Elbowed In Stomach Quotes & Sayings

What could be worse than being born without sight? Being born with sight and no vision. — Helen Keller

My whole life has been basically trying to find intelligent students or, you know, highly motivated students and giving them an opportunity to do good science. — James D. Watson

One aspect of Samantha's personality that drove me nuts was her tendency to reveal herself via literary allusions. She called it a quirk, but it was more of a compulsion. Her mother was Lady Macbeth; her father, Big Daddy. An uncle she liked was Mr. Micawber, a favorite governess, Jane Eyre; a doting professor, Mr. Chips.
This curious habit of hers quickly made the voyage from eccentric to bizarre when she began to invoke the names of literary characters to describe moments in our relationship. When she thought I was treating her rudely, she called me Wolf Larsen; if I was standoffish, I was Mr. Darcy; when I dressed too shabbily, I was Tom Joad.
Once, in bed, she yelled out the name Victor as she approached orgasm. I assumed she was referring to Victor Hugo because she'd been reading 'Les Miserables.'. It didn't really bother me that much though it was a little odd being with a woman who thought she was having sex with a dead French author. — John Blumenthal

Forge thy tongue on an anvil of truth and what flies up, though it be but a spark, will have light. — Pindar

I am calling on everyone in this state to put the chaos and the division of the recall behind us and do what's right for this great state of California. — Gray Davis

My body is broken. I go to my fathers. And even in their mighty company I shall not now be ashamed. — J.R.R. Tolkien

Next time I'll just send the three of you e-mails. What was I thinking when I decided to have this meeting? (Acheron)
Oh, I know. That men who are a couple of thousand years old could actually behave like grownups? (Nick)
(Zarek elbowed Nick in the stomach.)
Oops. Involuntary arm spasm. (Zarek) — Sherrilyn Kenyon

When I read a script and have my first interaction with this character, do I feel like there's something I'm gonna' learn here? If I feel like it's something I've done before, then what's the incentive for me to do it? — Bill Skarsgard

A psychiatrist asks a lot of expensive questions your wife asks for nothing. — Joey Adams

one was present, interacting in any affirmative way with the people who filled those prisons. — Piper Kerman

Thank you for all you taught me, and all you tried to teach me that I refused to learn. — Shanlynn Walker

He considered China's interference in Korea to be an intolerable attempt to prevent the spread of enlightenment, and the war itself not merely a struggle between two countries but a "battle for the sake of world culture."49 — Donald Keene