Flexing Quotes

• Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too.

  Gene Simmons

  Tree, Growing, Pressure

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• I just love feeling myself, and moving, flexing, jumping, expressing, dancing and doing movement. I'm in tune with it. I like to express myself with my body, more so than intellectually. But, I am a geek.

  Michelle Rodriguez

  Moving, Jumping, Dancing

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• The ellipse is as aimless as that,
  Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear
  In our present. Its flexing is its account,
  Return to the point of no return.

  John Ashbery

  Life, Return, Stretching

  John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

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• It’s critical that young people start flexing their creative muscles in order to take on the world's most complex challenges.

  Tim Brown

  Order, People, Creative

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• When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Music, Beautiful, Art

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• It's just not enough time on set. That's my favorite time. I live for that time on set. I feel like that's when I'm stretching and flexing my muscles and learning how to direct better.

  Lynn Shelton

  Enough Time, My Favorite, Muscles

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• Those amateur umpires are certainly flexing their fangs tonight.

  Jerry Coleman

  Funny, Baseball, Humor

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• I will garden on the double run,
  my rhythm obvious in the ringing rakes,
  and trust in fate to keep me poor and kind
  and work until my heart is short,
  then go out slowly with a feeble grin,
  my fingers flexing but my eyes gone gray
  from cramps and the lack of oxygen.

  Richard Hugo

  Death, Running, Heart

  Richard Hugo, Ripley S. Hugo (1992). “The Real West Marginal Way: A Poet's Autobiography”, p.169, W. W. Norton & Company

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• His dark hair is perfectly recklessly up today, those tanned muscles flexing as he extends out his arms and does his little turn. And here I am, my breath caught between my lungs and my lips as he turns around and scans the crowd. As soon as he spots me, his eyes come alive, as alive as I feel when he smiles at me. He holds my gaze while those dimples flash, and I swear he stares at me in a way that makes me feel that I am the only woman here.

  Katy Evans

  Eye, Dark, Hair

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• We are resident inside with the machinery, a glimmering spread throughout the apparatus. We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones. The flesh is a neighborhood, but not the life.

  Jack Gilbert

  Moon, Wind, Whispering

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• I love flexing theater Muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.

  Eddie Cahill

  Television, Merit, Theater

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones.

  Jack Gilbert

  Moon, Wind, Whispering

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• With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much flexing of religious muscle in the public square, the poor in spirit have no one but Jesus to call them blessed anymore.

  Barbara Brown Taylor

  Religious, Jesus, Blessed

  FaceBook post by Barbara Brown Taylor from Jun 27, 2013

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• When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.

  Amy Hempel

  Beer, Car, Gone

  Amy Hempel, Rick Moody (2007). “The Collected Stories of Amy Hempel”, p.35, Simon and Schuster

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• What makes us Christians shrug our shoulders when we ought to be flexing our muscles? What makes us apathetic in a day when there are loads to lift, a world to be won and captives to be set free? Why are so many bored when the times demand action?

  Billy Graham

  Christian, Bored, World

  Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.54, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• I started to get so many letters from unlikely people; a single mum going, "I watch your show, I'm not into survival, but I hold down four jobs and I get it when you say it's about persistence and putting a positive attitude into things during difficult times." That for me was a great liberator to realize that the show isn't about me running around, jumping off stuff and flexing muscles, it's about inspiring people. That makes me really happy.

  Bear Grylls

  Running, Jobs, Attitude

  "​I Went Camping With Bear Grylls, And Survived". Interview with Wes Siler, gizmodo.com. November 20, 2014.

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• Everyone knows that Jews control the media and banks and stuff. But did you know that when you go to a carnival and you have to be a certain height to go on a ride, Jews control that height? It has nothing to do with safety. It's just us flexing our Semitic muscles.

  Eugene Mirman

  Media, Safety, Goes On

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• The heart is a river. The act of writing is the moving water that holds the banks apart, keeps the muscle of words flexing so that the reader can be carried along by this movement. To be given space and the chance to leave one's earthly world. Is there any greater freedom than this?

  Helen Humphreys

  Moving, Writing, Heart

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• Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music.

  Jamie Foxx

  Beautiful, College, Play

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• To go and photograph an airbase is not only to photograph something but it is to insist on one’s right to photograph. You’re flexing that right.

  Trevor Paglen

  Photograph

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• I hung my fingertips on his waistband, tugging him closer. Patch buried his face in the curve of my shoulder, his hands flexing over my back. He gave a low groan. "I love you," he murmured into my hair. "I'm happier right now than I ever remember being.

  Becca Fitzpatrick

  Love You, Curves, Hair

  Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.538, Simon and Schuster

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• This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.

  Ted Hughes

  Eye, Night, Orange

  Ted Hughes (2009). “The Hawk in the Rain”, p.37, Faber & Faber

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• Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story- a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination.

  Daniel J. Boorstin

  Art, Creativity, Simple

  Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination”, p.16, Vintage

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• The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made an elementary error when he chose not to dress his young National Socialists in lime-green catsuits laced with twinkling fairy lights.

  Anthony Lane

  Errors, Light, Dresses

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• I am moved by the spirit of Angolans and the work UNICEF is doing, but I am saddened by the hardships I have seen, and the fact that a little flexing of financial muscle from rich countries could do so much.

  Alyssa Milano

  Country, Children, Rich Countries

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