#elbows

I reached my full height at age 11, and I was clumsy as all get-out - all elbows and knees, couldn't get up a flight of stairs without falling down. I wanted to be a cute, petite blonde, but I'm a big ol' strapping thing, so I just accept it. ↗

— Jeannette Walls

#age #big #blonde #clumsy #cute

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows. ↗

— Paul Samuelson

#comes #elbows #every #hands #hungry

I kept thinking I would be spending my life up to my elbows in shampoo. ↗

— Vidal Sassoon

#i #kept #life #my life #shampoo

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death. ↗

— Jean Anouilh

#death #easy #elbows #even #hands

Crawford washed her hands a lot. She washed her arms all the way up past her elbows. She just couldn't get enough done in that direction. She was compulsive about being clean, clean, clean! ↗

— Fay Wray

#arms #being #clean #compulsive #crawford

That was the era when we might have destroyed Russia completely and not even skinned our elbows doing it. ↗

— Curtis LeMay

#destroyed #doing #elbows #era #even

You must find the note, the correct key, for your story. If you find it, everything will work. If you do not, everything will stick out like elbows. ↗

— Louis Malle

#elbows #everything #find #key #like