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Quotes About Physicality

He was close to Reacher's own height and weight, but slack and swollen, in a shirt as big as a circus tent, above a belt buckled improbably low, under a belly the size of a kettle drum. His face was pale, and his hair was colorless.
~ Lee Child
I really feel like there's a void in this world for music that acknowledges that spiritual aspect of these activities as well as just the sheer physicality of them.
~ Taraka Larson
Defensive and offensive lineman control the game and true sports fans know that.
~ Dante Hall
The essence of football was blocking, tackling, and execution based on timing, rhythm and deception.
~ Knute Rockne
Playing hockey, there were a lot of guys bigger than me, so I knew I was going to get hit and have to deal with it. Gotta hit back.
~ Mike Weir
Dancers are the athletes of God.
~ Albert Einstein
True, Clara's eyebrows didn't meet. But she was really too pneumatic. Whereas Fifi and Joanna were absolutely right. Plump, blonde, not too large...And it was that great lout, Tom Kawaguchi, who now took the seat between them.
~ Aldous Huxley
I bow my head submissively and see that my chest is heaving, already dotted with the telltale flush of sexual arousal.
~ Donna George Storey
Ice hockey is a form of disorderly conduct in which the score is kept.
~ Doug Larson
Sometimes the material chafed him down around his crotch; a rash had spread out along his legs from his testicles down. It made him feel more alive than he'd felt in years.
~ Douglas Clegg
I think actresses are imagined to be these subjects of great vanity. Life is change; physicality changes. It's transient, and that's a beautiful and a painful thing.
~ Uma Thurman
Australian Rules football might best be described as a game devised for padded cells, played in the open air.
~ Jim Murray
I couldn't imagine life unless I could continue to have powerful experiences in the wild, and I never wanted to be in a place where I wanted to do something but my body couldn't....
~ Joan Anderson
I don't want the body,* she whimpered. *It hurts.* *Not always, sweetheart. Not always. Without the body, how will you hear a bird's song? How will you feel a warm summer rain on your skin? How will you taste nutcakes? How will you walk on a beach at sunset and feel the sand and surf under your... hooves?*
~ Anne Bishop
My game hasn't changed too much. I'm doing the same things as I did in college, except I'm outside more. It's tough to go inside in the pros because the players are bigger.
~ Chris Mullin
Books are an ancient and proven medium. Their physical form inspires passion.
~ Gary Wolf
I want to touch you in real time not find you on YouTube, I want to walk next to you in the mountains not friend you on Facebook.
~ Eve Ensler
Emma notaba el corazón, que volvía a latirle, y cómo le circulaba la sangre por la carne como un río de leche
~ Flaubert Gustave
I'm a lot bigger than Faber, I'm pretty sure I'm a lot stronger than Faber and I'm pretty sure I'm a lot faster than Faber.
~ Aljamain Sterling
I wasn't born to be a fighter. My hands are too small, and look at these short arms.
~ Jake LaMotta
I love hand-to-hand, and I love putting on these fights; that's the background I come from.
~ Lexi Alexander
DC is a big boy, as tall as he is wide.
~ Alexander Gustafsson
Big E, he's a strong dude. Ryback's a strong dude. But if you put Batista next to those guys, he was 6'6'', 320 lbs. Those guys are pushing 6'1''-6'2''. But Batista was wide. He was a big old dude. Those guys could beat him in a bench press contest, but I'd rather look like Dave.
~ Randy Orton
Molly Shannon, for example, is someone I've always really looked up to, because her comedy is so physical and wild and unembarrassed and brave.
~ Casey Wilson