Elbows Quotes

Elbows Quote of the day

If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world

Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.

My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.

The art of politics is learning to walk with your back to the wall, your elbows high, and a smile on your face. It's a survival game played under the glare of lights.

I actually had the urge to elbow an elderly lady today.

I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.

Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows.

If your opponent is at a distance, kick him in the groin. If he gets close, poke him in the eyes, bring up your knee, pop him with an elbow, dig a corkscrew punch to his stomach.

I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.

Time is three eyes and eight elbows.

You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

Now it's just sharp elbows, and instead of having a caucus where you sit down and say, 'What are you doing for your country?' you sit figuring out how to screw the other side.

You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.

I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.

I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul.

Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last.

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.

Mere fact has no chance of being formally perfect. It will get in the way, it will be all elbows.

In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

I don't know my armpit from my elbow in Los Angeles.

Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles.

My arms are up to the elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul.

We played at a club called, the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very important person who made a big impact on my life.

I can lick my elbow. I know that's supposed to be impossible, but I can do it!

My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision.

One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, Mama I want to be a painter.

But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things

Elbows are never put on the table while one is eating.

The game of basketball is not played with throwing punches, throwing elbows.

Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.

It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.

But in 2000, the injuries really started to kick in and my elbow gave a lot of problems. At the end of the year I had to take 20 months off before I could come back into the game

Whenever the clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were Catholic or Protestant, persecution was the result.

I just think it is so delightful to see people, let their elbows free. I think the exuberance of it all is really exciting to me. It's a signal of the abundance of diversity and creative expression.

My elbows are double-jointed, so I can flip them inside out.

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.

Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room.

It was so draining. Going to parties to rub elbows with so-and-so and act like it's no big deal, when really all I was doing was hoping I'd have the success they had.

It's always exciting that you can rub elbows with some of the greatest players who have ever played the game, and just being around the "family" again from baseball.

Miles clutched Quinn's elbow. "Don't Panic." "I'm not panicking," Quinn observed, "I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining .

It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.

My plastic surgeon ... said my face looked like a bouquet of elbows.

I expect to weave through the crowd, dodging elbows and muttering "excuse me" the way I always do, but there is no need. Becoming Dauntless has made me noticable.

When the mountain quaked Like an elbow's nudge Like a shout that something is wrong The people awoke and Knew, yes, knew, that bandits had come

I’ve even delivered a few of their babies. (Wulf) Really? (Cassandra) Oh, yeah. You have to love the days before modern roads, and hospitals when I was up to my elbows in placenta. (Wulf)

A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because we are too proud or too afraid to unbend.

I moved to leave, and Dylan actually grabbed me by my shoulders. I was so surprised that I forgot to karate-chop his elbows and break his arms.

There was a brief pause for them to evaluate the full horror of the situation. Magnus. personally, was in horror up to his elbows.