Top 100 Quotes About Muscles
#2. As people strengthened their willpower muscles in one part of their lives - in the gym, or a money management program - that strength spilled over into what they ate or how hard they worked. Once willpower became stronger, it touched everything.
Charles Duhigg
#3. My normal weight category is 48 kg. So for the 51 kg. category, I had to depend on lots of food and drinks before going in for the weigh-in. But that does not make my strength, my muscles. It's a little bit different. If there's a 48 kg. category, it's a perfect fit for me.
Mary Kom
#4. Crunches are much more effective than regular sit-ups because they specifically target your upper abdominal muscles rather than your hip muscles. If you're not used to them, they can cause soreness a day or two later, but it's a 'cool' soreness. A badge of honor.
Sylvester Stallone
#5. We learned that the body of Christ grows by the Word of Christ, flexing its muscles to serve, stretching out its hands to heal, and dreaming up creative ways to bless one another using the gifts God has given.
Gloria Furman
#6. Maybe a certain amount of narcissism is as essential to an actress as muscles are to a football lineman.
Velda Johnston
#7. It's not in your eyes
Your eyeballs won't change
It's the muscles around your eyes
The Strokes
#8. I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.
Chuck Palahniuk
#9. When chaste people need body or mind to resort to action or thought, they find steel in their muscles or knowledge in their intelligence. Theirs the diabolic vigor or the black magic of will power.
Honore De Balzac
#10. The assassin crouched atop one of the shorter, thicker pillars, his body a curve of taut muscles beneath nondescript gray clothes. He looked more like a weapon than a person.
Leah Cypess
#11. I acknowledge to myself that sometimes I am a snail. I move myself by gliding. I contract my muscles and produce a slime of tears. Sometimes you see the tears and sometimes you don't. It is my tears that allow me to glide.
Chinelo Okparanta
#12. And you're been nothing but a pain. So don't get all high and mighty. Good chocolate milk by the way."
Muscles ticked in Matthias' jaw. "It's not chocolate milk. It's Milo."
I took another sip. "Well, it's good.
A&E Kirk
#13. Ideally, our muscles should obey our will. Reasonably, our will should not be dominated by the reflex actions of our muscles.
Joseph Pilates
#14. Goodwill to others is constructive thought. It helps build you up. It is good for your body. It makes vour blood purer, your muscles stronger, and your whole form more symmetrical in shape. It is the real elixir of life. The more such thought you attract to you, the more life you will have.
Prentice Mulford
#16. Muscles are in a most intimate and peculiar sense the organs of the will.
G. Stanley Hall
#17. Do not defend a music program because it's good for other things. That's like defending kissing because it gives you stronger lip muscles for eating soup neatly.
Anonymous
#19. Maha stared, speechless. I hope you don't mind our intrusion into your hospitality. Your wolf cub welcomed us. He's surprisingly tender, given the teeth. And the muscles.
Marissa Meyer
#20. Men have firm beautiful bodies with cut muscles. But the curves and gentleness of a woman's body is beyond a words measure; with their dazzling rawness it's impossible to perfect but I crave the need to depict such a fathomless beauty.
S.K. Logsdon
#21. Prayer plumes the wings of God's young eaglets so that they may learn to mount above the clouds. Prayer brings inner strength to God's warriors and sends them forth to spiritual battle with their muscles firm and their armor in place.
Charles Spurgeon
#23. I always work on my abs, every single day. As Miss Universe, exercising your abdominal muscles is mandatory!
Gabriela Isler
#24. In fact, I was hoping that if I came to see you off, I would be asked to do manual labor." Iko shrugged. "If you don't want to do any heavy lifting, then stop having such impressive muscles." Cinder
Marissa Meyer
#25. When short guys start working out to bulk up. I like muscles, but I don't like really buff guys.
Nicole Eggert
#27. I love being the character actor. I get to stretch my muscles a little more.
Reggie Lee
#28. I'm always aware of trying to put my body in different positions to test it and strengthen muscles that you don't get when you do dumbbell press or pulls or weight-type exercises.
Adrian Peterson
#29. The gym of life has a free membership. Build powerful life-muscles through family gatherings from hell. Do you really want to be a happy, peaceful blob?
Jane Siberry
#30. Just like the bones and muscles, the heart is designed to work in one gravity here on Earth, so when you put the heart in space, it operates differently and changes shape.
Scott Kelly
#31. Fight tautness whenever it occurs; strive for relaxed muscles throughout.
Bobby Jones
#32. We can't avoid age. However, we can avoid some aging. Continue to do things. Be active. Life is fantastic in the way it adjusts to demands; if you use your muscles and mind, they stay there much longer.
Charles H. Townes
#33. Cleansed, chlorinated to the point of chemical peel, sore muscles relieved, I felt almost human again. Tiptoe to my room, up a darkened hall, past closed doors, I wondered if I'd ever feel completely human again.
Ellen Hopkins
#34. Doesn't Momoa have a beard?" I wave my hand. "Who has time to look at his beard when his muscles are on display?
Kristen Callihan
#35. The muscles that writers need for film are very different from TV muscles. Now, when I hire the writers and put the writers' room together, I know where their muscles need to be.
M. Night Shyamalan
#36. Because it's not muscles that make men strong. Secret do. The more secret you keep, the stronger you are on the inside.
Colleen Hoover
#37. The way a source strains toward the light, toward the air. Its laboring work, its effort, its black passageways like despair. That's the way a poet looks for words. With muscles, gestures.
Anna Kamienska
#38. Many people still believe that "tough guy" means having a camel type muscles rather than a lion heart.
M.F. Moonzajer
#39. Eleanor knew that she was fat, but she didn't feel that fat. She could feel her bones and muscles just underneath all the chub, and they were big, too. Park's mom could wear Eleanor's rib cage like a roomy vest.
Rainbow Rowell
#40. Oh gosh, it's moving! It's so gross! Can't you just, like, flex your butt or something?
Why, yes. Travis clenched his teeth. Why don't I just clench my butt muscles in hopes that it will shock the spider enough to crawl back into the hellhole it came out of?
Rachel Van Dyken
#41. True flexibility can be achieved only when all muscles are uniformly developed
Joseph Pilates
#42. She rested her head on Esther's shoulder and let the fuzzy warmth of her hug flow through her. It was the kind of warmth that clicked your bones back into place, smoothed out your muscles and made your blood sing a soft lullaby all the way around your body.
Joy Cowley
#43. So ludicrous, in fact, do these ceremonies appear to me, that I scarcely am able to govern my muscles, when I see a man start with eager, and serious solicitude to lift a handkerchief, or shut a door, when the LADY could have done it herself, had she only moved a pace or two.
Mary Wollstonecraft
#44. Your nation needs you. Your world needs you. So, use your education to become endowed with muscles of iron and nerves of steel.
Abhijit Naskar
#45. For the [innate] general principles enter into our thoughts, of which they form the soul and the connection. They are as necessary thereto as the muscles and sinews are for walking, although we do not at all think of them.
Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz
#46. We learned to build our emotional muscles, helping us make it through major market falls and grind through the trying times without losing our equilibrium.
Richard Chandler
#47. The person drawn to dance as profession is notoriously unintellectual. He thinks with his muscles, delights in expression with body, not words; finds analysis painful and boring; and is a creature of physical ebullience.
Doris Humphrey
#48. The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
James Hillman
#49. Did you know that a caterpillar has 228 separate and distinct muscles in its head?
Francis Chan
#50. Those people who say it takes more muscles to frown than smile are in serious danger of having their pants catch on fire.
Tammy Blackwell
#51. The fatigue produced on the muscles of the human frame does not altogether depend on the actual force employed in each effort, but partly on the frequency with which it is exerted.
Charles Babbage
#52. With pleasure," Kinney deadpanned. "In fact, I was hoping that if I came to see you off, I would be asked to do manual labor." Iko shrugged. "If you don't want to do any heavy lifting, then stop having such impressive muscles.
Marissa Meyer
#53. I think that we pay much more attention to fashion and our hair, skin and foreheads, our abdominal muscles and shoes than what is happening in the world. We willingly take that 'drug' and go along with that.
Meryl Streep
#54. There may well be a scientific paper to be written on why walking in an art gallery is so much more exhausting than, say, climbing Helvellyn. My guess is that it is something to do with the energy required to hold muscles in tension, combined with the mental exertion of wondering what to say.
David Nicholls
#55. A lot of guys just punch with their arms; they don't utilize every part of their muscles they can use. I know how to use that, and that's where the power comes in.
Nonito Donaire
#56. At times of great stress it is especially necessary to achieve a complete freeing of the muscles
Constantin Stanislavski
#57. Because her voice is, it's like the muscles and it develops all the time. That was the fantastic thing for us.
Andrew Lloyd Webber
#58. Modern life cannot be constructed on ... physically strenuous principles. A great deal of work is sedentary, and most manual work exercises only a few specialized muscles.
Bertrand Russell
#59. How is it that I'd nearly been smothered to death, and yet I could sit there and notice things like my stepbrother's abdominal muscles a few minutes later?
Meg Cabot
#60. The muscles in his neck clenched and unclenched. So you've finally decided to take my advice and keep the hell away from me?
Nicole Williams
#61. It became clear to her observers that she was not quick at shifting her facial scenery. It was as though her countenance had so long been set in an expression of unchallenged superiority that the muscles had stiffened, and refused to obey her orders.
Edith Wharton
#62. Forcing yourself to shiver is one of the hardest things on your muscles and isometrics.
Daryl Hannah
#63. Deep squats work so many muscles in your body. Once a week, I do three sets of six, or eight of the free-bar ones, which can help out your balance and work more muscles than doing them on the machine.
Lolo Jones
#64. my muscles are rigid with the tension of holding myself together. the pain over my heart returns, and from it i imagine tiny fissures spreading out into my body. through my torso, down my arms and legs, over my face, leaving it crisscrossed with cracks.
Suzanne Collins
#65. A romantic kiss is the perfect fusion of science and mythology--the scientific account of the biochemistry of saliva and the countless muscles and nerves involved on one side, and the mythic actual experience of the kiss on the other.
Vic Cavalli
#66. The passion of fear (as a modern philosopher informs me) determines the spirits of the muscles of the knees, which are instantly ready to perform their motion, by taking up the legs with incomparable celerity, in order to remove the body out of harm's way.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
#67. Then the coxswain called out, 'Ready all!' Joe turned and faced the rear of the boat, slid his seat forward, sank the white blade of his oar into the oil-black water, tensed his muscles, and waited for the command that would propel him forward into the glimmering darkness.
Daniel James Brown
#68. Everyone has a special place they store their tension (I'm on shiatsu duty), the same way everyone misspells the same words over and over. Karla stores her tension in her rhomboid muscles, and I remove it. This is making me feel good. That I can do this.
Douglas Coupland
#69. Toughness is in the soul and spirit, not in muscles.
Alex Karras
#70. The most exciting fight I have called on HBO was the first meeting between Arturo Gatti and Micky Ward. When I stood up to do the post-fight on camera, my stomach muscles were tight and sore from the tension of watching them take their lives into their hands and trade shots.
Jim Lampley
#71. Abs - all the assholes had them. Four to six muscles were like a graph chart to show just how big of a douche bag the guy was.
Jamie McGuire
#72. In the beginning it wasn't bodybuilding competition that motivated me, it was just getting muscles and getting big. And certainly it has evolved for me since then. I think I'm still evolving.
Kai Greene
#73. Under a spreading chestnut-tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands.
Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
#74. So many older people, they just sit around all day long and they don't get any exercise. Their muscles atrophy, and they lose their strength, their energy and vitality by inactivity.
Jack LaLanne
#75. And even if he weren't, a person can't hold on to another person forever. At some point, their muscles give out, or the authorities get called.
Rachel M. Wilson
#76. His chest stretched wider, and his muscles cut a sharper image. "My boyfriend can beat up yours," she whispered to her mother.
Rebecca Zanetti
#77. The difficulties, hardships and trials of life, the obstacles ... are positive blessings. They knit the muscles more firmly, and teach self-reliance.
William Matthews
#78. Muscles aching to work, minds aching to create - this is man.
John Steinbeck
#79. The dog did not move as the needle was inserted, and, as the barbiturate began to flow into the vein, the anxious expression left his face and the muscles began to relax. By the time the injection was finished, the breathing had stopped.
James Herriot
#80. Willpower doesn't change everything. We can't be just anything we want to be. My mother couldn't will herself to be like she was when she was thirty or forty. She couldn't choose to be normal - her muscles were degenerating.
Darcy Leech
#81. 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
#82. It's a lot tougher to play soccer and make it look believable. But in boxing, it was easier for me. I got injured a lot more in the soccer world. In soccer, I pulled muscles. I thought boxing was going to be tougher.
Kuno Becker
#83. Healthy foods are great, but it's important to keep your body active. Your muscles only get stronger and build more endurance for everyday things if you're moving and get the blood pumping. Exercising stimulates certain brain chemicals and can put you in a better mood!
Jenna Ushkowitz
#84. My exercise varies from yoga to Pilates. The yoga provides me with achieving my balance and mental relaxation, whereas the Pilates allow me to work my inner core through stretching and keeping my muscles toned.
Erin Heatherton
#85. He imagined dying and being cut open and there were all his bones and muscles and his bared arteries and capillaries leading to a cavity in his chest where instead of a heart he had his camera.
Ali Shaw
#86. We move in response to our conversation partner's face, and our brain also fires as we move those muscles and stirs the passions. Paralyzing the face is idiotic.
John M. Gottman
#87. You have to be strong to be a carpenter, maybe, but the director of a film doesn't need to have muscles.
Agnes Varda
#88. She liked his face - its lines were tight and firm, it did not have that look of loose muscles evading the responsibility of a shape, which she had learned to expect in people's faces.
Ayn Rand
#89. Perfectionism is one way our muscles cramp. In some cases we don't even know that the wounds and the cramping are there, but both limit us. They keep us moving and writing in tight, worried ways.
Anne Lamott
#90. To get an elementary grasp of the game of golf, a human must learn, by endless practice, a continuous and subtle series of highly unnatural movements, involving about sixty-four muscles, that result in a seemingly natural swing, taking two seconds to begin and end.
Alistair Cooke
#91. I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotia - by the dog they would, if they had been moved only by their own idea of what was best.
(tr Jowett)
Plato
#92. Maybe the body learns from dreams. Maybe the muscles, the neutrons, revitalize.
Michael Zaslow
#93. I just use my muscles as a conversation piece, like someone walking a cheetah down 42nd Street.
Arnold Schwarzenegger
#94. The drenched fabric clung to every sculptured line of Ayden's torso and revealed in detail how his muscles flexed to hold the weight. It was glorious. If you were into that sort of thing. And based how my breath caught at the sight, I was.
A&E Kirk
#95. Fucking hell! The lioness won. She got a burst of speed and let the bones crack, muscles tense, and skin turned to fur so flawlessly, she didn't slow. Now she ran on all fours. A loud hiss escaped from her lioness. Pissed wasn't even the word at this point. Andi wanted blood. Someone
Milly Taiden
#96. The past is far behind. If you still want to look at it, you will painfully stretch your neck muscles. Don't live in the past, leave the past, but learn from it.
Israelmore Ayivor
#97. As my muscles marginally relax, the tension flicks from anger to fevered desire. I want to tear each wisp of clothing off her and tie her to this f**king desk. I'll know next time, to bring my satin ribbon.
M.R. Field
#98. He extended a finger to her face, the simple gesture bringing into play the sleek muscles of his shoulders and arms. You are so beautiful, so adorable. I know full well you're my doom, and I don't care.
Chris Lange
#99. As cows need milking and sweet peas need picking, so writers must continually exercise their mental muscles by a daily stint.
Joan Aiken
#100. Indeed, unless a man can link his written thoughts with the everlasting wants of men, so that they shall draw more from them as wells, there is no more immortality to the thoughts and feelings of the soul than to the muscles and bones.
Henry Ward Beecher
