Hilary Mantel

Sometimes you buy a book, powerfully drawn to it, but then it just sits on the shelf. Maybe you flick through it, the ghost of your original purpose at your elbow, but it's not so much rereading as re-dusting. Then one day you pick it up, take notice of the contents; your inner life realigns.

English Writer

Michael Chiesa

If you're gonna get punched in the face, elbowed, cut up, busted up, injured, have to cut weight, have to bring yourself to the brink of death to show up the next day and try to put on the performance of your life, you've gotta love it. And if I don't love it, it's just not worth it to me.

American Mixed Martial Artist

Arthur Conan Doyle

Depend upon it there comes a time when for every addition of knowledge you forget something that you knew before. It is of the highest importance, therefore, not to have useless facts elbowing out the useful ones.

British Writer

Paul Samuelson

The problem is no longer that with every pair of hands that comes into the world there comes a hungry stomach. Rather it is that, attached to those hands are sharp elbows.

American Economist

Jean Anouilh

To say yes, you have to sweat and roll up your sleeves and plunge both hands into life up to the elbows. It is easy to say no, even if saying no means death.

French Playwright

Jim Crace

I liked journalism and thought it was important, certainly more important than fiction. I'd probably still be doing it if I hadn't been elbowed out.

Richard Cohen

There was a time when an ordinary American could close the door and keep the world at bay. Now the world comes elbowing in every time you go online.

American Journalist

Jon Hamm

Medical attention is medical attention, whether it's for your elbow or for your teeth or for your brain. And it's important.

American Actor

Marie Dressler

In order to represent life on the stage, we must rub elbows with life, live ourselves.

American Actress

Martin Luther King, Jr.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

American Leader

Used to refer to the actual joint in the human body.

Human Anatomy

Often mentioned when talking about injuries related to falls or sports.

Common Injury

Part of expressions like 'to cost an arm and a leg', metaphorically including the elbow.

Idiomatic Expressions

Refers to objects, usually pipes, with a bend that resembles a human elbow.

Mechanical Parallel

In engineering, an 'elbow' might not be a perfect right angle.

Not Always 90 Degrees

In verb form, it describes the action of pushing with the elbow.

Physical Action

Connotes a somewhat aggressive or determined movement through a space.

Forceful Movement

Used metaphorically to describe someone being forced out of a situation.

Metaphorical Ousting

Implies competition or rivalry in social or professional scenarios.

Competitive Contexts

 During that movie I got to meet a ton of hip-hop dancers -- amazing, the best in the world -- and they brought me into a society, the sort of underground street culture that blew my mind. I mean, this is literally human beings with super-human strength and abilities. They could fly in the air. They could bend their elbow all the way back.

In the Internet age,...

 Why do elephants have big ears? That's actually a really good question that I answer a lot of the time. We get a lot of questions about that at the zoo Elephants have big ears to help keep them cool. As you can imagine, an elephant skin is really thick, can be up to an inch and a half thick on the elbows and the knees.

Do Elephants Cry? ﻿PIPE...

 the way your eye moves around three or four times a second. He didn't mention the speed. Your eye is constantly in motion, moving around, looking at eyes, noses, elbows, looking at interesting things in the world. And where your eye isn't looking, you're remarkably impoverished in your vision.

The illusion of...

 and asked them what they wanted to see in dolls, and you can see, they have calves and elbows that bend so they can do superhero stuff. And please buy them. And don't just buy them for your daughters, buy them for your sons. Because it's important that boys play with and as female superheroes

Bring on the female...

 Your knees should be at a right angle with your feet flat on the floor. But what if your posture isn't that great? Try redesigning your environment. Adjust your screen so it's at or slightly below eyelevel. Make sure all parts of your body, like your elbows and wrists, are supported,

The benefits of good...

 They even reduce their own root competition to make elbow room for their kids. When mother trees are injured or dying, they also send messages of wisdom on to the next generation of seedlings. So we've used isotope tracing to trace carbon moving from an injured mother tree

How trees talk to each...

 Extroverts, for example, I find intriguing. With my classes, I sometimes give them a basic fact that might be revealing with respect to their I tell them that it is virtually impossible for adults to lick the outside of their own elbow. Did you know that?

Who are you, really? The...

 Or blissful peace and quiet. But visuals, they're of course more than just graphic icons. You know, if I want to tell the story of modern-day struggle, I would start with the armrest between two airplane seats and two sets of elbows fighting.

You are fluent in this...

 come here to where almost no one has ever been to the bays deepest darkest waters as we descend we take note of the anglerfish it can walk across the sand with fins that have elbows you may have an SUV or your driveway but I'm betting

Strange Japanese Sea...

 it's an exhaustive database of alternative names for Donny twin names like bag of elbows or angry creamsicle there are literally hundreds of names choose whichever you want though just don't call him by his real name my next

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