Limbs Quotations

If the worst thing that can happen is that nobody laughs, then I can deal with that, because the worst thing that can happen at the factory is that I could lose a limb or be crushed by a huge machine.

I was a telemarketer in my senior year at high school. I had to sell prosthetic limbs to paralysed veterans. I was making 150 bucks a week and it was horrible.

I'm trying to grow more limbs in order to multitask at a greater rate and I'm also investigating the possibilities of cloning. Because nothing would be more useful than having multiples of me, and that way, I could do all of the things I'd like to do in the short amount of time we all have here.

When you go out on a limb, that's when you really know you're living

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.

To most boys with growing limbs and swelling sinews, physical activity is a natural instinct, and there is no need to drive them into the football field or the fives court: they go there because they like it, and there is no need to make games compulsory for them.

So I all knew was you lost your limbs and you died from it. I was scared silly.

For me, the safest place is out on a limb.

Countless are the women parasites who, to satisfy their craving for pleasure and luxury, impoverish father or husband. These lame limbs in the social organism, which themselves accomplish nothing, but for whom all other limbs work, are the most flagrant example of womanly immorality in the present.

In judging of a beautiful statue, the aesthetic faculty is absolutely and completely gratified by the splendid curves of those marble lips that are dumb to our complaint, the noble modelling of those limbs that are powerless to help us.

We're in a low area, so we had one or two feet of water yesterday. That has drained down now. Obviously, the area is still wet, but it's drying out. We did get some roof damagesome damage to some windows, and tree limbs hitting windows.

We're seeing gangrenous legs ... people are going to lose limbs at this point. They're actually going to have to go to surgery and get them cut off.

My limbs fail and my mouth becomes dry. My body quivers and my hairs stand on end.

People who ask, "Can I ask you a question?" Didn't really give me a choice there, did you sunshine? When you are waiting for the bus and someone asks, "Has the bus come yet?" If the bus came, would I be standing here, Knobhead? When you're involved in an accident and someone asks, "Are you alright?" Yes, fine thanks, I'll just pick up my limbs and be off. People who announce they are going to the toilet. Thanks, that's an image I really didn't need.

get the message out that limbs can be saved.

From the Gate of Kings the North Wind rides, and past the roaring falls;And clear and cold about the tower its loud horn calls.'What news from the North, O mighty wind, do you bring to me today?What news of Boromir the Bold? For he is long away.''Beneath Amon Hen I heard his cry. There many foes he fought.His cloven shield, his broken sword, they to the water brought.His head so proud, his face so fair, his limbs they laid to rest;And Rauros, golden Rauros-falls, bore him upon its breast.''O Boromir! The Tower of Gaurd shall ever northward gazeTo Rauros, golden Rauros-falls, until the end of days.'

God designed in different faiths adored by different human communities are all limbs of the One God that really is.

We've got to get the dangerous trees, the dangling limbs left from Hurricane Katrina removed. But I am afraid spring storms will catch us before that happens.

Hockey wasn't invented but discovered. The game, and the large organizing idea behind Stephen Smith's deeply personal 'Puckstruck,' sleeps in ponds and in the crooked limbs of trees overhead; we merely pluck a stick from the sky and skate over the frozen world to find ourselves and each other.

I think they are ready to get back at it. You can tell they are kind of tired because a lot of them are sitting around not doing a whole lot, or they ones that are doing something are ready to quit hauling limbs and play a little football.

Just a lot of rain, some trees and limbs down and the power went out. But other than that, they're fine.

Jesus did. I was hopping along, when suddenly he comes and cures me. One minute I'm a leper with a trade, next moment me livelihood's gone. Not so much as a by your leave. Look. I'm not saying that being a leper was a bowl of cherries. But it was a living. I mean, you try waving muscular suntanned limbs in people's faces demanding compassion. It's a bloody disaster.

I saw people torn apart and limbs scattered on all sides,

I say apparently because the tail and hind limbs of the dead alligator were protruding from a hole in the mid-body of the dead python.

Redwoods have an enormous surface area that extends upward into space because they have a propensity to do something called reiteration. A redwood is a fractal. And as they put out limbs, the limbs burst into small trees, copies of the redwood.

Organic life beneath the shoreless waves Was born and nurs'd in ocean's pearly caves; First forms minute, unseen by spheric glass, Move on the mud, or pierce the watery mass; These, as successive generations bloom, New powers acquire and larger limbs assume; Whence countless groups of vegetation spring, And breathing realms of fin and feet and wing.

That eye wall is coming through, but its pretty moderate here. The only thing I can really see is tree limbs and some palm fronds in the road.

We were very fortunate this time, ... There were a few limbs that fell and a few minor power outages.

We donate a portion of all proceeds to The Rehabilitation Centre for Children, an institution that provided both of our sons with the prosthetic limbs they use today.

The suppressed lesbian I had been carrying in me since adolescence began to stretch her limbs ...

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

Whiles every sence teh humour sweet embayd, / And slombring soft my hart did steale away, / Me seemed, by my side a royall Mayd / Her daintie limbs full softly down did lay: / So faire a creature yet saw never sunny day.

We've had people advertising for dinner dates. We've had ads including how to stretch you limbs to become a marshall arts expert.

You can hear tree limbs cracking and all of a sudden you look up, and there's a 500-pound limb falling. It is a mess, and we're trying to bring some order to the mess.

What but the wolf's tooth whittled so fine The fleet limbs of the antelope?What but fear winged the birds, and hunger Jewelled with such eyes the great goshawk's head?

Towers oxidize quickly and go from a shiny metallic color to dull gray. It's hard to see the towers, and I bet no one can tell you how many towers there are between Exits 1 and 5. It looks bad to have a painted tower with fake tree limbs and it's much taller than the trees around it. I call that the 'Wal-Mart Special.

Every moving thing I have held fast. Eye and breath I have held fast. I have held fast all limbs in the deep gloom of the night.

Everything was gone or ruined, ... There were pine tree limbs going through the top of the kitchen into the bathroom.

The tree was 95 percent dead. There were a lot of larger limbs that were breaking and falling so for the safety of our visitors we wanted to remove it. The tree has been in serious decline for two or three years ...

The tallest tree in the history of African American journalism has fallen, but has fallen gracefully. The tree that stood tall for over 60 years and a tree that planted a forest, a tree with widespread limbs and full of fruit. He connected to Africa and African Americans. He shared the pain of Emmett Till, the development of Martin Luther King Jr., and was a source of information and inspiration. He was the number one black publisher for 60 years. His impact had been felt through the whole world of journalism.

Seeing fathers-in-law, all those kinsmen, and other dear ones standing in the ranks of the two armies, / Arjuna was overcome with great compassion and sorrowfully said: O Krishna, seeing my kinsmen standing with a desire to fight, / My limbs fail and my mouth becomes dry. My body quivers and my hairs stand on end.

Anyone can find Vanessa around Andalusia planting trees, shrubs and flowers. She is always picking up limbs or mowing grass. No matter what the job is, Vanessa is always smiling and waving to everyone as they pass by her.

As always, customers are reminded to treat all downed wires as energized and are urged to avoid downed wires or areas with tree limbs on wires.

The bulk of the damage was due to tree limbs coming down on wires, and Anne Arundel was simply where we had more tree limbs come down.

This is unacceptable and claims we used things to carve people's limbs are absurd,

There's debris, there are tree limbs all over. Traffic lights are out, ... Don't get in your car.

Its rotting limbs are definitely a safety issue, ... If one of them were to fall on someone they could be seriously injured or killed.

The cannon thunders - limbs fly in all directions - one can hear the groans of victims and the howling of those performing the sacrifice - it's Humanity in search of happiness

Inside are people who are alive but have broken limbs or other injuries. We can't use any heavy equipment.

Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another.

Limbs of a dismembered poet.

You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.

Osteosarcoma sometimes takes a limb to check you out. The, if it like you, it takes the rest.

Life without limbs? Or life without limits?

To live without having a Cicero and a Tacitus at hand seems to me as if it was aprivation of one of my limbs.

The smile is the dance of the face - the dance is the smile of the limbs.

Nature has always something rare to show us... and the danger to life and limb is hardly greater than one would experience crouching deprecatingly beneath a roof.

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.

And it might be more fun if the flesh on those tapered limbs were better. But chicken was dry. Two kinds of steak met one kind of fate: flavorlessness. Tuna joined them in that ignoble, insipid land.

Already Roland feels his limbs starting to go numb. He swallows hard. "I hate this. I hate you. I hate all of you." "I understand.

A nation grown free in a single day is a child born with the limbs and the vigor of a man, who would take a drawn sword for his rattle, and set the house in a blaze that he might chuckle over the splendor.

Know in the first place, that mankind agree in essence, as they do in limbs and senses.

He could not stand. It was not That he could not thrive, he was born With everything but the will – That can be deformed, just like a limb. Death was more interesting to him. Life could not get his attention.

Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.

How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away

Once again love drives me on, that loosener of limbs, bittersweet creature against which nothing can be done.

Therefore, since brevity is the soul of wit, And tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes, I will be brief

Familiarize yourself with the chains of bondage and you prepare your own limbs to wear them.

Brevity is the soul of wit, and tediousness the limbs and outward flourishes.

Stillness and steadiness of features are signal marks of good breeding. Vulgar persons can't sit still, or at least must always work their limbs and features.

Wit is a form of force that leaves the limbs at rest.

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

And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.

I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits