Belly Quotations

I'm coming out of the belly of Iran. It was the only place I was free. It's funny - when I say that, everyone is like, 'What? Freedom?' But the freedom I felt in Iran I've never felt anywhere else. Freedom of mind, freedom of time, of spirit. But after a while, you're so wounded that if you continue thinking about Iran, it will kill you.

Transforming a line like that makes it into a belly laugh instead of a laugh against us.

Belly was not a bad movie. It was visually very interesting.

The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.

I was the first to win a major with a belly putter, and I've spent hours practicing that way, so I hope they don't ban anchoring.

No clock is more regular than the belly.

In the tight belly of the dead, Burrow with hungry head, And inlay maggots like a jewel.

Originally, with all the shows, we went looking for belly laughs.

When I was little, I wasn't so little. I had a big old round belly and I was really clumsy, but I was super confident.

This beast went to the well and drank, and the noise was in the beast's belly like unto the questing of thirty couple hounds, but all the while the beast drank there was no noise in the beast's belly.

We would be driving down the street in a place like Zaire, now the Democratic Republic of Congo, and started to see, my gosh, the only people that have shoes are men. Why does that woman have a baby in her belly and one on her back, and she's carrying a huge load of bananas? You start to ask these questions.

I'm the first to admit that the resolution of a hand feeling the belly doesn't compare with the resolution of a CAT scan scanning the belly, but only my hand can say that it hurts at this spot and not at this spot. Only my hand can say that.

With his economic speeches in response to Obama's 'you didn't build that' fiasco, Romney proved that he does have fire in his belly and that he is fervently dedicated to free enterprise, entrepreneurship and pro-growth policies.

I don't go to these places where there are belly dancers and this and that.

In my opinion, the only real asset one has is one's reputation, right? I mean, any company and institution can go belly up at any time. But if you have a good reputation, you know, you can usually find somebody who can - who thinks they can use what you have to offer.

Smoked salmon is for dinner. Belly lox is for breakfast. Don't get that mixed up.

I don't exactly fit well in leather pants, so I don't rock that look. I lost my hair a long time ago, so no hair-metal look, either. I had hair down to my belly button at one point, but I think that was the '90s.

In fifth grade, we had to write a story and read it in front of the class. When I read mine out, the class were just belly laughing. And I remember being like, 'This is the coolest!' So I want to dedicate my life to trying to make people laugh. I can't imagine doing anything else.

My parents were exactly like millions of other Americans who had a fire in their belly to build something of their own, and in so doing they exemplified the dignity of work, the opportunity available in this great nation to those willing to work, and they left the world a bit better than it was when they first showed up.

I could take all the cartoons in the tabloid newspapers, but I couldn't take my daughter punching me in the belly and asking why I was so fat. That was my inspiration to lose the weight. And probably the last time anyone hurt my feelings.

Until the storm hits and we get in to look at the damage, it's hard to tell how long this could last, ... Rita is pointed right at the belly of the industry.

When we first get to space, we feel sick. Your body is really confused. You're dizzy. Your lunch is floating around in your belly because you're floating. What you see doesn't match what you feel, and you want to throw up.

I was learning that among friends, a smile can be better than a belly laugh.

Normally I don't feel like having a belly full of pasta.

Retain the wind by compressing the belly.

The real challenge in going under the belly was a robotics challenge, ... Jim and Wendy, they had probably the most challenging job of all. ... I had to find the gap fillers, and direct Wendy to take me there. ... Getting there was a big deal. Getting them out was not.

We're having belly dancers and flamenco performances throughout the festival.

Most of the things I've had a producorial involvement on began as things I was going to direct, or I set out to direct myself and realized either I don't have the fire in my belly to do it, or I don't feel like I've licked the story enough.

My desire for my own sitcom began as a little girl - I spent hours lying on my belly on the shag carpeting getting lost in the world of the '70s sitcom. All I wanted to do was run away to the Brady house, The Partridge Family bus; even the project on 'Good Times' seemed better than Clark, NJ.

My dad was in a Beatles cover band. My mom wore Candies and belly buttons. The people in our family were very glamorous. They wore pearls like Jackie O.

My favorite line of fiction is from Raymond Carver's Gazebo: 'That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon, she tries to jump out the window. I go, Holly, this can't continue.'

My father and I met Lead Belly in the Angola Penitentiary in 1933. We came there looking for the roots of American black song, and we certainly found them with Lead Belly.

Near the turn of the century, the destitute of Europe sprang on the city with tenacious claws and an honest and solid dream. The city devoured them. They swelled its belly until it burst into a thousand furnaces and sewing machines, a thousand butcher shops and bakers' ovens, a thousand churches and hospitals and funeral parlors and money lenders. The city grew. It nourished itself and offered each man a partnership limited only by his talent, his guile and his willingness and capacity for hard work. For the immigrants of Europe, a dream dared and won true.

I don?t go crazy, but when I go out I like to have a good time, then get my belly full before I go home.

I danced my whole life, and belly dancing made me feel more comfortable to be in my own body.

I believe there are other ways to get exercise like belly dancing. These classes seem better for older, more mature women who are rediscovering their sexuality.

Basically, his intestines have developed outside of his body, right next to his belly button and what they do is try to put a sack over the intestines and then slowly put them back into his body. They can't do that all at once because it would be too much weight for him.

I have a constant reminder moving around in my belly telling me what a miracle my life is and what a miracle his life is.

For us to grow skier visits, we need to appeal to the big belly of the market. To compete with other resorts in Colorado, we've got to cater to intermediate skiers.

He had the same spots, the same identical material. His costume had a white belly and a hood with ears.

We can learn a lot from dogs. The sweet balm of puppy love can soothe a tender hearts. Often the way to inner peace and contentment is as close as a cool tile floor, a rub on the belly or a long walk with someone we love.

He was in tremendous shape, not an ounce of fat. His belly still had ripples.

He was on his belly and I had my legs in. I just hipped in and it was there. I didn't really feel a lot of resistance.

He just showed no interest in doing the job. He had no fire in his belly

He is trying to get his hind legs under his belly . . . but not quite able to get liftoff, ... I think that we're a week away from the belly achieving liftoff, maybe two weeks.

It certainly gets the fire in your belly when your direct opponent wins the game for the opposition, ... You take that. You take that into training and you take that into tonight's game.

It is a difficult matter to argue with the belly since it has no ears.

I think the ban is fair. I thought Belly might get more. Now he has a chance to get his head sorted ahead of next season. Ben has played quite a bit this season and will not let us down.

Live today like it is your last day, Love with all your heart and soul, and Laugh till your belly aches or until you throw up!

I will tell you, I fly less because my knowledge of the system is better than the general public. And I think we endanger the general public by not checking the cargo in the belly of an aircraft.

I was really pleased with our first half. The belly play was good to us and they couldn't stop our fullback in the first half with Mitch and Josh. That's where we had Harrell in the second half. I'm disappointed we didn't score on our second series after we got first-and-goal, but I started improvising and sort of got cute. I should have stayed with what we were doing.

You just hope he puts his mind to it more often. He's still learning that you have to come with a little extra fire in his belly against Major League hitters, and you have to trust what you're doing.

When I first moved to L.A., I didn't have a lot of money to join a gym or take classes, so I improvised. My sister and I went to the library and looked over their DVD collection and discovered Neena and Veena, these Egyptian twins who have a whole series of belly dancing routines. We did them all.

To have a chance, Lucas must both demonstrate he still has the fire in the belly to serve in Congress and succeed in making this race as much of a personal popularity contest as it can be. Still, you can bet Davis will seek to tie his opponent to his party label at every turn, and we give the freshman Republican an early leg up.

We had a play called, a run to the outside, but we knew that he wanted the fullback belly. We should have stayed with our original call in that situation but we went ahead with the fullback belly and we had not prepared for that against them. We flat out couldn't block all of their guys on the play. We should have overruled him on that one.

Writing is simple. First you have to make sure you have plenty of paper... sharp pencils... typewriter ribbon. Then put your belly up to your desk... roll a sheet of paper into the typewriter... and stare at it until beads of blood appear on your forehead.

The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner. From my mother's sleep, I fell into the State, and I hunched in its belly until my wet fur froze. Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life, I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters. When I died, they washed me out of the turret with a hose.

We saw dead alligators. We saw four of them, belly up. If the alligators can't survive in their own waters, you know it was bad.

We've got to get him moving side to side. We were shooting at him and he's looking right at us. We're putting it in his belly and not really making him work. We have to get some shots on him where he's moving side to side.

We will just have to see how I cope after everything that has happened. I have some fire in my belly and want to get it all out.

To hit the ground belly first ? that's dangerous. I mean at any stage of pregnancy that's dangerous. That's not something you want to do let alone at 50 miles per hour.

Vibrations are cheap, they are very personal and they are pleasant compared to sounds. They automatically grab your attention, and they are implicitly directional. If you feel something from your belly you feel it is out there in front, if you feel it in your back you know you should look behind,

There's something quite joyful about doing comedy which doesn't really need much analysis. I'm not elitist. I like to do crowd-pleasing stuff which is a bit smart, but is just about belly laughs.

I started crying the other day just thinking that the baby is going to leave me soon! You have this relationship with this person in your belly and it's really amazing.

I used one for about two years, and when I went back to a conventional putter last year, I found that I regained my stroke, especially on shorter putts, as a result of using the belly putter.

The temptation was an absolute truth and the serpent was the tempter. For his insolence the snake was punished and condemned to crawl on its belly forever.

I've always had this nightmare of going back to the Kingdome and seeing myself waddle in bald, overweight, with a big belly hanging over my belt, and I just imagine people going, 'That's Steve Largent?'

Right now we do not have adequate measures of safety because 90 to 95 percent of those bags are unscreened in the belly of an airplane.

Putting is so much feel, so it's hard to tell if a belly putter will work for someone. But if you're having trouble with short putts, it's going to help you regain your mechanics so that you release the blade through the putt. If nothing else, in that way it's a good training device.

Primarily I'm a social commentator rather than someone who's out to get the belly laugh.

Actors, writers, singers, dancers, comedians, belly dancers with snakes, you name it, they've been here. My job is to listen to their ideas or watch them perform, and maybe help them reshape and refine their acts so that I can start calling producers and directors to help them get jobs.

Back in the early 30s, Woody and Lead Belly were musical cronies. At all the New York folk-song parties of that day - and the guitar picking population of New York at that time consisted of about ten people, if you can believe it - Lead Belly and Woody were the stars. And usually after all of us had decided to go to bed, Woody would go home with Lead Belly and they'd sit up and play until morning.

You might hear guitar; you might see some belly dancing. It goes along with the great shopping and dining we have in Market Street already.

They gave us the belly play and we hit it. A couple times we caught them in the right defense.

There was no sense going into the belly of the beast. We wanted to make this an important film with an important message.

A boardwalk in spirit if not in composition it's concrete this path runs 3 miles past beachfront hotels, restaurants, stores, museums, bike-rental shops and street performers. Three stages present free summer entertainment, and two small museums belly up to the boardwalk: the Atlantic Waterfowl Heritage Museum (decoys) and The Old Coast Guard Station with nifty 'tower cam' ocean views.

It's a great experience. Every time I see the belly getting bigger, and I see the sonogram and I hear his heartbeat, I'm like 'Oh, man.'

It's not striptease. A lot of times people see in the media these gorgeous women dancing with very little clothing on, and the belly dancer is (portrayed) as a vamp. So that's how we get a bad rap.

For a few weeks after that, every morning when I woke up, I felt it in my stomach, ... Like a hot dagger in my belly button.

It may not be that a single year's worth of silver iodide application immediately causes frogs to float belly up. But it's just an additional harmful effect.

That rigging slipped down underneath that horse as I came off and I was dragged once and a half times around the arena. I was looking up at the belly of that horse the whole way.

The belly is the commanding part of the body

It's always when you think that you've lost a little of the baby weight that someone steps in grabs a handful of a now sans baby soft belly and asks the inevitable 'When are you due?'

It just takes your breath away. When you do a belly flop and go all the way in, it really grabs you.

I've got a bit of fire in the belly for this meeting. I'm going to be out for a while so I need to get some money in the bank and drag it back home.

Nothing has changed after two years of negotiations. Deep down everybody knows this is in serious danger of going belly up.

I like belly dancing because it gives women the chance to spend time away from their hectic lives. It's a very passive but energizing way to focus on oneself and to really get in touch with who you are as a person. It's a fun and exciting exercise that merges the mind, body and spirit.

I loved my second trimester! I didn't feel sick anymore and had more energy. My bloated belly turned into a baby bump, and I definitely looked pregnant. That was a relief because when I was around 4.5 months, you could see people having this inner monologue with themselves, wondering if I ate too much pizza or if I was pregnant.

I had my belly rubbed, ... And--a first for me--I signed someone's belly.

I'm not sure why she hasn't been charged. Maybe there's a new rule that belly dancers can't be charged with murder in California.

I know basic things about belly dancing, but not the technicalities; I want to learn it. I want to learn belly dancing.

In the past five years, value has done OK, but the real story is that growth has been getting clobbered, We don't think growth will roll over and go belly up. Once a style comes into favor, it tends to stay there for years. You just had the fifth year of a value cycle. Do you get a sixth year? You could. But I'm not convinced we'll see it.

I didn't study dance. I had some ballet lessons because I needed it for posture and for my arms, mostly. My skating coach said I really needed it, from the belly button up, as opposed to the footwork. In skating, the shoes don't move.

fiction happens in the belly, it doesn't happen in the brain.

A full belly neither fights nor flies well.

Everything's better with some wine in the belly.

Rebellions of the belly are the worst.

The belly has no ears nor is it to be filled with fair words.

Do not mourn the dead with the belly.

If I venture into the water in a bikini, the sight of my melanin-deficient Michigan belly might attract beluga whales. Sure, I could secretly live among them and learn their ancient ways, but I couldn't keep that kind of ruse up forever.