Selected physicality quotes

1. All ballplayers should quit when it starts to feel as if all the baselines run uphill.

2. Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head.

3. The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things.

4. I am thankful for laughter, except when milk comes out of my nose.

5. I had a consuming ambition to possess a miller's thumb. I believe I have never since wanted anything more desperately than I wanted my right thumb to be flattened as my father's had become, during his earlier years of a miller's life.

6. My valor is certainly going!-it is sneaking off! I feel it oozing out, as it were, at the palm of my hands!

7. Every body is a book of blood; Wherever we're opened, we're red.

8. The beloved does not drink a single drop of water without seeing His Face in the cup. Allah is He Who flows between the pericardium and the heart, just as the tears flow from the eyelids.

9. I'm gonna stick your head so far up your ass your gonna have to cut holes in your nipples to see!

10. Bruce and I were training out on my patio one day, we were using this giant bag for side kicks, I guess it weighed about 150lbs. Bruce kicked it and it just went Bang, it shot up out into the lawn about 15ft in the air, it then busted in the middle. It was filled with little bits and pieces of rag, we were picking up bits of rag for months.

11. They stick out a lot and tend to catch the wind. I loved skiing as a teenager but I had to stop because my ears got so cold .

12. The Rock: 'Now, back to you. Shawn Michaels. Are you and the Chippendale parade going to turn your tushsh around and make your way to the back of the queue? Or will The Rock have to take his size thirteen boot, shine it up real nice, turn that sumbitch sideways and stick it straight up your ass!'

13. 'A singer, at work, is usually thinking only about making it through the song without flubbing it. Look what's involved:breathing plausibly, remembering the lyrics, nailing the high notes, staying with your band or chorus, maintaining a soulful facial expression and looking good. You might also be whacking a guitar. And -- because Presley did -- you also have to move, oscillate, arm-wrestle with the microphone, throttle it, skid across the stage on your knees, fling your head back and spread your arms; and then you want to salt it with what you possess of art...he flings his voice up beyond the grip of gravity, and then surrenders, like a skater in a leap.'

14. I was so insecure about everything that all I was really sure of was what I already held in my hands or my mouth or what was well on its way there.

15. . . . My best friend [as a young girl] made this mole on my face, because she would get in a fight with me and scratch me -- by the third time the scab came off the [mole] was there . . .

16. She contrived to twist her body into first one luxurious position, then another.

17. People say, Well, he wore that body out. Well, maybe I did. But it was to a good purpose. They should be thankful that I wore it out to the purpose I wore it out and that was writing and recording and touring and doing concerts. Everywhere I could possibly do them that I thought I might enjoy them. I thought people might enjoy me.

18. 'He plays like somebody is standing on his foot.'

19. Speak straight and clear! I only hear that manly prayer which like a huge fist breaks my head against the stones.

20. 'You've got to be ready to hit him like you're hitting a running back. Or he's going to hit you and hurt you.'

21. They snuggled closer, and when they were as close as they could get without being behind one another, they commenced to kiss again.

22. In the quiet ache of the evening, Alobar listened to his calluses grow.

23. Endurance is mind over matter.

24. You don't hit with your face.

25. Interviewer: I read something somewhere about 'the monster'. Davey, I wanted you maybe to explain something about the monster that came out. I was just wondering if you could share that with our viewers. Davey: I don't know what the monster is. There is a monster. [Adam is giggling in the background] It happens in the studio, sometimes it happens on stage, [Adam can't control his giggling] and it's in my neck. Interviewer: It's in your neck. Show that. Davey: [points] Right about here. Sometimes it happens when I'm just talking, like I'd be talking to you and the monster bites me. Interviewer: Alright. Davey: It hurts. Adam: He could just be standing there and all of a sudden just DROP ['dropping' arm motion] and be on the floor. Davey: Because of the monster. Interviewer: Man. Due to the monster? Jade: People probably think we're a weird band because of this. People listening to this are probably thinking we're just weird. Davey: Yeah I mean, this is not an attempt to be whack.

26. I do the splits over an egg then I do a somersault into an open watermelon.

27. 'He's gonna PUKE!'

28. Laughter, n. An interior convulsion, producing a distortion of the features and accompanied by inarticulate noises. It is infectious and, though intermittent, incurable.

29. 'What is care?' asked the Princess, with a smile. 'It is a god', replied the Physician, 'invisible, but omnipotent. It steals the bloom from the cheek and lightness from the pulse - it takes away the appetite, and turns the hair grey'.

30. Talking about Fabio's height is the same as talking about the fog in Milan.I have never felt that he is short when I play with him,because he can jump higher than anybody else. He is always good at heading. It doesn't make any sense talking about Cannavaro like that.

31. Yet I have no stylistic nobility. My head aches because my head aches. The universe aches me because my head aches.

32. For joy, apparently, it was all Franny could do to hold the phone, even with both hands.

33. Rochester: I think I cut you.

34. The Sestos and Abydos of her breasts Not of two lovers, but two loves the nests.

35. Those set our hairs, but these our flesh upright.

36. I was able to compare the sexual equipment of the various men I made love with and there were amazing differences, in both length and massiveness. One handsome married man, who used to arrive with two Danishes from a very good bakery, had a penis about the size and shape of a lead pencil; he shall remain nameless. In my experience there was usually a relation to height, as Philip Rahv and Bill Mangold, both tall men, bore out. There may be dwarfish men with monstrously large organs, but I have never known one. It was not until later, after my second divorce, that I met an impotent man or a pervert (two of the latter)... None of my partners, the reader will be relieved to hear, had a venereal disease.

37. Bradbury Fisher shuddered from head to foot, and his legs wobbled like asparagus stalks.

38. She fitted into my biggest armchair as if it had been built round her by someone who knew they were wearing armchairs tight about the hips that season.

39. In one second, without any previous training or upbringing, he had become the wettest man in Worcestershire.

40. [of Spode] He was, as I had already been able to perceive, a breath-taking cove. About seven feet in height, and swathed in a plaid ulster which made him look about six feet across, he caught the eye and arrested it. It was as if Nature had intended to make a gorilla and had changed its mind at the last moment.

41. This Englishwoman is so refined She has no bosom and no behind.

42. There are magic moments, involving great physical fatigue and intense motor excitement, that produce visions of people known in the past. As I learned later from the delightful little book of the Abbe de Bucquoy, there are also visions of books as yet unwritten.