Death's a fierce meadowlark: but to die having made / Something more equal to the centuries / Than muscle and bone, is mostly to shed weakness.
Well,” said Ronan, “I hope he likes it. I’ve pulled a muscle.” Gansey scoffed, “Doing what? You were standing watch.” “Opening my hood.
There never has been a man in the game who could put mind and muscle together quicker and with better judgment than Robinson.
I'm always trying to improve on my overall package. Just try to get a little bit harder and maintain the same muscle quality.
Yoga changed my body 100 percent. It tones everything and leans you out. Dancer's pose is amazing. It works every muscle!
When I started out in the industry, I turned to magazines like 'Flex' and 'Muscle & Fitness' - the people on their covers were my inspiration.
If you want to grow a muscle, you must lift something out of your comfort zone. Push beyond what is comfortable, if you don't there will be no growth.
Our world faces incredible economic uncertainty. The notion of what is a super power has evolved, and who actually can carry what muscle has changed.
I believe the brain is like a muscle - like any other it can be improved.
Your eye is a muscle, you have to keep it in shape and the more you draw, the more you see.
Action is transitory, a step, a blow,
The motion of a muscle, this way or that,
'Tis done--And in the after-vacancy,
We wonder at ourselves, like men betrayed.
I'm always going to go up against movies with bigger muscle and money, so I need to have a strong grass-roots game.
I think men know to seduce women though words and conversation and nice gestures. That's much sexier than when a man uses muscle.
I'm not going to jump over or muscle people. That's the way I've always played, the only way I know.
If it is a clich? to say athletics build character as well as muscle, then I subscribe to the clich.
One of the fundamental characteristics of striated muscle, and the one involving the greatest difficulty in investigation, is the great rapidity with which changes take place in it.
Your play account is also designed to strengthen your "receiving" muscle.
I'm in constant pain and have muscle spasms in my left shoulder, shoulder blade and bicep.
Muscle-work can only make one weary-it takes brain-work to create true exhaustion.
The path to added muscle is consuming more calories than the amount needed to keep your current bodyweight unchanged.
That a strong stimulus to such an afferent nerve, exciting most or all of its fibres, should in regard to a given muscle develop inhibition and excitation concurrently is not surprising.
I enjoy acting because it is very different to songwriting and it allows me to flex a different creative muscle.
I ruptured my plantaris muscle. It runs through the calf and goes down the side of your achilles and stretches right to the heel.
I was this tiny, frail little girl, I needed to build up muscle, and I fell in love with dancing from the first lesson.
I kind of stumbled into this. I used to do karate and then I started reading muscle magazines. Eventually, I began training and competing.
If I lift any weights, I do it more for explosion, but I really use my body weight to build up muscle and strength.
Who cares if there are lumps on my thighs? I'm guilty of having human legs made up of fat, muscle, and skin, and sometimes when you sit, they get bumpy!
I tend to build bulk and muscle easily, and running seems to make sure I stay kind of stringy, if that makes sense.
To this day, with all of these muscle-bound guys, nobody hit the ball further than Mickey Mantle, with his natural strength.
The heart is a muscle, and you strengthen muscles by using them. The more I lead with my heart, the stronger it gets.
Your artistry is a muscle that needs to be exercised, so if all you are doing is auditioning, you'll never get the satisfaction of fulfilling the need to play the part.
Everyone has a 'risk muscle.' You keep it in shape by trying new things. If you don't, it atrophies. Make a point of using it at least once a day.
Guitar is just something I can do. So much of it now is muscle memory, just instinct.
It is shameful and inhuman to treat men like chattels to make money by, or to regard them merely as so much muscle or physical power.
Heavy pitchers can have bulky muscle that leads to decreased flexibility or carry extra fat that puts increased stress on the ligaments and tendons.
Your ability to stand up for your truth is a muscle, and the more you exercise it the stronger it gets.
Germany is an economic giant but a political midget, and with the end of the Cold War she has started to muscle her presence throughout Europe and the world.
It's harder to reveal sides of yourself that make you vulnerable but it's another muscle that can be developed and one that I think is worthwhile. That said, everyone finds their style. It's personal.
I never run hills. My quads are already big enough. I don't run to build muscle; I do it for cardio.
I think the best exercise that I do is singing for an hour-and-a-half out on the stage, because, yes, I use the lung, the biggest muscle in your body.
I wanted to imbue Ziggy with real flesh and blood and muscle, and it was imperative that I find Ziggy and be him.
I'm 190 pounds of rock hard muscle, underneath 40 pounds of sturdy protective fat.
Essentially, what I do on 'Supergirl' is I'm acting out comic vignettes. That is its own muscle to flex, and it is its own skill.
My personal trainer suggested paleo to build muscle while staying lean, and it's one of the first plans that's worked for me.
If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.
I rest a bit more when I keep. The only thing I have to look after is my back and using different muscle groups.
I do cardio. I run. I strength-train using my own body weight. I don't like free weights, because I build muscle easily.
You'll never have any mental muscle if you don't have any heavy stuff to pick up.
The brain is a muscle of busy hills, the struggle of unthought things with things eternally thought.
Compassion is a muscle that gets stronger with use, and the regular exercise of choosing kindness over cruelty would change us.
A painting should be tough; it should have muscle, but I have to find some tenderness in it, too. There has to be that dynamic.
The silence is death.
It comes each day with its shock
to sit on my shoulder, a white bird,
and peck at the black eyes
and the vibrating red muscle
of my mouth.
I want people to realize bodybuilders are athletes. We have a very meticulous philosophy on how we are able to gain muscle and lose fat simultaneously.
I knew that I wanted my third album to be the most drama and the strongest foot forward - every muscle flexing and using all the tools that you have in the toolbox.
Women have learned to flex their political muscles. You got to flex that muscle to get what you want.
I know what it is to put on weight. But when I got back to my routine, my body knew how to react. That's muscle memory, and you'll be amazed at what it can do.
Rebecca Goldstein is a rare find among contemporary novelists: she has intellectual muscle as well as a tender emotional reach.
Well, you're not [fat]. You have, like, the ideal balance of fat and muscle. ...If I were a cannibal, I'd eat you.
I try to eat a lot of baked foods, fish, chicken, potatoes, stuff like that. Grab me a Muscle Milk. That helps.
Your mind is just like your body. It's a muscle you can train and get better at.
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