Sweating Like Sayings

#1. These were gym towels. They were supposed to be thin and mean, the terry-cloth equivalent of coyotes. When you were sweating like a pig and couldn't feel the bottoms of your feet from exertion, you didn't want to pat yourself down with a Pomeranian.

J.R. Ward

#2. 106 [degrees] in the valley ... I was sweating like Dan Rather checking for forged documents.

Jay Leno

#3. Sweating like a fat woman in a sauna, nun with a tattoo on her tit, overweight jockey.

Dennis Vickers

#4. I was sweating like a whore in chruch on a sunday.

J. Lynn

#5. I know it's not the right thing to say to a lady, miss, but you are sweating like a pig!"
"My mother always said that horses sweat, men perspire, and ladies merely glow ... "
"Is that so? Well, miss, you are glowing like a pig!

Terry Pratchett

#6. I was sweating like Christy Moore at a Feis Ceol, so badly, in fact, I looked like I was sporting a finger moustache as I attempted to rescue suicidal perspiration drops from my upper lip. Classy.

Annmarie O'Connor

#7. Major heat wave in India - 122 degrees today. It was so hot people in India were sweating like Americans waiting to hear if their job is being outsourced to India.

Jay Leno

#8. Is it hot in here? I'm sweating like a Christian in science class.

Aaron B. Powell

#9. I like this interstate as much as the next guy, but the farther south we go, the hotter it gets, and I'm already sweating like a whore in church.

John Green

#10. I was working on boats as a teenager, sweating like a pig during a summer job.

Douglas Leone

#11. I'm sweating like a whore in church out there. Thank the heavens I'm sexy enough to pull it off.

Drew Hayes

#12. There are always deadlines I have to meet. I don't let myself get too close to the deadlines, so it's not like I'm just sweating bullets or anything if the clock is ticking. I never let myself get in that situation.

Scott Adams

#13. I didn't start sweating until I had children. That was one of the first things I realized when my daughter Violet was born - I started getting wicked BO. You know there's a difference between basketball BO and stress BO? This was definitely stress BO. Like, new dad BO.

Dave Grohl

#14. The women's gazes skewered him from opposite ends, making him feel like corn on the cob, sweating over the grill.

Sarah Sundin

#15. The desert is an unpredictable place. One day you're sweating, the next you're freezing. One moment the air is damp and cloudy like when the tide is coming in, the next the entire world is orange and dusty. The desert must be a woman.

Dianna Skowera

#16. So now I imagine, among these Angels and their drained white brides, momentous grunts and sweating, damp furry encounters; or, better, ignominious failures, cocks like three-week-old carrots, anguished fumblings upon flesh cold and unresponding as uncooked fish.

Margaret Atwood

#17. When her hands reached out and poured the tea, it was as if she also poured something into me while I sat there sweating in my cab. It was like she held a string and pulled on it just slightly to open me up. She got in, put a piece of herself inside me, and left again.

Markus Zusak

#18. I don't like sweating the details, and I'm pretty disorganized. To be a better leader, I need to stay on top of these shortcomings, and being reminded really helps.

Scott Weiss

#19. For me, and I suspect a lot of socially awkward people, dealing with people face-to-face seems really traumatic. Particularly if you have massive sweating issues, and particularly if on top of that you have quite smelly sweat that smells like onion soup.

Caitlin Moran

#20. I just do what I'm told. If I felt like talking, I would explain that she couldn't pay me enough to play on her basketball team. All that running? Sweating? Getting knocked around by genetic mutants? I don't think so.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#21. A lot of coaches want guys to be loose for games. I never wanted them to be loose. I wanted their hands sweating, their knees shaking, their eyes bulging. I wanted them to act like we were going to war.

Jerry Tarkanian

#22. You know, when Michael Jackson does the moonwalk, he's showing off! When Prince or Hendrix do a guitar solo, it's confidence! I would hate to be at a show and some nervous wreck is sweating up there and doesn't feel like he deserves to be there.

Bruno Mars

#23. Wealth should come like manna from heaven, unearned and uncalled for. Money should be like grace
a gift. It is not worth sweating and scheming for.

Edward Abbey

#24. My palms began sweating as I took in the enormous, opulent study. Tomes lined each wall like the soldiers of a silent army, and couches, desks, and rich rugs were scattered throughout the room.

Sarah J. Maas

#25. I love going to the gym, sweating, running around, feeling like I'm having a heart attack.

Liam Hemsworth

#26. Sneezes pent but set like traps, the boys crouched, stood, lay sweating a cool and constant brine.

Ray Bradbury

#27. The sweating is awful. It's not as bad as the not eating, but it's weird - cold sweat, all over my forehead, having to be wiped off every two minutes, smelling like skin concentrate. People notice. It's one of the few things people notice.

Ned Vizzini

#28. It felt like my teeth were sweating. Eoin Colfer's The Legend of Spud Murphy

Eoin Colfer

#29. It was all I could do to keep from lunging across the table and pressing my shuttering lips against his burning flesh. My palms were sweating profusely causing me to have to wipe them against my jeans under the table. Those last few seconds had felt like a lifetime in pause.

Jennifer L. Brown

#30. I'm not out there sweating for three hours every day just to find out what it feels like to sweat.

Michael Jordan

#31. Hades took off his helm. His complexion was even paler than usual. He had a bad case of helmet hair. He was sweating and nervous and blinking like he had something in his eyes. "I am Hades," he said in a squeaky voice. "I love you.

Rick Riordan

#32. She was sweating and pale but beautiful in the firelight. Showing a woman's strength in a delicate vessel, holding strong like a warrior. I have never admired someone more.

Lauren Nicolle Taylor

#33. They climb the mountain like beasts, stupid and sweating; it seems that no one bothered to tell them that there are beautiful vistas along the way.

Friedrich Nietzsche

#34. Nighttown, because the Pit's inverted, and the bottom of its bowl touches the sky, the sky that Nighttown never sees, sweating under its own firmament of acrylic resin, up where the Lo Teks crouch in the dark like gargoyles,

William Gibson

#35. What sort of funny songs?"
"My balls are swearing my balls are swearing I can't keep my balls from sweating ohhh no."
"How is that funny?" I asked.
"As in the balls of your feet?"
"No, it's like this thing ... Never mind," he said.

Anna Carey

#36. Lenny London: In case you're wondering, running is like driving only there's more sweating and less sitting. I don't recommend trying it if you haven't already.

Julie Cross

#37. Nick moved over. "You smell like a fucking vodka bottle."
"Sweating out my sins, my friend."
"Lots of sins.

Cari Quinn

#38. That's right. This is only the Hot Stove League." "Oh Lord, what is that?" I say sweating. "We get acquainted, talk over last year's business, kick around the boners of the funds. You'll like it." Sure

Walker Percy