Flexing Quotes:

The ellipse is as aimless as that, Stretching invisibly into the future so as to reappear In our present. Its flexing is its account, Return to the point of no return.

- John Ashbery

source: John Ashbery (1986). “Selected Poems”, Penguin Group USA

topic: Life, Return, Flexing

To go and photograph an airbase is not only to photograph something but it is to insist on one’s right to photograph. You’re flexing that right.

- Trevor Paglen

topic: Photograph, Flexing

Trees acquire strength by growing slowly and flexing with the pressures of nature. Us too.

- Gene Simmons

topic: Tree, Growing, Pressure, Flexing

I just love feeling myself, and moving, flexing, jumping, expressing, dancing and doing movement. I'm in tune with it. I like to express myself with my body, more so than intellectually. But, I am a geek.

- Michelle Rodriguez

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Moving, Jumping, Dancing, Love Feeling, Flexing

It’s critical that young people start flexing their creative muscles in order to take on the world's most complex challenges.

- Tim Brown

topic: Order, People, Creative, Flexing

When we rejoice in beautiful scenery, great art, and great music, it is but the flexing of instincts acquired in another place and another time.

- Neal A. Maxwell

topic: Music, Beautiful, Art, Another Time, Flexing

It's just not enough time on set. That's my favorite time. I live for that time on set. I feel like that's when I'm stretching and flexing my muscles and learning how to direct better.

- Lynn Shelton

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Not Enough Time, Flexing

Those amateur umpires are certainly flexing their fangs tonight.

- Jerry Coleman

topic: Funny, Baseball, Humor, Flexing

I will garden on the double run, my rhythm obvious in the ringing rakes, and trust in fate to keep me poor and kind and work until my heart is short, then go out slowly with a feeble grin, my fingers flexing but my eyes gone gray from cramps and the lack of oxygen.

- Richard Hugo

source: Richard Hugo, Ripley S. Hugo (1992). “The Real West Marginal Way: A Poet's Autobiography”, p.169, W. W. Norton & Company

topic: Death, Running, Eye, Flexing

His dark hair is perfectly recklessly up today, those tanned muscles flexing as he extends out his arms and does his little turn. And here I am, my breath caught between my lungs and my lips as he turns around and scans the crowd. As soon as he spots me, his eyes come alive, as alive as I feel when he smiles at me. He holds my gaze while those dimples flash, and I swear he stares at me in a way that makes me feel that I am the only woman here.

- Katy Evans

topic: Eye, Dark, Hair, Dimples, Dark Hair

We are resident inside with the machinery, a glimmering spread throughout the apparatus. We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones. The flesh is a neighborhood, but not the life.

- Jack Gilbert

topic: Moon, Wind, Whispering, Flexing

I love flexing theater Muscles. Television has merits as well, but there's no substitute for live theater.

- Eddie Cahill

source: Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

topic: Television, Merit, Theater, Live Theater, Flexing

We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones.

- Jack Gilbert

topic: Moon, Wind, Whispering, Flexing

With so much effort being poured into church growth, so much press being given to the benefits of faith, and so much flexing of religious muscle in the public square, the poor in spirit have no one but Jesus to call them blessed anymore.

- Barbara Brown Taylor

topic: Religious, Jesus, Blessed, Poor In Spirit, Flexing

When the beer is gone, so are they -- flexing their cars on up the boulevard.

- Amy Hempel

topic: Beer, Car, Gone, Flexing, Boulevard

What makes us Christians shrug our shoulders when we ought to be flexing our muscles? What makes us apathetic in a day when there are loads to lift, a world to be won and captives to be set free? Why are so many bored when the times demand action?

- Billy Graham

source: Billy Graham, Franklin Graham, Donna Lee Toney (2011). “Billy Graham in Quotes”, p.54, Thomas Nelson Inc

topic: Christian, Bored, World, Apathetic, Flexing

I started to get so many letters from unlikely people; a single mum going, "I watch your show, I'm not into survival, but I hold down four jobs and I get it when you say it's about persistence and putting a positive attitude into things during difficult times." That for me was a great liberator to realize that the show isn't about me running around, jumping off stuff and flexing muscles, it's about inspiring people. That makes me really happy.

- Bear Grylls

topic: Running, Jobs, Attitude, Jumping Off, Liberators

Everyone knows that Jews control the media and banks and stuff. But did you know that when you go to a carnival and you have to be a certain height to go on a ride, Jews control that height? It has nothing to do with safety. It's just us flexing our Semitic muscles.

- Eugene Mirman

topic: Media, Safety, Goes On, Flexing

The heart is a river. The act of writing is the moving water that holds the banks apart, keeps the muscle of words flexing so that the reader can be carried along by this movement. To be given space and the chance to leave one's earthly world. Is there any greater freedom than this?

- Helen Humphreys

topic: Moving, Writing, Heart, Moving Water, Flexing

Actually, music gave me the support when I needed it. I would never have gone to college unless I'd gotten a piano scholarship. And now I'm so glad I got to learn to play the cello, which is a different experience, you're flexing a different muscle, but it's beautiful because it is music.

- Jamie Foxx

topic: Beautiful, College, Piano, Flexing

I hung my fingertips on his waistband, tugging him closer. Patch buried his face in the curve of my shoulder, his hands flexing over my back. He gave a low groan. "I love you," he murmured into my hair. "I'm happier right now than I ever remember being.

- Becca Fitzpatrick

source: Becca Fitzpatrick (2013). “The Complete Hush, Hush Saga: includes Hush, Hush; Crescendo; Silence and Finale”, p.538, Simon and Schuster

topic: Love You, Curves, Hair, Flexing, Tugging

This house has been far out at sea all night, The woods crashing through darkness, the booming hills, Winds stampeding the fields under the window Floundering black astride and blinding wet Till day rose; then under an orange sky The hills had new places, and wind wielded Blade-light, luminous black and emerald, Flexing like the lens of a mad eye.

- Ted Hughes

topic: Eye, Night, Light, Flexing, All Night

Creators, makers of the new, can never become obsolete, for in the arts there is no correct answer. The story of discoverers could be told in simple chronological order, since the latest science replaces what went before. But the arts are another story- a story of infinite addition. We must find order in the random flexings of the imagination.

- Daniel J. Boorstin

source: Daniel J. Boorstin (2012). “The Creators: A History of Heroes of the Imagination”, p.16, Vintage

topic: Art, Creativity, Simple, Flexing

The obvious precedent for Beijing 2008 was the Berlin Olympics, in 1936. Both were showcases for a muscle-flexing nation, although Hitler made an elementary error when he chose not to dress his young National Socialists in lime-green catsuits laced with twinkling fairy lights.

- Anthony Lane

topic: Errors, Light, Green, Lime Green, Twinkling

I am moved by the spirit of Angolans and the work UNICEF is doing, but I am saddened by the hardships I have seen, and the fact that a little flexing of financial muscle from rich countries could do so much.

- Alyssa Milano

topic: Country, Children, Hardship, Saddened, Flexing

Karen rowed for what the venerable American shell builder George Pocock called `the symphony of motion.' As dawn breaks over the river, the shell is lifted from its rack out into the morning. On another rack the oars hang ready to be greased and slipped into the locks. Then, awakened to the river and the feel of the oars, the oarsmen blend in fulfillment of the shell. The symphony is not of competition. It is the synchronous motion over water, the harmonic flexing of wood and muscle, where each piece of equipment and every oarsman is both essential to, and the limit of motion itself.

- Stefan Kieszling

topic: Morning, Symphony, Rivers, Flexing

Rain was coming down in sheets. I could hear it, on the concrete outside and on the old building above me. It creaked and swayed in the spring thunderstorm and the wind, timbers gently flexing, wise enough with age to give a little, rather than put up stubborn resistance until they broke. I could probably stand to learn something from that.

- Jim Butcher

source: Jim Butcher (2010). “The Dresden Files Collection 1-6”, p.190, Penguin

topic: Wise, Spring, Rain, Flexing, Old Buildings

Making a film or doing a play are completely different experiences and entirely fulfilling, but completely unique. I also think one complements the other. People often say that theater is about flexing your muscles, and is actually real acting, whereas I sort of disagree.

- Eddie Redmayne

topic: Real, Unique, Thinking, Flexing