Elbows Quotes

Mere fact has no chance of being formally perfect. It will get in the way, it will be all elbows.

Martin Amis

Perfect, Way, Facts

"Martin Amis, The Art of Fiction No. 151". Interview with Francesca Riviere, www.theparisreview.org. 1998.

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The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area.

Karen Duffy

Pain, Brain, Body

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.

James Carville

Want, Ifs

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We played at a club called, the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very important person who made a big impact on my life.

Jim Capaldi

Impact, Important, Clubs

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Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.

David Whyte

Looks, Manipulation, Fighter

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My elbows are double-jointed, so I can flip them inside out.

Emmanuelle Chriqui

Flip, I Can

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.

Louis Malle

Keys, Stories, Sticks

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From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that.

David Lindsay-Abaire

Class, Age, Identity

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To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

Jean Anouilh

Life, Mean, Hands

Jean Anouilh “Plays: Antigone. Eurydice (Legend of lovers). The ermine. The rehearsal. Romeo and Jeannette”

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I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'

Geena Davis

Doors, Arms, Way

"Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.

Roald Dahl

Father, Hands, Oslo

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But in 2000, the injuries really started to kick in and my elbow gave a lot of problems. At the end of the year I had to take 20 months off before I could come back into the game

Richard Krajicek

Years, Games, Months

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In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves

Marie Dressler

Order, Stage

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I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.

Tug McGraw

Twelve, Ears, Pitching

Tug McGraw, Don Yaeger (2005). “Ya Gotta Believe!: My Roller-Coaster Life as a Screwball Pitcher and Part-Time Father, and My Hope-Filled Fight Against Brain Cancer”, Signet

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I am a team player - and that is what you need to be an effective point guard. You gotta see the court, you gotta set up the play, and you gotta let others execute for the most part. I don't throw elbows for the sake of throwing elbows, but if somebody throws one at me and it's necessary to respond in kind, I suppose I can if I have to.

Susan Rice

Team, Player, Needs

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Everyone knows the presidential candidates and has an opinion about them. But as you get to smaller races, that evaporates and you can win through sheer elbow grease.

Joe Greene

Winning, Race, Presidential

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I know at one point I had bright red hair and I had bracelets from my wrist up to my elbow and I was wearing size 50 pants. I wouldn't wear that today, but I'm not embarrassed about wearing it back then any more.

Mike Shinoda

Hair, Red, Today

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When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early.

Christopher Hitchens

Cancer, Aunt, Doctors

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The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

Martin Luther King, Jr.

Sad, Justice, Moral

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I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.

Vidal Sassoon

Thinking, Would Be, Shampoo

Vidal Sassoon (1968). “Sorry I kept you waiting, Madam”

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It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.

George W. Bush

Years, Tongue, Sharp Tongue

"Three's a Crowd in Presidential Race?". "CNN Crossfire", www.cnn.com. February 23, 2004.

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I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it.

Jeannette Walls

Cute, Fall, Age

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Even if your bosoms are your best asset, deep round-neck or scoop-neck Ts can be too revealing. Offset this flash of gorgeousness by covering up your arms with a little cardi that has sleeves to the elbow.

Twiggy

Covering, Arms, Littles

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I don't know my armpit from my elbow in Los Angeles.

Taylor Schilling

Los Angeles, Armpits, Knows

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No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence.

Thomas Carlyle

Life, Men, Giving

Thomas Carlyle, Henry Duff Traill (2010). “The Works of Thomas Carlyle”, p.30, Cambridge University Press

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