“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.”

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American avant-garde composer, pianist, author and inventor 1900–1959

Louise Rennison (1951–2016) British writer

Source: Are These My Basoomas I See Before Me?

“The leg division, Mr Spiggot. You are deficient in it to the tune of one. Your right leg, I like. I like your right leg, it's a lovely leg for the role. That's what I said when I saw it come in. I said, "that's a lovely leg for the role". I've got nothing against your right leg. The trouble is — neither have you. You fall down on your left.”

Peter Cook Beyond the Fringe

"One Leg Too Few" (1964) involving a one-legged man auditioning for the role of Tarzan.
Beyond the Fringe (1960 - 1966)

“Making a speech on economics is a lot like pissing down your leg. It seems hot to you, but it never does to anyone else.”

Lyndon B. Johnson (1908–1973) American politician, 36th president of the United States (in office from 1963 to 1969)

Private comment, as quoted in Name-Dropping (1999) by John Kenneth Galbraith, p. 149.

“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

Source: The Prince

“At moments when life is at its worst there are two things you can do:
1.) break down, lose hope and refuse to go on while lying face down on the ground banging your fists and kicking your legs, or 2.) laugh. Bobby and I did the latter.”

Cecelia Ahern book A Place Called Here

Variant: At moments when life is at its worst there are two things that you can
do: 1) break down, lose hope, and refuse to go on while lying facedown on the ground
banging your fists and kicking your legs, or 2) laugh.
Source: A Place Called Here

“Down the highway, down the tracks, down the road to ecstacy,
I followed you beneath the stars, hounded by your memory and all your ragin' glory”

Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist

Song lyrics, Blood on the Tracks (1975), Idiot Wind

“PUT YOUR HAND DOWN!”

Judith Sheindlin (1942) American lawyer, judge, television personality, and author

Quotes from Judge Judy cases, Dress, stand, speak properly

“So you go on and on, with this intellectual fly down, your underwear exposed, and toilette paper hanging out the back of your pants.”

Hank Green (1980) American vlogger

about "saying stuff wrong" Stop Embarrassing Yourself http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nIvrDsnKuQ8&feature=related <br class="br">Youtube

“Cast down your bucket where you are.”

Booker T. Washington (1856–1915) African-American educator, author, orator, and advisor

This address was a speech at the Cotton States and International Exposition, Atlanta (1895-09-18)
Source: 1900s, Up From Slavery (1901), Chapter XIV: The Atlanta Exposition Address

“That's not a run in your stocking, it's a hand on your leg.”

Frank O'Hara (1926–1966) American poet, art critic and writer

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