Elbows Quotations

It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, rubbing elbows with the likes of Aldous Huxley and T.E. Lawrence, before World War I shattered everything forever.

That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it.

You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows.

I am a team player - and that is what you need to be an effective point guard. You gotta see the court, you gotta set up the play, and you gotta let others execute for the most part. I don't throw elbows for the sake of throwing elbows, but if somebody throws one at me and it's necessary to respond in kind, I suppose I can if I have to.

I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent.

Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising.

In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves

But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things

My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it.

It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there.

I know at one point I had bright red hair and I had bracelets from my wrist up to my elbow and I was wearing size 50 pants. I wouldn't wear that today, but I'm not embarrassed about wearing it back then any more.

You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something.

I can lick my elbow. I know that's supposed to be impossible, but I can do it!

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.

I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!'

But in 2000, the injuries really started to kick in and my elbow gave a lot of problems. At the end of the year I had to take 20 months off before I could come back into the game

My elbows are double-jointed, so I can flip them inside out.

I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo.

I don't know my armpit from my elbow in Los Angeles.

It turns out there's only 10 minutes of productive conversation in any family dinner. The rest is taken up with 'take your elbows off the table' and 'pass the ketchup.' And what researchers have found is you can take that 10 minutes and put it in any time of the day and get the benefit. So, if you can't have family dinner, have family breakfast!

It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.

Even if your bosoms are your best asset, deep round-neck or scoop-neck Ts can be too revealing. Offset this flash of gorgeousness by covering up your arms with a little cardi that has sleeves to the elbow.

My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don't know that he was parented that well.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

It was so draining. Going to parties to rub elbows with so-and-so and act like it's no big deal, when really all I was doing was hoping I'd have the success they had.

I'm a pitcher, so the glove is my only accessory. The hitters get to have all the fun. They have batting helmets, the actual bats, gloves, elbow guards - all this cool stuff to wear. And all I get is a glove.

I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.

I think the best kind of comedy is the least self conscious. I think if you just sort of let the comedy happen without the elbow nudge, did you get it, did you get it. I love straight face comedy or subtle - relatively subtle comedy.

Then I heard someone laugh. I wished I didn't know whose laugh it was, but I knew Will's laugh just like I knew he had a small scar right above his left elbow. You couldn't be reluctantly lust-ridden for someone without noticing stuff about them.

We use our hands and our feet and our forearms and our elbows and knees and actually the weight of the whole body. There are parts of it that are a cooperative ... effort where it actually is two people, the practitioner and the receiver, in a pose together.

We're hearing much more about elbows being thrown, especially if you're talking to people in Silicon Valley. There's a lot of competition out there.

Karen, her elbows folded on the deck-rail, wanted to share with someone the pleasure in being alone: this is the paradox of any happy solitude. She had never landed at Cork, so this hill and that hill beyond were as unexpected as pictures at which you say "Oh look!" Nobody was beside her to share the moment, which would have been imperfect with anyone else there.

I got tendinitis in both elbows from hitting off mats,

I got him to the mat and kept dropping elbows on him. I kept hammering away at him, and he never really had a chance to gain control of the fight.

He'll still have his fingers up to his elbows in it. He'll always be here.

He needs to work on his shooting, but he runs the floor excellent, he has tremendous hands, he's quick as a cat and he's a tremendous leaper. He can put his elbows in the rim.

James Byrd at the time he was chained at the back of the pickup truck was alive, ... Not only was he alive, he was conscious at the time, and he was using his elbows and his body in any way he could to keep his head and shoulders away from the pavement.

I think what you have to understand about the armed forces, ... it's a competitive bureaucracy. People enter it at the bottom and they come out at the top. There's a lot of gossip. There are some sharp elbows in there,

I actually had the urge to elbow an elderly lady today...

When I was a kid, I used to sit up in bed, put my elbows on the windowsill and look out at the stars and wonder. About space, eternity, the concept of God and creation.

You need just the right amount of ambition . . . If you have too little ambition, you don't push or work hard. If you have too much ambition, you put yourself ahead of others, elbow them out of your way.

She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship.

There's a thing that just as you go to sleep, if you keep your elbows elevated that you will never go below the dream stage. And I've used that quite a lot and it keeps me dreaming much longer than if I just relaxed.

Time is three eyes and eight elbows.

Within 1.5 seconds you have to be up and going with your elbows locked and your arms pumping.

We are up to our elbows in artifacts and dirt,

At noon in the desert a panting lizardwaited for history, its elbows tense,watching the curve of a particular roadas if something might happen.

At noon in the desert a panting lizard waited for history, its elbows tense, watching the curve of a particular road as if something might happen.

I've been there. Your first reaction (as a runner) is to put your elbows up (to ward off the collision).

I've seen elbows that broke eye sockets. I've seen a German goalkeeper just level a French guy. His teammates thought he was dead lying on the ground. This was in 1982 at my first World Cup. But a bite is outside any kind of contact collision: dirty foul play. A bite is a bite.

The most important aspect as you go up in price is you get the spring-loaded model, which takes some of the shock off your elbows and shoulders, and they get lighter. It's like anything else: People are skeptical in the beginning, and they won't invest in the over-$100 pole. They start at $65, and eventually upgrade.

There were a couple of elbows thrown. I saw Raja on the floor twice before he got ejected. Raja got hit many times. It probably was frustration.

It's just dirty basketball. It's plain, outright, dirty basketball. I don't mind the competition, someone going at me on both ends of the floor ... but when guys start throwing elbows and kick you when you're down, that's dirty basketball and I don't respect guys like that.

It was the most physical game I've played in since the sectional championship against Linden (last year). There were elbows everywhere. I'm just beat up.

For me, becoming a celebrity was like being in the eye of a hurricane. Suddenly, I was an international cover girl. Everybody was lapping up my Hemingwayness. They wanted to rub elbows with me or brush up against me.

It's like a street game in there. You've got to go in with elbows and pushing if you have to. ... We all have to adjust.

It's hard to imagine that Jay Lefkowitz would be taking this job to be window dressing on a separate track. I'm confident that he is not going to be a potted palm no matter how many people at the State Department seek to stick sharp elbows in him.

They were throwing elbows and doing other things to get people off them. What we had to do is go out there and match their intensity and toughness.

I'm not one to feel that you have to open doors with your elbows and cover your hands. But you should wash your hands whether you use a public bathroom or a private bathroom.

I know we didn't like him a whole bunch when we played against him in Minnesota, (him) stepping on bats and throwing elbows and stuff like that, but that's him. He's a guy you love to have when he's on your team, but probably not a guy you enjoy playing against.

I just want to see him try to throw one of those elbows at me.

I'm a very competitive, physical player. I think football helped me with that. I'm not afraid to hit the floor. Coaches like to see tough, physical players. A lot of players aren't like that. You throw a few elbows at a player on a rebound, and they might back off a little bit.

His body mass has really helped him. The hardest part for him was learning to balance it. Sometimes, he has to lean his body or stick one of his elbows out to keep from falling.

Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room.

There was a brief pause for them to evaluate the full horror of the situation. Magnus. personally, was in horror up to his elbows.

Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.

Twitter is basically text messaging. Twitter is a guy you can always elbow in the side and say, "Hey, look, a guy in a clown suit just threw up!" And I don't have 400-800 words to say about that, I just wanted to say that one thing.

We played at a club called, the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very important person who made a big impact on my life.

When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow.

We [Elbow] have had some luck with media syncs in film and on TV. We'd love to do a soundtrack with a really cool director.

Don't put a lump of rock under my elbow again!

I don't mind a guy going at me at both ends of the floor, I can respect that. But when guys start throwing elbows and when they kick you when you're down, that's dirty basketball and I don't respect guys like that.

She asked if we were calm enough for her to take off the cuffs, and McMurphy nodded. He had slumped over with his head hung and his elbows between his knees and looked completely exhausted--it hadn't occurred to me that it was just as hard for him to stand straight as it was for me.

We pulled the seeds out and scattered them on their flossy parachutes, leaving only the leathery brownish yellow tongue, soft as the inside of an elbow.

Lady Glossip: Mr. Wooster, how would you support a wife? Bertie Wooster: Well, I suppose it depends on who's wife it was, a little gentle pressure beneath the elbow while crossing a busy street usually fits the bill.

Yeah, I do all the stuff I can. Let’s be frank, if you are in an action film, you are not in it for the characters, you are in it for the action – the stunts. If they take that away from you, it’s a sad story. Ha ha! I have damaged everything: knees, elbows, ribs. But I’m an old gymnast. I know how to survive.

The trouble with women? Elbows.

If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world

With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.

I’ve even delivered a few of their babies. (Wulf) Really? (Cassandra) Oh, yeah. You have to love the days before modern roads, and hospitals when I was up to my elbows in placenta. (Wulf)

Politics is a contact sport - a question of accepting an elbow or two.

Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.

She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table.

I moved to leave, and Dylan actually grabbed me by my shoulders. I was so surprised that I forgot to karate-chop his elbows and break his arms.

Miles clutched Quinn's elbow. "Don't Panic." "I'm not panicking," Quinn observed, "I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining .

Elbows are never put on the table while one is eating.

Mere fact has no chance of being formally perfect. It will get in the way, it will be all elbows.

But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?'

The only parts left of my original body are my elbows.

My plastic surgeon ... said my face looked like a bouquet of elbows.

I draw to shock myself out of a too-easy rhythm - I may begin with no conception whatever, an image emerges . I rub it out and begin again, searching for its counterpart. When it appears I invariably find that the thing I draw is at my elbow, it is out of the window, or has been standing at my front door for a long time.

To really know life you've got to be part of life. You must get down and look, you must get into the nooks and crannies of existence. You have to rub elbows with all kinds and types of men before you can finally establish what he is.

Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles.

I don't know if I went to the gym, [but] Woody [Harrelson] was 24, and at that point I was like 37, which is when you realize you're no longer 24. So in walked Woody, who was instantly great, but offstage, it was [all] testosterone. We'll arm-wrestle. I still have, like, tendinitis in my elbow.Woody cleaned everybody's clock in everything. Then we got less physical and went to chess, and he whipped our asses with chess.

One fine day as my mother was putting the bread in the oven, I went up to her and taking her by her flour-smeared elbow I said to her, Mama I want to be a painter.

It (the slider) just rolls off of your index finger and begins it's spin which will take it down and across the plate (hopefully). Just remember not to twist your elbow or wrist. It should be thrown, with the wrist and grip set, just like your fastball, slightly off center - with the same velocity and intensity.

It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.

I expect to weave through the crowd, dodging elbows and muttering "excuse me" the way I always do, but there is no need. Becoming Dauntless has made me noticable.

Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly.

I'm definitely an elbow-room guy.