Elbows Quotes - Page 5

• Twitter is basically text messaging. Twitter is a guy you can always elbow in the side and say, "Hey, look, a guy in a clown suit just threw up!" And I don't have 400-800 words to say about that, I just wanted to say that one thing.

  Chris Hardwick

  Guy, Looks, Hey

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• She blinked, sat up, and saw Chris in the bathroom doorway. He'd just gotten out the shower. His hair was damp, and he was dressed only in his briefs. The sight of his thin, boyish body - all ribs and elbows and knees - pulled at her heart, for he looked so innocent and vulnerable. He was so small and fragile that she wondered how she could ever protect him, and renewed fear rose in her.

  Dean Koontz

  Fear, Heart, Hair

  Dean Koontz (2003). “Lightning”, p.230, Penguin

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• A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because we are too proud or too afraid to unbend.

  Donald C. Peattie

  Friendship, Interesting, May

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• Sometimes our thoughts turn back toward a corner in a forest, or the end of a bank, or an orchard powdered with flowers, seen but a single time on some happy day, yet remaining in our hearts and leaving in soul and body an unappeased desire which is not to be forgotten, a feeling that we have just rubbed elbows with happiness.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Happiness, Flower, Heart

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• Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.

  George Herbert

  Eye, Disease, Bees

  George Herbert (1874). “The Complete Works of George Herbert: Prose”, p.324

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• Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Men, Space, Pilots

  Robert A. Heinlein (2010). “The Green Hills of Earth and The Menace from Earth”, p.58, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• I think he got an incidental elbow in the face, messed up his pretty red lips a little bit. But other than that he'll be fine.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Thinking, Nba

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• There's a thing that just as you go to sleep, if you keep your elbows elevated that you will never go below the dream stage. And I've used that quite a lot and it keeps me dreaming much longer than if I just relaxed.

  David Bowie

  Dream, Sleep, Used

  David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.40, Melville House

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• I'm a solitary sort, I get chaffed by too many elbows.

  Louis Bayard

  Solitary

  Louis Bayard (2009). “The Pale Blue Eye: A Novel”, p.36, Harper Collins

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• My plastic surgeon ... said my face looked like a bouquet of elbows.

  Phyllis Diller

  Bouquets, Faces, Plastic

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• Necessity invented stools,
  Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs,
  And luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last.

  William Cowper

  Luxury, Lasts, Next

  William Cowper (1852). “Poems”, p.159

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• If the elbow had been placed closer to the hand, the forearm would have been too short to bring the glass to the mouth; and if it had been closer to the shoulder, the forearm would have been so long that it would have carried the glass beyond the mouth.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Food, Glasses, Hands

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• A lot of the athletes moved away from boxing, into UFC - which I think is really crazy, where they elbow to the head and knee to the jaw. I think that's really a barbaric sport - but boxing is coming back.

  Gerry Cooney

  Sports, Crazy, Athlete

  Source: www.boxing247.com

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• I've played hockey most my life and I've never been badly injured...Three weeks into curling I've got bone chips in both my elbows. I still can't lean on a table. I've even got curling injuries, believe it or not, just from falling on my arse.

  James Allodi

  Sports, Believe, Fall

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• It is not that it is religious or it is not religious, it is called attitude of gratitude, it is called thanking God for giving you elbows and knees, giving you ribs and the glandular system, giving you head and skull and brain.

  Harbhajan Singh Yogi

  Gratitude, Religious, Attitude

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• The lessons of science should be experimental also. The sight of a planet through a telescope is worth all the course on astronomy; the shock of the electric spark in the elbow outvalues all theories; the taste of the nitrous oxide, the firing of an artificial volcano, are better than volumes of chemistry.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Science, Volcanoes, Sight

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, David Mikics (2012). “The Annotated Emerson”, p.280, Harvard University Press

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• Alone, she took hot baths and sat exhausted in the steaming water, wondering at her perpetual exhaustion. All that winter she noticed the limp, languid weight of her arms, her veins bulging slightly with the pressure of her extreme weariness ... one day in January she drew a razor blade lightly across the inside of her arm, near the elbow, to see what would happen.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Winter, Water, One Day

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• You don't really see a muscle as a part of you, in a way. You see it as a thing. You look at it as a thing and you say well this thing has to be built a little longer, the bicep has to be longer; or the tricep has to be thicker here in the elbow area. And you look at it and it doesn't even seem to belong to you. Like a sculpture. Then after looking at it a sculptor goes in with his thing and works a little bit, and you do maybe then some extra forced reps to get this lower part out. You form it. Just like a sculpture.

  Arnold Schwarzenegger

  Success, Sports, Littles

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• The bench press per se is not a risky exercise. When done right, it can help improve upper body strength and size. It's only when form takes a back seat to numbers and when it's grossly overtrained that problems result. Injuries occur in the shoulders and elbows when the bench press is overtrained, poor technique is used, such as rebounding the bar off the chest and bridging, no other exercises for the upper body are included in the program, and there are no core exercises done for the upper back. Quite often, it's a combination all these factors.

  Bill Starr

  Workout, Exercise, Bad Ass

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• Think not of the amount to be accomplished, the difficulties to be overcome, or the end to be attained, but set earnestly at the little task at your elbow, letting that be sufficient for the day.

  William Osler

  Spiritual, Thinking, Overcoming

  Sir William Osler, Mark E. Silverman, T. J. Murray, Charles S. Bryan, American College of Physicians--American Society of Internal Medicine (2003). “The Quotable Osler”, p.37, ACP Press

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• Life had been a suit I'd only put on for special occasions. Most of the time I kept it in the back of my closet, forgetting it was there. We were meant to die when it was barely stitched anymore, when the elbows and knees were stained with grass and mud, shoulder pads uneven from people hugging you all the time, downpours and blistering sun, the fabric faded, buttons gone.

  Marisha Pessl

  People, Hug, Special

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• Taking a deep breath that smelled of rain, she was poised to move when a hand clasped her elbow. Memories of another hand grabbing her sent panic shooting through her veins. She swung around. "Whoa. You okay?" Lucas lightened his clasp around her arm. Kylie caught her breath and stared up at the werewolf's blue eyes. "Yeah. You just...surprised me. You need to whistle when you come up on me.

  C.C. Hunter

  Memories, Rain, Moving

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• Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows.

  William Shakespeare

  Sassy, Brain, Lord

  William Shakespeare (1998). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.86, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Hello, darling. Sorry about that. Sorry about the bony elbows, sorry we lived here, sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud. Especially that, but I should have known. You see, I take the parts that I remember and stitch them back together to make a creature that will do what I say or love me back.

  Richard Siken

  Sorry, Should Have, Together

  Richard Siken, “Litany in Which Certain Things Are Crossed Out”

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• There was the pedestrian who wedged himself into the crowd, but there was also the flneur who demanded elbow room and was unwilling to forego the life of the gentleman of leisure. His leisurely appearance as a personality is his protest against the division of labour which makes people into specialists. it was also his protest against their industriousness. Around 1840 it was briefly fashionable to take turtles for a walk in the arcades. the flneurs liked to have the turtles set the pace for them.

  Walter Benjamin

  Turtles, People, Personality

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