Ethel M. Dell Quotes

There was not a tree on the place, only the horrible prickly pear bushes thrusting out their distorted arms as if exulting in their own nakedness.

Ethel M. Dell

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• I love that sense of release as you throw yourself into the crowd as hundreds of arms are carrying you.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Sense
  • Arms
  • Crowd

• My mama just accepted everybody with open arms. Everybody knew her.

  

  Quavo Migos
  • Arms
  • Open
  • Accepted

• Loneliness surrounds me without your arms around me.

  

  Tammy Wynette
  • Loneliness
  • Arms
  • Without

• My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck.

  

  Cyndi Lauper Blue Angel
  • Long
  • Looks
  • Hands

• A sweaty Macbeth with blood on his arms coming in fresh from the battle doesn't interest me.

  

  Alan Cumming
  • Blood
  • Battle
  • Arms

• It has always struck me that one of the readiest ways of estimating a country's regard for law is to notice what arms the officers of the law are carrying: in England it is little batons, in France swords, in many countries revolvers, and in Russia the police used to have artillery.

  

  Lord Dunsany
  • Country
  • Law
  • Police

• I just wish we knew a little less about his urethra and a little more about his arms sales to Iran.

  

  Andy Rooney
  • Wish
  • Literature
  • Littles

• A tremendous strike which hit the defender full on the arm - and it nearly came off.

  

  Kevin Keegan
  • Football
  • Arms
  • Strikes

• This is a fallen world. People lie, the truth gets distorted, and that's the way it is. What's for dinner?

  

  Donna Leon
  • People
  • World
  • Truth

• I still didn't look at him. I was afraid if I did that, I would turn around, run back to him, and hurl myself into his arms.

  

  P. C. Cast
  • Running
  • Looks
  • Arms

• Ron Guidry is not very big, maybe 140 pounds, but he has an arm like a lion.

  

  Jerry Coleman
  • Funny
  • Humor
  • Arms

• I let Guerrero get his arms extended, and while that's usually a mistake to any power hitter, it isn't necessarily so to him. He has no strike zone. He'll hit the ball below the zone, the ball away, and he'll cheat inside and put good wood on it. So you choose your poison.

  

  Jamie Moyer
  • Mistake
  • Arms
  • Extended

• I saw a lot of good hitters but I never saw a better one than Paul Waner. I mean I once threw a side arm spitter right into his belly and he hit it into the upper deck.

  

  Burleigh Grimes
  • Mean
  • Arms
  • Belly

• It astonishes me already when I compare my condition today with what it was a month ago. Before that I knew well enough one could fracture one's legs and arms and recover afterward, but I did not know that you could fracture the brain in your head and recover from that too.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Today
  • Brain
  • Enough

• But in my arms she was always Lolita.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Arms
  • Sock

• The strength of the soul can defy a whole world in arms against it.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Soul
  • Strength
  • Arms

• A democrat should not rely upon the force of the arms his state could flaunt in the face of the world, but on the moral force his state could put at the disposal of the world.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Force
  • Arms
  • Democrat

• Possession of arms implies an element of fear, if not of cowardice.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
  • Fear
  • Arms
  • Possession

• [When I was a kid] I was a surgeon, amputating legs and arms of my paper dolls. And I had a little board with little tacks that I would tack them down to do this.

  

  Judy Blume
  • Kids
  • Arms
  • Boards

• This Lullaby is only a few words, a simple run of chords, quiet here in this spare room, but you can hear it, hear it, wherever you may go, even if I let you down, this lullaby plays on.

  

  Sarah Dessen
  • Running
  • Simple
  • Quiet

• When you put better teams in front of you, that's when the big players rise to that occasion.

  

  Michael Owen
  • Player
  • Occasions
  • Fronts

• I've always been an actor. That's my job — I can be anything you want me to be.

  

  Sarah Jessica Parker
  • Job
  • Actor

• Mind you, Mount Rushmore isn't exactly the Parthenon or the Sistine Chapel either. After the naïve daftness of the Crazy Horse monument, I find the pompous idiocy of those four presidents somehow more risible still. Wishing to show respect or feel a vicarious thrill of admiration and pride, I can only giggle. For which I am very sorry. Any loyal American reading this who feels outraged and insulted is free to explode with derisive snorts of laughter at any British equivalent.

  

  Stephen Fry
  • Horse
  • Sorry
  • Laughter

• There was not a tree on the place, only the horrible prickly pear bushes thrusting out their distorted arms as if exulting in their own nakedness.

  

  Ethel M. Dell
  • Arms
  • Distorted
  • Nakedness