Muscle Quotes
Quotes that treat muscle as both body and metaphor.
These muscle quotes use the word both literally and as a metaphor, comparing physical strength to skills like writing and blogging that need regular practice to stay sharp. For more on the body, see our Body collection.
I think it's an actor's job, if you can, to keep working and to keep using that muscle. First of all, you've got to pay the bills, but it also helps you develop.
Any little touch a defender can make on me when I'm in the air literally moves me. On the ground, I can use my muscle, but in the air, it's harder to fight that off.
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I use an electric wheelchair because I have no sense of balance, and muscle spasticity has arched my spine like a cat's, while my legs are really just for show.
Acting Quotes
A stem cell is essentially a blank cell capable of becoming another, more differentiated cell-type in the body, such as a skin cell, a muscle cell or a nerve cell.
Oftentimes, heavy weights can tear the muscle fiber causing it to bulk, but using a lighter weight for a longer duration and allowing your body to move in many different ways to target all of the muscles will lengthen them...
I love to deadlift, and it's a huge part of my training because it works every muscle in the body.
Body Quotes
I worked out six hours a day, six days a week, to get 16 pounds of extra muscle.
The bodies we have are not made for extended use. We must cope with accumulated DNA damage, cell damage, muscle atrophy, bone loss, decreased muscle mass, and joints worn out from overuse during a lifetime of bipedal locomotion. It might...
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Writing a whole series was a crash course in screenwriting, which is a very different muscle to standup comedy writing.
If the javelin had hit me 10cm to the left, it would have punctured my lung, 20cm higher the throat, which would have been the worst-case scenario. Just 1cm higher and it would have hit bone, muscle and tendon and...
I got kicked out of ballet class because I pulled a groin muscle. It wasn't mine.
The labourer's muscle is that of a cart-horse, his motions lumbering and slow.
Every rippling muscle is a book not read, a movie not seen, or a conversation not held.
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A lot of our communication has now become digital, and it does not mimic the natural way we have evolved to communicate with each other, so it's almost like we have this muscle, these social-emotional skills, and they're atrophying, right?
