Elbows Quotes - Page 10

• Hope, and fear. Twin forces that tugged at us first in one direction and then in another, and which was the stronger no one could say. Of the latter we never spoke, but it was always with us. Fear, constant companion of the peasant. Hunger, ever at hand to jog his elbow should he relax. Despair, ready to engulf him should he falter. Fear; fear of the dark future; fear of the sharpness of hunger; fear of the blackness of death.

  Kamala Markandaya

  Dark, One Direction, Hands

  Kamala Markandaya (2000). “Nectar in a sieve and related readings”

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• Politics is a contact sport - a question of accepting an elbow or two.

  Mark Shields

  Sports, Two, Accepting

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• Each individual cat got up and did his thing. It wasn't like today where they come down and put down some nice linoleum so you don't get burnt up. I mean, we used to b-boy right in the middle of the park with broken glass everywhere! And you'd get up and you'd be all scratched and burised and bleeding and you would be ready to go right back in the circle. You'd just wipe the glass off your elbows and go right back in.

  Jazzy Jay

  Nice, Mean, Cat

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• For the academic the rhetorical sense of superiority through the possession of knowledge is essential for facing the daily grind, turning again to the otherwise boring article, braving the students who, fresh as each class may be, will still ask the same questions year after year. Psychological survival is not achieved without effort, and the environment must be managed, knocked about with one's elbows until it takes a shape comfortable to one's sense of self. This is not selfishness, for in reshaping the environment the academic is also reinvigorating the educational process.

  Robin Winks

  Educational, Teaching, Years

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• The people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes.

  Lena Dunham

  Life Lesson, Accusing Me, People

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.231, Random House

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• She [Pansy] pushed in next to Poppy so that she could see him around the guard's elbow. She was as tall as Poppy, with shining dark-brown hair and blue eyes. An utterly lovely girl, as all the princesses were, yet Oliver thought Petunia was far more beautiful.

  Jessica Day George

  Beautiful, Girl, Princess

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• She sat down in a weed patch, her elbows on her knees, and kept her eyes on the small sterious world of the ground. In the shade and sun of grass blade forests, small living things had their metropolis.

  Nancy Price

  Life, Weed, Eye

  Nancy Price (1991). “Sleeping with the enemy”, Berkley Pub Group

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