Legs Quotes - Page 36

• I wear my heart on my sleeve. I wear my liver on my pant leg.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Heart, Humor

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• From the waist down, Earl Campbell has the biggest legs I have ever seen on a running back.

  John Madden

  Running, Running Back

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• Observe that noses were made to wear spectacles; and so we have spectacles. Legs were visibly instituted to be breeched, and we have breeches. Stones were formed to be quarried and to build castles; and My Lord has a very noble castle; the greatest Baron in the province should have the best house; and as pigs were made to be eaten, we eat pork all year round; consequently, those who have asserted all is well talk nonsense; they ought to have said that all is for the best.

  Voltaire

  Years, Pigs, Should Have

  Francois Voltaire (1977). “The Portable Voltaire”, p.154, Penguin

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• That this is the source of our fellow-feeling for the misery of others, that it is by changing places in fancy with the sufferer, that we come either to conceive or to be affected by what he feels, may be demonstrated by many obvious observations, if it should not be thought sufficiently evident of itself. When we see a stroke aimed and just ready to fall upon the leg or arm of another person, we naturally shrink and draw back our own leg or our own arm; and when it does fall, we feel it in some measure, and are hurt by it as well as the sufferer.

  Adam Smith

  Hurt, Fall, Empathy

  Adam Smith (2016). “The Essays on Philosophical Subjects: the Great Master”, p.7, VM eBooks

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• The most important lens you have is your legs

  Ernst Haas

  Important, Lenses, Photographer

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• If we will disbelieve everything, because we cannot certainly know all things, we shall do much what as wisely as he who would not use his legs, but sit still and perish, because he had no wings to fly.

  John Locke

  Wings, Use, Stills

  John Locke (1836). “An Essay Concerning Human Understanding”, p.3

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• I was surprised to learn that doing household chores qualifies as romantic for most of you [women]. That's exactly why you should never hire a butler if you strike it rich - the minute that Jeeves starts unloading the dishwasher without being asked, your wife is going to start humping his leg.

  Scott Adams

  Wife, Jeeves, Rich

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• Here's a guy who can use his arms and legs at the same time.

  John Madden

  Funny, Nfl, Guy

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• I feel pain everywhere. A lot of guys in chairs do feel their legs. But if you don't, there's a thing called disreflex, so you know if something happens, say, you can't feel your foot or your leg and your body reacts. You know something's not right and you survey what's going on.

  Mark Zupan

  Pain, Feet, Guy

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• There are, broadly speaking, two types of drinkers. There is the man whom we all know, stupid, unimaginative, whose brain is bitten numbly by numb maggots; who walks generously with wide-spread, tentative legs, falls frequently in the gutter, and who sees, in the extremity of his ecstasy, blue mice and pink elephants.... The other type of drinker has imagination, vision. Even when most pleasantly jingled he walks straight and naturally, never staggers nor falls, and knows just where he is and what he is doing. It is not his body but his brain that is drunken.

  Jack London

  Stupid, Fall, Men

  "John Barleycorn" by Jack London, (Ch. II), 1913.

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• My friend Sam has one leg. I went to his house. I couldn't go up the stairs.

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, House

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• I don't work on poems and essays at once. They walk on different legs, speak with different tongues, draw from different parts of the psyche. Their paces are also different.

  Jane Hirshfield

  Different, Pace, Tongue

  "Of Amplitude There Is No Scraping Bottom: An Interview with Jane Hirshfield". Interview with Rebecca Olson, tinhouse.com. March 16, 2015.

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• When you sit in the full lotus position, your left foot is on your right thigh and your right foot is on your left thigh. When we cross our legs like this, even though we have a right leg and a left leg, they become one. The position expresses the oneness of duality: not two and not one. This is the most important teaching: not two, and not one. Our body and mind are not two and not one. If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong; if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body and mind are both two and one.

  Shunryu Suzuki

  Teaching, Thinking, Two

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• I remember when we were in the World Cup in Australia and I had to win the singles against Tony Payne, best of seven legs, to win it. I was 2-0 down but ended up beating him I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within three hours of arrival.

  David Attenborough

  Winning, Australia, Suffering

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• My disability is that I cannot use my legs. My handicap is your negative perception of that disability, and thus of me.

  Rick Hansen

  Perception, Negative, Use

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• I work with musicians whose opinions I respect and if they don't like something they don't hold back. They'll say, 'That really sucks' and 'You've lost it' and 'You're no good anymore.' And I crawl away with my tail between my legs and I fear that kind of ridicule, but I want them to like the music I'm bringing to them.

  Billy Joel

  Musician, Tails, Want

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• It doesn't matter which leg of your table you make first, so long as the table has four legs and will stand up solidly when you have finished it.

  Ezra Pound

  Long, Four, Tables

  Ezra Pound, Michael Dirda (2010). “ABC of Reading”, p.62, New Directions Publishing

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• It was not his job at square leg to inform the batsman what I was doing. I did nothing for which I need to apologise.

  Mike Gatting

  Jobs, Squares, Needs

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• With sabre fencing, it's important to have a strong core. I do an exercise called 'the dead bug.' You sit on the round side of a Bosu ball, lean back, extend one arm and the opposite leg, then switch.

  Mariel Zagunis

  Strong, Exercise, Opposites

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• My parents always say I have really good legs. Ive worked really hard for them. They always insist that I show my legs.

  Samaire Armstrong

  Parent, Shows, Hard

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• By no longer operating out of a place of fear. So if you see me on a carpet with my arms and legs out glistening, or my midriff exposed, it's a reminder to myself and the world that I know I'm beautiful.

  Danielle Brooks

  Beautiful, World, Arms

  "Exclusive: How I Learned to Love My Body, by Orange Is the New Black's Danielle Brooks" by Danielle Brooks, www.glamour.com. May 6, 2015.

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• If you have hooked legs, wear big decolte.

  Christian Dior

  Bigs, Hooked, Ifs

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• Close your legs to married men.

  NeNe Leakes

  Men, Married, Real Housewives

  "The Timeline of a Real Housewife: NeNe Leakes' Journey From Bloops to Broadway and Beyond" by Billy Nilles, www.eonline.com. July 20, 2016.

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• If a Negro got legs he ought to use them. Sit down too long, somebody will figure out a way to tie them up.

  Toni Morrison

  Ties, Long, Use

  Toni Morrison (2014). “Beloved”, p.1, Random House

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• Sometimes something as simple as going for a 20-minute jog on any given day is important. Keeps your body moving and legs from getting stiffened up from doing high-intensity workouts during the week.

  Jozy Altidore

  Workout, Moving, Simple

  Source: www.askmen.com

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