Limbs Quotes - Page 9

• The wind had seized the tree and ha, and ha,
  It held the shivering, the shaken limbs,
  Then bathed its body in the leaping lake.

  Wallace Stevens

  Lakes, Wind, Tree

  Wallace Stevens (1954). “Collected poems”

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• The athletic fool, to whom what heaven denied of soul, is well compensated in limbs.

  John Armstrong

  Heaven, Athletic, Soul

  John Armstrong, John Aikin, William Andrus Alcott (1838). “The Art of Preserving Health: A Poem, in Four Books”, p.80

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• I'm not precious about anything. The effort it took to get something means nothing to me in post. It means nothing to the audience. I'll chop limbs off. I'll put an arm where a leg should be. I'll do anything.

  Steven Soderbergh

  Mean, Effort, Legs

  Fuente: www.avclub.com

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• I haven't written a novel or something that long, because I really am improvising all along and the story is growing new limbs to do what it needs to do. So there's very little planning. There's a little planning where I say, "Well, it looks like I'm going in this direction, ok, good." But there's very little forethought or intellectual justification: "Oh, look, I'm putting in a theme park because that represents dystopian America!"

  George Saunders

  America, Long, Intellectual

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

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• The house, while sound in wind and limb, was described as being of 'no character.' We didn't think then that it had anything but character, rather sinister perhaps, but definitely character.

  Margery Fish

  Character, Thinking, Wind

  Margery Fish (2011). “We Made a Garden”, p.12, Pavilion Books

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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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• Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me!

  Muhammad Ali

  Cassius, Cassius Clay, Like Me

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• El mundo es demasiado poco consciente del despilfarro de vidas, miembros y tierras que las minas antipersonas están causando entre algunas de las poblaciones más pobres del planeta.

  Princess Diana

  Tierra, Gente, Mundo

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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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• 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.

  Teócrito

  Age, Frost, Firsts

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

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

  Dan Fogelberg

  Años

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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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• With his venom irresistible and bittersweet that loosener of limbs, Love reptile-like strikes me down

  Safo

  Love, Reptiles, Bittersweet

  Sappho, Mary Barnard (1958). “Sappho”, p.53, Univ of California Press

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• Since thou wouldst needs, bewitched with some ill charms, Be buried in those monumental arms: As we can wish, is, may that earth lie light Upon thy tender limbs, and so good night.

  Edmund Waller

  Good Night, Lying, Light

  1645 'To One Married to an Old Man'.

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• Nature has placed in the front part of man, as he moves, all those parts which when struck cause him to feel pain; and this is felt in the joints of the legs, the forehead and the nose, and has been so devised for the preservation of man, because if such pain were not felt in these limbs they would be destroyed by the many blows they receive.

  Leonardo da Vinci

  Pain, Moving, Blow

  Leonardo da Vinci (2013). “Life, art and science, the thoughts of Leonardo”, p.271, Lulu.com

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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). "Mi viaje por América", Random House Incorporated

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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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• When you involved in an accident and someone asks "are you alright?" Yes fine thanks, I'll just pick up my limbs and be off.

  Billy Connolly

  Funny, Humor, Thanks

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• La resistencia a la violencia repentina, para la preservación no sólo de mi persona, mis miembros y mi vida, sino también de mi propiedad, es un derecho indiscutible de la naturaleza que nunca he cedido al público por el pacto de la sociedad, y que tal vez, no podría ceder si quisiera.

  John Adams

  Life, Nature, Gun

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.438

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• [Una república... [es] un gobierno, en el cual la propiedad del público, o pueblo, y de cada uno de ellos está asegurada y protegida por la ley... implica libertad; porque la propiedad no puede ser asegurada a menos que el hombre esté en libertad de adquirirla, usarla o desprenderse de ella, a su discreción, y a menos que tenga su libertad personal de vida y cuerpo, movimiento y descanso, para ese propósito.

  John Adams

  Libertad, Hombres, Ley

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1851). "Las Obras de John Adams, Segundo Presidente de los Estados Unidos: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations", p.454

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