Legs famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Maybe I'm not good for you. Maybe what I feel is wrong. Because I did love Ashton. She was all I needed... but never did I feel the uncontrollable desire to get her underneath me. Never did I make up reasons to get her to wrap her legs around me so I could feel her pressed up against me. Never. He swallowed hard. "Never did I think about being inside her
-- Abbi Glines -
For many of us the march from Selma to Montgomery was about protest and prayer. Legs are not lips and walking is not kneeling. And yet our legs uttered songs. Even without words, our march was worship. I felt my legs were praying.
-- Abraham Joshua Heschel -
You can always count on the New York Times to cut your legs off.
-- Adam Rapp -
The legs that I have made are far more perfect than the ones nature would have given me - my mother's side of the family have awful legs.
-- Aimee Mullins -
I think there's a little me hiding behind your leg, Chichi." "I'm Goten." "I'm Goku. Hi!" .... "Daddy!
-- Akira Toriyama -
I’m in no hurry: the sun and the moon aren’t, either. Nobody goes faster than the legs they have. If where I want to go is far away, I’m not there in an instant.
-- Al Berto -
The people who criticise you will not be the ones taking care of your legs when you are in your wheelchair. People who never drove a car in these conditions, they just don't know.
-- Alain Prost -
My favourite part... I guess it's my legs.
-- Alessandra Ambrosio -
We''d like to be welcomed with open arms and open legs
-- Andy Biersack -
I was saying the other day, how often the most vulnerable area for goalies is between their legs.
-- Andy Gray -
We stood back-to-back, blocking and striking in harmony; sometimes it felt like his arms and legs were an extension of me. I could count on him to keep them off me from behind.
-- Ann Aguirre -
It's not really a shorter skirt, I just have longer legs
-- Anna Kournikova -
Thinking of getting into the leg-breaking business, so I can profitably sell crutches later.
-- Anthony Bourdain -
Physically it's kind of lassitude, the apathy and tiredness that precedes the flu or some other illness, or death. My legs ache and feel heavy, my skin has become more sensitive to cold and to heat, to the hardness or rigidity of things. Nothing interests me, I feel uncomfortable being still but would feel even more uncomfortable if I moved. I don't know whether speaking is painful or just boring. I sit here, staring straight ahead, with no desires, no needs, hollow. I'm not even sad. I feel only passivity and indifference.
-- Antonio Lobo Antunes -
With speed skating, it's like doing one-legged squats over and over again, with that one leg absorbing more than 80 percent of your weight. It takes an enormous amount of strength, and you're in such a weird position.
-- Apolo Ohno -
They're very tenacious. They're dedicated. Once a woman decides she's going to do something, she'll probably stick to it. The only problem with women is if there's anything wrong with them, they won't tell you. They'll get out there and run on one leg. They don't moan and groan like a lot of men do.
-- Arthur Lydiard -
The strange thing about Roman soldiers in the comics was the amount of trouble they took over their armor and their helmets, and then, after all that, they left their legs bare. It didn't make any sense at all. Weatherwise or otherwise.
-- Arundhati Roy -
A sparrow lay dead on the backseat. She had found her way through a hole in the windscreen, tempted by some seat-sponge for her nest. She never found her way out. No one noticed her panicked car-window appeals. She died on the backseat, with her legs in the air. Like a joke.
-- Arundhati Roy -
Even when we lose an arm or a leg, there's not less of us but more. Human experience weighs more than human tissue.
-- Augusten Burroughs -
You must fill every inch of your body with the asana from your chest and arms and legs to the tips of your fingers and toes so that the asana radiates from the core of your body and fills the entire diameter and circumference of your limbs. You must feel your intelligence, your awareness, and your consciousness in every inch of your body.
-- B.K.S. Iyengar -
They've maintained their unbeaten record between the legs.
-- Barry Davies -
When I was born, they put casts on my legs 'cause I had some kind of dysplasia or something. My legs were all messed up.
-- Bebe Neuwirth -
I was tired of admiring your legs from a distance.
-- Becca Fitzpatrick -
the women's movement, not only here in the U.S., but worldwide, is bigger and stronger than ever before and in places where it has never been. It has arms. It has legs. And most importantly, it has heads.
-- Bella Abzug -
I think I can get five, six, seven more years out of this arm and these legs.
-- Ben Roethlisberger -
The person whose face is between your legs is gonna get lockjaw.
-- Betty Dodson -
Marriage is to family what legs are to a table.
-- Betty Jane Wylie -
I like to make them wait, then I make them beg. And when I take off my clothes, then I form a third leg.
-- Big Daddy Kane -
Discrimination has a lot of layers that make it tough for minorities to get a leg up.
-- Bill Gates -
I was the best manager in Britain because I was never devious or cheated anyone. I’d break my wife’s legs if I played against her, but I’d never cheat her.
-- Bill Shankly -
I was in the game for love. After all, where else can an old-timer with one leg, who can't hear or see, live like a king while doing the only thing I wanted to do?
-- Bill Veeck -
I like so much wearing heels, legs look so much better, everything looks better. But it's only recently I've had the courage to do that.
-- Blanka Vlasic -
No affairs for me. It is so wonderful to have a family to come home to, to sit with them, pull each other's legs... To lose all of that for what? Who's got the time? I'm having great fun working.
-- Boman Irani -
I won't wear fur - never, ever. I'm an animal lover. I wouldn't even wear faux fur. I prefer to go the cheap route and not shave my legs.
-- Bonnie Hunt -
I don't always see humor in things. Especially when I smash my pinky toe into a coffee table leg in the middle of the night. But sometimes I'll see things, or experience things, that make me go, "Huh, maybe that's a bit."
-- Brian Regan -
If you want to know if your brain is flabby, feel your legs.
-- Bruce Barton -
I don't want the horse to get trained, because training the horse is absolutely finite. But if you get the horse to where he operates as if to be your legs, an extension of you, you've far-exceeded that whole training notion.
-- Buck Brannaman -
The mouse is a fair treat but this one would talk the hind legs off a donkey.
-- C. S. Lewis -
I have good legs, so I prefer my skirt lengths and my high heels. It's like my uniform.
-- Carine Roitfeld -
He knows I'm brutal. He's knows I can punch hard. He knows if I connect on his chin, at any one moment, 12 three minute rounds, he's going to be in serious trouble. If he's not on the floor, his legs will do a funny dance.
-- Carl Froch -
You know in that moment of Disney when Ariel gets legs for the first time? I felt like that. I was like, 'I've got legs.'
-- Carly Rae Jepsen -
I am like a table that eats its own legs off because it’s fallen in love with the floor.
-- Cate Marvin -
Am I an ego on legs? No I am not. Do I want to be seen out there all the time saying everything? No, I don't.
-- Catherine Ashton -
I would climb on roofs and jump off using my parents' bed sheet, hoping it would open like a parachute. I was always getting hurt, breaking a leg, you know, bruising, cracking my head open.
-- Cathy Rigby -
oh my god, she couldn't help thinking. I have hairy legs and I'm going to die alone.
-- Cecily von Ziegesar -
Even if I thought I could get a submission I'm not laying underneath a grown man with my legs spread on worldwide TV. Some guys subscribe to that theory but I am a Republican and we don't do that.
-- Chael Sonnen -
The dance can reveal everything mysterious that is hidden in music, and it has the additional merit of being human and palpable. Dancing is poetry with arms and legs.
-- Charles Baudelaire -
but as God said, crossing his legs, I see where I have made plenty of poets but not so very much poetry.
-- Charles Bukowski -
Gender is between your ears and not between your legs.
-- Chaz Bono -
In a statement to the Associated Press earlier in the year, Jamie Lynn said she didn’t have a boyfriend. She said, ‘I’m keeping my options open.’ And by options, she meant legs.
-- Chelsea Handler -
We teach girls shame; close your legs, cover yourself, we make them feel as though by being born female they're already guilty of something.
-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -
There were people thrice her size on the Trenton platform and she looked admiringly at one of them, a woman in a very short skirt. She thought nothing of slender legs shown off in miniskirts--it was safe and easy, after all, to display legs of which the world approved--but the fat woman's act was about the quiet conviction that one shared only with oneself, a sense of rightness that others failed to see.
-- Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie -
The cool things about space is when you put your pants on here, you can put them on two legs at a time.
-- Chris Hadfield -
As a matter of fact I could beat you two with both my arms and my legs tied. I'll roll down this ramp and score myself a 7-10 idiot split!
-- Chris Jericho -
When I was in high school, I ran hurdles, but I was really short, so I'd barely clear them. I was pretty quick, but I had little legs, so I had to take 50 steps in between each hurdle.
-- Chris Kirkpatrick -
My, I felt this thrill going up my leg. I mean, I don't have that too often.
-- Chris Matthews -
I’m quite capable of walking,†she pointed out. It is faster this way. Your legs are short.†They are not!
-- Christine Feehan -
He tapped one of the ivory spikes between his legs and said, 'There be as good a way to lose your manhood as ever I've seen'.
-- Christopher Paolini -
If he fancied her anymore," Saphira said to both Eragon and Roran, "I'd be trying to kiss Arya myself." "Saphira!" Mortified, Eragon swatted her on the leg.
-- Christopher Paolini -
According to the rules of comedy, your suffering will be funny after an undetermined length of time. Maybe not while you're having your gangrenous leg sawed off, watching your home burn down or learning how to be intimate with your cellmate, but, in the big scheme of things, soon.
-- Chuck Lorre -
There are definite advantages to single beds." He sat up abruptly and arranged her legs around his waist. "Makes cuddling mandatory.
-- Cindy Gerard -
The egg it is the source of all. Tis everyone's ancestral hall. The bravest chief that ever fought, The lowest thief that e'er was caught, The harlot's lip, the maiden's leg, They each and all came from an egg.
-- Clarence Day -
When your eyes go, and your legs go, and your fans go; then it's time for you to go too.
-- Clive Lloyd -
He's showed him the left leg, then the right. Where's the ball, the defender asks? It's up his sleeve.
-- Clive Tyldesley -
If ever it's necessary to ride the bandwagon, it's done with one leg swinging out and eyes scoping the fields.
-- Criss Jami -
Brooks Robinson is not a fast man, but his arms and legs move very quickly.
-- Curt Gowdy -
My wit is like your legs," said Xochi. " It would be selfish of me to keep it hidden.
-- Dan Wells -
Visiting Anderson Silva. He's doing AMAZING! Leg is healing fast and will be walking without crutches in 30 days.
-- Dana White -
I was very good at kickball ... I was wonderful at ah doing that kick and your leg goes up and your shoe went on top of the school
-- Dane Cook -
Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal of leg work in order to get to the solution in the end.
-- Daniel Tammet -
I had yet to be a mother, but I would have thought it difficult to forget something it took thirty-seven hours of excruciating pain to push out from between my legs ~Charley Davidson
-- Darynda Jones -
Would you not like to be, sittin' on top of the world with your legs hanging free?
-- Dave Matthews -
I have a fun time, doing the meet and greets, the pictures and the autographs. Every show I've ever done, lends itself to that kind of thing. My convention life has legs.
-- David Anders -
We can't control what the ratings will be. It's like, if you're going to go skiing, do you hope you'll have a good day of skiing? Yes. Do you hope you won't break your leg? Yes.
-- David Hyde Pierce -
I shave my legs twice a week. It's hard the first time you do it. But I'm very lazy. For a team photo in December I just did the fronts.
-- David Millar -
I am doing better now though one of my legs is shorter than the other due to the operations.
-- David Prowse -
Don't run with your legs, run with your heart.
-- Dean Karnazes -
I have a fuller figure and sometimes like to hide my legs. Palazzo pants accentuate my small waist and make me feel a little like Katharine Hepburn.
-- Debi Mazar -
We kissed each other, long and deep, while my legs opened like the covers of a book.
-- Deborah Harkness -
You may need help or information from some nongovernmental organization, and the local person heading that NGO may be some West Coast, liberal-educated, no-leg-shaving, Birkenstock-wearing female uniform-hater. And you gotta deal with her.
-- Dick Couch -
I almost had to have my leg amputated because of an infection.
-- Dick Dale -
Spread ya legs, arch your back. Go up and down, and make it clap.
-- Diplo -
Time is a great conference planning our end, and youth is only the past putting a leg forward.
-- Djuna Barnes -
Lucy brought with her an image of our human ancestors that you don't get when you find a jaw or an arm bone or a leg bone. Here was 40 percent of a single skeleton.
-- Donald Johanson -
Teenagers are free verse walking around on two legs.
-- Dorothy Allison -
I then realized my appearance was a bit odd. My right leg was no longer with me. It had caught somewhere in the top of the cockpit as I tried to leave my Spitfire.
-- Douglas Bader -
Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap is covered.
-- Edith Head -
My temper is not spoilt. I am absolutely non-homicidal. Nor do I ever attack unless I have been attacked first, and then Heaven have mercy upon the attacker, because I don't! I just sharpen my wits on a wooden head as a cat sharpens its claws on the wood legs of a table.
-- Edith Sitwell -
I wanted to clear up the slum of legs… I wanted to make the chair all one thing again.
-- Eero Saarinen -
The thing about breaking up when you get older, you just don't have the steam anymore. "Oh, that's it. I can't start shaving my legs above the knee again."
-- Elayne Boosler -
When I was 22, I had this horrible psoriasis outbreak. It was all over my legs, I couldn't walk because my legs were cracked and bleeding. Weird things like that can happen to your body.
-- Eli Roth -
I hate banana bread. It's too suspicious-looking. I always thought the cooked banana looked like insect legs.
-- Elizabeth Berg -
No one would ever say that someone with a broken arm or a broken leg is less than a whole person, but people say that or imply that all the time about people with mental illness
-- Elyn Saks