Legs Quotes - Page 33

• I broke my leg is all I did. I didnt break my brain.

  Tony Stewart

  Brain, Broke, Break

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• During the period of house arrest, I had an electronic manacle around my leg for 24 hours a day, and for someone who has tried to give others liberty all their adult life, that is absolutely intolerable.

  Julian Assange

  Giving, House, Liberty

  "Julian Assange: the fugitive". Interview with Decca Aitkenhead, www.theguardian.com. December 7, 2012.

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• A man once jumped from the top floor of a burning house in which many members of his family had already perished. He managed to save his life; but as he was falling he hit a person standing down below and broke that person's legs and arms. The jumping man had no choice; yet to the man with the broken limbs he was the cause of his misfortune. If both behaved rationally, they would not become enemies.

  Isaac Deutscher

  Fall, Men, Jumping

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• I would always hunch over, I was always taller than the boys. I had the extremely skinny legs... I would double up my socks, those ones from Footlocker, to make my legs look thicker.

  Joan Smalls

  Boys, Looks, Skinny

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• I'm afraid I am a bit of a technophobe - a nineteenth-century man caught in the twenty-first century. But there is one piece of technology that I would especially welcome: a device to automatically balance restaurant tables on all four legs so that they don't rock back and forth.

  Leonard Susskind

  Technology, Men, Rocks

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• I've never been involved with anyone who's set out to hurt people, to break legs. It is a bit of a dying art

  Steve Bruce

  Art, Hurt, Break A Leg

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• When I go on holiday, I wear wedges. They accentuate your leg, honey, and you have to look good on the beach.

  Amy Childs

  Beach, Holiday, Looks

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• Sex always has consequences. When Hitler's mother spread her legs that night, she effectively canceled out the spreading of fifteen to twenty million other pairs of legs.

  George Carlin

  Mother, Sex, Night

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• I am writing this from what we Americans call Yurrp. In Yurrp writers are taken as seriously as Lana Turner's legs are in America - a ridiculous situation.

  John Steinbeck

  Travel, Taken, Home

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• Fledgeby deserved Mr. Alfred Lammle's eulogium. He was the meanest cur existing, with a single pair of legs. And instinct (a word we all clearly understand) going largely on four legs, and reason always on two, meanness on four legs never attains the perfection of meanness on two.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Two, Interesting

  Charles Dickens (1868). “Charles Dickens's works. Charles Dickens ed. [18 vols. of a 21 vol. set. Wanting A child's history of England; Christmas stories; The mystery of Edwin Drood].”, p.171

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• Man is but mortal: and there is a point beyond which human courage cannot extend. Mr. Pickwick gazed through his spectacles for an instant on the advancing mass, and then fairly turned his back and-we will not say fled; firstly, because it is an ignoble term, and, secondly, because Mr. Pickwick's figure was by no means adapted for that mode of retreat-he trotted away, at as quick a rate as his legs would convey him;.

  Charles Dickens

  Funny, Humorous, Mean

  Charles Dickens (1870). “The Posthumous Papers of the Pickwick Club”, p.31

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• The best option for me to do was not to move. I tried, and any little nudge or step, it the cramping would get worse. It was the whole left leg ... nearly the whole left side. ... I drank a lot of fluids at halftime. I even changed my uniform.

  LeBron James

  Moving, Nba Championships, Nba Finals

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• I studied medicine so I could help others - set a leg or whatever - and it's given me a great deal of satisfaction.

  Fred Hollows

  Helping Others, Medicine, Satisfaction

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• It doesn't matter who you are, if you've got the legs, you can hang with them.

  Robin Williams

  Matter, Ifs, Who You Are

  Source: velonews.competitor.com

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• I'm not making any absurd comparisons between myself and Bach, but I aspire to that, that my music will have the legs to survive whatever context it finds itself in.

  Steve Reich

  Absurd, Aspire, Comparison

  Interview with Joshua Klein, pitchfork.com. November 22, 2006.

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• The scale relates to everything. The thickness of a pipe, the thickness of a leg of the furniture. Even color could have a scale.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Color, Furniture, Thickness

  Source: bigthink.com

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• the small tuft of fronds or katydid legs above each eye, still
  numbering the units in each group;
  the shadbones regularly set about the mouth, to droop or rise

  Marianne Moore

  Eye, Groups, Mouths

  Marianne Moore (2016). “Observations: Poems”, p.49, Macmillan

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• Tiresome heart, forever living and dying,
  House without air, I leave you and lock your door.
  Wild swans, come over the town, come over
  The town again, trailing your legs and crying!

  Edna St. Vincent Millay

  Heart, Swans, Air

  Edna St Vincent, Edna St. Vincent Millay (2013). “The Edna St. Vincent Millay Collection”, p.194, eBookIt.com

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• That's often the best place to beat a goalkeeper, isn't it, between the legs?

  Clive Tyldesley

  Football, Goalkeepers, Beats

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• Regardless of the criticisms I receive from the left, the right and the middle, I think it's important to maintain a prolific writing jab, as long as my literary legs hold up.

  Ishmael Reed

  Writing, Thinking, Long

  Ishmael Reed (1988). “Writin' is fightin': thirty-seven years of boxing on paper”, Scribner

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• What can be more curious than that the hand of a man, formed for grasping, that of a mole for digging, the leg of the horse, the paddle of the porpoise, and the wing of the bat, should all be constructed on the same pattern?

  Charles Darwin

  Horse, Men, Hands

  Charles Darwin (1872). “The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection: Or, The Preservation of Favored Races in the Struggle for Life”, p.441

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• Some men live with an invisible limp,
  stagger, or drag
  a leg. Their sons are often angry.

  Robert Bly

  Son, Men, Invisible

  Robert Bly (1981). “The man in the black coat turns: poems”

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• Granddaddy used to handle snakes in church. Granny drank strychnine. I guess you could say I had a leg up, genetically speaking.

  Wesley Strick

  Snakes, Church, Used

  "Fictional character: Max Cady". "Cape Fear", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• Lift up your hearts, my brothers, high, higher! And don't forget about your legs either! Lift up your legs as well, you good dancers, and better yet--stand also on your heads!

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Dance, Brother, Heart

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• He (Gil Hodges) fields better on one leg than anybody else I got on two.

  Casey Stengel

  Two, Fields

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