Legs Quotes - Page 32

• 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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• Ambas and Bobia Islands are perfect gems of beauty. Mondoleh I cannot say I admire. It always looks to me exactly like one of those flower-stands full of ferns and plants - the sort you come across in drawing rooms at home, with wire-work legs. I do not mean that Mondoleh has wire-work legs under water, but it looks as if it might have.

  Mary Kingsley

  Flower, Mean, Home

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• I feel so small I could sit on a dime an' my legs wouldn't even hang over.

  Mary Lasswell

  Dimes, Unhappiness, Feels

  Mary Lasswell (2016). “One on the House”, p.23, Open Road Media

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• When I was first running marathons, we were sailing on a flat earth. We were afraid we'd get big legs, grow mustaches, not get boyfriends, not be able to have babies. Women thought that something would happen to them, that they'd break down or turn into men, something shadowy, when they were only limited by their own society's sense of limitations.

  Kathrine Switzer

  Sports, Running, Baby

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• Indeed, all things move, all things run, all things are rapidly changing. A profile is never motionless before our eyes, but it constantly appears and disappears. On account of the persistency of an image upon the retina, moving objects constantly multiply themselves; their form changes like rapid vibrations, in their mad career. Thus a running horse has not four legs, but twenty, and their movements are triangular.

  Giacomo Balla

  Running, Horse, Moving

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• I'm designing what I want. If it's a man's coat with a pair of skinny-leg jeans, I'll do that. It's whatever my mood is. But it's about style, and it's about an understated taste that's cool.

  Ralph Lauren

  Men, Jeans, Design

  "Ralph Lauren on a Life in Fashion and His Newest Dream". Interview with Dirk Standen, dirkstanden.com. May 2, 2015.

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• You can always tell you're in trouble when the good option involves a prosthetic leg.

  Hugh Elliot

  Trouble, Prosthetics

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• Marriage is like a table with four legs - the couple, the children, the parents and the in-laws. Break any of these and the marriage crashes to the floor

  Siddharth Katragadda

  Children, Couple, Law

  "Dark Rooms: A Saga". Book by Siddharth Katragadda, 2002.

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• Even the most beautiful legs end somewhere.

  Julian Tuwim

  Beautiful, Ends, Beautiful Legs

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• I won't change my legs. because I'm contented with my long-legged.

  Melanie Marquez

  Long

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• I don't tell everyone my life history because if everyone knows your inside-leg measurement, how can you surprise them?

  Penelope Wilton

  Measurement, Surprise, Knows

  "Unspoken worlds" by Gareth McLean, www.theguardian.com. October 25, 2007.

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• I have big everything on the bottom but I love my legs. You've got to love what's yours.

  Alicia Keys

  Bigs, Bottom

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

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• Probably a few weeks after I was born I started having casts put on my legs to straighten them out. After that corrective shoes and with a brace in between.

  Kristi Yamaguchi

  Shoes, Week, Braces

  "Kristi Yamaguchi: Olympic Medalist, Fitness Guru And Mom". "Tell Me More" with Michel Martin, www.npr.org. April 26, 2011.

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• I always said, 'A blind dog with three legs could get a standing ovation for singing 'I'm Still Here!''

  Polly Bergen

  Dog, Singing, Three

  "'Night Music''s Polly Bergen is Back in Baltimore". Interview with James Howard, www.broadwayworld.com. March 27, 2008.

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• Soccer is my first love. Ive been playing since I was 4 years old. I traveled the world doing it. I broke my leg when I was 16 or 17, and acting kind of filled the void.

  Kyle Schmid

  Soccer, First Love, Years

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• The fiesta of soccer, a feast for the legs that play and the eyes that watch, is much more than a big business run by overlords from Switzerland. The most popular sport in the world wants to serve the people who embrace it.

  Eduardo Galeano

  Soccer, Sports, Running

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• No prison can hold me; no hand or leg irons or steel locks can shackle me. No ropes or chains can keep me from my freedom.

  Harry Houdini

  Hands, Iron, Rope

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• The best thing would be to break your neck, but you'd probably just break your leg and then you couldn't do a thing. You'd yell at the top of your lungs, but nobody;d hear you, and you couldn't expect anybody to find you, and you'd have centipedes and spiders crawling all over you, and the bones of the ones who died before are scattered all around you, and it's dark and soggy, and way overhead there's this tiny, tiny circle of light like a winter moon. You die there in this place, little by little, all by yourself.

  Haruki Murakami

  Dark, Winter, Moon

  Haruki Murakami (2007). “Vintage Murakami”, p.9, Vintage

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• Brooks Robinson is not a fast man, but his arms and legs move very quickly.

  Curt Gowdy

  Moving, Men, Arms

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• I like the marathon because it's one race where you can find out who's really the toughest. On the track, sometimes a guy can just pull away, and you want to stay with him but you don't have the leg speed. The marathon is slow enough that anyone can stay with you if he wants, if he has the will. The marathon is ultimately a test of will.

  Alberto Salazar

  Race, Track, Guy

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• Once a year, I take my whole wine team down to see the Giants, and we meet the players. Ive never seen anyone pitch like Lincecum that can throw the ball and get through the front leg. He has that stiff front leg.

  Tom Seaver

  Team, Wine, Player

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• After I hurt the knee, football wasn't nearly as much fun. I was limited. But you make do with what you have. I adjusted some. I was lucky to play as long as I did, with the different kinds of injuries I got. I played with two severed hamstring muscles in my leg late in my career. I could barely run, other than to drop back to pass.

  Joe Namath

  Running, Football, Hurt

  "Sporting News conversation with Joe Namath: 'The guarantee was basically just an attitude'". Interview with Clifton Brown, www.sportingnews.com. January 27, 2012.

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• Feel the power of your legs, hear the orchestra playing, see the audience - anything to make the image more real. The image has to be specific. You can't just say to yourself, 'I'll do my best.' You have to have a mental blueprint of that role in your mind.

  Linda Hamilton

  Motivational, Dance, Real

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• In 1987, I was in Edinburgh doing my first one-man show. I took part in a kickabout with some fellow comedians and tripped over my trousers and heard this cracking sound in my leg. A couple of days later I went into a coma and was diagnosed with a pulmonary embolism.

  Paul Merton

  Couple, Men, Comedian

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• To keep a man a slave you do much the same as the cruel circus masters did to the elephant around the turn of last century. Clamp heavy chains around their legs and stake them to the ground. Then beat and terrorize them. After a while you no longer even have to stake the chain; the elephant gives up and just the mere rattle of the chain convinces the elephant there is no hope, so they give up and do whatever it is the circus requires.

  Glenn Beck

  Giving Up, Men, Elephants

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