Quotes of: Knees Keyword

Lord Summerisle: Do sit down, Sergeant. Shocks are so much better absorbed with the knees bent.

The Wicker Man

Time is compressed like the fist I close on my knee... I hold inside it the clues and solutions and the power for what I must do now.

Margaret Atwood

Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?

Dave Barry

I do think being a prissy tomboy helps me in raising a son in general. I wrestle with him, play ball, play in the sandbox with him. As a mom, you get bruises, scrapes on your knee.

Jaime Pressly

Howard Hughes: You're the tallest woman I have ever met. Katharine Hepburn: And all sharp elbows and knees. Beware.

The Aviator

Nick: Let's avoid confusion. She'll get some lines, or I'll nail your knee caps to the floor.

Bullets Over Broadway

I started my career as an actor, then morphed into a playwright who accidentally became a novelist with my first book 'Fall On Your Knees.'

Ann-Marie MacDonald

I felt very close to God.... My friends say that's because I was always on my knees.

Armistead Maupin

I found myself surrounded by really old veterans wearing hats that said, "Retired Marine - SEMPER FI." These hats didn't appear to fit on their heads, but instead seemed to hover over them. At one point, I mistakenly tried to take the last box of cra...

Confessions of a Military Wife

Gray rested his hand on Aric’s knee. “Sacrificed yourself, j-just like the giants.” “But I didn’t mean to! It’s only… the prince fell over the cliff, and I didn’t think at all, I just moved. I was the tallest and the strongest. I don�...

Brute

Treat all men alike.... give them all the same law. Give them all an even chance to live and grow. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who is born a free man should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go ...

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

I want to say that further you are not a great chief of this country. That you have no following, no power, no control." Logan continued, "You are on an Indian reservation merely at the sufferance of the government. You are fed by the government, clo...

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee: An Indian History of the American West

Lost in Hell,-Persephone, Take her head upon your knee; Say to her, "My dear, my dear, It is not so dreadful here.

Collected Poems

Sara?” Blake’s voice is scorching and burns right through me. “Yes, sir?” “Lock the door and get over my knee. Now.

Erotic Fantasies

Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees.

Feet of Clay

I've never bowed to anyone, but will gladly live the rest of my life on my knees before you, if you'll be mine.

Break Me Slowly

If I had a nickel for every time I'd wished I possessed the power to alter another person's mind, I'd be knee deep in nickels.

Betrayal

At some point in every person's life, you will need an assisted medical device - whether it's your glasses, your contacts, or as you age and you have a hip replacement or a knee replacement or a pacemaker. The prosthetic generation is all around us.

Aimee Mullins

At my age, you need to verify that everything is fine. I put a lot of pressure on my body, and I feel sometimes pain in my back and in my knees, so I have to be sure that I can keep on training hard before going on.

Hermann Maier

The wonderful thing about age is that your knees don't work as well, you can't run down steps quite as easily and obviously you can't lift heavy weights. But your mind doesn't feel any different.

Roger Moore

I have an amazing 1930s dress I picked up in Toronto at Cabaret on Queen West. It's a red knee-length tea dress, and it's absolutely beautiful. It makes me happy every time I put it on.

Lindy Booth