Arthritic Quotes

#1. My back only bugs me when I sleep wrong. I feel my knee more than anything, the left one. It's arthritic.

Joe Montana

#2. The hands were ivory-coloured, the skin finely wrinkled everywhere, like the crust on a pool of wax, and under it appreared livid bruises, arthritic nodes, irregular tea-brown stains ... The flesh under the horny nails was candlvwax-coloured, and bloodless.

A.S. Byatt

#3. Dancers use their bodies in extraordinary ways, so we are chronically pre-arthritic, because of how we use our muscles and our bones.

Judith Jamison

#4. He spent the morning following her, nodding politely as she denounced the Russians for various earthly ills, and a few - volcanoes, winter, her arthritic hips - that fell within God's jurisdiction.

Anthony Marra

#5. My neck is too arthritic to snap around. The big shift in my perspective that happened in the writing process, however, was the paramount importance of the "West" epitomized by Cincinnati.

Charles R. Morris

#6. Is this your first case?' This from the ugliest person Winter had ever seen. His face resembled five pounds of meat loaf molded by an arthritic potter.

Ake Edwardson

#7. As we passed he returned grimly to his task, though his arthritic hands could hardly close around the stick. There was something almost regal about him, I thought; a defiance I admired. He was a holdout who refused to give up his post. The last watchmen at the end of the world.

Ransom Riggs

#8. You stand beneath the arthritic boughs of any English oak, and you survey a thousand tales.

Jim Crace

#9. He felt God the same way arthritic monks felt rain coming in their joints. He felt only a hint of him.

Sue Monk Kidd

#10. Cardboard cutouts of cheerleaders operated by arthritic monkeys would move more fluidly.

Courtney Summers

#11. Retirement in another country is your body is too racked with pain and your hands are too arthritic from the life in the rice patty fields, so you can't work anymore.

Henry Rollins

#12. Tsarong felt every day of his life creak in his joints as he made his way to the door. He had grown accustomed to the pain, the muted, arthritic drum roll that reminded him he was still bound to this realm - still able to make a difference before the oncoming storm.

Adam Lance Garcia

#13. If I'm going to have to deal, as I get older, with arthritic pain, I don't want to get into opiates.

Nick Nolte

#14. I don't think too much about age. Maybe if you're hurting, aching and arthritic, then you think about it a lot. But I don't.

Bob Newhart

#15. How can Vicky drive this crate?" Carson fumed. "It's arthritic, it's sclerotic, it's a dead car rolling. Doesn't she ever give it an oil change, is the thing lubed with sloth fat, what the hell?

Anonymous

#16. Everywhere was filled with painful, jarring reminders of what I'd lost: an elderly couple sitting on a bench, gnarly, arthritic fingers interlaced; a handsome young man in a baseball cap whispering something in his pregnant wife's ear, his arm draped protectively around her shoulders.

Catherine Sanderson

#17. Arthritic toothless people who love orgasms are more likely to reproduce than are limber, toothy people who do not.

Daniel M. Gilbert

#18. I'll be writing as long as I can hold a pen in my curled, crimped arthritic hands and then I'll dictate it, if it comes to that. They'll have to pry my pen out of my cold, dead fingers - and even then, I'll fight 'em for it. Guaranteed.

Wanda Lea Brayton

#19. I ride horseback - arthritic knees permitting - or listen to opera. Sometimes I cook. I used to do needlework, but it's hard on my hands now, so I only do it occasionally, but I like it. And, of course, I read.

Chelsea Quinn Yarbro

#20. I was just taking my sketchbook to Kinko's and making photocopies and hand-assembling them - folding them over and stapling them.

Adrian Tomine

#21. The moment the door opened I knew an ass-kicking was inevitable. Whether I'd be giving it or receiving it was still a bit of a mystery.

Rachel Vincent

#22. Okay ... My name is Ellie Mason and I have a feeling you don't like me."
Kylie stopped and swerved around ... "Okay, let's get something out in the open. I know you had sex with Derek."
"Damn!" Perry said, and grinned. "This is gonna be better than I thought.

C.C. Hunter

#23. all just heightened the sensations of fucking the hottest man in the bar in a messy back-room encounter. Ty

Abigail Roux

#24. Yes, I want your bullshit.

Ilona Andrews

#25. My diaries were written primarily, I think, not to preserve the experience but to savor it, to make it even more real, more visible and palpable, than in actual life. For in our family an experience was not finished, not truly experienced, unless written down or shared with another.

Anne Morrow Lindbergh

#26. Over and over, I kept thinking I've got to go home and then, for the millionth time, I can't.

Donna Tartt

#27. It is a curious thing to be a woman in the Caribbean after you have been a woman in these United States.

Zora Neale Hurston

#28. Love what you do and do what you love. Don't listen to anyone else who tells you not to do it. You do what you want, what you love. Imagination should be the center of your life.

Ray Bradbury

#29. Mothers do, every day. It's funny, Bo, how a woman can bring two children into the world, raise them up the same way - the same rules and values, indulgences and disciplines. And still two separate people come out of it all.

Nora Roberts

#30. The world has yet to see what God can do with a man fully consecrated to him. By God's help, I aim to be that man.

Dwight L. Moody

#31. What dogs? These are my children, little people with fur who make my heart open a little wider.

Oprah Winfrey

#32. The process of creation goes on all the time. When I get through, I feel I know what the character will do in every situation. But the building up of the part is not mechanical or deliberate. It grows out of the text.

Donald Pleasence