Quotes of: Legs Keyword

The steel door of the incinerator went up and the muted hum of the eternal fire became a red roaring. The heat lunged out at them like a famished beast. Then Rahel's Ammu was fed to it. Her hair, her skin, her smile. Her voice. They way she used Kipl...

The God of Small Things

Mockingbirds are the true artists of the bird kingdom. Which is to say, although they're born with a song of their own, an innate riff that happens to be one of the most versatile of all ornithological expressions, mocking birds aren't content to mer...

Skinny Legs and All

Attraction The whites of his eyes pull me like moons. He smiles. I believe his face. Already my body slips down in the chair: I recline on my side, offering peeled grapes. I can taste his tongue in my mouth whenever he speaks. I suspect he lies. But ...

Enid Shomer

In communities, at work, but particularly in families, people are put together in something like a three-legged race. God means us to cross the finish line together, and all the other people tied together with us play some part in our progress. They ...

Frederica Mathewes-Green

I need a new trick if I am to walk without legs, see without eyes or speak without words.

Coma House

There is something about me, doll face. It’s between my legs, and I do believe a few minutes ago you were praying to it.

Crushed Seraphim

You can take that needle out of my leg now. I'd like to pull up my pants.

Dead Over Heels

Sometimes writing is running downhill, your fingers jerking behind you on the keyboard the way your legs do when they can’t quite keep up with gravity.

Fangirl

When the positive mind takes the lead, the legs are safe to follow without any shaking!

The Great Hand Book of Quotes

To hear them talk one would have thought they had no legs, natural functions or knowledge of the wicked world.

Gone with the Wind

Got enough leg room there, Rossiter?" Marc asked. "You bet. If not I'll just make use of the overhead bin.

Breaking Point

There are definite advantages to single beds." He sat up abruptly and arranged her legs around his waist. "Makes cuddling mandatory.

To the Brink

We now have an opportunity, though, to do something we didn't do in the industrial age, and that is to get a leg up on this, to bring the public in quickly, to have an informed debate.

Jeremy Rifkin

I've got no hamstring in the middle. I'm basically running on two hamstrings on my right leg and three on the other. That injury has probably changed my whole career. I've been compromised from the age of 19.

Michael Owen

Let me alone: I have yet my legs and one arm. Tell the surgeon to make haste and his instruments. I know I must lose my right arm, so the sooner it's off the better.

Horatio Nelson

My brother was a great swimmer. He was as fast as a shark. Well, almost. It beat him by a half a leg's length, right below the knee.

$3.33

After a good run, my legs feel like Jell-O. Somebody get me a spoon and stick a fork in me.

99 Cents For Some Nonsense

Theo looked at me with his smoldering Jesus eyes, and the Catholic schoolgirl in me crossed her legs.

In the Age of Love and Chocolate

In the post-Warhol era a single gesture such as uncrossing one's legs will have more significance than all the pages in War and Peace.

The Atrocity Exhibition

After all, Betty was ill and she was her sister, and she wouldn't be able to shave her legs for weeks because of the plaster.

Island of the Aunts

...a fissure appeared. Splinters of plastic broke away around it, and the fissure widened, radiating further fractures. When the first leg broke out, Simon tried to shriek.

Infected Connection