Top 100 Muscle Quotes

#1. I came to see that what constitutes strength is not just a muscle or will. It can also include the most desperate vulnerability, the saddest heartache, the lightest, sweetest laughter.

Brenda Shaughnessy

Muscle Quotes #6197
#2. His shorts hung low and his sweaty, cut to within an inch of its life, pelvic V muscle, was giving a silent but clear invitation to my tongue.

R.K. Lilley

Muscle Quotes #8072
#3. Does it matter that people and things
Have words,
Have names?
If not,
Why read any book?
A litany of useless letters
Detached from bone, muscle.
Or are words the only things that make the muscle, bone, memory, movement,
Person
Real?

Stasia Ward Kehoe

Muscle Quotes #9623
#4. The workouts have positively impacted the astronauts' bones and muscles, and they are coming back in really good shape. But some are losing bone and muscle but not as much as we saw in the early days.

Scott Kelly

Muscle Quotes #9670
#5. Complex carbohydrates are always best, except, again, after a workout where you could take simple (sugar) carbohydrates to get an insulin spike. But at other times doing this is not very beneficial because insulin is a storage hormone and it's going to shunt everything into the muscle.

Dorian Yates

Muscle Quotes #11096
#6. Writing songs and looking for ideas is like blinking my eyes. It's an involuntary muscle. I do it without thought.

Toby Keith

Muscle Quotes #16436
#7. Carisoprodol. Comes in a white tablet like a big-ass vitamin, 350 mg of muscle liquefier for those tense, recovering athletes and furniture movers. Too much, and those relaxed muscles include your diaphragm, then your heart.

Craig Clevenger

Muscle Quotes #17023
#8. For 14 years, I'd been on medication for the pinched nerve, the arthritis, the muscle spasms in my neck, and I'd lost my tolerance for pills. If I had a single drink, the alcohol, on top of the pills, would make me groggy.

Betty Ford

Muscle Quotes #18260
#9. But you can't muscle through a five-hour run that way; you have to relax into it like easing your body into a hot bath, until it no longer resists the shock and begins to enjoy it.

Christopher McDougall

Muscle Quotes #18593
#10. I love muscle cars.

Jaci Burton

Muscle Quotes #22677
#11. I love being toned and having muscle; it's so sexy and beautiful. And I owe it 100 percent to yoga.

Kaley Cuoco

Muscle Quotes #25354
#12. I'm pissed like this rutting beast can't conceive - I'm a lifetime of pissed, of strong, of muscle built over bruise, I'm slick with power and feel the fight as it changes ...
As it flows ...
... Everything into place, perfect, and I finally do what I was born to do.
I slay.

Joss Whedon

Muscle Quotes #29738
#13. For every thought supported by feeling, there is a muscle change. Primary muscle patterns being the biological heritage of man, man's whole body records his emotional thinking.

Mabel Elsworth Todd

Muscle Quotes #33150
#14. Since muscular contractions are usually more or less regularly alternated with relaxations, the system of valves makes of the veins of every muscle a very effective pump, capable of maintaining a low pressure in the muscle capillaries.

August Krogh

Muscle Quotes #33416
#15. The imagination is like a muscle: it strengthens through use.

John Kao

Muscle Quotes #33967
#16. For 'Rocky II,' I got a torn pectoral muscle, I got all beat up inside, I had to have an operation to splice things back together.

Sylvester Stallone

Muscle Quotes #34967
#17. 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.

Archibald Hill

Muscle Quotes #39659
#18. When you peeled back the skin, you were dealing with bone and muscle, blood and nerve endings. It was all the same. She liked the beautiful logic of the circulatory system, the elegance of the neurological, and the fierce warrior spirit of the heart. The body had rules and it had quirks.

Libba Bray

Muscle Quotes #42244
#19. I got a muscle of love.

Alice Cooper

Muscle Quotes #43622
#20. He rubbed at his face, as if seeking to awaken the right words from muscle, blood and bone.

Steven Erikson

Muscle Quotes #51144
#21. Love is not like a buffet line where the person in front of you threatens to take too much and leave too little for you. Love is like a muscle; the more it is exercised today, the more it can be used tomorrow.

Harold S. Kushner

Muscle Quotes #53298
#22. I was contemplating dropping out [pole dancing lessons]; I could barely move a muscle. It had certainly burst my 'I'm in great shape' bubble.

Andrea Smith

Muscle Quotes #56282
#23. Art is neither a muscle nor a cure for ugliness. Ugliness has its own reasons and convictions to stay here. Art has a patience of a civilized, patience to withhold the gentleness of the civilization.

Ashutosh Gupta

Muscle Quotes #56418
#24. He was stunning,incredible,unlike anything she had ever seen before.Around her,the crowd noise dissipated to a dull hum,but she barely noticed.Her gaze was slowly traveling the length of him,taking in his predatory stance and powerful muscle and tanned skin.

Laura Wright

Muscle Quotes #59169
#25. They say you only go around once, but with a muscle car you can go around two or three times.

Tim Allen

Muscle Quotes #59788
#26. I'd proven to the world that maturity, experience, dedication, and ingenuity can make up for a little senescence. Muscle tightening is not the only thing that happens to our bodies over time. We gain knowledge, focus, and understanding, and those things can help us win.

Dara Torres

Muscle Quotes #63227
#27. Benji grinned back. "You're being a real asshole today, Mr. Barnes. Well done - you been practicing?" Dad smiled, obviously relaxed. "Yeah, you know, kid, a few minutes a day, you can work that muscle with the best of them.

Amy Lane

Muscle Quotes #63271
#28. Courage is like a muscle. We strengthen it by use.

Ruth Gordon

Muscle Quotes #70680
#29. With the muscles of our body, we can lift and move heavy things. With the muscle of integrity, we can turn intention into powerful action. That's how we can earn trust from our conscience, and can truly believe in ourselves.

Ilchi Lee

Muscle Quotes #73529
#30. When I first started lifting I wanted to be a Super Hero.. But that was my motivation. I was huge into comics at a very young age and nothing made me feel better than helping people. So I wanted to build muscle to be like Superman, Captain America, Wolverine, etc.

Scott Herman

Muscle Quotes #74376
#31. TV is a different animal. It's not a club set. As you said, you do short sets on TV - about five minutes. So you have to get that rhythm down and also be aware of the camera so you're connecting with the viewers at home as well as the studio audience. It's a different muscle to develop.

Ted Alexandro

Muscle Quotes #75830
#32. Positive energy is like muscle. The more you use it the stronger it gets. The stronger it gets the more powerful you become. Repetition is the key and the more you focus on positive energy the more it becomes your natural state.

Jon Gordon

Muscle Quotes #80232
#33. I enjoy getting to work on 'Saturday Night Live', where I get to do people like David Paterson. And then, its like a different muscle to do someone like a bicycle guy on' Portlandia'.

Fred Armisen

Muscle Quotes #81125
#34. I'd kind of like to have a classic old muscle car. I think that would be fun.

Brooke Burke

Muscle Quotes #81879
#35. A guy like Bruce Lee, I've always been a fan. How he used to be able to move and be so quick. You look at some of the exercises that he did, and it was all majority free weight, like standing on your hands. That works every muscle. Everything is firing.

Adrian Peterson

Muscle Quotes #83060
#36. In life's small things be resolute and great To keep thy muscle trained; Know'st thou when Fate Thy measure takes, or when she'll say to thee, "I find thee worthy; do this deed for me?"

James Russell Lowell

Muscle Quotes #84966
#37. right knee knuckling inward as his backswing began, trunk twisting to its limit as his left shoulder turned under his chin. 'Every muscle

Kevin Cook

Muscle Quotes #88966
#38. My imagination is the most powerful muscle I possess.

Jessica Khoury

Muscle Quotes #90080
#39. For decades I'd flit from drawing table to typewriter to guitar with no sense of strain or contradiction. They all exercised the same psychic muscle (the Imagination), and working in one medium refreshed my appetite for the others.

Peter Blegvad

Muscle Quotes #90182
#40. Self-compassion is like a muscle. The more we practice flexing it, especially when life doesn't go exactly according to plan (a frequent scenario for most of us), the stronger and more resilient our compassion muscle becomes.

Sharon Salzberg

Muscle Quotes #93305
#41. 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

Muscle Quotes #94394
#42. The only way we can develop muscle is through regular exercise. As soon as we stop stretching and working toward higher ethics, our standards start to sag. The muscle gets soft, and instead of excellence we have to settle for mediocrity. Maybe something even worse.

Price Pritchett

Muscle Quotes #99108
#43. If we are not using our brains' capacity for challenge it feels to me as though it atrophies like an unused muscle.

Philippa Perry

Muscle Quotes #100578
#44. Opera singers, we're not muscle men; you have to be careful about your work.

Ildar Abdrazakov

Muscle Quotes #102608
#45. There are no defenders of man's mind - in the world's greatest scientific-technological civilization. All that is left is a battle between the mystics of spirit and the mystics of muscle - between men guided by their feelings and men guided by their reflexes.

Ayn Rand

Muscle Quotes #105823
#46. Good posture is the correct alignment of body parts supported by the right amount of muscle tension.

Cindy Ann Peterson

Muscle Quotes #105867
#47. Faith is like a muscle. If you didn't use it, you lose it.

A.C. Kret

Muscle Quotes #106119
#48. The south is very focused on family ... the musical heritage of Muscle Shoals especially and the bands from the region.

Jason Isbell

Muscle Quotes #106396
#49. I'm solid muscle and evil. Stop bitching and cuddle me.

Tiffany Reisz

Muscle Quotes #107340
#50. A hundred-eighty pounds of dead weight - all muscle - to

J.D. Robb

Muscle Quotes #107371
#51. I believe every space and comma is a living part of the poem and has its function, just as every muscle and pore of the body has its function. And the way the lines are broken is a functioning part essential to the life of the poem.

Denise Levertov

Muscle Quotes #111103
#52. The buzzing was like the eager purr of a muscle car that had just been started, but left in neutral. That was another of Cody's metaphors for it; I'd said the sensation felt like an unbalanced washing machine filled with a hundred epileptic chimpanzees. Pretty proud of that one.

Brandon Sanderson

Muscle Quotes #114815
#53. Your ethical muscle grows stronger every time you choose right over wrong.

Price Pritchett

Muscle Quotes #131463
#54. Between the journeymen, vampires crouched like monstrous gargoyles: hairless, corded with a tight network of steel-hard muscle, and smeared in lime-green and purple sunblock. Bubble-gum-tinted nightmares.

Ilona Andrews

Muscle Quotes #132355
#55. I race historic muscle cars back in Australia, and that's my hobby. And I try to race home as soon as I've finished a movie but don't tell anyone.

Eric Bana

Muscle Quotes #136299
#56. The mind is a muscle.

Robert Wilson

Muscle Quotes #136426
#57. Experiencing pain in your muscles and aching, that's what makes the muscle grow. and that divides one from being a champion and one from not being a champion. If you can go through this pain barrier, you may get to be a champion. If You can't go through it, forget it.

Arnold Schwarzenegger

Muscle Quotes #136704
#58. If you don't set your writing - teaching - at a level that makes them stretch, they are never going to develop their intellectual muscle.

M.H. Abrams

Muscle Quotes #137571
#59. Justice is a concept. Muscle is the reality.

Linda Blandford

Muscle Quotes #138017
#60. When it comes to the skin, there are two possible ways to tighten it up: surgery, or develop the muscle underneath! It is like blowing up a balloon underneath some wrinkly sheets. It eventually pulls them tight!

Chris Powell

Muscle Quotes #139764
#61. After being taught sets and reps and working at it for a length of time you can't paint by numbers anymore. It must come from within. Any artist has an emotional contact with their work. A true bodybuilder doesn't just build muscle he creates muscle. You can't be a robot.

Tom Platz

Muscle Quotes #140349
#62. Heart broken-he felt a deep ache in his chest, like that of a sore muscle, and each beat of his heart pained him

Christopher Paolini

Muscle Quotes #144847
#63. Unlike motivation, willpower can be strengthened like a muscle.

Stephen Guise

Muscle Quotes #148600
#64. I can't believe 'D' talked to me like that. I can't believe Zach has a girlfriend besides me. I miss Tad. I wish I had been born a fucking tiger all muscle and stripes and furry and I wouldn't give a fuck about this garbage.

Vanessa Davis

Muscle Quotes #149008
#65. The tongue's the sole muscle in your body that's attached at only one end.

Jill Shalvis

Muscle Quotes #152303
#66. 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!

Kristen Bell

Muscle Quotes #157790
#67. The path to added muscle is consuming more calories than the amount needed to keep your current bodyweight unchanged.

Dorian Yates

Muscle Quotes #161111
#68. I always wanted to entertain. When I was six, a scrawny, scrawny kid, I'd get in my red speedo and do muscle moves. I actually thought I was muscular. I didn't know everyone was laughing at me.

Ryan Gosling

Muscle Quotes #163150
#69. Right now I'm 185, which is really good for me yet very hard for me to maintain. My weight seems high for the average woman, but I've got big bones and I'm maintaining muscle.

Lisa Leslie

Muscle Quotes #166070
#70. A hot city, slaked out on the banks of the Mississippi, with too much of its muscle showing to be a dignified city.

Richard Jessup

Muscle Quotes #169140
#71. Muscle cells strengthen in response to intense exercise - whether you're 18 or 88. But the intensity is what's lacking in most people's workouts. And there are doctors who'll give you the advice, "Well, don't push it."

Jack LaLanne

Muscle Quotes #171317
#72. Any little touch a defender can make on me when I'm in the air literally moves me. On the ground, I can use my muscle, but in the air, it's harder to fight that off.

Abby Wambach

Muscle Quotes #172449
#73. You can muscle your way to the top as long as you're part of the production, which I am. I'm knitted into the money, so it's very hard to extricate me from the decision-making dynamic.

Ben Wheatley

Muscle Quotes #176594
#74. When I was growing up, I cheered and danced and ran and stuff like that. I'm probably thinner now than I was in high school. I had a lot of muscle - a lot of muscle in high school.

Ashley Greene

Muscle Quotes #179950
#75. God's Word is the living seed that brings new birth. It is the milk that nurtures the new life of a young Christian and the meat that builds the muscle of a mature believer.

Colin S. Smith

Muscle Quotes #184641
#76. Your eye is a muscle, you have to keep it in shape and the more you draw, the more you see.

Richard Serra

Muscle Quotes #185374
#77. It's now possible to have your body 3D-imaged from head to toe at a sub-millimeter accuracy, showing every ripple of muscle or cellulite, to allow the perfect-fitting jeans or shoes.

Peter Diamandis

Muscle Quotes #187303
#78. Blue was standing over her, shaking out his wet hair like an annoying blue dog. Beads of water clung to the muscle of his chest. He was wiry, not buff like Henley, but his body made up for size with definition.
Nothing could make up for his personality.
"Stop dripping on me," Mira snapped.

Sarah Cross

Muscle Quotes #198740
#79. 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.

Robinson Jeffers

Muscle Quotes #200152
#80. I carry a lot of muscle easily.

Patrick Chan

Muscle Quotes #205677
#81. Passion for our work is not usually a subterranean volcano waiting to erupt ... It is a muscle that gets strengthened a little each day as we show up - as we do what is expected of us, and then some.

John Ortberg

Muscle Quotes #207696
#82. We're all just bags of bones and muscle and hormones; I'll never understand what makes our minds do the things we do. It's like that statue of the monkey holding a skull. We're trying to use a thing we don't understand to understand ourselves.

Meshell Ndegeocello

Muscle Quotes #226779
#83. Flexibility is crucial to my fitness. Incorporating a good warm-up and cool-down into every session decreases my chances of injury. I use both dynamic and static stretching in my training. I've starting doing a few yoga sessions which incorporates muscle strength and flexibility.

Samantha Stosur

Muscle Quotes #227389
#84. A muscle in the Commander's jaw jumps, and he levels his fierce glare on Willow. "You have a big mouth."
"I need a big mouth to keep up with my big brain.

C.J. Redwine

Muscle Quotes #227808
#85. I love everything from old-school cars to whatever the latest muscle or luxury vehicles are.

Ludacris

Muscle Quotes #231257
#86. At Andreessen Horowitz, we talk about the notion of being 'too hungry to eat.' That's to say, we often see startups that are so entrenched in the product that the founders forget they need muscle to grow.

Scott Weiss

Muscle Quotes #235206
#87. Management means, in the last analysis, the substitution of thought for brawn and muscle, of knowledge for folkways and superstition, and of cooperation for force. It means the substitution of responsibility for obedience to rank, and of authority of performance for the authority of rank.

Peter Drucker

Muscle Quotes #237654
#88. Half-reps may build your ego but they also build half a phyqique.

Craig Cecil

Muscle Quotes #240902
#89. 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.

Christo

Muscle Quotes #243015
#90. Courage comes in different forms. There's strength
that's the muscle. But love's the heart. When you put them together, you can do anything.

Nora Roberts

Muscle Quotes #243513
#91. You should put it on your business cards - Tom Paretski, the pocket-sized plumber. No job too small."
"Again with the height jokes. What do you have on yours? Phil Morrison, the muscle-bound moron?"
"Now, come on - that's poor effort. How about Private Dick - the biggest in the business?"

J.L. Merrow

Muscle Quotes #243717
#92. I served in all commissioned ranks from a second Lieutenant to a Major General. And during that time, I spent most of my time being a high-class muscle man for Big Business, for Wall Street, and for the bankers. In short, I was a racketeer for capitalism.

Smedley Butler

Muscle Quotes #244513
#93. Mass, time , magnetic moment, the unconscious: we have grown up with these symbolic concepts, so that we are startled to be told that man had once to create them for himself. He had indeed, and he has: for mass is not an intuition in the muscle, and time is not bought ready-made at the watchmaker's.

Jacob Bronowski

Muscle Quotes #247524
#94. Well, you're not [fat]. You have, like, the ideal balance of fat and muscle ... If I were a cannibal, I'd eat you.

Natasha Friend

Muscle Quotes #248018
#95. Your heart ... it's a very fragile muscle. You have to take care of it, be old-fashioned about it.

Anne-Marie Duff

Muscle Quotes #248503
#96. He doesn't move a muscle except for his eyes that follow her path as though somehow he can see her contrails. His whole existence revolves around a girl who left his orbit, and he was the one who spun her off her axis.

Kat Kruger

Muscle Quotes #249731
#97. As you grow older, it's harder to stay fit. Every day you wake up with pain, muscle aches which you don't know you had. I have to work harder on me than I used to when I was 18 years old. It takes me longer to recover now.

Sania Mirza

Muscle Quotes #250036
#98. This should be agony. I should be a mass of aching muscle - broken, spent, unable to move. And, were I an older man, I surely would ... but I'm a man of thirty - of twenty again. The rain on my chest is a baptism - I'm born again ...

Frank Miller

Muscle Quotes #250926
#99. I didn't shiver. I get muscle twitches sometimes. That's all.

Jim Butcher

Muscle Quotes #252149
#100. Dysphonia is not a singing problem. It's a voice box issue in the muscle on the voice, very different from having a nodule on the vocal cords, which I've never had. I'm lucky that I've never had that. It needs a long renewal time, and even today, I am still addressing it.

Shania Twain

Muscle Quotes #257051

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