Shank Quotes

• Chain me with roaring bears;
  Or shut me nightly in a charnel-house,
  O'er-covered quite with dead men's rattling bones,
  With reeky shanks and yellow chapless skulls;
  Or bid me go into a new-made grave,
  And hide me with a dead man in his shroud;
  Things that, to hear them told, have made me tremble;
  And I will do it without Fear or Doubt,
  To live an unstain'd Wife of my sweet Love.

  William Shakespeare

  Sweet, Men, Skulls

  William Shakespeare (2014). “Romeo and Juliet”, p.127, StarWalk Kids Media

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• Duffers who consistently shank their balls are urged to buy and study Shanks - No Thanks by R.K. Hoffman, or in extreme cases, M.S. Howard's excellent Tennis for Beginners.

  Henry Beard

  Golf, Tennis, Beginners

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• I love lamb shank. It's my favorite thing. You don't have it in America. It's a younger meat - it just falls off the bone - it's kind of like a roast. I really like blackened cod too.

  Natasha Bedingfield

  Fall, America, Meat

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• For what we are about to receive, Oh Lord 'tis Thee we thank,' said the cannibal as he cut a slice off the missionary's shank.

  Yip Harburg

  Cutting, Thankfulness, Missionary

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• Golf is a hard game to figure. One day you will go out and slice it and shank it, hit into all the traps and miss every green. The next day you go out and, for no reason at all, you really stink.

  Bob Hope

  Hope, Golf, Games

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• I always think before an important shot: What is the worst that can happen on this shot? I can whiff it, shank it, or hit it out-of-bounds. But even if one of those bad things happens, I've got a little money in the bank, my wife still loves me, and my dog won't bite me when I come home.

  Cary Middlecoff

  Dog, Home, Golf

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• Listen,' Thomas said, slowly getting to his feet, hoping Minho wouldn’t be stupid enough to try anything. “There’s something about us. We’re not just random shanks who showed up on your doorstep. We’re valuable. Alive, not dead.” The anger on Jorge’s face lessened ever so slightly. Maybe a spark of curiosity. But what he said was 'What’s a shank?

  James Dashner

  Stupid, Feet, Curiosity

  James Dashner (2015). “The Scorch Trials Movie Tie-in Edition (Maze Runner, Book Two)”, p.150, Delacorte Press

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• I'm not impressed by any cooks who can brag about a filet mignon. A guy who can take the neck of a shank or can use tripe to make into something delicious is really interesting to me; that's impressive.

  Anthony Bourdain

  Interesting, Guy, Use

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• Golf teaches you honesty. It teaches you discipline. It gives you a strong appreciation of nature. And personal responsibility, something that lacks in our society at times. I mean, it's only your fault, you can't blame anyone else when you shank it. Or pick the wrong club.

  George W. Bush

  Appreciation, Strong, Honesty

  Source: www.golfdigest.com

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• Shanks was the father figure but Roger Hunt was something special. It might sound daft but just picking up his sweaty kit gave me satisfaction.

  Phil Thompson

  Father, Special, Sound

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• History is the shank of the social sciences.

  C. Wright Mills

  History, Social, Social Science

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• Nothing fans me into such a state of peaceful mental somnambulance as the intellectual antics of a person who displays his learning, not from vanity always, but frequently because it is all he has got; no real sense, no wisdom of his own, merely much good stuff he has learned from other sources. He spreads it like a garment as any other decent person would to hide the thinness of his shanks.

  Corra May Harris

  Real, Vanity, Peaceful

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• Age has a good mind and sorry shanks.

  Pietro Aretino

  Sorry, Mind, Age

  Pietro Aretino (1933). “The Works”

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• Even illegal weapons have lost their panache. Zip guns and shanks were at least homemade. Where is the craft in a grade-schooler firing a magnum? What is the world coming to? It's not even bad to be a communist anymore!

  John Waters

  Gun, Zips, World

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• I don't see why the likes o' thee
  Without axin' leave should go makin' free
  With the shank or the shin o' my father's kin;
  So hand the old bone over!
  Rover! Trover!
  Though dead he be, it belongs to he;
  So hand the old bnone over!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Father, Hands, Likes

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.153, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Your idea of a safe stop is to shank me?!

  Kari Byron

  Ideas, Safe

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• People behind the Iron curtain have such an incredible image of America and jazz. I expected to find a Gerry Mulligan or Miles Davis on every corner...I almost expected a Shorty Rogers to deliver the milk, a Bud Shank to be the mailman.

  Gabor Szabo

  Music, Iron, America

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• It's [Augusta National] a difficult course and it doesn't make it easier when you have three shanks.

  Ian Poulter

  Golf, Three, Augusta National

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• Good try, ya bugging shank. The Gathering elects Runners, and if you think I'm tough, they'd laugh in your face.

  James Dashner

  Thinking, Laughing, Trying

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• Yeah, right," Minho said. "And Frypan's gonna start having little babies, Winston'll get rid of his monster acne, and Thomas here'll actually smile for once." Thomas turned to Minho and exaggerated a fake smile. "There, you happy?" "Dude," he responded. "You are one ugly shank.

  James Dashner

  Baby, Fake, Monsters

  James Dashner (2013). “Maze Runner 2: The Scorch Trials”, p.45, Chicken House

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• A pair of werewolves occupied another booth. They were eating raw shanks of lamb and arguing about who would win in a fight: Dumbledore from Harry Potter books or Magnus Bane. "Dumbledore would totally win," said the first one. "He has the badass Killing Curse." The second lycanthrope made a trenchant point. "But Dumbledore isn't real." "I don't think Magnus Bane is real either," scoffed the first. "Have you ever met him?" "This is so weird," said Clary, slinking down in her seat. "Are you listening to them?" "No. It's rude to eavesdrop," said Jace.

  Cassandra Clare

  Badass, Real, Book

  Cassandra Clare (2011). “Cassandra Clare: The Mortal Instrument Series (4 books): City of Bones; City of Ashes; City of Glass; City of Fallen Angels”, p.816, Simon and Schuster

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