Elbows Quotes - Page 8

• Eventually she came. She appeared suddenly, exactly like she'd done that day- she stepped into the sunshine, she jumped, she laughed and threw her head back, so her long ponytail nearly grazed the waistband of her jeans. After that, I couldn't think about anything else. The mole on the inside of her right elbow, like a dark blot of ink. The way she ripped her nails to shreds when she was nervous. Her eyes, deep as a promise. Her stomach, pale and soft and gorgeous, and the tiny dark cavity of her belly button. I nearly went crazy.

  Lauren Oliver

  Crazy, Eye, Sunshine

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• Don't put a lump of rock under my elbow again!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Rocks, Two Towers, Lumps

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.407, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• "That's a poor match, Sean Kendrick," says a voice at my elbow. It's the other sister from Fathom & Sons, and she follows my gaze to Puck. "Neither of you are a housewife." I don't look away from Puck. "I think you assume too much, Dory Maud." "You leave nothing to assumption," Dory Maud says. "You swallow her with your eyes. I'm surprised there's any of her left for the rest of us to see."

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Eye, Son, Thinking

  "The Scorpio Races". Book by Maggie Stiefvater, 2011.

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• I eased back on my elbows, tilting my head back to look up at the sky, which was pinkish, streaked with red. This was the time we knew best, that stretch of day going from dusk to dark. It seemed like we were always waiting for nighttime here. I could feel the trampoline easing up and down, moved by our own breathing, bringing us in small increments up and back from the sky as the colors faded, slowly, and the stars began to show themselves.

  Sarah Dessen

  Stars, Dark, Color

  Sarah Dessen (2004). “This Lullaby”, p.31, Penguin

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• It leaned forward, elbows on its knees, all amusement vanishing from its features, leaving its chiseled visage quietly regal, dignified. "I give you my word, Gabrielle O'Callaghan," it said softly. "I will protect you." "Right. The word of the blackest fairy, the legendary liar, the great deceiver," she mocked. How dare it offer its word like it might actually mean something? A muscle leapt in its jaw. "That is not all I have been, Gabrielle. I have been, and am, many things." "Oh, of course, silly me, I left out consummate seducer and ravager of innocence.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Liars, Silly, Mean

  Karen Marie Moning (2004). “The Immortal Highlander”, p.70, Delacorte Press

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• She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.

  E. M. Forster

  Magic, Identity, Position

  E. M. Forster (2016). “A Room With A View: England Literature”, p.38, 谷月社

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• I've been afraid of being Cansrel,' she said aloud to her reflection. 'But I'm not Cansrel.' At her elbow, Musa said blandly, 'Any one of us could have told you that, Lady.' Fire looked at the captain of her guard and laughed, because she wasn't Cansrel- she wasn't anyone but herself. She had no one's path to follow; her path was her own to choose.

  Kristin Cashore

  Reflection, Fire, Captains

  Kristin Cashore (2009). “Fire”, p.120, Penguin

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• Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.

  Ellis Peters

  Brother, Soul, Rooms

  Ellis Peters (2014). “A Rare Benedictine: The Advent Of Brother Cadfael”, p.69, Head of Zeus

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• People have often said to me, 'You're so relaxed when you play.' Relaxed my elbow. It's practice.

  Benny Goodman

  Practice, Play, People

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• One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, Mama I want to be a painter.

  Marc Chagall

  Mother, Want, Bread

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• Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the grand-daughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. Slaver y is sixty years in the past. The operation was successful and the patient is doing well, thank you. The terrible struggle that made me an American out of a potential slave said "On the line!" The Reconstruction said "Go!" I am off to a flying start and I must not halt in the stretch to look behind and weep.

  Zora Neale Hurston

  Depression, Daughter, Struggle

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• It (the slider) just rolls off of your index finger and begins it's spin which will take it down and across the plate (hopefully). Just remember not to twist your elbow or wrist. It should be thrown, with the wrist and grip set, just like your fastball, slightly off center - with the same velocity and intensity.

  Steve Carlton

  Down And, Velocity, Twists

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• Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow-room is pleasanter -- and much safer.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Peace, War, Mean

  Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Time Enough for Love”, p.236, Penguin

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• Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's precepts about elbows on the table.

  Gurney Williams

  Children, Teaching, Creativity

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• When I am dancing, it feels like my prayer. It's like an offering. I offer my head back to the dance, I offer my shoulders back to the dance, my elbows, my hands, my spine, my knees, my feet, my whole self, my bones, my blood, my experience, my suffering... I offer it all back to the dance and I say: take it, do whatever you want with me. Release me.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Prayer, Offering, Self

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• To really know life you've got to be part of life. You must get down and look, you must get into the nooks and crannies of existence. You have to rub elbows with all kinds and types of men before you can finally establish what he is.

  L. Ron Hubbard

  Men, Looks, Down And

  L. Ron Hubbard (1976). “Scientology, a New Slant on Life”, p.286, Bridge Publications, Inc.

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• But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?'

  Peter S. Beagle

  Writing, Thinking, Waste

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• The trouble with women? Elbows.

  Michael Caine

  Women, Trouble

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• He's at ease, his body sculpted to the music, his shoulder searching the other shoulder, his right toe knowing the left knee, the height, the depth, the form, the control, the twist of his wrist, the bend of his elbow, the tilt of his neck, notes digging into arteries, and he is in the air now, forcing the legs up beyond muscular memory, one last press of the thighs, an elongation of form, a loosening of human contour, he goes higher and is skyheld.

  Colum McCann

  Memories, Knowing, Air

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• Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen Collect; with elbows idly press'd On hob, reclines the corner's guest, Reading the news to mark again The bankrupt lists or price of grain. Puffing the while his red-tipt pipe He dreams o'er troubles nearly ripe, Yet, winter's leisure to regale, Hopes better times, and sips his ale.

  John Clare

  Dream, Reading, Winter

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• In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be Than a snug elbow-chair can afford for reclining, And a cot that o'erlooks the wide sea; With an ambling pad-pony to pace o'er the lawn, While I carol away idle sorrow, And blithe as the lark that each day hails the dawn, Look forward with hope for to-morrow.

  John Churton Collins

  Sea, Sorrow, Ponies

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• Where the vast cloudless sky was broken by one crow I sat upon a hill - all alone - long ago; But I never felt so lonely and so out of God's way, As here, where I brush elbows with a thousand every day.

  Harry Kemp

  Lonely, Long Ago, Sky

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• I draw to shock myself out of a too-easy rhythm - I may begin with no conception whatever, an image emerges . I rub it out and begin again, searching for its counterpart. When it appears I invariably find that the thing I draw is at my elbow, it is out of the window, or has been standing at my front door for a long time.

  Sean William Scott

  Doors, Long, May

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• And in "Elbow Room" the cast sings the glories of westward expansion in the United States, which involved the murder of native peoples and the violent conquest of half of Mexico. Among the lines in the song is one that intones, "There were plenty of fights / To win land right / But the West was meant to be / It was our Manifest Destiny?" Let it suffice to say that happily belting out a tune in which one merrily praises genocide is always easier for those whose ancestors weren't on the receiving end of the deal.

  Tim Wise

  Song, Fighting, Winning

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• There is nothing quite as unpleasant as wearing a pair of briefs which have been trailed through a Calcutta courtyard. Nothing, that is, except having one's elbows and knees lacerated by unseen slivers of glass and discarded razor blades.

  Tahir Shah

  Glasses, Unseen, Razors

  Tahir Shah “Sorcerer's Apprentice, Dyslexic edition”, Lulu.com

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