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Quotes About Forearms

Adrenaline rushed through my veins, anarchic, atavistic, delicious, a sheen of sweat on my palms, tingles on my forearms, rage in my voice.
~ Rabih Alameddine
And standing in the middle of the room was Bigfoot. No doubt about it. The guy was huge. Not quite seven feet, but close. Almost to the ceiling. And he was wide. From shoulder to shoulder he looked like four basketballs in a rack in her high school gym. He had fists like Thanksgiving turkeys. He was wearing canvas work pants and a huge black T-shirt. His forearms were battered and sculpted.
~ Lee Child
People don't realise how much tension they hold in their forearms.
~ Winona Ryder
The mist was so challenging and the winds hit me, definitely more than I expected. It was definitely those winds, you can't re-enact them, you can't recreate them. Then my forearms started to tense up and you feel like running.
~ Nik Wallenda
blue-and-white helmet, and the muscles in his powerful dark forearms knotting as
~ Eileen Goudge
Fever-bright, Perceval listened. And then she folded her bony forearms one over the other and rested them on her knees, the chains a long silici-blue sweep framing her on either side, her chin pillowed on a bony wrist.
~ Elizabeth Bear
I've upped my size tremendously. Forearms strength, shoulder strength has gotten crazy strong. I've been working hard on that.
~ Bryson DeChambeau
A few other couples joined us on the dance floor and we lost ourselves among them. I'd never been able to figure out exactly what was involved in slow dancing, so I contented myself, as I had since high school, with gripping my partner to me, letting out awkward breaths against her ear, and tipping from foot to foot like someone waiting for a bus. I could feel the sweat cooling on her forearms and smell a trace of apples in her hair.
~ Michael Chabon
saddlebags and called for water to be heated. He knelt and removed his outer tunic and rolled the white sleeves of the inner one. He rubbed astringent oil into his hands and along his forearms to the elbow, to the amusement of the nephew, who drew a wrongheaded moral from the notion of a physician who medicated himself and not his patient. The stranger
~ Michael Chabon
She had seen a huge hunchback ogre with meaty forearms and a pruned face crossing a courtyard with an anvil under one arm.
~ Brandon Mull
I really like nice forearms - nice strong hands and forearms. I love that because then they can wear a watch really well.
~ Eva Mendes
I never train with wraps. I've always found that they kind of cut off blood flow when you're grappling as well, because you're flexing your forearms and grips and things. It's just something I decided wasn't for me anymore.
~ Rory MacDonald
Whether you want to strengthen your fingers or jack up the belly of your forearms, forget grip-pers or wrist curls. Work your forearms the way they evolved to work—by hanging your bodyweight.
~ Unknown
Sunday had spread all over the city. It looked as if the sun had smacked into the earth and broken into pieces and chunks of wet light were scattered everywhere -- in the streets, on the window panes, on puddles and roofs. I remembered a day long ago when Grandmother had cleaned a big fish. Her forearms were splattered with shiny scales. It was as if she had Sunday in her whole body. When my father got angry, he had Tuesday.
~ Ismail Kadare
I walked toward the bar where The Reader sat turning pages, a cup of coffee at his elbow. His sleeves were rolled up, revealing thick forearms covered in tattoos. Oh. Sweet. Lord. Really, he was all of my favourite things.
~ Molly O'Keefe
Ace had built a small fire and was sitting with his forearms draped over his upraised knees. He must have sensed her presence because he glanced over his shoulder with a sharp jerk of his head. In profile, he was the image of hidden power and fierce beauty. She realized that he must have bathed in the chilly waters of the creek, because
~ Unknown