Muscle Quotes - page 3

Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind. (Paavo Nurmi)
I think poetry has lost an awful lot of its muscle because nobody knows any. Nobody has to memorize poetry. View quote
Peter Davison
Freedom is a muscle...you have to exercise it. View quote
Roy Scheider
Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every sessiondecreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility. View quote
Samantha Stosur
When I look at the murder, rape and starvation to which the people of Darfur are being subjected, I fear that we have not got far beyond "lip service”. The lesson here is that high-sounding doctrines like the "responsibility to protect” will remain pure rhetoric unless and until those with the power to intervene effectively - by exerting political, economic or, in the last resort, military muscle - are prepared to take the lead. View quote
Kofi Annan
Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it. View quote
Shania Twain
R&D/good times and bad times. R&D may have to take its lumps in tough times ... But beware of cutting too much muscle. View quote
Tom Peters
Music brings a warm glow to my vision, thawing mind and muscle from their endless wintering. View quote
Haruki Murakami
Nothing stops the man who desires to achieve. Every obstacle is simply a course to develop his achievement muscle. It's a strengthening of his powers of accomplishment. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
If you don't set your writing - and teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle. View quote
M. H. Abrams
There was no telling who this head, or this leg, or that arm, belonged to.. .So I scattered the limbs in my painting and realized that in this way I was getting much closer to the truth than Michelangelo did when he concentrated on every separate muscle. (Fernand Léger)
Mr. LaLanne said he performed his exercises until he experienced "muscle fatigue,” lifting weights until it was impossible for him to continue. It produced results and, as he put it, "the ego in me” made the effort worthwhile. View quote
Jack LaLanne
I look at myself and pick out the things I don't like. No matter how much I work out, I never get muscle tone in my butt and hip area. View quote
Tyra Banks
Islam's money and muscle power may look impressive, certainly capable of doing some real damage to targeted countries and societies, but Islam has no chance of becoming the religion of a science-based, space-conquering world society. Exclusivist revelations have no appeal among educated people, especially after they have acquainted themselves with the Vedantic or Buddhist philosophies. That is why the Churches are investing huge resources in the battle for Asia's mind, where they face their most formidable enemy. That is why they are so active in India: not only is India's atmosphere of religious freedom more hospitable to them than the conditions of Islamic countries, or even of non-Islamic countries where proselytization is prohibited (countries as divergent as China, Myanmar, Israel, and, at least formally, Nepal); but they also know and fear the intrinsic superiority of the Indian religion. View quote
Koenraad Elst
It is too early to say there is a consensus about how all these topics fit together. Yet one can say that the new classical challenge has been met: Keynesian economics has been reincarnated into a body with firm microeconomic muscle. View quote
Greg Mankiw
Oprah: Is there a muscle you use for performing? Billy: Yes - my brain. View quote
Billy Crystal
This should be agony. I should be a mass of aching muscle - broken, spent, unable to move. And, were I an older man, I surely would ... ... but I'm a man of thirty - of twenty again. The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again. View quote
Frank Miller
That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising. View quote
Charles Scott Sherrington
We Americans have a long history of fighting "big," wisely or not. That we could be motivated to fight "big" again is not something new. It would be something new, and something very important, if an equal number could be rallied to fight the increasing extremism built within the idea of "intellectual property." Not because balance is alien to our tradition; indeed, as I've argued, balance is our tradition. But because the muscle to think critically about the scope of anything called "property" is not well exercised within this tradition anymore. If we were Achilles, this would be our heel. This would be the place of our tragedy. View quote
Lawrence Lessig
Arakawa: The manga artist that I look up to the most is Suiho Tagawa, the author of Norakuro. He is the root of my style as an artist. I also love Rumiko Takahashi and Kinnikuman or Ultimate Muscle by Yudetamago. As far as composition and how to draw, I learned that when I was apprenticed to Hiroyuki Eto, the author of Mahoujin Guru Guru for Shonen GanGan. View quote
Hiromu Arakawa
Dear Polly, Tom wishes you, for some reason I can't understand, to consider the human back. He says there are many other matters you should consider too, but that was a particularly glaring example. He invites you, he says, to walk along a beach this summer and watch the male citizens there sunning themselves. There you will see backs - backs stringy, backs bulging, and backs with ingrained dirt. You will find, he says, yellow skin, blackheads, pimples, enlarged pores and tufts of hair. This is making me ill, but Tom says go on. Peeling sunburn, warts, boils, moles and midge bites and floppy rolls of skin. Even a back without these blemishes, he claims, seldom or never ripples, unless with gooseflesh. In fact, he defies you to find an inch of silk or a single powerful muscle in any hundred yards of average sunbathers. I hope you know what all this is about, because I don't. I think you should stay away from the seaside if you can. Yours ever, Sam. (Diana Wynne Jones)
Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct. View quote
St. Vincent (musician)
I am biased towards the belief that every painter must be grounded in strong and faultless drawing skills, and until one has not experimented with all styles of painting and has not comprehended their potentialities one's work is not complete. Even an abstract painter must know how to draw as well as a figurative artist. As for me, drawing has never created any problem, since I know how to draw anatomy correctly if I had to, I understand the function of muscle groups and sculpture. View quote
Guity Novin
The heart is a very, very resilient little muscle. It really is. View quote
Woody Allen
England collapses, turns Chinese with English and American thoughts. Thousands of Chinese characters are turning and twisting; every door is a shop. The rickshaws jostle the vendors, their backs hung with incredible loads. The narrow streets are alive in a way that Broadway isn't alive. Here all is human, even the beasts of burden. The human energy spills itself in multiple forms, writhes, sweats and strains every muscle towards the day's bowl of rice. The din is terrific. View quote
Mark Tobey