quotes about Ribs
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Touch me ‘til my ribs become piano keys, ‘til there is sheet music scrolled across the inside of my lungs.
-- Andrea Gibson -
In India, it's the rich who have problems with obesity. And the poor are darker-skinned because they work outside and often work without their tops on so you can see their ribs.
-- Aravind Adiga -
There Adam slept, and God formed the body of woman from one of his ribs, signifying that she should stand at his side as a companion and never lie at his feet like a slave, and also that he should love her as his own flesh.
-- Christine de PizanSource : Christine De Pizan (1982). “The Book of the City of Ladies”, New York : Persea Books
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I tried to pretend that I was sitting in the stands with a buddy watching the game - poking him in the ribs when something exciting happened.
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When you love a woman, you love yourself, and it's terrible really, how it seems perfectly possible to swallow the other. With a man you want to join, you want your ribs to connect like handcuffs. But with a woman if you swallow, she becomes you.
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I wish Adam had died with all his ribs in his body.
-- Dion Boucicault -
Flowers are the fastest way to a woman's heart. Well, actually, the fastest way is through her rib cage, but flowers are a lot less messy.
-- Eddie MurphySource : FaceBook post by Eddie Murphy from Sep 13, 2013
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I had a major motorcycle accident on CHIPs that gave me a 50-50 chance to live. I broke a lot of bones and fractured ribs and broken wrists.
-- Erik Estrada -
Being brokenhearted is like having broken ribs. On the outside it looks like nothing's wrong, but every breath hurts.
-- Greg Behrendt -
Would you eat the moon if it were made of ribs?
-- Harry Caray -
How are my ribs? They're so meaningless it's hard to believe,
-- Harry Reid -
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I should get a few ribs taken out, because I'll be in a corset for the rest of my life.
-- Helena Bonham Carter -
I wanted to wear her as you would a piece of clothing, to fold into her ribs, be a stone in her mouth.
-- Hisham MatarSource : Hisham Matar (2011). “Anatomy of a Disappearance”, p.13, Penguin UK
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You see, dear, it is not true that woman was made from man's rib; she was made from his funny bone.
-- James M. Barrie -
This body is yours. No one can ever take it from you, if only you will accept yourself, claim it again--your arms, your spine, your ribs, the small of your back. It's all yours. All this bounty, all this beauty, all this strength and grace is yours. This garden is yours. Take it back. Take it back.
-- Jean HeglandSource : Jean Hegland (2016). “Into The Forest”, p.146, Random House
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Lina loved her little sister so much that it was like an ache under her ribs.
-- Jeanne DuPrauSource : Jeanne DuPrau (2016). “The City of Ember Complete Series”, p.29, Random House Books for Young Readers
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The quickest way to a man's heart really is through his stomach, because then you don't have to chop through that pesky rib cage.
-- Jeph JacquesSource : "Number 478: I Get Knocked Down". "Questionable Content" Comic Strip, questionablecontent.net.
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I know my husband really loves me because he takes me to have ribs. He says I'm the only girl he ever took out who actually ate anything on her plate, as opposed to pushing it around.
-- Julia Barr -
I think I had about a month off when I broke my rib in Australia, which was magnificent.
-- Kevin Pietersen -
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Did you accomplish anything in your meeting with Kynan and Arik?†Limos, looking proud of herself, bobbed her head excitedly. “I broke Arik’s ribs.†Reaver exhaled on a deep sigh. “Anything else?
-- Larissa Ione -
Clamorous pauperism feastest While honest Labor, pining, hideth his sharp ribs.
-- Martin Farquhar Tupper -
I always thought filet mignon was the steak to beat, but the fat content in a rib eye is fantastic.
-- Neil Patrick Harris -
When the going gets tough, the tough eat ribs.
-- Nora Roberts -
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I fell off stage and bruised some ribs. The worst part was that the audience didn't realize I was gone.
-- Richard Marx -
My heart is a protest that I let rally against my ribs.
-- Shane Koyczan -
I heard that I have three ribs, that I have more surgeries than Cher - whatever they say, they say; I know who I am.
-- Thalia -
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Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.
-- Zakk Wylde -
I can be whatever it takes to be a folksinger. Folk music to me, if we had to have a definition, is portable music. A lot of what I do is flash, gesture, athletics, but what it comes down to is getting across a melody that will help it stick to your ribs, and being able to take it from town to town.
-- Vance Gilbert -
When Adam found his rib was gone He cursed and sighed and cried and swore And looked with cold resentment on The creature God has used it for.
-- John HollanderSource : John Hollander (1978). “Spectral emanations: new and selected poems”
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