Knuckle Pain Quotes & Sayings

I started in the era when Hollywood reveled in being the most cost-inefficient industry on the planet. They used to commission a hundred scripts for every one they made. — Richard Greenberg

And you should not let yourself be confused in your solitude by the fact that there is something in you that wants to move out of it. — Rainer Maria Rilke

You get attached to places, you know. Like people, I suppose. — Tatiana De Rosnay

He was becoming an effective human being. He had learned from his birth family how to snare rabbits, make stew, paint fingernails, glue wallpaper, conduct ceremonies, start outside fires in a driving rain, sew with a sewing machine, cut quilt squares, play Halo, gather, dry, and boil various medicine teas. He had learned from the old people how to move between worlds seen and unseen. Peter taught him how to use an ax, a chain saw, safely handle a .22, drive a riding lawn mower, drive a tractor, even a car. Nola taught him how to paint walls, keep animals, how to plant and grow things, how to fry meat, how to bake. Maggie taught him how to hide fear, fake pain, how to punch with a knuckle jutting. How to go for the eyes. How to hook your fingers in a person's nose from behind and threaten to rip the nose off your face. He hadn't done these things yet, and neither had Maggie, but she was always looking for a chance. When — Louise Erdrich

If you're campaigning against ObamaCare, but you're also having to defend yourself for closing the government, that seems to take away the asset from you. — Ted Cruz

Real scratching is superior to masturbation, in my opinion. One can masturbate up to the age of seventy, and even beyond, but in the end it becomes a mere habit. Whereas to scratch myself properly I would have needed a dozen hands. I itched all over, on the privates, in the bush up to the navel, under the arms, in the arse, and then patches of eczema and psoriasis that I could set raging merely by thinking of them. It was in the arse I had the most pleasure, I stuck in my forefinger up to the knuckle. Later, if I had to shit, the pain was atrocious. But I hardly shat any more. — Samuel Beckett

Please learn the pragmatics of expressing fear: sometimes words that seem to express really invoke.
This can be tricky. — David Foster Wallace

Students present themselves ... like a succession of CDs whose shimmering surface gives no clue to their contents without the equipment to play them. — John Updike

To devastate is easier and more spectacular than to create. — Anthony Burgess

My neighbors aren't millionaires. They're retirees who depend on Social Security and Medicare. — Marco Rubio

Our success is directly related to our clarity and honesty about who we are, who we're not, where we want to go, and how we're going to get there. — Howard Behar

I decided that giving a girl a ring when you're not in a serious relationship is sort of like giving a guy a blow job when you have no real feelings for him. It makes everything feel a little cheap.It cheapens the giver and the recipient. — Emily Giffin

We are puzzle pieces, bragging about being puzzle pieces, rather than being the picture. — Tom Althouse

Jamie laid a hand on mine, and my fingers turned to intertwine with his. I could feel his pulse in my own fingertips, the solid bones of knuckle and phalanges. His right hand, battered and marked with the scars of sacrifice and labor. Marked also with the signs of my love, the crude repairs done in pain and desperation. Blood of my blood, bone of my bone ... — Diana Gabaldon

You may have heard the saying, Refusing to forgive is like drinking poison and hoping it kills the other person. — Joyce Meyer

In the Russian Orthodox Church there is the concept of the Holy Fool. It means someone who is a fool to the ways of the world, but wise to the ways of God. I think that Ted, from the moment he saw the baby, knew that he could not possibly be the father ... Perhaps he saw in that moment that if he so much as questioned the baby's fatherhood, it would mean humiliation for the child and might jeopardize his entire future ... Perhaps he understood that he could not reasonably expect an independent and energetic spirit like Winnie to find him sexually exciting and fulfilling.
... And so he decided upon the most unexpected, and yet the simplest course of all. He chose to be such a Fool that he couldn't see the obvious. — Jennifer Worth