#limbs

A poet is a man who puts up a ladder to a star and climbs it while playing a violin. ↗

— Edmond de Goncourt

#ladder #man #playing #poet #puts

I'm just a pack mule. I've played leads and I've played character roles. Any actress in Hollywood will tell you as your age climbs, the leads thin. ↗

— Marcia Gay Harden

#age #any #character #character roles #climbs

Sorrow is a fruit. God does not make it grow on limbs too weak to bear it. ↗

— Victor Hugo

#bear #does #fruit #god #grow

Indeed, the whole company, although thin in flesh, and generally of slight forms, and limbs, especially, are as good looking and intelligent a body of men as we usually meet with. ↗

— Lewis Tappan

#body #company #especially #flesh #forms

The higher one climbs the lonelier one is. ↗

— Mary Barnett Gilson

#higher #lonelier

At college I'd seen my dead frog's limbs twitch under some applied stimulus or other - seen, but hadn't believed. Didn't dream of thinking beyond or around what I saw. ↗

— James Merrill

#around #believed #beyond #college #dead

I don't measure a man's success by how high he climbs but how high he bounces when he hits bottom. ↗

— George S. Patton

#bottom #climbs #high #hits #how

Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs. ↗

— Pablo Picasso

#application #art #beauty #beyond #brain

He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit. ↗

— Walter Scott

#fruit #gulf #his #leaps #prevail

The French are endowed with bigger limbs; those of the Spaniards are stronger; they have a very slim waist. The French fight with more ferocity than advise. The Spaniards the opposite. ↗

— Michael Servetus

#bigger #endowed #ferocity #fight #french