“ The difference between a helping hand and an outstretched palm is a twist of the wrist. ”
- Laurence Leamer- Copy
“ Why slap them on the wrist with feather when you can belt them over the head with a sledgehammer. ”
- Katharine Hepburn- Copy
“ It's such a great feeling to make people laugh. I know I've made people cry or want to slit their wrists, but to make people laugh is a very intoxicating, wonderful thing. ”
- Joan Allen- Copy
“ That pile of paper on his left side went on living like the watch on a dead soldier's wrist. ”
- Jean Cocteau- Copy
“ He made a swirling motion with a chain-braceleted wrist. The wine mounted the inside of the glass in a sheet of gold, fell undulating back. ”
- Kennedy Fraser- Copy
“ Rarely in broadcasting history has so much been riding on the whimsical flick of a few thousand wrists. ”
- Harriet van Horne- Copy
“ Most of you have been where I am tonight. The crash site of unrequited love. You ask yourself, How did I get here? What was it about? Was it her smile? Was it the way she crossed her legs, the turn of her ankle, the poignant vulnerability of her slender wrists? What are these elusive and ephemeral things that ignite passion in the human heart? That's an age-old question… ”
- Martin Sage and Sybil Adelman- Copy
“ So you wish to conquer in the Olympic games, my friend? And I too, by the Gods, and a fine thing it would be! But first mark the conditions and the consequences, and then set to work. You will have to put yourself under discipline; to eat by rule, to avoid cakes and sweetmeats; to take exercise at the appointed hour whether you like it or no, in cold and heat; to abstain from cold drinks and from wine at your will; in a word, to give yourself over to the trainer as to a physician… ”
- Epictetus- Copy
“ Who has not felt the beauty of a woman's arm? The unspeakable suggestions of tenderness that lie in the dimpled elbow, and all the varied gently-lessening curves, down to the delicate wrist, with its tiniest, almost imperceptible nicks in the firm softness. ”
- George Eliot- Copy
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