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The goal of mass transit is to convince people to abandon their cars, which feature such enticing accessories as CD players and elbow room.
— Brendan I. Koerner
Selma dug her sharp elbow right into my ribs and then kicked me hard on the ankle under the table. I couldn't help giving a little squeal of pain.
— Jacqueline Wilson
You can find meanness in the least of creatures, but when God made man the Devil was at his elbow
— Cormac McCarthy
I've been in the hospital once when I had my daughter, and, oh, when I broke my elbow, but other than that, I've been very fortunate.
— Hillary Clinton
Harry resumed the patting of his elbow, saying as he did so (for the potion seemed to indicate that it was the right thing to do),
— J.K. Rowling
You might get an elbow in the face, maybe kicked in the 'nads.
— James Dashner
Do not act as if you had ten thousand years to throw away. Death stands at your elbow. Be good for something while you live and it is in your power.
— Marcus Aurelius
Temptation: the fiend at my elbow.
— William Shakespeare
I caught an elbow playing basketball
— Michael Scofield
But still I feel I waste a lot of time leaning on my elbow and thinking to myself, alright sucker, now what?
— Peter S. Beagle
I was shy, said six-foot-one of bashful male. He grunted as a sharp, feminine elbow thudded inconspicuously into his side.
— Anne Gracie
The preacher rose high on his elbow. "Law changes," he said, "but 'got to's' go on. You got the right to do what you got to do.
— John Steinbeck
Necessity invented stools,Convenience next suggested elbow-chairs,
And luxury the accomplish'd Sofa last. — William Cowper
Whither thou know'est thy ass from thy elbow
— J.R. Ward
No man lives without jostling and being jostled; in all ways he has to elbow himself through the world, giving and receiving offense.
— Thomas Carlyle
Miles clutched Quinn's elbow. "Don't Panic.""I'm not panicking," Quinn observed, "I'm watching you panic. It's more entertaining . — Lois McMaster Bujold
If there was ever a person begging for an elbow to the face, it is Evangeline Samos.
— Victoria Aveyard
There's elbow room, a value we've forgotten we ever had.
— Fausto Brizzi
I trained in combat, sword fighting, horse riding ... It's empowering knowing that I can a break man's nose with my elbow.
— Gwendoline Christie
I've got a crooked elbow and I generally say my prayers with one leg on a brass rail.
— Edward Abbey
For the record, I am so turned on by your elbow patches, I'm coming out of my skin over here.
— Alice Clayton
Forgiving yourself can prove as difficult as licking a scab off your elbow.
— Richelle E. Goodrich
Spacemen - men who work in space, pilots and jetmen and astrogators and such - are men who like a few million miles of elbow room.
— Robert A. Heinlein
I got a couple of front teeth knocked out during a football match when I was hit by a flying elbow.
— James Cosmo
Greek mythology has always been my Achilles elbow.
— Adrian McKinty
He still wore, in the warming barracks, a muskrat cap with earlaps. Under it his eyes were gray as agates, as sudden as an elbow in the solar plexus.
— Wallace Stegner
There's a band in the U.K. called Elbow. They're not that big in the U.S., but I think they're genius.
— Jamie Lawson
My mind struck a truth as an elbow can strike a table edge.
— Maya Angelou
He imagined that he stood near Emma in a wide land and, humbly and in tears, bent and kissed the elbow of her sleeve.
— James Joyce
The price one pays for having a kind man at one's elbow.
— John Hersey
If you want a thing, get it the old-fashioned way, by elbow grease and brain power. Don't mess with the fairies. But
— David Mitchell
Don't put a lump of rock under my elbow again!
— J.R.R. Tolkien
People have often said to me, 'You're so relaxed when you play.' Relaxed my elbow. It's practice.
— Benny Goodman
He's a book full of footnotes brought to life. He's a jacket made of elbow patches.
— Rainbow Rowell
I'm definitely an elbow-room guy.
— Ryan Kwanten
Too much empty enthusiasm can even be demotivating, if not supported by the right skills and a lot of elbow grease.
— Derek Murphy
Mrs. Bantry reflected a minute and then applied an urgent conjugal elbow to her sleeping spouse.
— Agatha Christie
Tapping a finger against the flesh of her elbow, she deadpanned, Jacin Clay, there is an assassin under my bed.
— Marissa Meyer
Someone is always at my elbow reminding me that I am the granddaughter of slaves. It fails to register depression with me.
— Zora Neale Hurston
Diseases of the eye are to bee cured with the elbow.
— George Herbert
He cannot hunt. He cannot sleep. He is angry. He is sad.' The Frenchman ticked off symptoms and jabbed Tom with his elbow. 'He is in love!
— Christine Blevins
By coming down elbow first, I'd made a large enough crack in the ice to sink through.The water was so cold that it stopped time. — Rachel Sharp
Shanks moaned, stirring. "You broke my nuts"So that was what my elbow had hit. "Sorry." My voice cracked. — Lili St. Crow
I think he got an incidental elbow in the face, messed up his pretty red lips a little bit. But other than that he'll be fine.
— Shaquille O'Neal
Brother Cadfael knew better than to be in a hurry, where souls were concerned. There was plenty of elbow-room in eternity.
— Ellis Peters
It's going to be the year of the sharp elbow and the quick tongue.
— George W. Bush
Jim lights a cigarette and leans indolently back on his elbow smiling at Laura with a warmth and charm which lights her inwardly with altar candles.
— Tennessee Williams
Peace is an extension of war by political means. Plenty of elbow-room is pleasanter and much safer. — Robert A. Heinlein
Live not as though there were a thousand years ahead of you. Fate is at your elbow; make yourself good while life and power are still yours.
— Marcus Aurelius
The deepest dependency is not of students upon teachers, but of teachers upon students.
— Peter Elbow
Whenever the clergy were at the elbow of the civil arm, no matter whether they were Catholic or Protestant, persecution was the result.
— William Edward Hartpole Lecky
elbow. I had been without sleep for most of the last three days,
— Diana Gabaldon
It's an unnecessary burden to try to think of words and also worry at the same time whether they're the right words.
— Peter Elbow
He lifted up on one elbow and looked down at her. What she wouldn't give to see what he saw, to know what made him look at her that way.
— Sarah Addison Allen
In the past five minutes, I had managed to tease my libido, scald my crotch, and catch a world-class elbow with my forehead.
— B. Justin Shier
It occured to Starling how much Roden would benefit from an elbow smash in the hinge of his jaw.
— Thomas Harris
and I'm thrown backward. I land on my left elbow, hear it crack. Pain splinters through me. A Scavenger looms over me. Impossible to say whether
— Lauren Oliver
I should like to elbow aside the established pieties and raise my martini glass in salute to the mortal arts of pleasure.
— Bob Shacochis
The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.
— Martin Luther King Jr.
I don't know my armpit from my elbow in Los Angeles.
— Taylor Schilling
Sometimes being given the elbow can turn out to be the best hand.
— Benny Bellamacina
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