Legs Quotes - Page 19

• I go to bed, and I wait for sleep as a man might wait for the executioner. I wait for its coming with dread, and my heart beats and my legs tremble, while my whole body shivers beneath the warmth of the bedclothes, until the moment when I suddenly fall asleep, as a man throws himself into a pool of stagnant water in order to drown. I do not feel this perfidious sleep coming over me as I used to, but a sleep which is close to me and watching me, which is going to seize me by the head, to close my eyes and annihilate me.

  Guy de Maupassant

  Fall, Sleep, Eye

  Edgar Allan Poe, Frank Richard Stockton, H.O. Lovecraft, Guy de Maupassant, Franz Kafka (2017). “13 Short Scary Stories: Masterpieces of the greatest writers”, p.176, LeBooks Editora

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• The fellows who amuze me are the Albanians. An Albanian on the mash is almost exactly like the medieval swells of the Italian frescoes & the first ones we met quite startled us. They wear the tight-fitting trunk hose made of woolen stuff hooked up the back of the leg. It is white with long black stripes of embroidery down the leg & at the top in front the shirt is pulled through slashes. They are long slim chaps with dandy little moustaches & are most theatrical in effect.

  Edith Durham

  Italian, White, Long

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• We dance for the pure joy of it. In the kitchen to the record player. Because we've got it in us. All over ... it's not just in the legs. It comes from inside and runs all through you. In waves. From down below to up above. All the way to the scalp.

  Gunter Grass

  Running, Player, Joy

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• You put your bombers in, you put your conscience out,You take the human being and you twist it all aboutSo scrub my skin with womenChain my tongue with whiskyStuff my nose with garlicCoat my eyes with butterFill my ears with silverStick my legs in plasterTell me lies about Vietnam.

  Adrian Mitchell

  Lying, Eye, Skins

  Adrian Mitchell (1968). “Out Loud”, Cape Goliard P.

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• Among wolves, no matter how sick, no matter how cornered, no matter how alone, afraid or weakened, the wolf will continue.She will lope even with a broken leg. She will strenuously outwait, outwit, outrun and outlast whatever is bedeviling her. She will put her all into taking breath after breath. The hallmark of the wild nature is that it goes on.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Broken, Sick, Goes On

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• It felt as if I was suddenly walking around in wet socks, weighing my feet down as if two kids were sitting on my feet with their legs wrapped around mine.

  David Bowick

  Kids, Two, Feet

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• According to The New York Times, the mob has now gotten into Medicare fraud. But the good news is, when they do break your legs there's a good chance you're covered.

  Jay Leno

  New York, News, Chance

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• All his life he [the American] jumps into the train after it has started and jumps out before it has stopped; and he never once gets left behind, or breaks a leg.

  George Santayana

  Break A Leg, Left Behind, Behinds

  George Santayana (2015). “Character and Opinion in the United States”, p.82, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• What happened to me is that as I grew up, I found that I was smart. My mother had insisted on that you see. Oh, but I loved to play ball. I loved the physical aspect. So you have one leg in one field, and one leg in the other and you're nowhere.

  Alexander Lowen

  Mother, Smart, Play

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• There is more to marriage than four bare legs under a blanket.

  Robertson Davies

  Four, Blanket

  1957 Love and Libel.

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• Dogs with broken legs are shot; men with broken souls write through the night.

  Kenneth Patchen

  Dog, Writing, Night

  1941 TheJournal of Albion Moonlight.

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• The human heart would never pass the drunk test.... If you took the human heart out of the human body and put a pair of legs on it and told it to walk a straight line, it couldn't do it.

  Tennessee Williams

  Heart, Drunk, Body

  Tennessee Williams, Mel Gussow, Kenneth Holdich (2000). “Plays: 1957-1980: Orpheus descending. Suddenly last summer. Sweet bird of youth. Period of adjustment. The night of the iguana. The eccentricities of a nightingale. The milk train doesn't stop here anymore. The mutilated. Kingdom of earth (The seven descents of Myrtle). Small craft warnings. Out cry. Vieux Carré. A lovely Sunday for Creve Coeur”, Hubsta Ltd

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• The secret of a long marriage is shaving your legs every day . . . because it shows you still care.

  Gloria Estefan

  Long, Secret, Shaving

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• Invention, using the term most broadly, and imitation, are the two legs, so to call them, on which the human race historically has walked.

  William James

  Race, Two, Imitation

  William James (1983). “Talks to Teachers on Psychology and to Students on Some of Life's Ideals”, p.39, Harvard University Press

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• It is apparent that nations cannot exist for us. They are the playthings of children, such toys as children break from boredom and weariness. The branch of a tree is my country. My freedom sleeps in a mulberry bush. My country is in the shivering legs of a little lost dog.

  Sherwood Anderson

  Country, Dog, Children

  "A New Testament". Book by Sherwood Anderson, 1927.

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• Biographers, the quick in pursuit of the dead, research, organize, fill in, contradict, and make in this way a sort of completed picture puzzle with all the scramble turned into a blue eye and the parts of the right leg fitted together.

  Elizabeth Hardwick

  Eye, Blue, Together

  Elizabeth Hardwick (1998). “Sight-readings: American Fictions”, Random House Incorporated

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• The more arms and legs [children] we have, the richer we are.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Children, Arms, Arms And Legs

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• And when you wake, you will fly away, holding tight to the legs of all your angels. Goodbye, my love, into your blue, blue eyes.

  Dave Matthews

  Goodbye, Angel, Eye

  "Song: 'Baby Blue'". 2009.

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• The [sexual harassment] situation has gotten so out of hand that, in 1993, in one of the first British cases, a plumber was fired for continuing to use the traditional term "ballcock" for the toilet flotation unit, instead of the new politically correct term, sanitized of sexual suggestiveness. This is insane. We are back to the Victorian era, when table legs had to be draped lest they put the thought of ladies' legs into someone's dirty mind.

  Camille Paglia

  Dirty, Hands, Mind

  "No Law in the Arena: A Pagan Theory of Sexuality". Camille Paglia, Vamps and Tramps, 1994.

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• I understand the power and the alarm of words - Not those that they applaud from theatre-boxes, but those which make coffins break from bearers and on their four oak legs walk right away.

  Vladimir Mayakovsky

  Theatre, Alarms, Coffins

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• I realized it might be possible to do such a thing, run for money, trot for wages on piece work at a bob a puff rising bit by bit to a guinea a gasp and retiring through old age at thirty-two because of lace-curtain lungs, a football heart, and legs like varicose beanstalks.

  Alan Sillitoe

  Football, Running, Heart

  Alan Sillitoe (2016). “New and Collected Stories”, p.25, Open Road Media

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• To suppose that man without language taught himself to speak, seems to me as absurd as it would be to suppose that without legs he could teach himself to walk. Language, therefore, must have been the immediate gift of God.

  Noah Webster

  Men, Would Be, Taught

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• Now the denominator ... why don't they just call it the bottom number? The denominator ... that sounds like a Schwarzenegger movie doesn't it? [impersonating Arnold Schwarzenegger] I am the Denominator. I'll give your leg a compound fraction!

  Tim Allen

  Numbers, Giving, Sound

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• I'm not as klutzy as I used to be... I've had visual therapy and all kinds of things to help, but I still wrap my purse around chair legs when I stand up to leave. I do ridiculous things on camera because I do them in my life all the time.

  Shelley Long

  Cameras, Purses, Ridiculous

  "Funny Ladies: The Best Humor from America's Funniest Women". Book by Bill Adler,

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• Most people keep their brains between their legs.

  Steven Morrissey

  People, Brain

  "Song: 'Such a Little Thing Makes Such a Big Difference'". 1993.

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