Legs Quotes - Page 25

• After I hurt the knee, football wasn't nearly as much fun. I was limited. But you make do with what you have. I adjusted some. I was lucky to play as long as I did, with the different kinds of injuries I got. I played with two severed hamstring muscles in my leg late in my career. I could barely run, other than to drop back to pass.

  Joe Namath

  Running, Football, Hurt

  "Sporting News conversation with Joe Namath: 'The guarantee was basically just an attitude'". Interview with Clifton Brown, www.sportingnews.com. January 27, 2012.

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• In the 1920's it was legs. My God, women hadn't shown their legs for 2000 years.

  Robert Christopher Riley

  Sex, Years

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• Feel the power of your legs, hear the orchestra playing, see the audience - anything to make the image more real. The image has to be specific. You can't just say to yourself, 'I'll do my best.' You have to have a mental blueprint of that role in your mind.

  Linda Hamilton

  Motivational, Dance, Real

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• In 1987, I was in Edinburgh doing my first one-man show. I took part in a kickabout with some fellow comedians and tripped over my trousers and heard this cracking sound in my leg. A couple of days later I went into a coma and was diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism.

  Paul Merton

  Couple, Men, Comedian

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• To hell with housework, our top priority has always been between our legs.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Priorities, Hell, Housework

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• I broke my leg is all I did. I didnt break my brain.

  Tony Stewart

  Brain, Broke, Break

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• Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal of leg work in order to get to the solution in the end.

  Daniel Tammet

  Order, Ends, Mythology

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• We are redeemed one man at a time. There is no family pass ticket or park hopping pass to life. One ticket - one at a time. Man doesn't vanquish hatred or bigotry. The target keeps moving. From the blacks to the Irish; atheists to Christians. But as always there are a few leaders: Ben Franklin, John Quincy Adams, Harriet Beecher Stowe, Abraham Lincoln, Fredrick Douglas, Booker T Washington, Ghandi and Martin Luther King. They know that the march toward freedom never ends, man must be ever vigilant and pray less with his lips and more with his legs.

  Glenn Beck

  Christian, Atheist, Kings

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• To keep a man a slave you do much the same as the cruel circus masters did to the elephant around the turn of last century. Clamp heavy chains around their legs and stake them to the ground. Then beat and terrorize them. After a while you no longer even have to stake the chain; the elephant gives up and just the mere rattle of the chain convinces the elephant there is no hope, so they give up and do whatever it is the circus requires.

  Glenn Beck

  Giving Up, Men, Elephants

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• Would you not like to be, sittin' on top of the world with your legs hanging free?

  Dave Matthews

  World, Top Of The World

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• During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.

  Julian Assange

  Giving, House, Liberty

  "Julian Assange: the fugitive". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2012.

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• A man once jumped from the top floor of a burning house in which many members of his family had already perished. He managed to save his life; but as he was falling he hit a person standing down below and broke that person's legs and arms. The jumping man had no choice; yet to the man with the broken limbs he was the cause of his misfortune. If both behaved rationally, they would not become enemies.

  Isaac Deutscher

  Fall, Men, Jumping

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• Trees have roots, Jews have legs.

  Isaac Deutscher

  Roots, Tree, Jew

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• I would always hunch over, I was always taller than the boys. I had the extremely skinny legs... I would double up my socks, those ones from Footlocker, to make my legs look thicker.

  Joan Smalls

  Boys, Looks, Skinny

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• I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.

  Leonard Susskind

  Technology, Men, Rocks

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• Open books, not legs. Blow minds, not guys

  Drake

  Book, Blow, Guy

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• Otherwise I got out of bed on two strong legs. It might have been otherwise. I ate cereal, sweet milk, ripe, flawless peach. It might have been otherwise. I took the dog uphill to the birch wood. All morning I did the work I love. At noon I lay down with my mate. It might have been otherwise. We ate dinner together at a table with silver candlesticks. It might have been otherwise. I slept in a bed in a room with paintings on the walls, and planned another day just like this day. But one day, I know, it will be otherwise.

  Jane Kenyon

  Dog, Sweet, Strong

  Jane Kenyon (1996). “Otherwise: new and selected poems”, Graywolf Pr

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• I've never been involved with anyone who's set out to hurt people, to break legs. It is a bit of a dying art

  Steve Bruce

  Art, Hurt, Break A Leg

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• In the ambiguity and shifting playing field of adult life, I often wish I could just fill in a dot and have someone say “Yes” and hand me a chicken leg, or “No” and slap me with an old fish.

  Rob Delaney

  Hands, Wish, Fields

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• When I go on holiday, I wear wedges. They accentuate your leg, honey, and you have to look good on the beach.

  Amy Childs

  Beach, Holiday, Looks

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• Sex always has consequences. When Hitler's mother spread her legs that night, she effectively canceled out the spreading of fifteen to twenty million other pairs of legs.

  George Carlin

  Mother, Sex, Night

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• Normal adult shopping is something I will never actually do, because it's no more possible for me to go shopping like normal adults do than it is for a man with no legs to wake up one day and walk. I can't miss shopping like you'd miss things you once had. I miss it in a different way. I miss it like you would miss a train.

  John Darnielle

  Men, Shopping, Missing

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• I have a three-legged milk stool in my office perched on top of a cabinet. It is a great symbol for how to succeed in business. There are three legs: Take care of the customer, have a little fun, make a little money. If you don't do that, it doesn't work, but if you do, it comes together easily.

  Larry H. Miller

  Fun, Office, Together

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• I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are in America - a ridiculous situation.

  John Steinbeck

  Travel, Taken, Home

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• Fledgeby deserved Mr. Alfred Lammle's eulogium. He was the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of legs. And instinct (a word we all clearly understand) going largely on four legs, and reason always on two, meanness on four legs never attains the perfection of meanness on two.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Two, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.171

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