Legs Quotes - Page 21

• He's showed him the left leg, then the right. Where's the ball, the defender asks? It's up his sleeve.

  Clive Tyldesley

  Football, Balls, Defenders

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• They've maintained their unbeaten record between the legs.

  Barry Davies

  Football, Records, Unbeaten

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• I thought about Emmett Till, and I could not go back. My legs and feet were not hurting, that is a stereotype. I paid the same fare as others, and I felt violated. I was not going back.

  Rosa Parks

  Hurt, Lynching, Feet

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• Who wants to be stuck in being religious and being spiritual either? That's not freedom. You've just exchanged handcuffs for leg irons - which doesn't mean that you should avoid enlightenment.

  Frederick Lenz

  Spiritual, Religious, Mean

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• You get born and you try this and you don't know why, only you keep on trying it and you are born at the same time with a lot of other people, all mixed up with them, like trying to, having to, move your arms and legs with strings, only the same strings are hitched to all the other arms and legs and the others all trying and they don't know why either except that the strings are all in one another's way.

  William Faulkner

  Moving, People, Atheism

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• When I was writing for children, I was writing genre fiction. It was like making a good chair. However beautiful it looked, it needed four legs of the same length, it had to be the right height and it had to be comfortable.

  Mark Haddon

  Children, Writing, Fiction

  "B is for bestseller". www.theguardian.com. April 11, 2004.

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• As long as I have my legs and commitment to the team, then I'll keep playing.

  Aaron Rodgers

  Team, Commitment, Long

  Source: www.usatoday.com

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• In restaurants where they serve frog's legs, what do they do with the rest of the frog? Do they just throw it away? You never see "frog torsos" on the menu. Is there actually a garbage can full of frog bodies in the alley? I wouldn't want to be a homeless guy looking for an unfinished cheeseburger and open the lid on that

  George Carlin

  Garbage Cans, Guy, Body

  George Carlin (2002). “Napalm & Silly Putty”, Hyperion

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• Silence arrests flight, so that in its refuge, the need to flee the chaos of noise diminishes. We let the world creep closer, we drop to our knees, as if to let the heart, like a small animal, get its legs on the ground.

  Barbara Hurd

  Heart, Animal, Silence

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• We''d like to be welcomed with open arms and open legs

  Andy Biersack

  Bvb, Black Veil Brides, Arms

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• People called me "Slim" and "Daddy Long Legs." My best friend Martine named me Daddy Long Legs after she saw me running track. She was making fun of me!

  Shelley Hennig

  Running, Fun, Track

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Three million frogs' legs are served in Paris - daily. Nobody knows what became of the rest of the frogs.

  Fred Allen

  Food, Paris, Cooking

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• A gourmet can tell from the flavor whether a woodcock's leg is the one on which the bird is accustomed to roost.

  Lucius Beebe

  Bird, Gourmet, Flavor

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• My life is routine. I wake up early in the morning. I brush my teeth. I sit on the floor of the cell I do not go to breakfast. I stare at a gray cement wall. I keep my legs crossed my back straight my eyes forward. I take deep breaths in and out, in and out, and I try not to move. I sit for as long as I can I sit until everything hurts I sit until everything stops hurting I sit until I lose myself in the gray wall I sit until my mind becomes as blank as the gray wall. I sit and I stare and I breathe. I sit and I stare. I breathe.

  James Frey

  Hurt, Morning, Wall

  James Frey (2005). “My Friend Leonard”, p.7, Penguin

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• Like all my poems, 'Negotiations' has several sources. It deals with aging lovers and the often silent deals they make. Thinking about bargains made me think of The Little Mermaid and that made me remember something I had just read about the incredibly complex process by which tadpoles (actual little mermaids) are somehow able to reabsorb their tails and fashion their future frog legs.

  Rae Armantrout

  Fashion, Thinking, Mermaid

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• Dialogue is not just quotation. It is grimaces, pauses, adjustments of blouse buttons, doodles on a napkin, and crossings of legs

  Jerome Stern

  Buttons, Napkins, Grimace

  Jerome Stern (2011). “Making Shapely Fiction”, p.14, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Get what start the sinner may, Retribution, for all her lame leg, never quits his track.

  Horace

  Track, Lame, May

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• For the villainy of the world is great, and a man has to run his legs off to keep them from being stolen out fom underneath him.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Running, Men, World

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• My temper is not spoilt. I am absolutely non-homicidal. Nor do I ever attack unless I have been attacked first, and then Heaven have mercy upon the attacker, because I don't! I just sharpen my wits on a wooden head as a cat sharpens its claws on the wood legs of a table.

  Edith Sitwell

  Cat, Heaven, Firsts

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• There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Cat, Men, Light

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• There is a class of people who seem to think that if a man should fall overboard into the sea with a Bible in his pocket it would hardly be possible to drown. I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

  Frederick Douglass

  Fall, Men, Thinking

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• He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Honor, Gentleman, Knees

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• It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so thoroughly is everything debated before the authorized and responsible debaters get on their legs.

  James Russell Lowell

  Rooms, Printing, Responsible

  James Russell Lowell (1897). “Literary and political addresses”

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• A friend told me the longer you keep Romano cheese, the better it gets. So, I kept it three years. And this thing turned mean. Now and then I'd open the refrigerator door and throw it some food. I'd have to walk it now and then. And then it grew this one leg. And it's got this ugly fuzz all over it. And the dogs won't run with it.

  Phyllis Diller

  Running, Dog, Mean

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• My favorite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantelpiece, in order to prove it could be done. This is not quite true, in fact. My absolute favorite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

  Douglas Adams

  Brother, Fall, Order

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.110, Del Rey

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