Muscles Quotes - Page 11

There is a groan that unites men and women, rich and poor, in any nation. These muscle pains are "explained" in every culture, but the universal fact of this persistence must mean that no adequate therapy exists.

Patrick David Wall

Pain, Mean, Persistence

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... it is highly unlikely that a structural derangement could produce pain equal in severity to acute muscle spasm.

John E. Sarno

Pain, Injury, Unlikely

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Everyone has a special place they store their tension (I'm on shiatsu duty), the same way everyone misspells the same words over and over. Karla stores her tension in her rhomboid muscles, and I remove it. This is making me feel good. That I can do this.

Douglas Coupland

Pain, Feel Good, Special

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I don't understand the feeling of, the way people speak of writing as though it were, like, some kind of djinn to be summoned or like it's the Loch Ness monster or seeing a shooting star. It's a physical act. It is a thing you do with your muscles and your body and your willpower. Watch, I'll show you: get a piece of paper. Get a pencil. Put the pencil on the paper and write the word 'something.'

Matt Fraction

Stars, Book, Writing

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Wake up muscles we're in New York now.

Casey Stengel

Baseball, New York, Wake Up

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Our world faces incredible economic uncertainty. The notion of what is a super power has evolved, and who actually can carry what muscle has changed.

Lorenzo di Bonaventura

Our World, Faces, Incredibles

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It should stimulate the mind as well as the appetite. The well made cocktail is one of the most gracious of drinks. It pleases the senses. The shared delight of those who partake in common of this refreshing nectar breaks the ice of formal reserve. Taut nerves relax, taut muscles relax, tired eyes brighten, tongues loosen, friendships deepen, the whole world becomes a better place in which to live.

David A. Embury

Eye, Tired, Ice

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Someone told me that you could learn to sing, and that there are muscles that if you build, you will sing.

Margot Robbie

Ifs

"Interview: Margot Robbie Talks 'Wolf of Wall Street', Leo DiCaprio's Final Bedroom Scene, Meeting The Real Naomi & More". Interview with Charlie Schmidlin, www.indiewire.com. January 8, 2014.

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You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.

Ben Wheatley

Long, Decision, Way

"Ben Wheatley: master of the macabre". Interview with Alex Godfrey, www.theguardian.com. June 22, 2013.

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When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.

Honore de Balzac

People, Mind, Black

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Unused ability, like unused muscles, will atrophy.

Eleanor Roosevelt

Action, Ability, Atrophy

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... where does strength come from? It is not muscle strength any more. It is not also mere intellectual strength. What is strength? Strength is the support of the people.

Indira Gandhi

People, Support, Intellectual

Indira Gandhi (1985). “Selected Speeches of Indira Gandhi: January 1980-December 1981”

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... it's impossible to register any emotion without using some muscle which, in time, will produce a wrinkle. ... By the time she is thirty, a starlet has been carefully taught to smile like a dead halibut. The eyes widen, the mouth drops open, but the eye muscles are never involved.

Jean Kerr

Eye, Wrinkles, Mouths

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I'm honest with myself how I feel. If I feel good, I feel good. If I don't - if I'm tight - I don't just try to muscle through everything, because you've got to be a little bit smarter.

Larry Fitzgerald

Feel Good, Trying, Littles

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Think of anger as a muscle. The way you express anger isn't the way that I do, or you. If you have a good director, you will find that he's getting you to use an entirely different muscle that you never even knew you had - it's real hard and sore, then after a while it becomes normal. And you discover all these new muscles when you enter a new character - that's what a director does for you.

Jane Fonda

Real, Character, Thinking

Interview with Lord Puttnam, www.theguardian.com. June 3, 2005.

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I'm definitely not a muscle builder or a guy that's interested in being a muscle builder. It feels good to get back down to a normal size. Not like a hipster size or a buff-guy size, but just a normal, 34-waist guy.

Anthony Mackie

Hipster, Guy, Feel Good

"How Anthony Mackie Got Big For 'Pain & Gain'". Interview with Adam B. Vary, www.buzzfeed.com. April 27, 2013.

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I never focus on contraction. I'm focusing on my muscle. I'm not focusing on a certain style of lifting or contracting. I'm just trying to get the weight up. I'm trying to build muscle.

Ronnie Coleman

Focus, Style, Trying

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One thing Arnold Schwarzenegger isn't is self-effacing. Everything has to be the biggest. His money, his muscles, his movies and his machines.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Self, Machines, Schwarzenegger

"Arnold Schwarzenegger: Success and secrets". "60 Minutes" with Lesley Stahl, www.cbsnews.com. September 30, 2012.

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It's hard to be strong and be weak at the same time. So I spent a lot of time sitting still. Sitting still for hours, not moving a muscle. Really concentrated work, so I'm ready. I'm ready for my performance.

Lady Gaga

Strong, Moving, Sitting Still

"Lady Gaga Talks VMAs Performance". Just Jared Interview, www.justjared.com. August 23, 2013.

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Look for verbs of muscle, adjectives of exactitude.

Mary Oliver

Poetry, Adjectives, Verbs

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You have to challenge yourself and your muscles. When you are really regimented, it's the same over and over and you start to get comfortable. Switching up the style of training works your muscles differently.

Curtis Jackson

Challenges, Style, Training

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By exercising your stomach muscles, you wring out the body, you don't catch colds, you don't get cancer, you don't get hernias. Do animals get hernias? Do animals go on diets?

Joseph Pilates

Cancer, Exercise, Animal

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If you want to "tone and build," it is time to pick up some iron - that's the way we can get a muscle to grow.

Chris Powell

Iron, Want, Way

"Get Fit for 2013: Chris Powell Answers 'GMA' Viewers' Questions". "Good Morning America", abcnews.go.com. January 4, 2013.

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There are many occasions when the muscles that form the lips of the mouth move the lateral muscles that are joined to them, and there are an equal number of occasions when these lateral muscles move the lips of this mouth, replacing it where it cannot return of itself, because the function of muscle is to pull and not to push except in the case of the genitals and the tongue.

Leonardo da Vinci

Moving, Numbers, Mouths

Dell' Anatomia Vol. 1, Ch. III

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The silence is death.
It comes each day with its shock
to sit on my shoulder, a white bird,
and peck at the black eyes
and the vibrating red muscle
of my mouth.

Anne Sexton

Eye, White, Bird

Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.181, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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