Zora Neale Hurston
Novelist, Anthropologist
"Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me."
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Bruce Lee
Martial Artist, Actor, Director
"If your opponent is at a distance, kick him in the groin. If he gets close, poke him in the eyes, bring up your knee, pop him with an elbow, dig a corkscrew punch to his stomach."
Martin Luther King, Jr.
Civil Rights Leader
"The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice."
Geena Davis
Actress
"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!'"
Vidal Sassoon
Hairdresser
"I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo."
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"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."
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"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."
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"To really know life you've got to be part of life. You must get down and look, you must get into the nooks and crannies of existence. You have to rub elbows with all kinds and types of men before you can finally establish what he is."
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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."
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"She was a woman who, between courses, could be graceful with her elbows on the table."
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"The game of basketball is not played with throwing punches, throwing elbows."
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"When I studied computer science at Duke University in the first half of the 1980s, I had professors who treated women differently than men. I kind of got used to it. At Microsoft, I had to use my elbows and make sure I spoke up at the table, but it was an incredibly meritocratic place. Outside, in the industry, I would feel the sexism. I'd walk into a room and until I proved my worth, everyone would assume that the guy presenting with me had credibility and I didn't."
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"There's a thing that just as you go to sleep, if you keep your elbows elevated that you will never go below the dream stage. And I've used that quite a lot and it keeps me dreaming much longer than if I just relaxed."
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"She stopped and leant her elbows against the parapet of the embankment. He did likewise. There is at times a magic in identity of position; it is one of the things that have suggested to us eternal comradeship."
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"Then I heard someone laugh. I wished I didn't know whose laugh it was, but I knew Will's laugh just like I knew he had a small scar right above his left elbow. You couldn't be reluctantly lust-ridden for someone without noticing stuff about them."
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"When a Man has Married a WifeHe finds out whetherHer Knees & elbows are onlyglued together."
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"Thou sodden-witted lord! thou hast no more brain than I have in mine elbows."
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"Temptation: the fiend at my elbow."
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"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."
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"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."
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"Don't put a lump of rock under my elbow again!"
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"When he was nearly thirteen, my brother Jem got his arm badly broken at the elbow."
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"Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow."
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