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Quotes About Posture

Of course drums weren't meant to be played other than sitting on the ground. When you're upside-down, your feet don't want to sit on the pedals.
~ Tommy Lee
Certainly, when you have shoulder pads on that go up to your ears, you hold yourself a certain way. You speak with authority when you have shoulders like that.
~ Wendi McLendon-Covey
I don't think I'm a neck actor in otherthings. But in Bridgerton,' particularly with the way the corset sits andthe attentionon the neck, it makes you hold yourshouldersacertain way.
~ Phoebe Dynevor
In movement class, you had to lie on the floor and get your alignment in to pass the class.
~ Beth Henley
Irish women are always carrying water on their heads, and always carrying their husbands home from pubs. Such things are the greatest posture-builders in the world.
~ Peter O'Toole
Posture for combat is so vital.
~ Conor McGregor
And the posture of the older oak trees reaching toward this sky had a jut, a wildness and entitlement, predating permanent settlement; memories of an unfenced world were written in the cursive of their branches.
~ Jonathan Franzen
It was only in 1893 that Britain had seen fit to upgrade its legation in the American capital to the status of a full embassy. Now, less than a generation later, European history seemed to hang on the posture that Washington would adopt towards the war.
~ Adam Tooze
Without knowing it, I was acquiring that haughty bearing which is characteristic of so many eccentrics. What other expression would you expect to find on the face of anyone who knows that if he turns his head too quickly, he will see on the faces of others glares of stark terror or grimaces of hatred? Aloofness is the posture of self-defense.
~ Quentin Crisp
I have my whole office set-up at waist level; I don't sit at all during the day. Sitting, to me, is the devil.
~ Dean Karnazes
Working the deltoid muscles along the front and top will give you everyday lifting power and help eliminate sloping shoulders, making your waist appear thinner.
~ Denise Austin
Don't run if you can walk. Don't walk if you can stand. Don't stand if you can sit. Don't sit if you can lie down.
~ Lou Holtz
When it first notices an approaching threat, a fly's body might be in any sort of posture depending on what it was doing at the time, like grooming, feeding, walking, or courting. Our experiments showed that the fly somehow 'knows' whether it needs to make large or small postural changes to reach the correct preflight posture.
~ Michael Dickinson
I can tell by the way somebody walks if they can dance or not. Just by the rhythm.
~ Bruce Forsyth
If you do one thing a day, make it a headstand. It's the king of all postures and has so many benefits. It helps me sleep better and focus.
~ Christy Turlington
Success isn't everything but it makes a man stand straight.
~ Lillian Hellman
I don't want to be the center of attention. My posture has changed. I walk with my head down and shoulders slumped. Suddenly I carry myself as if I'm ashamed of something.
~ Randy Harrison
People tend to lean on cardio machine handles, and their posture begins to suffer.
~ David Kirsch
The claim is the very antithesis of Ezra, who is busy excluding, separating, and driving out those who are carriers of abomination. Ezra has given voice to an exclusivism that closely echoes the old practice of Pharaoh. The good news is that this posture did not contain all of emerging Judaism. The poet of Isaiah 56 asserts otherwise!
~ Walter Brueggemann
Nowadays most non-Hindu scholars of Hinduism strike the familiar religious studies yoga posture of leaning over backward, in their attempt to avoid offense to the people they write about.
~ Wendy Doniger
Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?
~ Dave Barry
Have you noticed that whatever sport you're trying to learn, some earnest person is always telling you to keep your knees bent?
~ Dave Barry
Ahenny (adj.) - The way people stand when examining other people's bookshelves.
~ Douglas Adams
Poirot drew himself up in an important manner.
~ Agatha Christie