Limb Quotations

I love being new places and hate getting there, and have been known to say on multiple occasions that I would give anything from a piece of my soul to a limb to a portion of my life savings to teleport. Especially when bad weather keeps me off planes.

The qualities of an exceptional cook are akin to those of a successful tightrope walker: an abiding passion for the task, courage to go out on a limb and an impeccable sense of balance.

Reading 'Youth in Revolt' might have ruined my career because suddenly I wanted to abandon all the emotional truth of something and just go out far on a literary limb with completely implausible things that relied completely on voice and humor. And what saved me is realizing that I couldn't do that very well.

I certainly know what it is like to go to work and leave your baby at home. It is an ache that only other mothers can understand. I always say that it feels like you've left a limb at home. And I really struggled for the first few months of work. There were times when I shut myself in my room and cried.

The fishes are also employed for the same purpose on any yard, which happens to be sprung or fractured. Thus their form, application, and utility are exactly like those of the splinters applied to a broken limb in surgery.

We're living through a paradigm shift. People are going to look back at us and say, 'They used to cut people's legs off.' Then they'll just give an injection and the blood flow will be restored and the limb saved.

There isn't much point in the whole 'celebrity' nonsense unless one is prepared to go out on a limb and, one hopes, speak up for some under-represented section of the community.

They're making so few movies that you really just have to make it. It's going to be the only way you end up getting work. I don't believe anyone's going to really go out on a limb and just throw millions of dollars on someone that's not been proven. They're going to have to show somebody something at some point.

We found out pretty quickly what a nice guy Mark was. In fact, he's still the nicest guy on the World Cup circuit. But back then, he'd catch some good-natured ribbing about it. Luckily for us, he took it well. If Mark had wanted to rip us limb from limb, he probably could've.

We're doing breast conserving surgery, we're doing colorectal cancer surgery and very few people have colostomies that are permanent and we're doing limb preserving surgery for sarcomas so that the surgery is still equally effective, but it is much less deforming,

We're still in search-and-rescue mode. We're in the saving life and limb thought process.

We have to go further and further out on a limb in order to keep today's audience entertained because they're not excited anymore about seeing a fast car chase on San Francisco streets. For a Coca-Cola and box of popcorn, it isn't worth getting somebody killed, and if at the end of the movie it says 'in memoriam to,' then you haven't properly done your job.

We have quietly gone after that organization, and we're picking it apart limb by limb, ... We are not done yet, but we will be.

The problem with the whole issue is that both sides need to be accommodated. There does need to be better border security for national security purposes, but in my view you cannot have better border security until you deal with the problem of finding a way for people to immigrate legally. People are not crossing the border risking life and limb to do so because they're too lazy to go down to the visa office and apply legally.

Leh has few of what Europeans regard as travelling necessaries. The brick tea which I purchased from a Lhassa trader was disgusting. I afterwards understood that blood is used in making up the blocks. The flour was gritty, and a leg of mutton turned out to be a limb of a goat of much experience.

On six, I got lucky. I had a gap, and I just tried to put the ball up there somewhere on the green. I had a shot to the green, I was just hoping I didn't catch a limb and it came out clean.

I would even go out on a limb and say Minister Farrakhan has been cured.

I don't think we're going out on a limb in suggesting that the Fed will leave rates unchanged this time around. We expect the Fed may bide the time it has and wait to see how the economy looks before moving again, particularly with no solid evidence of rising inflation.

If it's life or limb threatening, we recommend the emergency room, and we still work closely with Methodist Hospitals. But if a cook cuts himself or an employees hurts their back or knee, we can treat them. We're a one stop shop, we currently have three clinics and are hoping to expand.

He's gone way out on a limb to help the township. They've done an outstanding job on the building so far.

He was one of the few who went out on a limb in probing and had a negative opinion about the company.

Guess what? I went out on a limb for it. I stand behind it. I've done pretty much all I can do. I need to get a return on my investment. I think Damp will respond. Whatever minutes he plays, I expect him to be a terror out there on the court.

I would vouch for those two in the room with a very strong conviction. I was saying to the executives, 'If you believe in me, believe in them.' We kind of all went out on a limb together.

I went out on a limb for it. I stand behind it. I've done pretty much all that I can do.

I will go out on a limb and say, eventually, we will accomplish this,

Pain or discomfort caused by upper limb disorders can lead to more sick days and low motivation.

I think she'll be excited when she gets the 3,000. But, seriously, I think it's awesome that she's doing that. For your coach to do something like that to make our senior day special, I am just really thankful that she would go out on a limb to do something like that. When she told the team, I was really surprised and kind of shocked but it just shows the kind of person she is and we really appreciate what she's doing.

I'm still here watching. I called two animal rescue services and, you know what, neither one offered to help. I've got an eight-foot step ladder and a limb cutter if we need it.

We do not feel on-site training is sufficient for our employees to avoid unnecessary accidents and potential loss of limb or life.

You know, even though you have a limb severed, the signals keep running down the nerves so I still get an itch on my elbow or whatever.

We are seeing smaller increases in both than we have previously. But it can be a gradual process. We are predicting and we are going out on a big limb here a slowing of the increases, possibly leading even to a decline in the future.

We all believed it was a big joke. They went out on a limb and said it was real effect and it might come from the changes in that intricate dance that electrons do around every molecule. This really annoyed me." ()

And you can understand they're likely to say, 'Well, Governor, we're not going to go way out on a limb for you in this special election without some guarantee that you're going to be around for the next four years,'

There's no need for me to guarantee a victory. No point. We're 7-2. We are one of the best teams in the NFL right now. So there's no need for me to go out on a limb like that.

There's no need for me to guarantee a victory. No point, ... We're 7-2. We are one of the best teams in the NFL right now. So there's no need for me to go out on a limb like that.

I've put myself out there on a limb and I've posed a challenge to every opponent I'm playing each week, ... They all understand it's all in fun. It's entertaining for the outside world. But for us, it's serious. It's work.

I've looked at four different limb jobs, and three different tree jobs and it's only 10-thirty.

I've never been able to shake the idea of family, which is to say I've never been able to shake my family. Being membered - being one limb of an immense grosser body - that's always been a fact to me.

The older I get, for me it's about fear. If I read something and it scares the hell out of me, that's what I want to do. If it's a challenge and a massive risk and I'm going out on a limb ... those are the ones I want. And they are few and far between. I don't work very much because I'm very specific about what I want to do.

Appreciation is like looking through a wide-angle lens that lets you see the entire forest, not just the one tree limb you walked up on.

There was no guarantee that even if we took every limb away. There was absolutely very minimal, minimal, minimal chance of him a surviving; and, B, if he did survive, what state?

I told Robert (Yates) before Dover -- I went out on a limb and I promised him that I would get this 88 UPS car back in Victory Lane before the end of the year,

It really felt like it was the last game of the year. The Syracuse loss really affected me. I don't like that feeling. There's only one way out and that's give every limb of your body you've got.

They'll risk life and limb of their human cargo. Each person represents a dollar sign.

Any time you're stepping out on a limb as an artist, it's scary, especially when you have a lot of success. When you're reaching a lot of people, the masses, it's easy to stay in that niche, you know? Especially when you're making a lot of money and you know there's a formula, it's easy to stay in that rut.

I'm not scared to take a chance. I'm not scared to go out there on a limb and do something different. If I was nervous, I would probably have done whatever it took to stay back where I left.

I'm going to go out on a limb here - 75% of the buildings in Gulfport have major roof damage if they have a roof left at all,

IMPROBABILITY, n.His tale he told with a solemn face And a tender, melancholy grace. Improbable 'twas, no doubt, When you came to think it out, But the fascinated crowd Their deep surprise avowed And all with a single voice averred'Twas the most amazing thing they'd heard -- All save one who spake never a word, But sat as mum As if deaf and dumb, Serene, indifferent and unstirred. Then all the others turned to him And scrutinized him limb from limb -- Scanned him alive; But he seemed to thrive And tranquiler grow each minute, As if there were nothing in it."What! what!" cried one, "are you not amazed At what our friend has told?" He raised Soberly then his eyes and gazed In a natural way And proceeded to say, As he crossed his feet on the mantel-shelf:"O no --not at all; I'm a liar myself.

If Karl Rove were indicted, that would be like George W. Bush losing his right arm at a time when he needs every limb he's got to climb out of the hole he's in and to rebuild his presidency.

I'll go out on a huge limb and say that it won't be 30. I would be really surprised if it's 30. It will be a really good game and with the support this community has for the Lady Bears, I'd be very surprised if there wasn't 8,000 fans here.

I hesitate to go out on a limb on a virus like this. I don't know if there will be damage on Friday.

I don't know if anybody would be willing to go out on a limb and say other Negro leagues guys are going to be considered.

The further you are from the roots of the organization - the more likely you'll end up out on a limb with the nuts.

A ''modern'' man has nothing to add to modernism, if only because he has nothing to oppose it with. The well-adapted drop off the dead limb of time like lice.