#bones

Like bones to the human body, the axle to the wheel, the wing to the bird, and the air to the wing, so is liberty the essence of life. Whatever is done without it is imperfect. ↗

— Jose Marti

#bird #body #bones #done #essence

I'm not sure I make old bones in parliament. It's an amazing experience to have had but I can't see myself being Mother of the House. ↗

— Louise Mensch

#amazing experience #being #bones #experience #had

It seemed romantic but also tragic - people would be winning but then lose it all, or crash but fight on, break bones but get back on their bikes and try to finish. Just getting to the end was seen as an achievement in itself. ↗

— David Millar

#also #back #bikes #bones #break

That Monaco crash was quite a big one - I pulled 33g when I hit the wall, which is a lot. It's a weird sensation - like all my skin and flesh was being pulled off my bones. ↗

— Jenson Button

#big #bones #crash #flesh #hit

I have dangerous bones in my body. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#bones #dangerous #i

I find no sweeter fat than sticks to my own bones. ↗

— Walt Whitman

#fat #find #i #my own #own

I have to make my bones with Hollywood to get in. And when I do maybe I'll metamorphose from Mr. Muscles or whatever it is I am now and become an irascible tosser. ↗

— Tom Hardy

#become #bones #get #hollywood #i

That's why when major badasses greet each other in movies, they don't say anything, they just nod. The nod means, 'I' am a badass, and I recognize that you, too, are a badass,' but they don't say anything because they're Wolverine and Magneto and it would mess up their vibe to explain. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#simon-lewis #movies

No one will ever know what 'In Cold Blood' took out of me. It scraped me right down to the marrow of my bones. It nearly killed me. I think, in a way, it did kill me. ↗

— Truman Capote

#bones #cold #did #down #ever

Last good pratfall I did, I broke bones in both hands. I still feel it when people shake my hand. ↗

— Chevy Chase

#both #broke #did #feel #good