Wrists Quotes - Page 3

• How shall I a habit break? As you did that habit make, As you gathered, you must lose; As you yielded, now refuse, Thread by thread the strands we twist Till they bind us neck and wrist, Thread by thread the patient hand Must untwine ere free we stan

  John Boyle O'Reilly

  Hands, Twists, Necks

  John Boyle O'Reilly (1913). “Selected Poems”

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• She [Monica Seles] has so much control of the racket with those double-handed wrists.

  Virginia Wade

  Tennis, Racket, Monica

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• I wish I could take language And fold it like cool, moist rags. I would lay words on your forehead. I would wrap words on your wrists. 'There, there,' my words would say - Or something better. I would ask them to murmur, 'Hush' and 'Shh, shhh, it's all right.' I would ask them to hold you all night. I wish I could take language And daub and soothe and cool Where fever blisters and burns, Where fever turns yourself against you. I wish I could take language And heal the words that were the wounds You have no names for.

  Julia Margaret Cameron

  Night, Names, Wish

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• Basketball players want contact to get a foul called. Slaps on the wrist and bumps on the shoulder are big time to them, and they don't like that. In football, you get that all the time. The whole mental makeup is different.

  Warren Moon

  Basketball, Football, Makeup

  "Sorry, Charles, but NBA stars couldn't cut it". Interview with Mike Sando, www.espn.com. May 29, 2013.

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• I hit the ball early and move my wrist a lot, so I get bigger angles.

  Alexandr Dolgopolov

  Moving, Balls, Bigger

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• Although we strap time to our wrists, stuff it into our pockets, hang it on our walls, a perpetually moving picture for every room of the house, it can still run away, elude and evade, and show itself again only when there are minutes remaining and there is nothing left to do except wait till there are none.

  Monique Truong

  Running, Wall, Moving

  Monique Truong (2004). “The Book of Salt: A Novel”, p.100, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• There was an ape in the days that were earlier, Centuries passed and his hair became curlier; Centuries more gave a thumb to his wrist — Then he was a Man and a Positivist.

  Mortimer Collins

  Men, Hair, Thumbs

  Mortimer Collins, F. Percy Cotton (1886). “Selections from the Poetical Works of Mortimer Collins”

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• I read in the paper that I'd slashed my wrists. But I didn't.

  Gail Porter

  Paper, Reading Books

  "Q: Aren't you too brainy to be a TV presenter? A: Too brainy? That's why all my hair fell out" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. November 7, 2005.

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• In the middle of a wrist's suicide slash-line, below the layered skin and above the pulse, there's an acupuncture point that says, “Get back to who you were meant to be.”

  Monica Drake

  Suicide, Skins, Pulse

  Monica Drake (2013). “Clown Girl: A Novel”, p.47, Hawthorne Books

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• Then forget Gabriel. Is there a particular reason you keep biting vampires?" Will touched the dried blood on his wrists, and smiled. "They don't expect it.

  Cassandra Clare

  Blood, Vampire, Gabriel

  Cassandra Clare (2013). “The Infernal Devices: Clockwork Angel; Clockwork Prince; Clockwork Princess”, p.258, Simon and Schuster

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• I know this is your hand now,' she tells him. "Roland would have never touched me like that." Connor smiles, and Risa takes a moment to look down at the shark on his wrist. It holds no fear for her now, because the shark has been tamed by the soul of a boy. No- the soul of a man.

  Neal Shusterman

  Boys, Men, Sharks

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• I put a What Would Jesus Do bracelet on my Jewish friend's wrist and it burned his skin. He threw it on the ground, it turned into a serpent, we both started laughing. We left it there, we hate snakes. We think they're slimy, even though we know they're not.

  Daniel Tosh

  Funny, Jesus, Hate

  "Completely Serious". Comedy album by Daniel Tosh, June 17, 2007.

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• I met Mary [Hamill] in New York at my exhibition and when I told her about my oral history project she asked, "Would it be possible to incorporate visual art?" My sister stitches pillowcases, which led to Mary suggesting using cyanotype on them. I originally thought of the idea of pillowcases because when people get married, they have the bride and the groom lay their hands on each other's pillows while their relatives tie ribbons on their wrists. And then on the bed you usually have two pillows - one for yourself and one for your loved one - so when one is gone, one pillow remains.

  Chath Piersath

  Art, New York, Hands

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• What I really like to do, especially because we're all busy so sometimes you forget to do something, I always keep wrist weights with me. If I just put them on throughout the day, then I'll just be doing stuff and it's kind of just toning without me doing anything. Sometimes that's just my little trick. I have ankle weights and wrist weights and I just keep them with me at all times.

  Julianne Hough

  Ankles, Weight, Littles

  "EXCLUSIVE: Julianne Hough Reveals Her Favorite Exercises for the Best Arms, Legs, Abs and Butt!". Interview with Lauren Zima, www.etonline.com. June 21, 2016.

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• If I go into a restaurant and the food sucks I feel so depressed I just want to carve it in my wrist with the butter knife.

  Robert Sietsema

  Knives, Want, Restaurants

  Source: www.omnivoracious.com

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• Norah looked at her son’s tiny face, surprised, as always, by his name. he had not grown into it yet, he still wore it like a wrist band, something that might easily slip off and disappear. She had read about people – where? she could not remember this either – who refused to name their children for several weeks, feeling them to be not yet of the earth, suspended still between two worlds.

  Kim Edwards

  Children, Father, Son

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• Still, when all is said, somewhere one must belong: even the soaring falcon returns to its master's wrist.

  Truman Capote

  Return, Masters, Said

  Truman Capote (2012). “Summer Crossing: A Novel”, p.87, Modern Library

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• Boys are just boys after all, but sometimes girls really seem to be the turn of a pale wrist, or the sudden jut of a hip, or a clutch of very dark hair falling across a freckled forehead. I'm not saying that's what they really are. I'm just saying sometimes it seems that way, and that those details (a thigh mole, a full face flush, a scar the precise shape and size of a cashew nut) are so many hooks waiting to land you.

  Zadie Smith

  Girl, Fall, Dark

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• She had witnessed the world's most beautiful things, and allowed herself to grow old and unlovely. She had felt the heat of a leviathan's roar, and the warmth within a cat's paw. She had conversed with the wind and had wiped soldier's tears. She had made people see, she'd seen herself in the sea. Butterflies had landed on her wrists, she had planted trees. She had loved, and let love go. So she smiled.

  Sonya Hartnett

  Beautiful, Butterfly, Cat

  Sonya Hartnett (2011). “The Ghost's Child”, p.140, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• If you don't have any money and you want to make a horror movie, take a six-inch wide brush for house painting and dip that in a bucket of blood, and then just flick your wrist. You'll get this great speckled splash of blood, and it will cost you nothing.

  Bruce Campbell

  Blood, House, Buckets

  "Ash vs Evil Dead": Bruce Campbell Talks Blood, Sidekicks, and Hating Ash’s Car". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. October 31, 2015.

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• Film 'This Changes Everything' is not a sad story. It's not a slit-your-wrists climate film. It's a story about people who are making change happen.

  Avi Lewis

  People, Climate, Stories

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Dr. Armonson stitched up her wrist wounds. Withen 5 minutes of the transfusion he declared her out of danger. Chucking her under the chin, he said, "What are you doing here, honey? Your not even old enough to know how bad life gets." And it was then Cecelia gave orally what was to be her only form of suicide note, and a useless one at that, because she was going to live: "Obviously, Doctor," she said, "you've never been a 13 year old girl.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Girl, Suicide, Doctors

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• My mom had a soft heart after all! Instead of being chained by both wrists, we were only chained by one ankle! I mean, if I’d been looking for proof that she really did love me, this was it, right?

  James Patterson

  Mom, Heart, Mean

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• I held her wrists and then I got it through the eyes: hatred, centuries deep and true. I was wrong and graceless and sick. all the things I had learned had been wasted. there was no creature living as foul as I and all my poems were false.

  Charles Bukowski

  Eye, Sick, Hatred

  Charles Bukowski, “I'm In Love”

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• When I came out publicly, some photo editors had a field day searching for pictures of me with a limp wrist or some other stereotypical gay signifier - as though, after decades in the public eye, they'd suddenly come across a trove of shots where I looked like a Cher impersonator.

  James McGreevey

  Eye, Gay, Editors

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