Limbs Quotes - Page 10

• I'm not 20 years old any more. I'm not gonna go out on quite the limb I did.

  Dan Fogelberg

  Years

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• I love women like Cate Blanchett and Tilda Swinton, who kind of go out on a limb and do their own thing. I find it very inspiring and it allows you to do what you want to do.

  Malin Akerman

  Want, Kind, Very Inspiring

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• How do these celebrities stay so impossibly thin? Simple: They have full-time personal trainers, who advise them on nutrition, give them pep talks, and shoot them with tranquilizer darts whenever they try to crawl, on hunger-weakened limbs, toward the packet of rice cakes that constitutes the entire food supply in their 37,000-square-foot mansions. For most celebrities, the biggest meal of the day is toothpaste (they use reduced-fat Crest).

  Dave Barry

  Simple, Squares, Cake

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• No, I'll repine at death no more, But with a cheerful gasp resign To the cold dungeon of the ground These dying, withering limbs of mine. Let worms devour my wasting flesh, And crumble all my bones to dust:-- My God shall raise my frame anew, At the revival of the just.

  Isaac Watts

  Death, Dust, Dying

  Isaac Watts (1832). “An Arrangement of the Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs of Isaac Watts”

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• Age overtakes us all; Our temples first; then on o'er cheek and chin, Slowly and surely, creep the frosts of Time. Up and do somewhat, ere thy limbs are sere.

  Theocritus

  Age, Frost, Firsts

  Theocritus (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Theocritus (Illustrated)”, p.71, Delphi Classics

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• The wounded limb shrinks from the slightest touch; and a slight shadow alarms the nervous.
  [Lat., Membra reformidant mollem quoque saucia tactum:
  Vanaque sollicitis incutit umbra metum.]

  Ovid

  Fear, Shadow, Alarms

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• My favorite piece of information is that Branwell Brontë, brother of Emily and Charlotte, died standing up leaning against a mantelpiece, in order to prove it could be done. This is not quite true, in fact. My absolute favorite piece of information is the fact that young sloths are so inept that they frequently grab their own arms and legs instead of tree limbs, and fall out of trees.

  Douglas Adams

  Brother, Fall, Order

  Douglas Adams (2005). “The Salmon of Doubt: Hitchhiking the Galaxy One Last Time”, p.110, Del Rey

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• Our thoughts are boundless, though our frames are frail,
  Our souls immortal, though our limbs decay;
  Though darken'd in this poor life by a veil
  Of suffering, dying matter, we shall play
  In truth's eternal sunbeams; on the way
  To heaven's high capitol our cars shall roll;
  The temple of the Power whom all obey,
  That is the mark we tend to, for the soul
  Can take no lower flight, and seek no meaner goal.

  James Gates Percival

  Play, Goal, Car

  James Gates Percival (1821). “Poems by James G. Percival ...”, p.322

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• There is speaking well, speaking easily, speaking justly and speaking seasonably: It is offending against the last, to speak of entertainments before the indigent; of sound limbs and health before the infirm; of houses and lands before one who has not so much as a dwelling; in a word, to speak of your prosperity before the miserable; this conversation is cruel, and the comparison which naturally arises in them betwixt their condition and yours is excruciating.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Speaking Well, Offending, Land

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• For all the hardship, I was still excited to be on the trail, testing my endurance, feeling especially alive as strength and fatigue flowed alternately through my limbs.

  Colin Powell

  Feelings, Endurance, Hardship

  Colin L. Powell (1995). “My American Journey”, Random House Incorporated

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• With a little persuasion, any familiar thing can turn abnormal in the mind. Here's a thought experiment. Consider this brutal bit of magic. A human grows a second human in a space inside her belly; she grows a second heart and a second brain, second eyes and second limbs, a complete set of second body parts as if for use as spares, and then, after almost a year, she expels that second screaming being out of her belly and into the world, alive. Bizarre, isn't it?

  Karen Thompson Walker

  Heart, Eye, Years

  Karen Thompson Walker (2012). “The Age of Miracles: A Novel”, p.94, Random House

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• I know the colour rose, and it is lovely, But not when it ripens in a tumour; And healing greens, leaves and grass, so springlike, In limbs that fester are not springlike.

  Dannie Abse

  Healing, Rose, Lovely

  'Pathology of Colours' (1968)

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• There are travelers who fear to own delicate hands more than to meet a lion, and soldiers who would rather lose a limb than gain a beautiful nose by artificial methods.

  Robert Wilson Lynd

  Beautiful, Hands, Soldier

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• It's way easier to stay in the comfort zone, especially when things are going good than to go out on a limb and take some risks. My philosophy is exactly the opposite: Sometimes it's risky not to take a risk.

  Harvey Mackay

  Philosophy, Opposites, Risk

  "Harvey Mackay Book Interview : THE MACKAY MBA OF SELLING IN THE REAL WORLD". Interview with David Dalka, www.daviddalka.com. November 29, 2011.

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• On Leven's banks, while free to rove, And tune the rural pipe to love, I envied not the happiest swain That ever trod the Arcadian plain. Pure stream! in whose transparent wave My youthful limbs I wont to lave; No torrents stain thy limpid source, No rocks impede thy dimpling course, That sweetly warbles o'er its bed, With white, round, polish'd pebbles spread.

  Tobias Smollett

  Rocks, White, Bed

  Tobias Smollett (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Tobias Smollett (Illustrated)”, p.2159, Delphi Classics

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• Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another.

  George Herbert

  Men, Proportion, Symmetry

  'Man', collected in The Temple, Sacred Poems and Private Ejaculations (published posthumously, 1633).

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• I try to find a compositional structure in the subject itself, in nature... I rely on the angle where the wall meets the floor as a constant reference point, and against that I oppose the movements of the model's limbs.

  Philip Pearlstein

  Wall, Trying, Movement

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• When the narrator feels like an octopus, when he says his limbs are starting to multiply, he means he has inklings of orders of perception beyond his individual body.

  Ben Lerner

  Mean, Order, Octopus

  "Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring". Interview with Tao Lin, believermag.com. September 2014.

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• Regardless of the advertising campaigns may tell us, we can't have it all. Sacrifice is not an option, or an anachronism; it's a fact of life. We all cut off our own limbs to burn on some altar. The crucial thing is to choose an altar that's worth it and a limb you can accept losing. To go consenting to the sacrifice.

  Tana French

  Cutting, Sacrifice, May

  Tana French (2008). “The Likeness: Dublin Murder Squad: 2”, p.412, Hachette UK

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• Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest.

  John Green

  Sometimes, Like You, Checks

  John Green (2008). “An Abundance of Katherines”, p.228, Penguin

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• You do not want a war. You have known violence, you have suffered loss, but you have seen nothing of war. War is not just the business of death; it is the anti-thesis of life. Hope, tortured and flayed, reason, dismembered, grinning at its limbs in its lap. Decency, raped to death... You will be a murderer and more.

  Joss Whedon

  War, Loss, Lap

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• Take up a weapon and you become an instrument with as pure a purpose as the weapon itself: to find arteries and open them, limbs and sever them; to take what is alive and deliver it unto death.

  Laini Taylor

  Purpose, Alive, Weapons

  Laini Taylor (2015). “The Complete Daughter of Smoke and Bone Trilogy”, p.447, Hachette UK

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• To no man does the earth mean so much as to the soldier. When he presses himself down upon her long and powerfully, when he buries his face and his limbs deep in her from the fear of death by shell-fire, then she is his only friend, his brother, his mother; he stifles his terror and his cries in her silence and her security; she shelters him and releases him for ten seconds to live, to run, ten seconds of life; receives him again and again and often forever.

  Erich Maria Remarque

  Mother, Running, Brother

  Erich Maria Remarque (2013). “All Quiet on the Western Front: A Novel”, p.43, Random House

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• John flung himself into a pseudo-karate stance, one hand poised behind him and one in front, posed like a cartoon cactus. I thought for an odd moment he had moved his limbs so fast they had made that whoosh sound through air but then I realized John was making that sound with his mouth.

  David Wong

  Air, Hands, Cartoon

  David Wong (2011). “John Dies at the End”, p.526, Titan Books

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• It's the rule of the wilds. You must be bigger, and stronger, and tougher. A coldness radiates through me, a solid wall that is growing, piece by piece, in my chest. He doesn't love me. He never loved me. It was all a lie. "The old Lena is dead." I say, and then push past him. Each step is more difficult than the last; the heaviness fills me and turns my limbs to stone. You must hurt or be hurt.

  Lauren Oliver

  Hurt, Wall, Lying

  Lauren Oliver (2013). “Requiem”, p.16, Harper Collins

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