Legs Quotes - Page 31

• A gourmet can tell from the flavor whether a woodcock's leg is the one on which the bird is accustomed to roost.

  Lucius Beebe

  Bird, Gourmet, Flavor

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• My life is routine. I wake up early in the morning. I brush my teeth. I sit on the floor of the cell I do not go to breakfast. I stare at a gray cement wall. I keep my legs crossed my back straight my eyes forward. I take deep breaths in and out, in and out, and I try not to move. I sit for as long as I can I sit until everything hurts I sit until everything stops hurting I sit until I lose myself in the gray wall I sit until my mind becomes as blank as the gray wall. I sit and I stare and I breathe. I sit and I stare. I breathe.

  James Frey

  Hurt, Morning, Wall

  James Frey (2005). “My Friend Leonard”, p.7, Penguin

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• Like all my poems, 'Negotiations' has several sources. It deals with aging lovers and the often silent deals they make. Thinking about bargains made me think of The Little Mermaid and that made me remember something I had just read about the incredibly complex process by which tadpoles (actual little mermaids) are somehow able to reabsorb their tails and fashion their future frog legs.

  Rae Armantrout

  Fashion, Thinking, Mermaid

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• My temper is not spoilt. I am absolutely non-homicidal. Nor do I ever attack unless I have been attacked first, and then Heaven have mercy upon the attacker, because I don't! I just sharpen my wits on a wooden head as a cat sharpens its claws on the wood legs of a table.

  Edith Sitwell

  Cat, Heaven, Firsts

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• There are some men who are fortune's favorites, and who, like cats, light forever on their legs.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Cat, Men, Light

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• He that hath a trade hath an estate; and he that hath a calling hath a place of profit and honor. A ploughman on his legs is higher than a gentleman on his knees.

  Benjamin Franklin

  Honor, Gentleman, Knees

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• It is beginning to be doubtful whether Parliament and Congress sit in Westminster and Washington, or in the editorial rooms of the leading journals,--so thoroughly is everything debated before the authorized and responsible debaters get on their legs.

  James Russell Lowell

  Rooms, Printing, Responsible

  James Russell Lowell (1897). “Literary and political addresses”

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• I am always behind the shopper at the grocery store who has stitched her coupons in the lining of her coat and wants to talk about a 'strong' chicken she bought two weeks ago. The register tape also runs out just before her sub-total. In the public restroom, I always stand behind the teen-ager who is changing into her band uniform for a parade and doesn't emerge until she has combed the tassels on her boots, shaved her legs, and recovered her contact lens from the commode.

  Erma Bombeck

  Running, Strong, Two

  Erma Bombeck (2011). “I Lost Everything in the Post-Natal Depression”, p.9, Fawcett

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• Books should stand on their own feet ... If they need shoring up by a preface here, an introduction there, they have no more right to exist than a table that needs a wad of paper under one leg in order to stand steady.

  Virginia Woolf

  Book, Feet, Order

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.3591, Delphi Classics

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• John Wesley's conversation is good, but he is never at leisure. He is always obliged to go at a certain hour. This is very disagreeable to a man who loves to fold his legs and have his talk out as I do.

  Samuel Johnson

  Men, Leisure, Hours

  In James Boswell 'The Life of Samuel Johnson' (1791) vol. 3, p. 230 (31 March 1778)

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• Every one stretcheth his legges according to his coverlet.
  [Every one stretches his legs according to his coverlet.]

  George Herbert

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• the women's movement, not only here in the U.S., but worldwide, is bigger and stronger than ever before and in places where it has never been. It has arms. It has legs. And most importantly, it has heads.

  Bella Abzug

  Stronger, Movement, Arms

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• When we got to our hotel rooms, mosquitoes as big as George Foreman were waiting for us. They were sitting in armchairs with their legs crossed.

  Mel Brooks

  Waiting, Mosquitoes, Sitting

  "Mel Brooks Is Always Funny and Often Wise in This 1975 Playboy Interview". Interview with Henry Blodget, www.thedailybeast.com. October 18, 2014.

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• I go out and break my leg next year and can't play ever again, I got 40 million dollars. Nothing's guaranteed in this world, except that 40 million dollars.

  Dustin Pedroia

  Years, Play, Dollars

  Source: www.bayareasportsguy.com

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• I often tell people that I truly want the horse to be my feet and legs. I want to be an extension of the horse and him to be an extension of me. That's what I'm always working toward when I'm on a horse.

  Buck Brannaman

  Horse, Feet, People

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

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• I should have my own show by now. Yeah. How many damn sitcoms does Kelsey Grammer need? How many more stupid Housewives do they need throwing tables and limbs at each other. Yeah, I guess I need to take off my artificial leg and throw it at Vanderpump. I like doing live shows - it's just getting to them that's a hassle.Doing films is fun too ... a good film ... but there's a lot of waiting around.

  Judy Tenuta

  Fun, Stupid, Waiting Around

  Source: www.broadwayworld.com

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• I think emotional and mental pain is probably worse than physical pain. I think we don't realize that I have no arms or legs but we all have disabilities of some sort, some fear, some lost, some wishes that didn't come true, things we wish would be better.

  Nick Vujicic

  Pain, Emotional, Thinking

  Source: www.christianpost.com

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• Big name often stands on small legs.

  Chief Joseph

  Names, Bigs

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• once, when I was a young lady and on a night express ... I was awakened by a man coming in from the corridor and taking hold of my leg ... Quite as much to my own astonishment as his, I uttered the most appalling growl that ever came out of a tigress. He fled, poor man, without a word: and I lay there, trembling slightly, not at my escape but at my potentialities.

  Sylvia Townsend Warner

  Confidence, Night, Men

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• Man is the only mammal whose normal method of locomotion is to walk on two legs. A pattern of mammal behavior that emerges only once in the whole history of life on earth takes a great deal of explaining.

  Elaine Morgan

  Men, Two, Mammals

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• ... when I am really alone some power seems to grow in me. ... Conjugality made me think of a three-legged race, where two people cannot go fast and keep tripping each other because their two legs are tied together.

  Brenda Ueland

  Thinking, Race, Two

  Brenda Ueland (1939). “Me”

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• People do not care to give alms without some security for their money; and a wooden leg or a withered arm is a sort of draft upon heaven for those who choose to have their money placed to account there.

  Henry Mackenzie

  People, Giving, Heaven

  Henry Mackenzie (1820). “The man of feeling: and Julia de Roubigné, a tale”, p.18

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• Attempts to limit female mobility by hampering locomotion are ancient and almost universal. The foot-binding of upper-class Chinese girls and the Nigerian custom of loading women's legs with pounds of heavy brass wire are extreme examples, but all over the world similar stratagems have been employed to make sure that once you have caught a woman she cannot run away, and even if she stays around she cannot keep up with you. ... Literally as well as figuratively modern women's shoes are what keeps Samantha from running as fast as Sammy.

  Alison Lurie

  Girl, Running, Class

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• Our avian brothers are back to roost on the first leg of their annual sojourn south. Why them and not us? Maybe it's because we humans are meant to be rooted in one spot.

  Mitchell Burgess

  Brother, Firsts, Spots

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• I had spent the whole of my savings ... on a suit for the wedding - a remarkable piece of apparel with lapels that had been modelled on the tail fins of a 1957 Coupe de Ville and trousers so copiously flared that when I walked you didn't see my legs move.

  Bill Bryson

  Fashion, Moving, Pieces

  Bill Bryson (1991). “Neither here nor there: travels in Europe”, Harvill Secker

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