Foetal Quotes

#1. If the rest of his foursome are bunched directly behind his ball, or assume the foetal position with their backs to the tee, the golfer is reminded that his drive tends to be erratic. More cruel yet is for his opponent to stand directly in the projected line of flight, as the safest place to be.

Eric Nicol

#2. The whole foot is a document of motion, inscribed by repeated action. Babies - from those first foetal footfalls, the kneading of sole against womb-wall, turning themselves like astronauts in black space - have already creased their soles by the time they emerge into the world.

Robert Macfarlane

#3. Catching a glimpse of his rather hippyish form in a mirror, he wonders at this atavism of apparel, is it an inversion of foetal ontogeny, in which the phenotype passes through previous fashion stages? Soon there will be gaiters and gloves ... I will probably die, he thinks, clad in animal skins.

Will Self

#4. Which man among us is not, most of the time, possessed of the desire to curl himself into a foetal ball?

Rick Moody

#5. The pleasing punishment that women bare....

William Shakespeare

#6. You can't believe how bleeding scary the sea is! There's, like, whales and storms and shit! They don't bloody tell you that!

Libba Bray

#7. You have to clean out the pig barn every week because you know your pigs are in there doing their jobs every day.

Don Meyer

#8. On the morning in question, she wore white shorts and a pink T-shirt that featured a green dragon breathing a fire of orange glitter. It is difficult to explain how awesome I found this T-shirt at the time.

John Green

#9. In our world does anything really make sense?

Kenneth Eade

#10. Amnesty is a big billboard, a flashing billboard, to the rest of the world that we don't really mean our immigration law.

Richard Lamm

#11. What you have stolen can never be yours.

Halldor Laxness

#12. I never completely understood the phrase, "I took my medicine religiously", unless of course it was a religion I was unfamiliar with!!

Neil Leckman

#13. Friends can betray you, but with an old enemy, you always know where you stand.

Raymond E. Feist

#14. If the apocalypse comes...beep me!

Joss Whedon

#15. Bob Dylan started out as a folk rip- off but he quickly ran with complex influences and it ended up to be his own sound.

Daniel Smith

#16. My job is to bring out in people what they wouldn't dare do themselves.

Karl Lagerfeld

#17. I went swimming the other day and my wife was watching and she said, 'You know, it's funny, it's when you've got no clothes on, no one recognizes you.' I said, 'What are you saying? That I should do more love scenes?'

Eddie Marsan

#18. If you don't succeed at first, try pitching.

Jack Harshman