Legs Quotes - Page 14

• For, as I think I have said, I can only meditate when I am walking. When I stop I cease to think; my mind only works with my legs.

  Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  Journey, Thinking, Hiking

  "The Confessions".

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• Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted on foot-powered pairs of Hula-Hoops would have us pumping our legs, gritting our teeth, and searing our lungs as though we were being chased across the Pleistocene savanna by saber-toothed tigers. Think of the hopes, the dreams, the effort, the brilliance, the pure force of will that, over the eons, has gone into the creation of the Cadillac Coupe de Ville. Bicycle riders would have us throw all this on the ash heap of history.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Inspirational, Dream, Thinking

  P. J. O'Rourke (2007). “Republican Party Reptile: The Confessions, Adventures, Essays and (Other) Outrages of P.J. O'Rourke”, p.126, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• You can't learn how to be elegant; you can only learn how to avoid mistakes. The rest is instinct. Elegance is about the way you cross your legs, not the label or the newest clothes from the latest collection.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Mistake, Clothes, Labels

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• The real desk isn't one with four legs and a filing cabinet. It's the space of time that you stake out every day and the will with which you defend it.

  Josh Ritter

  Real, Filing Cabinet, Space

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• London perpetually attracts, stimulates, gives me a play and a story and a poem, without any trouble, save that of moving my legs through the streets... To walk alone through London is the greatest rest.

  Virginia Woolf

  Moving, Play, Giving

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• I think my legs are a strong point, so I try to draw attention to them rather than the upper part of my body.

  Chloe Sevigny

  Strong, Thinking, Trying

  "Chloë Sevigny's Style" by April Long, www.elle.com. May 21, 2009.

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• You're not going to see your dreams come true if you don't put
  wings, legs, arms, hands, and feet on 'em.

  Dolly Parton

  Dream, Hands, Wings

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• I'm an American actor. I work with my clothes on. I have to. Riding a horse can be pretty tough on your legs and elsewheres.

  John Wayne

  Horse, Clothes, Riding

  John Wayne, Carol Lea Mueller (2007). “The Quotable John Wayne: The Grit and Wisdom of an American Icon”, p.41, Taylor Trade Publications

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• The envious man thinks that if his neighbor breaks a leg, he will be able to walk better himself

  Helmut Schoeck

  Men, Thinking, Break A Leg

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• I do for one full hour non-stop of 2,000 sit ups and then 6 sets of leg rise.

  Serge Nubret

  Hours, Non Stop

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• It's a new low for actresses when you have to wonder what is between her ears instead of her legs.

  Katharine Hepburn

  Ears, Actresses, Wonder

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• To look long and lean, wear a wide-leg trouser with high heels.

  Rebecca Gayheart

  High Heels, Long, Looks

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• I won't wear fur-never, ever. I'm an animal lover. I wouldn't even wear faux fur. I prefer to go the cheap route and not shave my legs.

  Bonnie Hunt

  Animal, Fur, Lovers

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

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• We treat racism in this country like it's a style that America went through. Like flared legs and lava lamps. Oh, that crazy thing we did. We were hanging black people. We treat it like a fad instead of a disease that eradicates millions of people. You've got to get it at a lab, and study it, and see its origins, and see what it's immune to and what breaks it down.

  Chris Rock

  Country, Crazy, America

  Interview with Frank Rich, www.vulture.com. November 30, 2014.

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• The amount of painkillers I was given. Every time I had a pain in my leg I got used to numbing it out.

  Sophie Anderton

  Pain, Used, Given

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• I think of guitar players in terms of doctors: you have the doctor for your heart, the cardiologist, then one that works on your feet, your leg. But I believe George Benson is the one that plays all over. To me, he would be the M.D. of them all.

  B. B. King

  Believe, Heart, Player

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• Not to be vain, but I have nice long legs, so I like to accentuate them. Find what part of your body you love most - it can be your arms, your chest, your legs - and emphasize that.

  Khloe Kardashian

  Nice, Long, Body

  "Khloe Kardashian On How She Plans To Spend Valentine’s Day With Lamar Odom". Interview with Sarah St. Lifer, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 14, 2012.

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• Robin is a handsome ephebic boy, usually shown in his uniform with bare legs. He is buoyant with energy and devoted to nothing on earth or in interplanetary space as much as to Bruce Wayne. He often stands with his legs spread, the genital region discreetly evident.

  Fredric Wertham

  Boys, Space, Energy

  Fredric Wertham (1972). “Seduction of the innocent”, Associated Faculty Pr Inc

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• News reports stand up as people, and people wither into editorials. Clichés walk around on two legs while men are having theirs shot off.

  Karl Kraus

  Men, Two, People

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• That is a society editor, sitting there elegantly dressed, with his legs crossed in that indolent way, observing the clothes the ladies wear, so that he can describe them for his paper and make them out finer than they are and get bribes for it and become wealthy.

  Mark Twain

  Editors, Clothes, Sitting

  Mark Twain (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Mark Twain (Illustrated)”, p.3989, Delphi Classics

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• I do not subscribe to the school of thought that I am leading the presidential polls because of my beautiful legs.

  Miriam

  Beautiful, School, Presidential

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• No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness

  Elyn Saks

  People, Broken, Arms

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• The elephant hath joints, but none for courtesy; his legs are legs for necessity, not for flexure.

  William Shakespeare

  Elephants, Joints, Courtesy

  William Shakespeare, Anthony B. Dawson (2003). “Troilus and Cressida”, p.132, Cambridge University Press

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• If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs.

  Bruce Barton

  Journey, Hiking, Brain

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• There there is nothing like a wilderness journey for rekindling the fires of life. Simplicity is part of it. Cutting the cackle. Transportation reduced to leg - or arm - power, eating irons to one spoon. Such simplicity, together with sweat and silence, amplify the rhythms of any long journey, especially through unknown, untattered territory. And in the end such a journey can restore an understanding of how insignificant you are -- and thereby set you free.

  Colin Fletcher

  Cutting, Journey, Iron

  Colin Fletcher (1997). “River: One Man's Journey Down the Colorado, Source to Sea”, Knopf

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