Quotes of Elbow - somelinesforyou

“ My skull, my eyes, my nose three times, my jaw, my shoulder, my chest, two fingers, a knee, everything from the top of my head to the bottom of my feet. ”

- Jackie Chan

“ Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not. ”

- Dwight D. Eisenhower

“ An inch in a miss is as good as an ell. ”

- William Camden

“ 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. ”

- John Hughes

“ 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. ”

- Herbie Hancock

“ I have a left shoulder-blade that is a miracle of loveliness. People come miles to see it. My right elbow has a fascination that few can resist. ”

- William Gilbert

“ 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. ”

- Marc Chagall

“ When thoughts fails of words, they find imagination waiting at their elbow to teach a new language without words. ”

- Unknown

“ To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It's easy to say no, even if it means dying. ”

- Jean Anouilh

“ No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours. ”

- Marcus Aurelius

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

- Henry James

“ I'm against group sex because I wouldn't know where to put my elbows. ”

- Martin Cruz Smith

“ Wildness and silence disappeared from the countryside, sweetness fell from the air, not because anyone wished them to vanish or fall but because throughways had to floor the meadows with cement to carry the automobiles which advancing technology produced… ”

- Archibald MacLeish

“ Why am I so determined to put the shoulder where it belongs? Women have very round shoulders that push forward slightly; this touches me and I say: "One must not hide that!" Then someone tells you: "The shoulder is on the back." I've never seen women with shoulders on their backs. ”

- Coco Chanel
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