#nimble

Martindale had no valid claim on Smiley either professionally or socially. He worked on the fleshy side of the Foreign Office and his job consisted of lunching visiting dignitaries whom no one else would have entertained in his woodshed. He was a floating bachelor with a grey mane and that nimbleness which only fat men have. ↗

— John le Carré

#fleshy #nimbleness #men

For me, I think the bigger something is, the more difficult it is to make it nimble and fleet afoot. ↗

— Cate Blanchett

#difficult #fleet #i #i think #make

If I've got food and water, as long as I can exercise my mind and keep it nimble, then I'll be okay. ↗

— Rob Walton

#food #got #i #i can #keep

Stars wide of belt often cultivated a gentlemanly grandeur, a groomed refinement that filtered through their fingertips - the dainty fidgets of Hardy's plump digits, Orson Welles performing magic tricks with nimble dexterity, Jackie Gleason lofting a teacup to his lips as if he were Lady Bracknell - or through a fine set of twinkle-toes. ↗

— James Wolcott

#cultivated #dainty #filtered #fine #fingertips

So by the time I taught myself the bass guitar at the age of 14, my hands were already pretty nimble. ↗

— John Entwistle

#already #bass #by the time #guitar #hands

Those little nimble musicians of the air, that warble forth their curious ditties, with which nature hath furnished them to the shame of art. ↗

— Izaak Walton

#air #art #curious #ditties #forth