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I've always considered myself a workaholic... The way I work, I have to turn myself upside down and hang myself by my ankles and wring myself out like a wet sweater, and I have to do that with other people, too, because I think that's where something good comes out.
Josh Homme /
Ankles
Upside Down
Wet
Workaholic
Work Good Myself
Considered
Hang
Something Good
Sweater
Upside
Wring
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Thoughts are slippery fish in a cold shallow stream.If you are intent on capturing a worthwhile one, you need to stand very still, focus very hard on somewhere outside yourself, and then simply ignore it until it gets so close that it tickles your ankles.Then, pounce.
Vera Nazarian / Writer
Ankles
Focus
Needs
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Oh, leave it,” said Jem, kicking Will, not without affection, lightly on the ankle. “She’s annexed my plan!” “Will,” Tessa said firmly. “Do you care more about the plan being enacted or about getting credit for it?” Will pointed a finger at her. “That,” he said. “The second one.
Cassandra Clare / Author
Ankles
Demon Pox
Kicking
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When I was 13, I was in my tent at Girl Scout camp, trying to change out of my bathing suit and talking at the same time. I fell out of the tent in front of everyone with my bathing suit around my ankles. I was humiliated - but no amount of humiliation has ever seemed to stop me.
Casey Wilson / Actress
Ankles
Bathing
Humiliated
Time Change Me
Bathing Suit
Camp
Change Time Me
Scout
Suit
Tent
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Tap dancers find it very difficult to do anything other than tap if that is all they have been trained in because, again, it's a whole different ballgame that you're constantly working on - bent legs, loose ankles - which you cannot afford to do when you're doing jumps or anything else.
Nigel Lythgoe / Television Director
Ankles
Ballgame
Bent
Legs
Afford
Anything Else
Tap
Dancers
Jumps
Loose
Trained
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Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.
Vince Cable / British Politician
Men
Ankles
Assets
Breathing
British
Enterprise
Exposing
Growth
Lending
Productive
Steady
Stifling
Tied
Trousers
Scale
Banks
Chest
Round
Operate
Small Scale
Wears
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A runner needs not just to be skinny but - more specifically - to have skinny calves and ankles, because every extra pound carried on your extremities costs more than a pound carried on your torso. That's why shaving even a few ounces off a pair of running shoes can have a significant effect.
Malcolm Gladwell / Journalist
Ankles
Shaving
Significant
Skinny
Carried
Extra
Pair
Pound
Runner
Specifically
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I think the two exercises that have helped me the most include using the bands with my ankles, and then another one of my favorites is where I lean on a balloon-shaped ball with my forehead touching it and rotate my head front, back and sideways to build up the muscles and ligaments in my neck.
Vernon Davis / Football Player
Ankles
Muscles
Sideways
Touching
Ball
Bands
Neck
Favorites
Exercises
Forehead
Helped
Include
Lean
Rotate
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Old age is a wonderful time of life. At least, that's what everyone tells you. But let me tell you: it is not true. What's true is that your hips, knees and ankles gradually give up on you - everything is quite dreadful, really. And it was a terrible thing to have told us because we believed it.
Debbie Reynolds / Film Actress
Ankles
Hips
Old Age
Life Time Age
Dreadful
Gradually
Tells
Terrible Thing
Wonderful Time
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Sure, the first light snowfall may be a chance to dance giddily, leaving squeaky footprints through the neighborhood, marking the runner's right to the domain. But later drubbings of snow merely complicate running. Snow turns to ice, to slush, to ice again. Tire ruts twist ankles. New snow hides the hazards.
Don Kardong / Journalist
Dance
Running
Chance
Ankles
Domain
Hazards
Ice
Leaving
Light
Neighborhood
Ruts
Slush
Snow
Tire
Turns
Sure
Again
Complicate
Footprints
Hides
Later
Marking
Merely
Runner
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As a young boy growing up in New York City, we would spend our summers on the South Fork of Long Island. My dad would take me down to the beach at low tide. We would walk a mile down to the jetties, and he would lower me by my ankles into the crevices between the massive boulders to grab at huge ropes of mussels.
Andrew Zimmern / Television Personality
Ankles
Beach
Long Island
Massive
New York City
Dad Walk Me
Fork
Island
Grab
Mile
Ropes
Summers
Tide
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A man could come in the room with his hair not cut, not done, pants around his ankles and people still gon' be like, 'Oh, that's his style. It's cool.' Being a woman, you have to be on your P's and Q's at all times, because not only do you have to keep up your appearance for men, but other women judge you so hard.
Megan Thee Stallion /
Ankles
Appearance
Pants
Cool Men Women
Cool Women Men
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For a quarter of a century, I've been playing baseball for pay. It has been pretty good pay, most of the time. The work has been hard, but what of it? It's been risky. I've broken both my legs. I've sprained everything I've got between my ankles and my disposition. I've dislocated my joints and fractured my pride.
Rabbit Maranville /
Ankles
Baseball
Broken
Disposition
Joints
Legs
Pay
Time Work Good
Work Time Good
Fractured
Pretty Good
Quarter
Risky
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After 'Kong,' my knuckles have never recovered because I had to wear very heavy weights on my forearms and around my hips and ankles to get the sense of size and scale of the movement of the character You are telling your body that you are these things and that you're feeling these thoughts and that you're experiencing these experiences.
Andy Serkis / Film Actor
Ankles
Character
Feelings
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After 'Kong,' my knuckles have never recovered because I had to wear very heavy weights on my forearms and around my hips and ankles to get the sense of size and scale of the movement of the character... You are telling your body that you are these things and that you're feeling these thoughts and that you're experiencing these experiences.
Andy Serkis / Film Actor
Ankles
Heavy
Heavy Weights
Hips
Movement
Size
Your Body
Scale
Experiences
Weights
Recovered
Thoughts
Telling
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What I really like to do, especially because we're all busy so sometimes you forget to do something, I always keep wrist weights with me. If I just put them on throughout the day, then I'll just be doing stuff and it's kind of just toning without me doing anything. Sometimes that's just my little trick. I have ankle weights and wrist weights and I just keep them with me at all times.
Julianne Hough / Professional Dancer
Ankles
Littles
Weight
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When a liver becomes cirrhotic, those are the common complications. We see that the patients have bleeding from their stomach and intestines. They have abdomens that become full of fluid. Their ankles swell with the same type of fluid, and they also can become confused and not themselves. Those are kind of the main things that we see when people get end-stage liver disease and have cirrhosis.
John Roberts / Author
Ankles
Confused
People
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