Top 237 Limb Quotes & Sayings

Put yourself out on a limb, sucka, like me!

Three surgeries on the same limb, that's a tall order.

It is as if the Photograph always carries its referent with itself, both affected by the same amorous or funereal immobility, at the very heart of the moving world: they are glued together, limb by limb, like the condemned man and the corpse in certain tortures; or even like those pairs of fish (sharks, I think, according to Michelet) which navigate in convoy, as though united by an eternal coitus.

LIMB, n. The branch of a tree or the leg of an American woman.

For me, the safest place is out on a limb.

I don't think us going out in the crowd would be a good idea. I think that we'd be torn apart limb from limb.

How love the limb-loosener sweeps me away

Bones didn’t share any of my qualms about suddenly holding an arm that wasn’t attached to a body anymore. He just grabbed the ghoul by his other arm and began thumping him over the head with the loose limb. I’d heard Bones threaten to beat someone with their own limb before, but I’d always assumed that was a figure of speech. Apparently not.

Years steal fire from the mind as vigor from the limb; and life's enchanted cup but sparkles near the brim.

Care I for the limb, the thews, the stature, bulk, and big assemblance of a man! Give me the spirit.

You're unwilling to go out on a limb because it just might break underneath you.

Truly, if you were to tear me limb from limb and separate my soul from my body, I would not say anything more. If I did say anything, afterwards I would always declare that you made me say it by force!

His eyes so dim, so wasted each limb, that, heedless of grammar, they all cried, that's him!

The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor.

Mirth, and even cheerfulness, when employed as remedies in low spirits, are like hot water to a frozen limb.

Go out on a limb. That's where the fruit is.

I'm not 20 years old any more. I'm not gonna go out on quite the limb I did.

In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.

The origin of Homo sapiens, as a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree, lies well below the boundary.

To me the Universe was all void of Life, of Purpose, of Volition, even of Hostility; it was one huge, dead, immeasurable Steam-engine, rolling on, in its dead indifference, to grind me limb from limb. Oh vast gloomy, solitary Golgotha, and Mill of Death! Why was the living banished thither companionless, conscious? Why, if there is no Devil; nay, unless the Devil is your God?

The limb that a person most needs to purify is his tongue.

Appreciation is like looking through a wide-angle lens that lets you see the entire forest, not just the one tree limb you walked up on.

Have you been called to go out on a limb for God? You can bet it won't be easy. Limb-climbing has never been easy. Ask Joseph. Or, better yet, ask Jesus. He knows better than anyone the cost of hanging on a tree.

While I have very little to say in favor of sex (it's vastly overrated, it's frequently unnecessary, and it's messy), it is greatly to be preferred to the interminable torments of romantic agony through which two people tear one another limb from limb while professing altruistic devotion.

The fetus, in many cases, dies just as a human adult or child would: It bleeds to death as it is torn from limb from limb. The fetus can be alive at the beginning of the dismemberment process and can survive for a time while its limbs are being torn off.

I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the 'monkey mind' -- the thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl.

You've got to go out on a limb sometimes because that's where the fruit is.

Defect in one's limb ruins a man.

Love can transform us. It can be a healing force or a disaster, a tidal wave, a tornado. It can burn and scar us or heal our scars. It can be the ghost that haunts us, or the best friend who reads our every thought. Love may arrive like an angel of mercy, a fairy with raven wings or a hairy beast that will tear us apart limb from limb, kill and savor us down to the bones.

Excess is part of my nature. Dullness is a disease. I really need danger and excitement. I'm never scared of putting myself out on a limb.

The death of a friend is equivalent to the loss of a limb.

I would consent to have a limb amputated to recover my spirits

I may be going out on a limb here, but I'm guessing Howard Finkel does not get a lot of chicks!

When you go out on a limb, that's when you really know you're living.

Man is all symmetry, Full of proportions, one limb to another.

Memory that yearns to join the centre, a limb remembering the body from which it has been severed, like those bamboo thighs of the god.

Naval Special Warfare is no place for the weak of heart, limb, or liver.

We risk life and limb and my princely good looks for a spoonful of sweet sock?

I am the owner of my prosthetic manufacturing business, BioDapt, which manufactures lower-limb prosthetics for sports.

All I know is, if we don't eat soon I'm going to chew off a limb. And I can't guarentee it'll be mine.

You do need these people to go out on a limb for you, thinking you're right for a role rather than having box office numbers.

It was the kind of talk that made me want to break off a limb and take to whacking her and that bunch of hypocrites across the back of the head.

You do wonder - when you are at 28,000 feet, the height that aeroplanes cruise at, when you are struggling to draw breath and every limb aches - why do I do this?

People don't have any mercy. They tear you limb from limb, in the name of love. Then, when you're dead, when they've killed you by what they made you go through, they say you didn't have any character. They weep big, bitter tears - not for you. For themselves, because they've lost their toy.

If one of my romantic-comedy colleagues had written and directed 'Love Actually,' they would have been torn limb from limb. I thought it was awful, contrived, dreadful. I could see every twist and turn. I thought it was despicable. It was the writing that got me.

She never got a chance to fall out of love, to do it properly, slowly and thoroughly, and the result was he was like a phantom limb. Gone but still there. And like a true phantom limb, the preponderance of feelings associated with him were painful.

Leaders know that the fruit of life is out on a limb.

I don't think this is an example of life and limb being at risk. I like the fact that our fans care.

A simple child. That lightly draws its breath. And feels its life in every limb. What should it know of death?

I spent my life folded between the pages of books. In the absence of human relationships I formed bonds with paper characters. I lived love and loss through stories threaded in history; I experienced adolescence by association. My world is one interwoven web of words, stringing limb to limb, bone to sinew, thoughts and images all together. I am a being comprised of letters, a character created by sentences, a figment of imagination formed through fiction.

I’d heard Bones threaten to beat someone with their own limb before, but I’d always assumed that was a figure of speech. Apparently not.

California is like an artificial limb the rest of the country doesn't really need. You can quote me on that.

In order to get to the fruit of the tree, you have to go out on a limb.

When you go out on a limb, that's when you really know you're living

The director sent for me for Tarzan. I climbed the tree and walked out on a limb. The next day I was told I was an actor

All my life I have gone out on a limb, but I have turned the limb into a bridge, and there is cool, clear water flowing under.

I am burdened with what the Buddhists call the monkey mind. The thoughts that swing from limb to limb, stopping only to scratch themselves, spit and howl. My mind swings wildly through time, touching on dozens of ideas a minute, unharnessed and undisciplined. You are, after all, what you think. Your emotions are the slaves to your thoughts, and you are the slave to your emotions.

I think we're out on a limb right now, hanging over a cliff, and we're trying to find a way to get back.

Don't be afraid to go out on a limb. It's where all the fruit is.

A camera must be part of me - an extra limb capable of freezing a situation without complicated preparation.