Forearm Bones Quotes & Sayings

The immediate thing that strikes you when you see the inside of the hand is its compactness. The ball of your thumb, the thenar eminence, contains four different muscles. Twiddle your thumb and tilt your hand: ten different muscles and at least six different bones work in unison. Inside the wrist are at least eight small bones bones that move against one another. Bend your wrist, and you are using a number of muscles that begin in your forearm, extending into tendons as they travel down your arm to end at your hand. Even the simplest motion involves a complex interplay among many parts packed in a small space. — Neil Shubin

I fell into unconsciousness reflecting rather abstractly that I'd never even known that there were two bones in a man's forearm. — Mark Lawrence

The two parts cannot be done simultaneously. A border fence must be started first - and completed first. Only after all the ACLU lawsuits and INS rulings have run their course, and the border is still secure, do we move to Step Two. I happen to think we don't do the amnesty part ever, but it's tendentious even to discuss what to do with illegal aliens already here until we can prevent more from coming. We'll talk about legalization as soon as it's as hard to get into the United States as it used to be to get out of East Germany. To review: Step One: Secure the border. Step Two: Discuss what to do with illegals already here. — Ann Coulter

I think women think a lot about cycles, biological and personal. This year another cycle came around: my contract was up. It seemed an opportunity to take a life audit. — Jane Pauley

Maybe I am a little cocky. Maybe it's something I need to work on. — Keith Michael

She wanted to get some personal profit out of things, and she rejected as useless all that did not contribute to the immediate desires of her heart, being of a temperament more sentimental than artistic, looking for emotions, not landscapes. — Gustave Flaubert

We must act on the direction we receive. We must look up and step up. And as we do, I know we will cheer up, for God wants us to be happy. — Carl B. Cook

He made a sympathetic shrug, then spread his hands. Flexibility, my friend. Flexibility is the key to all happiness. Remember that. — Robert Crais

Healing is the gateway to peace and peace is the path to passion and purpose. — Saba

Forever, time is standing still. We are flying away with the wings of desire we call life. — Debasish Mridha

Tiktaalik has a shoulder, elbow, and wrist composed of the same bones as an upper arm, forearm, and wrist in a human. When we study the structure of these joints to assess how one bone
moves against another, we see that Tiktaalik was specialized for a rather extraordinary function: it was capable of doing push-ups. — Neil Shubin

The brainless serenity of charwomen and janitors working late at night came over us. In a messy world we were at least making our little corner clean. — Kurt Vonnegut

Reality is based on, and controlled by, our thoughts. — Christine Rice

Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable. — Honore De Balzac

Old woods and deep. At one time in the world there were woods that no one owned and these were like them. — Cormac McCarthy