Wrists Quotes - Page 11

• My right wrist is connected to the left foot. You know, if the left foot doesn't work, the right wrist doesn't work, and that's really the truth.

  Richie Havens

  Feet, Connected, Havens

  "'Talk Of The Nation' Remembers Folk Singer Richie Havens". "Talk of the Nation", www.npr.org. April 23, 2013.

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• I flexed my wrist, popped a silver needle into my palm, and offered it to him. 'What's this?' 'A needle.' 'What should I do with it?' He'd walked right into it. Too easy. 'Please use it to pop your head. It's obscuring my view of the room.' - Kate & Saiman

  Ilona Andrews

  Views, Use, Rooms

  Ilona Andrews (2009). “Magic Strikes”, p.57, Penguin

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• Diogenes carried a bowl with him for years, but one day saw a man drinking from his cupped palm and declared, ‘I have been a fool, burdened all these years by the weight of a bowl when a perfectly good vessel lay at the end of my wrist.

  Christopher Moore

  Drinking, Men, Perfectly Good

  Christopher Moore (2009). “Lamb: A Novel”, p.193, Hachette UK

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• She told Papa about it. He made her stick out her tongue and he felt her wrist. He shook his head sadly and said, "You have a bad case, a very bad case." "Of what?" "Growing up.

  Betty Smith

  Growing Up, Papa, Tongue

  BETTY SMITH (1943). “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn”

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• yes, Wagner and the storm intermix with the wine as nights like this run up my wrists and up into my head and back down into the gut

  Charles Bukowski

  Running, Wine, Night

  Charles Bukowski (2012). “The Pleasures of the Damned: Selected Poems 1951-1993”, p.116, Canongate Books

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• Modern education too often covers the fingers with rings, and at the same time cuts the sinews at the wrist.

  John Sterling

  Education, Cutting, Modern

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• I always feel a rise in my scalp or in the backs of my wrists when something is special, whether it be a song or a man.

  Doris Day

  Song, Men, Special

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

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• I was shot in the wrist when I was a kid. Deliberately.

  Sam Shepard

  Kids, Shots

  Interview with Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2014.

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• I'm a Virgo and the sign is a virgin. So when I was 16, I got the word virgin tattooed on my wrist, thinking I was sooo deep and cool. And now I just look really weird having virgin written across my wrist and I have to explain it.

  Nicole Richie

  Thinking, Looks, Virgos

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• Sherlock Holmes took his bottle from the corner of the mantel-piece, and his hypodermic syringe from its neat morocco case. With his long, white, nervous fingers he adjusted the delicate needle, and rolled back his left shirt-cuff. For some little time his eyes rested thoughtfully upon the sinewy forearm and wrist, all dotted and scarred with innumerable puncture-marks. Finally, he thrust the sharp point home, pressed down the tiny piston, and sank back into the velvet-lined armchair with a long sigh of satisfaction.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Book, Eye, Home

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2014). “The Complete Sherlock Holmes (Illustrated): All 4 Novels and 56 Stories with More Than 480 Illustrations”, p.126, Top Five Books LLC

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• O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist;
  Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed.

  W. H. Auden

  Regret, Hands, Water

  'As I Walked Out One Evening' (1940)

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• Tessa touched his wrist lightly with her hand. "Be brave," she said. "It's not a duck, is it?

  Cassandra Clare

  Hands, Ducks, Brave

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “Clockwork Princess”, p.543, Simon and Schuster

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• I long ago abandoned the notion of a life without storms, or a world without dry and killing seasons. Life is too complicated, too constantly changing, to be anything but what it is. And I am, by nature, too mercurial to be anything but deeply wary of the grave unnaturalness involved in any attempt to exert too much control over essentially uncontrollable forces. There will always be propelling, disturbing elements, and they will be there until, as Lowell put it, the watch is taken from the wrist.

  Kay Redfield Jamison

  Taken, Long Ago, Storm

  Kay Redfield Jamison (2009). “An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness”, p.215, Vintage

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• Look, Gail." Roark got up, reached out, tore a thick branch off a tree, held it in both hands, one fist closed at each end; then, his wrists and knuckles tensed against the resistance, he bent the branch slowly into an arc. "Now I can make what I want of it: a bow, a spear, a cane, a railing. That's the meaning of life." "Your strength?" "Your work." He tossed the branch aside. "The material the earth offers you and what you make of it . . .

  Ayn Rand

  Hands, Tree, Looks

  Ayn Rand (2011). “Ayn Rand Novel Collection”, p.711, Penguin

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• Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter the fingertips on the water, her wrists slide up her arms. The diver wraps herself in her reflection wholly, sealing it at the toes, and wears it as she climbs rising from the pool, and ever after.

  Annie Dillard

  Children, Reflection, Water

  Annie Dillard (2016). “An American Childhood”, p.16, Canongate Books

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• If I didn't follow my passion for surfing... I would have never come up with the concept to make a wrist camera.

  Nick Woodman

  Passion, Surfing, Cameras

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• When Im writing a novel, which is what I like to write, I get up early, sit zazen, make a pot of green tea. I wear wrist cuffs to keep my wrists warm and minimize irritation from extended contact with the surface of my desk. I sit down and write.

  Ruth Ozeki

  Writing, Irritation, Up Early

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• Vlad twisted his wrist, pinching his fingers together, spinning the bronze coin on the table. When it fell, he picked it up and did it again, counting. Thirty-two times it had fallen Slayer Society up. Twenty-two times it was down.

  Heather Brewer

  Two, Together, Twenties

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• I tried a very fancy attack I'd learned in France, which involved a beat, a feint in quarte, a feint in sixte, and a lunge veering off into an attack on his wrist. I nicked him, and the blood flowed.

  Roger Zelazny

  Art, Blood, Fancy

  Roger Zelazny (1978). “The Chronicles of Amber: Nine princes in Amber”

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