“I'm TV's Craig Ferguson, please sit down relax and: "take off your pants"; "dip your hand into a bowl of warm water and fall fast asleep"; etc.”

“Sit down beat or two
Hold out your hands
Look”

David Mitchell book Cloud Atlas

“In conclusion, the arms of others either fall from your back, or they weigh you down, or they bind you fast.”

Niccolo Machiavelli book The Prince

“The sweat—great slithering streams of it—pours down you. It runs down your legs, down the leg that is pedalling the sostenuto pedal, down the other leg. It oozes out all over your chest, flows down the binding around your middle where your full-dress pants soak it up. It flows everywhere, down your arms, down your hands.”

George Antheil (1900–1959) American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor

“Turn off your mind, relax, and float downstream.”

John Lennon (1940–1980) English singer and songwriter

“How can you pull down strongholds of Satan if you don't even have the strength to turn off your TV?”

Leonard Ravenhill (1907–1994) British writer

“Reacher said, "So here's the thing Brett. Either you take your hand off my chest, or I'll take it off your wrist.”

Lee Child book Worth Dying For

“The present government is a hand stained with blood, which dips a finger in the holy water.”

Victor Hugo (1802–1885) French poet, novelist, and dramatist

“If you could kick the person in the pants responsible for most of your trouble, you wouldn't sit for a month.”

Theodore Roosevelt (1858–1919) American politician, 26th president of the United States

“On a live performance: "If you feel like tapping your feet, tap your feet. If you feel like clapping your hands, clap your hands. And if you feel like taking off your shoes, take off your shoes. We are here to have a ball. So we want you to leave your worldly troubles outside and come in here and swing."”

Art Blakey (1919–1990) American jazz drummer and bandleader