Wrist Quotes

The next time you look into the mirror, just look at the way the ears rest next to the head; look at the way the hairline grows; think of all the little bones in your wrist. It is a miracle. And the dance is a celebration of that miracle. (Martha Graham)
Where does the hand become the wrist? where does the neck become the shoulder? The watershed and then the weight, whatever turns up and tips us over that razor's edge between something and nothing, between one and the other. View quote
Simon Armitage
Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer. View quote
Katharine Hepburn
That pile of paper on his left side went on living like the watch on a dead soldier's wrist. View quote
Jean Cocteau
Her hand touched me at the wrist. "If I gave you my life, you would drop it. Wouldn't you?" I didn't say anything. View quote
Michael Ondaatje
Connor smiles with mocking warmth at him, and glances at the tattoo on his wrist. "I like your dolphin. View quote
Neal Shusterman
The world is like a broken wrist that healed the wrong way, and will never be the same again. View quote
Frances Hardinge
When I came to New York and I opened the window of the thirty-fifth-floor apartment, there's light pollution and fog, and I couldn't see my star. So I drew it on my wrist with a pen, but it kept washing away. Then I went to a tattoo parlor on Second Avenue and had it done. View quote
Gisele Bundchen
I open a paperclip and scratch it across the inside of my left wrist. Pitiful. If a suicide attempt is a cry for help, then what is this. A whimper, a peep? I draw little window cracks of blood, etching line after line until it stops hurting. View quote
Laurie Halse Anderson
I hit the ball early and move my wrist a lot, so I get bigger angles. View quote
Alexandr Dolgopolov
I always wear my black watch on my left wrist so I know I'm on stage on time. (Conor Maynard)
In the split second from the time the ball leaves the pitcher's hand until it reaches the plate you have to think about your stride, your hip action, your wrist action, determine how much, if any the ball is going to break and then decide whether to swing at it. View quote
Duke Snider
Every man needs a good, solid watch. My favorite watch is the Presidential Rolex. I own many watches, but this one is usually the one on my wrist. I buy mine in the Diamond District in New York City. Classic. View quote
French Montana
I've broken my nose, I've broken ribs. You name it. In fact, we just got back from South America, and I fell over a monitor speaker on the stage and almost ended up in the front row of the audience. I managed to sprain my wrist on that one but luckily nothing was broken. View quote
Keith Emerson
In badminton, they use a lot from the wrist. But I use a lot from the shoulder. View quote
Li Na
I tend not to wear accessories. I'm not one of those gals with a drawerful of amazing jewelry. I don't even have my ears pierced! But I have one bracelet that never comes off my wrist. View quote
Rachael Taylor
My right wrist is connected to the left foot. You know, if the left foot doesn't work, the right wrist doesn't work, and that's really the truth. View quote
Richie Havens
Imagine if it happened to you: All of a sudden you find this thing on your wrist and people are telling you it has powers. I would be a little skeptical myself. View quote
Yancy Butler
Fingers of steel. Wrist of silk. View quote
Frédéric Chopin
When they asked some old Roman philosopher or other how he wanted to die, he said he would open his veins in a warm bath. I thought it would be easy, lying in the tub and seeing the redness flower from my wrists, flush after flush through the clear water, till I sank to sleep under a surface gaudy as poppies. But when it came right down to it, the skin of my wrist looked so white and defenseless that I couldn't do it. It was as if what I wanted to kill wasn't in that skin or the thin blue pulse that jumped under my thumb, but somewhere else, deeper, more secret, and a whole lot harder to get at. View quote
Sylvia Plath
When we've got these people who have practically limitless powers within a society, if they get a pass without so much as a slap on the wrist, what example does that set for the next group of officials that come into power? To push the lines a little bit further, a little bit further, a little bit further, and we'll realize that we're no longer citizens - we're subjects. (Edward Snowden)
I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off. View quote
Jack Paar
O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed.'The glacier knocks in the cupboard, The desert sighs in the bed, And the crack in the tea-cup opens A lane to the land of the dead. View quote
W. H. Auden
I was playing drums, and I had broken my wrist very bad playing football, and the bass player in the band... he wanted to split. So I just went to the bass; I went from Drums over to Bass. That was it. I was playing the bass within a week. View quote
Jaco Pastorius
That was all he said, except for "Aaaeerrgghhh." Which is not really a word. But the reason that he screamed "Aaaeerrgghhh" was that Franco had bitten him savegly on the wrist. View quote
Eoin Colfer