sorry, Mean, Kids

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• Lifting her head, she joined in as the others in the group began to howl in response to Brace's triumph. The sound was . . . It touched the soul, the music haunting, starkly pure and yet so very earthy.

  Nalini Singh

  Soul, Triumph, Sound

  Nalini Singh (2010). “Play of Passion”, p.74, Penguin

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• J_Doe032692 wrote: I am not a thin person. However this does not give people the right to taunt me, calling me ugly and worthless, telling me to kill myself because no one will ever want me, or to make up songs about why I am so fat and how much food I eat. NO ONE, I repeat, NO ONE HAS THE RIGHT TO HURT ANOTHER HUMAN BEING THIS BADLY. My throat constricts. The neck brace feels as if it's shrinking and cutting off my esophagus. I reach up and cover the words with my hand and the web site dissolves. I want to go. Now.

  Julie Anne Peters

  Song, Hurt, Cutting

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• Naught can deform the human race Like to the armor's iron brace.

  William Blake

  Men, Race, Iron

  William Blake, “Auguries Of Innocence”

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• The letters in 'Brace Beemer' can be arranged to spell 'Embrace Beer.'

  Dave Barry

  Drinking, Beer, Letters

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• We got dreams and we got the right to chase 'em, Look at the nation, that's a crooked smile braces couldn't even straighten.

  J. Cole

  Dream, Looks, Ems

  Song: Crooked Smile, Album: Born Sinner, 2013

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• So . . . middle school? Awkward.Having a hobby that's different from everyone else's? Awkward. Singing the national anthem on weekends instead of going to sleepovers? More awkward. Braces? Awkward. Gain a lot of weight before you hit the growth spurt? Awkward. Frizzy hair, don't embrace the curls yet? Awkward. Try to straighten it? Awkward!So many phases!

  Taylor Swift

  School, Weekend, Hair

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• And I'm convinced that knowing the names of things braces people up.

  Saul Bellow

  Names, Knowing, People

  Saul Bellow (2015). “Mr. Sammler's Planet”, p.73, Odyssey Editions

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• People in L.A. don't have to brace themselves against the cold; they slack off permanently, and their brains turn to mush.

  Juliana Hatfield

  People, Brain, Cold

  "Reticent Media Darling Juliana Hatfield Plays Largo Saturday Night, Talks Memoir". Interview with Pamela Chelin, www.laweekly.com. September 26, 2008.

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• Only that I insist upon your dining with us. It will be ready in half an hour. I have oysters and a brace of grouse, with something a little choice in white wines. Watson, you have never yet recognized my merits as a housekeeper. ~ Sherlock Holmes

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Wine, Oysters, White

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2016). “All about Sherlock Holmes”, p.177, "Издательство ""Проспект"""

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• Susan was very fun to be around. She liked movies, and her brother Frank made her tapes of this great music that she shared with us. But over the summer she had her braces taken off, and she got a little taller and prettier and grew breasts. Now, she acts a lot dumber in the hallways, especially when boys are around. And I think it's sad because Susan doesn't look as happy.

  Stephen Chbosky

  Summer, Brother, Fun

  "The Perks of Being a Wallflower". Book by Stephen Chbosky, 1999.

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