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My elbows are double-jointed, so I can flip them inside out. -- Emmanuelle Chriqui
You have to have sharp elbows if you want to change something. -- James Carville
I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo. -- Vidal Sassoon
You may get skinned knees and elbows, but it's worth it if you score a spectacular goal. -- Mia Hamm
Rock is so much fun. That's what it's all about - filling up the chest cavities and empty kneecaps and elbows. -- Jimi Hendrix
You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows. -- Louis Malle
The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows. -- Paul Samuelson
It was so draining. Going to parties to rub elbows with so-and-so and act like it's no big deal, when really all I was doing was hoping I'd have the success they had. -- Katy Perry
To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death. -- Jean Anouilh
It's like being at the kids' table at Thanksgiving - you can put your elbows on it, you don't have to talk politics... no matter how old I get, there's always a part of me that's sitting there. -- John Hughes
I met in the street a very poor young man who was in love. His hat was old, his coat worn, his cloak was out at the elbows, the water passed through his shoes, - and the stars through his soul. -- Victor Hugo
The trouble with women? Elbows. -- Michael Caine
Elbows are never put on the table while one is eating. -- Emily Post
The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice. -- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The game of basketball is not played with throwing punches, throwing elbows. -- Mo Williams
It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue. -- George W. Bush
In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves. -- Marie Dressler
She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table. -- Henry James
In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves -- Marie Dressler
That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it. -- Curtis LeMay
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
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
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
Poetry is a street fighter. It has sharp elbows. It can look after itself. Poetry can't be used for manipulation; it's why you never see good poetry in advertising. -- David Whyte
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
During National Playground Safety Week, I'll celebrate common-sense safety. I'll also celebrate skinned knees and bruised elbows. I'll celebrate so-called 'dangerous' playgrounds - playgrounds with see-saws, zip lines and towering slides. -- Darell Hammond
From a young age, I was rubbing elbows with a very different kind of person and social class, and I felt a lot of tension and conflict in my identity because of that. -- David Lindsay-Abaire
Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean! -- Fay Wray
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
But in 2000, the injuries really started to kick in and my elbow gave a lot of problems. At the end of the year I had to take 20 months off before I could come back into the game -- Richard Krajicek
It would have been amazing to have been a student at Oxford during that golden moment in the 1910s, rubbing elbows with the likes of Aldous Huxley and T.E. Lawrence, before World War I shattered everything forever. -- Kevin Kwan
For me, becoming a celebrity was like being in the eye of a hurricane. Suddenly, I was an international cover girl. Everybody was lapping up my Hemingwayness. They wanted to rub elbows with me or brush up against me. -- Margaux Hemingway
My father was a joyous, joyous spirit, he really was. He was a hedonist, that was just - he enjoyed life, thrust up to the elbows with it. He was a terrible father. I don't know that he was parented that well. -- Carrie Fisher
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
I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it. -- Jeannette Walls
I Sellotape whole tins of sardines to my face at night, attach two squeezed lemon rinds to my armadillo-skinned elbows, and put cucumber on my eyes. By the time I'm finished, I look like a fruit salad with added fish. In the morning, the pillow is pretty much a write-off. -- Barry Humphries
Outlaw Cook' was a revelation. Folks like Jeff Smith and Marcella Hazan got me interested in cooking, but John Thorne pushed me into the path that I follow to this day. This is the only cookbook I've ever read that understands how men really eat: over the sink, in the dark, greasy to the elbows. -- Alton Brown
Sometimes our thoughts turn back toward a corner in a forest, or the end of a bank, or an orchard powdered with flowers, seen but a single time on some happy day, yet remaining in our hearts and leaving in soul and body an unappeased desire which is not to be forgotten, a feeling that we have just rubbed elbows with happiness. -- Guy de Maupassant
It turns out there's only 10 minutes of productive conversation in any family dinner. The rest is taken up with 'take your elbows off the table' and 'pass the ketchup.' And what researchers have found is you can take that 10 minutes and put it in any time of the day and get the benefit. So, if you can't have family dinner, have family breakfast! -- Bruce Feiler
I am a team player - and that is what you need to be an effective point guard. You gotta see the court, you gotta set up the play, and you gotta let others execute for the most part. I don't throw elbows for the sake of throwing elbows, but if somebody throws one at me and it's necessary to respond in kind, I suppose I can if I have to. -- Susan Rice
Time is three eyes and eight elbows. -- Dogen
I'm a solitary sort, I get chaffed by too many elbows. -- Louis Bayard
The only parts left of my original body are my elbows. -- Phyllis Diller
My plastic surgeon ... said my face looked like a bouquet of elbows. -- Phyllis Diller
There is commonly sufficient space about us. Our horizon is never quite at our elbows. -- Henry David Thoreau
When a Man has Married a WifeHe finds out whetherHer Knees & elbows are onlyglued together. -- William Blake
When you think of it, people may rub elbows and still have an ocean or two between them. -- B.M. Bower
Mere fact has no chance of being formally perfect. It will get in the way, it will be all elbows. -- Martin Amis
My arms are up to the elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul. -- Nikita Khrushchev
I can be just as dirty. I could use my head or my elbows and we can we all dirty. -- Carl Froch
There was a brief pause for them to evaluate the full horror of the situation. Magnus. personally, was in horror up to his elbows. -- Cassandra Clare
I moved to leave, and Dylan actually grabbed me by my shoulders. I was so surprised that I forgot to karate-chop his elbows and break his arms. -- James Patterson
Teaching creativity to your child isn't like teaching good manners. No one can paint a masterpiece by bowing to another person's precepts about elbows on the table. -- Gurney Williams
I expect to weave through the crowd, dodging elbows and muttering "excuse me" the way I always do, but there is no need. Becoming Dauntless has made me noticable. -- Veronica Roth
It's always exciting that you can rub elbows with some of the greatest players who have ever played the game, and just being around the "family" again from baseball. -- Rickey Henderson
Don't be discouraged when your life boils hot. With just a little more toil, you'll reap from the soil. More oil to your elbows. Stay awake and make it happen! -- Israelmore Ayivor
A man can wear out a particular part of his mind by continually using and tiring it, just in the same way he can wear out the elbows of his coat. -- Winston Churchill
The art of politics is learning to walk with your back to the wall, your elbows high, and a smile on your face. It's a survival game played under the glare of lights. -- Jean Chretien
I, in my brand new body, which was not a woman's yet, told the stars my questions and thought God could really see the heat and the painted light, elbows, knees, dreams, goodnight. -- Anne Sexton
My ties and ballasts leave me - I travel - I sail - My elbows rest in the sea-gaps. I skirt the sierras. My palms cover continents - I am afoot with my vision. -- Walt Whitman
I've even delivered a few of their babies. (Wulf) Really? (Cassandra) Oh, yeah. You have to love the days before modern roads, and hospitals when I was up to my elbows in placenta. (Wulf) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
Now it's just sharp elbows, and instead of having a caucus where you sit down and say, 'What are you doing for your country?' you sit figuring out how to screw the other side. -- Alan K. Simpson
Hana: What on Earth is a 'barbeque'? Hel: A primitive tribal ritual featuring paper plates, elbows, flying insects, encrusted meat, hush puppies, and beer. Hana: I daren't ask what a 'hush puppy' is. Hel: Don't. -- Trevanian

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