William Shakespeare
Playwright, Poet
"Fat paunches have lean pates, and dainty bits Make rich the ribs, but backrout quite the wits."
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Ribs
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Richard Marx
Singer-Songwriter
"I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone."
Che Guevara
Revolutionary, Guerrilla Leader
"Once again I feel beneath my heels the ribs of Rocinante. Once more, I'm on the road with my shield on my arm."
John Steinbeck
Novelist, Journalist
"The sound of a jet, an engine warming up, even the clopping of shod hooves on pavement brings on the ancient shudder, the dry mouth and vacant eye, the hot palms and the churn of stomach high up under the rib cage."
Lennox Lewis
Professional Boxer
"When I was fighting Tyrell Biggs, Tyson was telling me at ringside to hit him to the ribs. We always had a mutual respect for each other since we sparred those early times. We got that over with."
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"The ribs are the wings of the body. Open your wings."
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"I have a strange feeling with regard to you. As if I had a string somewhere under my left ribs, tightly knotted to a similar string in you. And if you were to leave I'm afraid that cord of communion would snap. And I have a notion that I'd take to bleeding inwardly. As for you, you'd forget me."
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"I can be whatever it takes to be a folksinger. Folk music to me, if we had to have a definition, is portable music. A lot of what I do is flash, gesture, athletics, but what it comes down to is getting across a melody that will help it stick to your ribs, and being able to take it from town to town."
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"Funny how time heals. Like that bullet in my ribs. It's there, I know it's there, but I can barely feel it at all anymore."
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"I pointed at the little kids goading each other to jump from rib cage to shoulder and Gus answered just loud enough for me to hear over the din, 'Last time, I imagined myself as the kid. This time, the skeleton."
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