When I was 12, I snapped my arm in two. My wrist still has a funny bump because they didn’t join it back together so great.
Quite frankly, having an uninformed populace works extremely well, particularly when you have a media that doesn’t understand its responsibility and feels more like it’s an arm of a political party. They can really take advantage of an uninformed populace.
Basketball is big stuff in New York. If you’re good in it, everybody respects you. Nobody would want to ruin your shooting eye or your shooting arm.
It was very important for me to play winter ball. It was very important for me, my arm, and my whole body.
I have an elbow that bends the wrong way, and I’d do things like stand in an elevator and the doors would close, and I’d pretend that my arm had got caught in it, and then I’d scream, ‘Ow, ow, put it back!’
When I was younger I probably didn’t understand something basic about tact, but I think it kept faint-hearted people at arm’s distance and that’s not such a bad thing, because life is short and I know the kind of people I want to work with.
In the early 1800s, both Spain and Portugal disseminated the smallpox vaccine throughout the Americas via the ‘arm to arm of the blacks,’ that is, enslaved Africans and African-Americans, often children, who were being moved along slave routes as cargo from one city to another to be sold.
I guess I set a world record for errors. I had a pretty good arm, see, but I didn’t have much control.
Since then, I have just read and read – but, that said, I suppose there is a raft of writers to whom I return again and again, not so much because I want to write like them, even if I were capable of it, but simply for a sort of stylistic shot in the arm.
I still think there are some pitches in this pitching arm, so I will continue playing with USA Softball, but knowing that this could be the last time a softball player stands on the Olympic podium and has the opportunity of experiencing this – it was emotional.
You watch Bono in a room – and we’re talking about a room of thousands swarming around him – he’ll take every single person and make that moment about them. You can pat him on the back or pull his arm, he’s not looking away from the person he’s talking to.
When I was just starting out, I had two choices: I could be the beautiful girl on the main man’s arm as decoration, or I would have to do a little independent movie to get any depth in the female character.
But I do, like proper cooks, have an oven burn on my arm. I ran it under the tap for a couple of minutes but then the biscuits I’d made were cool enough to eat and I had to make a choice. Tiny scar and full belly it is then.
They’ve put skin from my arm on my ankle and from my thigh on my arm. So whenever I get asked what’s happened to me, I end up saying it’s like a little jigsaw, parts of my body all over the place.
I filmed an interstitial with Allisyn Ashley Arm and Matthew Scott Montgomery one day. And we made up this weird thing ’cause we had to lay in the grass for, like, ten hours, and it was really itchy. So we call ourselves The Grass Gang.
Chances have been taken, opportunities granted, and because of such, I find myself in a position where some of my biggest dreams are in arm’s reach.
In the early days of our marriage, Stephen could walk around Cambridge on my arm – a stick on one hand, leaning on me with the other. I carried a baby on one arm and Stephen on the other.
When I got hurt and had surgery on my left shoulder, my arm was in a sling for over a month but I could play Ping-Pong right-handed. I started playing and got addicted.
Knowledge will forever govern ignorance; and a people who mean to be their own governors must arm themselves with the power which knowledge gives.
You better arm yourselves to answer your children’s and grandchildren’s questions… no matter what the question is… without being judgmental.
I don’t think enough players channel the energy of the crowd. If it’s done properly, and you don’t let anger overwhelm and distract you, it’s like a shot of adrenaline in the arm, and it gets the crowd pumped up.
A lot of modern comedies are difficult to watch too, because they’re so ironic and so detached and so quote-unquote clever. They kind of keep you at arm’s length. They can be really funny, but they’re not really nourishing.
You never make fun of anybody with a club foot or a withered arm, but it’s open season on anybody who stutters.
Horror movies are the best date movies. There’s no wondering, ‘When do I put my arm around her?’
Progressives know there is something very wrong when a nation divided politically has one major network operating as a propaganda arm of the Republican Party and 90 percent of talk radio is dominated by right-wing extremists.
But, what we need to get out of the first EVA is to have the arm completely unfolded and powered so that they can keep the temperature under control. That will really the call of the first EVA.
Most people would snap your arm off to do what I’ve done, but for me to be able to say my career was successful, I need to have some trophies and some medals in my cabinet when I finish.
My family knows everything about me. There are no secrets, which can be suffocating, but I also find comfort in it. You can always reach out an arm, and an aunty will be close by to tell you that your skirt is too short.
The highest prize in a world of men is the most beautiful woman available on your arm and living there in her heart loyal to you.
When you lack a certain vitality in the film business, there’s no hiding it. It’s like you’ve had your limb chopped off. How do you hide the fact that you’re missing an arm?
When you’re first learning how to do eyeliner, it’s really hard to get both lids the same. A good tip for when you’re putting it on, is to make sure your elbow is on a table. Make sure your arm’s really stable. And make sure you have an eye makeup q-tip to get that really sharp line.
Very often, you did something slow with your arm, for example, and something rapid with your feet – but the arm had to do something large against this – and this set up a kind of opposition.
It was on my fifth birthday that Papa put his hand on my shoulder and said, ‘Remember, my son, if you ever need a helping hand, you’ll find one at the end of your arm.’
I love tattoos. And mine symbolise who I really am. I have a Samurai on my left arm. At a subconscious level, I connect to this warrior and model myself on his discipline, skills and honour. There is also a tribal tattoo and a Chinese symbol of faith. I have seen a lot of people getting tattoos just because it’s a trend.
I slide my arm from under the sleeper’s head and it is numb, full of swarming pins, on the tip of each, waiting to be counted, the fallen angels sit.
I think I could describe the perfect quarterback. Take a little piece of everybody. Take John Elway’s arm, Dan Marino’s release, maybe Troy Aikman’s drop-back, Brett Favre’s scrambling ability, Joe Montana’s two-minute poise and, naturally, my speed.
I was blessed with a strong arm and a weak mind.
I was born Maurice Joseph Micklewhite. Imagine signing that autograph! You’d get a broken arm. So I changed my name to Michael Caine after Humphrey Bogart’s ‘The Caine Mutiny,’ which was playing in the theater across from the telephone booth where I learned that I’d gotten my first TV job.
A lot of people think a high armhole is restrictive, but it gives you total movement because it’s cut right up to your arm.
ESPN has this problem with sports, it’s impossible to fill 24 hours with sports programming so they have to resort to things like poker and arm wrestling tournaments.
I’ll be the person using the shuttle robotic arm.
I am a writer. It’s like a third arm to me.
I don’t think I’m alarmist. I’m more disappointed by the euphemisms in some instances than outright bigotry. Now, to me, you walk around with a Klan hat on or you’ve got a swastika on you arm, you just look like a dope, you know what I mean?
It’s called the Samsung Chromebook Plus, and it runs on an ARM processor, the same type of processor that powers the vast majority of smartphones and tablets. It was designed in close cooperation with Google.
We have to fight all terrorist groups, and not arm one to fight another.
My attitude is that I just never give up. I’ve been choked out twice and had my arm broken in a fight but I’ve never tapped.
One of the first things I did on arriving at school was to break my left arm falling into a bomb crater.
Singing ‘Family Tradition’ with Hank Jr. was a pee-your-pants moment. Hank comes over while I’m singing and puts his arm around me, and my knees nearly buckled. You can put off the fact that this is reality, but when he came over, there was just no denying. I just lost cabin pressure.
People have their special room for Christmas. One year my mum left her present on the arm of the sofa and it was still there the following Christmas!
It definitely helps to have been through the arm training flow before and to have used the arm on orbit, and it also gives me the confidence to know that our training facilities are really good, that when you get up there, you feel like you’ve been there.
The last thing we need is efforts by some politicians and the NRA to arm educators and allow more guns in our schools.
