Elbows Quotes - Page 8

• Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.

  Ellis Peters

  Brother, Soul, Rooms

  Ellis Peters (2014). “A Rare Benedictine: The Advent Of Brother Cadfael”, p.69, Head of Zeus

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• The trouble with women? Elbows.

  Michael Caine

  Women, Trouble

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• I was freaking out when Brooks & Dunn were breaking up. I thought 'We play a ton of rodeos, and I thought this was such a cowboy deal, and I don't wear a hat. They might not think I'm a cowboy. That might sound ridiculous to a lot of people, but apparently, it meant something to me. I wound up with a cowboy tattoo from my elbow to my wrist.

  Ronnie Dunn

  Tattoo, Cowboy, Thinking

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• I'm definitely an elbow-room guy.

  Ryan Kwanten

  Guy, Rooms

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• Now musing o'er the changing scene Farmers behind the tavern screen Collect; with elbows idly press'd On hob, reclines the corner's guest, Reading the news to mark again The bankrupt lists or price of grain. Puffing the while his red-tipt pipe He dreams o'er troubles nearly ripe, Yet, winter's leisure to regale, Hopes better times, and sips his ale.

  John Clare

  Dream, Reading, Winter

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• In the downhill of life, when I find I'm declining, May my lot no less fortunate be Than a snug elbow-chair can afford for reclining, And a cot that o'erlooks the wide sea; With an ambling pad-pony to pace o'er the lawn, While I carol away idle sorrow, And blithe as the lark that each day hails the dawn, Look forward with hope for to-morrow.

  John Churton Collins

  Sea, Sorrow, Ponies

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• Where the vast cloudless sky was broken by one crow I sat upon a hill - all alone - long ago; But I never felt so lonely and so out of God's way, As here, where I brush elbows with a thousand every day.

  Harry Kemp

  Lonely, Long Ago, Sky

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• I draw to shock myself out of a too-easy rhythm - I may begin with no conception whatever, an image emerges . I rub it out and begin again, searching for its counterpart. When it appears I invariably find that the thing I draw is at my elbow, it is out of the window, or has been standing at my front door for a long time.

  Sean William Scott

  Doors, Long, May

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• There is nothing quite as unpleasant as wearing a pair of briefs which have been trailed through a Calcutta courtyard. Nothing, that is, except having one's elbows and knees lacerated by unseen slivers of glass and discarded razor blades.

  Tahir Shah

  Glasses, Unseen, Razors

  Tahir Shah “Sorcerer's Apprentice, Dyslexic edition”, Lulu.com

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• Firebugs dragging their gasoline bottles are approaching the Academy of Arts, with a grin. And so, instead of embracing them, let us demand the freedom of the elbow to knock the bottles out of their filthy hands. Even the most blockheaded bureaucrat, provided he loves peace, is a greater lover of the arts than any so-called art-lover who loves the arts of war.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Art, War, Hands

  "Brecht on Brecht: An Improvisation". Book by George Tabori, 1967.

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• When a Man has Married a WifeHe finds out whetherHer Knees & elbows are onlyglued together.

  William Blake

  Men, Together, Knees

  William Blake (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of William Blake (Illustrated)”, p.804, Delphi Classics

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• The editor sat in his sanctum, his countenance furrowed with care, His mind at the bottom of business, his feet at the top of a chair, His chair-arm an elbow supporting, his right hand upholding his head, His eyes on his dusty old table, with different documents spread.

  Will Carleton

  Eye, Hands, Editors

  Will Carleton (1873). “Farm Ballads”, p.127

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• Native annalists may look sadly back from the future on that period when we had the atomic bomb and the Russians didn't. Or when the Russians had aquired (through connivance and treachery of Westerns with warped minds) the atomic bomb - and yet still didn't have any stockpile of the weapons. That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.

  Curtis LeMay

  Russia, Mind, Eras

  "Mission With LeMay: My Story" by Curtis E. LeMay, MacKinlay Kantor, (p. 560-561), 1965.

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• Whenever the clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were Catholic or Protestant, persecution was the result.

  William Edward Hartpole Lecky

  Catholic, Atheism, Arms

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• I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.

  Bob Shacochis

  Art, Glasses, Pleasure

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• My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.

  Walt Whitman

  Ties, Sea, Vision

  Walt Whitman (2011). “Leaves of Grass, 1860: The 150th Anniversary Facsimile Edition”, p.67, University of Iowa Press

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• Temptation: the fiend at my elbow.

  William Shakespeare

  Temptation

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• I think the best kind of comedy is the least self conscious. I think if you just sort of let the comedy happen without the elbow nudge, did you get it, did you get it. I love straight face comedy or subtle - relatively subtle comedy.

  Betty White

  Thinking, Self, Nudge

  Source: www.lenalamoray.com

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• Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

  Evelyn Waugh

  Men, Rooms, Fats

  Evelyn Waugh (1994). “The Sword of Honour Trilogy”

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• I, in my brand new body,
  which was not a woman's yet,
  told the stars my questions
  and thought God could really see
  the heat and the painted light,
  elbows, knees, dreams, goodnight.

  Anne Sexton

  Dream, Stars, Light

  Anne Sexton, Linda Gray Sexton, Lois Ames (2004). “Anne Sexton: A Self-portrait in Letters”, p.2, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Time is three eyes and eight elbows.

  Dogen

  Eye, Eight, Three

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• There is commonly sufficient space about us. Our horizon is never quite at our elbows.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Space, Solitude, Horizon

  Henry David Thoreau (2015). “Walden, and On The Duty Of Civil Disobedience: Top American Literary”, p.81, 谷月社

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• A strange age of the world this, when empires, kingdoms, and republics come a-begging to a private man's door, and utter their complaints at his elbow! I cannot take up a newspaper but I find that some wretched government or other, hard pushed and on its last legs, is interceding with me, the reader, to vote for it.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Men, Doors, Democracy

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “The Selected Essays of Henry David Thoreau”, p.240, Simon and Schuster

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• It's always exciting that you can rub elbows with some of the greatest players who have ever played the game, and just being around the "family" again from baseball.

  Rickey Henderson

  Baseball, Player, Games

  Interview with Donald Marquez, www.athleticsnation.com. May 7, 2012.

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• One day some people came to the master and asked: How can you be happy in a world of such impermanence, where you cannot protect your loved ones from harm, illness or death? The master held up a glass and said: Someone gave me this glass; It holds my water admirably and it glistens in the sunlight. I touch it and it rings! One day the wind may blow it off the shelf, or my elbow may knock it from the table. I know this glass is already broken, so I enjoy it - incredibly.

  Ajahn Chah

  Philosophy, Blow, Wind

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