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We played at a club called, the Elbow Room. Don Carlos, the nightclub owner, was very hip and a very important person who made a big impact on my life. -- Jim Capaldi
We [Elbow] have had some luck with media syncs in film and on TV. We'd love to do a soundtrack with a really cool director. -- Guy Garvey
I like people like Ani DiFranco, a band called Elbow, of course John Lennon, George Harrison, Barry White. I have a lot of different influences and hopefully they all come together and make some sense. -- Billy Boyd
I don't know my armpit from my elbow in Los Angeles. -- Taylor Schilling
The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
I've had extraordinary good luck with my health, other than a broken elbow. -- Hillary Clinton
It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue. -- George W. Bush
I can lick my elbow. I know that's supposed to be impossible, but I can do it! -- Kate Voegele
I got a couple of front teeth knocked out during a football match when I was hit by a flying elbow. -- James Cosmo
I trained in combat, sword fighting, horse riding... It's empowering knowing that I can a break man's nose with my elbow. -- Gwendoline Christie
Maine out of season is unmistakably a great destination: hospitable, good-humored, plenty of elbow room, short days, dark nights of crackling ice crystals. -- Paul Theroux
I have no trouble with the twelve inches between my elbow and my palm. It's the seven inches between my ears that's bent. -- Tug McGraw
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offence. -- Thomas Carlyle
The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and elbow room. -- Brendan I. Koerner
When I'm marketing a film, whether its mine or someone else's, I work with a great deal of strategy and elbow grease until the job is done. -- Ava DuVernay
My father was a Norwegian who came from a small town near Oslo. He broke his arm at the elbow when he was 14, and they amputated it. -- Roald Dahl
But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things. -- Richard Krajicek
Even if your bosoms are your best asset, deep round-neck or scoop-neck Ts can be too revealing. Offset this flash of gorgeousness by covering up your arms with a little cardi that has sleeves to the elbow. -- Twiggy
I know at one point I had bright red hair and I had bracelets from my wrist up to my elbow and I was wearing size 50 pants. I wouldn't wear that today, but I'm not embarrassed about wearing it back then any more. -- Mike Shinoda
The lesion is in the area of my brain that is responsible for motor function, so I have continual chronic pain in my left arm from elbow to fingertips and the right side of my body from my ear to my breast area. -- Karen Duffy
I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I'd do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I'd pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I'd scream, 'Ow, ow, put it back!' -- Geena Davis
In drawing after drawing, pastel after pastel, painting after painting, the contours of Degas's dancing figures become, at a certain point, darkly insistent, tangled and dusky. It may be around an elbow, a heel, an armpit, a calf muscle, the nape of a neck. -- John Berger
Those who remember Washington's cold war culture in the 1980s will recall the shocked reactions to Reagan's intervention. People interested in foreign policy were astonished when in 1985 he met alone at Geneva - alone, not a single strategic thinker at his elbow! - with the Soviet Communist master Gorbachev. -- Russell Baker
When I meet people who say - which they do all of the time - 'I must just tell you, my great aunt had cancer of the elbow and the doctors gave her 10 seconds to live, but last I heard she was climbing Mount Everest,' and so forth, I switch off quite early. -- Christopher Hitchens
Airline glamour never promised anything as mundane as elbow room, much less a flat bed, a massage, or an arugula salad. It promised a better world. Service and dress reflected the more formal era, but no one expected air travel to be comfortable. It was amazing just to have hot food above the clouds. -- Virginia Postrel
Sometimes you buy a book, powerfully drawn to it, but then it just sits on the shelf. Maybe you flick through it, the ghost of your original purpose at your elbow, but it's not so much rereading as re-dusting. Then one day you pick it up, take notice of the contents; your inner life realigns. -- Hilary Mantel
Very often as a little girl, then as a young woman, I have suffered my lot of discrimination. I was brought up with brothers; I grew up in a boys' world. You have to elbow your way in. When you come with that sentiment of having been in a minority for a long period of time, then you are much more attentive to minorities. -- Christine Lagarde
I was freaking out when Brooks & Dunn were breaking up. I thought 'We play a ton of rodeos, and I thought this was such a cowboy deal, and I don't wear a hat. They might not think I'm a cowboy. That might sound ridiculous to a lot of people, but apparently, it meant something to me. I wound up with a cowboy tattoo from my elbow to my wrist. -- Ronnie Dunn
I'm definitely an elbow-room guy. -- Ryan Kwanten
Temptation: the fiend at my elbow. -- William Shakespeare
I caught an elbow playing basketball -- Michael Scofield
Don't put a lump of rock under my elbow again! -- J. R. R. Tolkien
Bound, elbow to elbow, darkness and night entered the dwelling. -- Luis Bunuel
Enclosing every thin man, there's a fat man demanding elbow-room. -- Evelyn Waugh
Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow. -- George Herbert
I actually had the urge to elbow an elderly lady today... -- Bill Burr
Necessity invented stools, Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs, And luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last. -- William Cowper
Politics is a contact sport - a question of accepting an elbow or two. -- Mark Shields
When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow. -- Harper Lee
If God built me a ladder to heaven, I would climb it and elbow drop the world -- Mick Foley
Miles clutched Quinn's elbow. "Don't Panic." "I'm not panicking," Quinn observed, "I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining . -- Lois McMaster Bujold
People have often said to me, 'You're so relaxed when you play.' Relaxed my elbow. It's practice. -- Benny Goodman
Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow-room is pleasanter -- and much safer. -- Robert A. Heinlein
It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw. -- Thomas Harris
Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity. -- Ellis Peters
The people accusing me of being productive don't know how hard it is for me to just bend my elbow sometimes. -- Lena Dunham
I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure. -- Bob Shacochis
Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me. -- Zora Neale Hurston
But still I feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, alright sucker, now what? -- Peter S. Beagle
But I still feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, 'alright sucker, now what?' -- Peter S. Beagle
Whenever the clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were Catholic or Protestant, persecution was the result. -- William Edward Hartpole Lecky
My albino elbow bends like a bow and arrow shoots shoots, roots, and bearded forest creatures. Love me now, before I remove my undergrowth. -- Jarod Kintz
I am double jointed in my elbow. So I can turn it all the way around and then bend it so it looks like it's broken. -- Gigi Hadid
We pulled the seeds out and scattered them on their flossy parachutes, leaving only the leathery brownish yellow tongue, soft as the inside of an elbow. -- Margaret Atwood
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Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room. -- Robert A. Heinlein
With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century. -- Ray Bradbury
When the mountain quaked Like an elbow's nudge Like a shout that something is wrong The people awoke and Knew, yes, knew, that bandits had come -- Shannon Hale
Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles. -- Tennessee Williams
Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours. -- Marcus Aurelius
Everyone knows the presidential candidates and has an opinion about them. But as you get to smaller races, that evaporates and you can win through sheer elbow grease. -- Joe Greene
Everyone knows the presidential candidates and has an opinion about them. But as you get to smaller races, that evaporates and you can win through sheer elbow grease. -- Joe Greene
Somebody who's learning how to ice skate for the first time would need skates, a helmet for head protection and elbow pads, because you do fall quite a bit. -- Gerad Adams
I think, for most of us is that once you get to a certain place in your career you're not having to elbow and knock people around and audition for parts. -- Tavis Smiley
She raised herself up on an elbow, stroked my forehead & said in a hushed half-whisper, 'You will be famous.' "The seed was planted. Ambition fed on the compost of my vanity. -- F.R. Tallis
Hunger has always been more or less at my elbow when I played, but now I began to wake up at night to find hunger standing at my bedside, staring at my gauntly. -- Richard Wright
A black face, run-down shoes and elbow-out make-up give me a place to hide. The real Bert Williams is crouched deep down inside the coon who sings the songs and tells the stories. -- Bert Williams
A word, a smile, and the stranger at your elbow may become an interesting friend. All through life we deny ourselves stimulating fellowship because we are too proud or too afraid to unbend. -- Donald C. Peattie
One can't work/by limelight.//A bowlful/right at/one's elbow//produces no/more than/a baleful/glow against/the kitchen table.//The fruit purveyor's/whole unstable/pyramid//doesn't equal/what daylight did. -- Kay Ryan
I scan the room. Catherine is writing quickly, her light brown hair falling over her face. She is left-handed, and because she writes in pencil her left arm is silver from wrist to elbow. -- Sara Gruen
My father had osteomyelitis-his left arm was withered between his elbow and his shoulder ... . But the amputation of a Stone Age man called Leaf, a stoneworker, does not relate to my father at all... -- Jim Crace
But, then again, I had to stop because there was too much pain or too much trouble. After I retired I still had one more elbow surgery just to be able to do normal things -- Richard Krajicek

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