Wrists Quotes - Page 8

• We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Sad, Suicide, Veins

  Jeffrey Eugenides (1993). “The Virgin Suicides: A Novel”, p.243, Macmillan

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• Mrs. Reed grabbed Kayla's wrist. "Good. You haven't gotten that damned tattoo. Whatever you do, don't let them make you get it.

  Suzanne Weyn

  Tattoo, Kayla, Reeds

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• I'll play drums a lot at home, and it will help my wrist action.

  Tommy Bolin

  Home, Play, Helping

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• So you wish to conquer in the Olympic Games, my friend? And I, too... But first mark the conditions and the consequences. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or not, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and wine at your will. Then, in the conflict itself you are likely enough to dislocate your wrist or twist your ankle, to swallow a great deal of dust, to be severely thrashed, and after all of these things, to be defeated.

  Epictetus

  Wine, Exercise, Dust

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• I fell off a bridge when I was 14, then had surgery when I was 17. Now my left wrist is an inch-and-a-half shorter than my [right one] and doesn't quite have the mobility to wrap around a guitar neck without a bit of pain.

  Zach Condon

  Pain, Guitar, Bridges

  "Beirut". Interview with Jessica Suarez, pitchfork.com. August 21, 2006.

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• My personal opinion...is that pocket watches will almost completely disappear and that wrist watches will replace them definitively! I am not mistaken in this opinion and you will see that I am right.

  Hans Wilsdorf

  Personal Opinions, Pocket Watches, Pockets

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• I scan the room. Catherine is writing quickly, her light brown hair falling over her face. She is left-handed, and because she writes in pencil her left arm is silver from wrist to elbow.

  Sara Gruen

  Fall, Writing, Light

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• Could you have seen that mother clinging to her child, when they fastened the irons upon his wrists; could you have heard her heart-rending groans, and seen her bloodshot eyes wander wildly from face to face, vainly pleading for mercy; could you have witnessed that scene as I saw it, you would exclaim, Slavery is damnable!

  Harriet Ann Jacobs

  Mother, Children, Eye

  Harriet Ann Jacobs (1861). “Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl”, p.38

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• Who grasps with his fist one who has an arm of steel injures only his own powerless wrist. Wait till inconstant fortune ties his hand, then ... pick out his brains.

  Bill Vaughan

  Power, Hands, Ties

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• Goethe said that the worst thing in art is technical facility accompanied by triteness. Many an artist, like God, has never needed to think twice about anything. His works are the mad scene from Giselle , on ice skates: he weeps, pulls out his hair holding his wrists like Lifar and tells you what Life is, all at a gliding forty miles an hour.

  Randall Jarrell

  Art, Thinking, Hair

  "The Lost World". Book by Randall Jarrell, p. 159, 1965.

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• I'd written personal essays before, but never on this scale -- never so often and with such, er, honesty. (If by honesty I mean slashing my wrists and hemorrhaging all over the computer screen).

  Ayelet Waldman

  Honesty, Mean, Computer

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• Reading the features you would get the impression that this year's crop of rods will allow you to cast from here to eternity, with a rod so light you need to tie it to your wrist to stop it blowing away.

  Tony Bishop

  Reading, Lakes, Light

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• Photographs are still being taken but aren't being shown. There's one of a skeleton bound at the wrists with pants still around its ankles; if it was a woman, she was likely raped; if it was a man, he was possibly castrated.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Taken, Men, Skeletons

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• Probably a lack of concentration. I always hit them during practice. I just need to concentrate. Even though I should a lousy percentage, I beat a lot of teams from the line. You have to have mechanics. But see, what people don't know about my wrists is my wrists don't go all the way back. My wrists are crooked and don't go all the way back. I've been practicing and working on them. You can't do everything good.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Team, Practice

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• Playing golf is not hot work. Cutting sugar cane for a dollar a day - that's hot work. Hotter than my first wrist watch.

  Chi Chi Rodriguez

  Cutting, Golf, Hot

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• I wore the gold is symbolic of my African heritage. When my black ancestors was bought over here from Africa they were shackled by their neck, they wrist and they ankles in steel chains. I turned those steel chains into gold to symbolize the fight. I'm still a slave, only my price tag is higher.

  Mr. T

  Fighting, Price Tag, Black

  Source: allhiphop.com

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• I look at the tattoo inside my left wrist. It's my brother's name, he committed suicide two years ago. Just before the second anniversary of his death, I tattooed his name. I miss him, of course, and I decided I would live for me, and for him.

  Pom Klementieff

  Tattoo, Suicide, Brother

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

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• I forgot my watch. Minutes or hours later, when the panic subsides, that is what I most regret. Not coming here in the first place - that seemed like an obvious choice - but my bare wrist, which makes it impossible for me to know how long I have been sitting in this room. My back aches, which is some indication, but it is not definite enough.

  Veronica Roth

  Regret, Long, Choices

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• It still hurts," she whispered. "Even when you're doing it for someone else, that doesn't stop your ribs from getting cracked, or your wrist swelling, or your cuts from bleeding.

  Jodi Picoult

  Hurt, Cutting, Ribs

  Jodi Picoult (2002). “Picture Perfect”, p.315, Penguin

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• Are you hurting anywhere else?" I asked, feeling so emotionally raw after the long night we'd had. He caught my wrist and pulled my hand down to press flat over his heart. "Here." "So am I." He kissed my fingertips, then linked our hands and led me.

  Sylvia Day

  Hurt, Heart, Night

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• Blue stretched her hand out. Adam took it without hesitation, like he'd been waiting for her to offer it. He said in a low voice, just for her, "My heart is beating like crazy right now." Strangely enough, it was not his fingers twined in hers that affected Blue the strongest, it was where his warm wrist pressed against hers above their hands.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Crazy, Heart, Blue

  Maggie Stiefvater (2012). “The Raven Boys”, p.177, Scholastic Inc.

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• I rose to go, but Holmes caught me by my wrist and pushed me back into my chair. 'It is both, or none,' said he. 'You may say before this gentleman anything which you may say to me.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Rose, Gentleman, May

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2015). “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes”, p.8, Zillmann Publishing

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• Yes,' Spade growled. 'And when you're slapped you'll take it and like it.' He released Cairo's wrist and with a thick open hand struck the side of his face three times savagely.

  Dashiell Hammett

  Hands, Three, Cairo

  Dashiell Hammett (2010). “The Maltese Falcon”, p.77, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• I think every now and then about Sean’s thumb pressed against my wrist and daydream about him touching me again. But mostly I think about the way he looks at me – with respect – and I think that’s probably worth more than anything.

  Maggie Stiefvater

  Thinking, Touching, Thumbs

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• Maybe wrist corsages cut off circulation to the brain? I mean, is that why so many girls do stupid things on prom night? I was really going to have to investigate this further, I decided

  Ally Carter

  Girl, Stupid, Mean

  Ally Carter (2007). “I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You”, Hyperion

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