Quotes About Vigor

It had never fully occurred to Jean Louise that she was a girl: her life had been one of reckless, pummeling activity; fighting, football, climbing, keeping up with Jem, and besting anyone her own age in any contest requiring physical prowess.

Life depends on, how much you're alive

The word overskud, meaning a kind of surplus of energy. As in, "I can't cut the lawn now—after that great big boozy lunch I simply don't have the overskud.

He reached up and out with both arms to shoot his cuffs, and for an instant he might have served to illustrate the crucial step in a manual on the seizing of days. He had already seized this particular day once, but he was prepared, if need be, to go ahead and seize the motherfucker all over again.

Tokyo: "When a passenger of the foot heave in sight, tootle the horn. Trumpet at him melodiously at first, but if he still obstacles your passage, then tootle him with vigor.

I) just had to show there's life in the old dog yet. (You) don't have to go out and shoot me.

The blood is the life!

We humans can never claim to do nothing, we breath, we pulse, we regenerate.

Qué machito está esta noche

Seul celui qui a achevé en esprit l'inachevé peut découvrir la véritable beauté. La vigueur de la vie et de l'art réside dans leurs possibilités de croissance.

A man needed fire in his veins to burn through the world, not ice to freeze everything in place.

Morning brings back the heroic ages. There was something cosmical about it; a standing advertisement, till forbidden, of the everlasting vigor and fertility of the world. The morning, which is the most memorable season of the day, is the awakening hour. Then there is least somnolence in us; and for an hour, at least, some part of us awakes which slumbers all the rest of the day and night.

We can never have enough of nature. We must be refreshed by the sight of inexhaustible vigor, vast and titanic features, the sea-cost with its wrecks, the wilderness with its living and its decaying trees, the thunder-cloud, and the rain which lasts three weeks and produces freshets. We need to witness our own limits transgressed, and some life pasturing freely where we never wander.

Gardening is civil and social, but it wants the vigor and freedom of the forest and the outlaw. There may be an excess of cultivation as well as of anything else, until civilization becomes pathetic. A highly cultivated man, -all whose bones can be bent! whose heaven-born virtues are but good manners!

There's a frenetic energy in screaming and yelling and being a rebel in a way.

Yoga is too slow.

Young people have such tremendous energy.

What did grown men see in the rattle of sticks, the slashing of steel over ice and hockey sweaters worn way beyond funk?

Well, I've realized I can function with no sleep!

I've always had this hyper kinetic energy, so I don't really need much sleep at night.

You've got to play with passion and spirit and I will always roll up my sleeves and give it a good go.

Acting takes so much energy.

Handling and use by able minds give value to a language, not so much by innovating as by filling it out with more vigorous and varied services, by stretching and bending it.

WE WERE ALL UP IN THAT SHIT LIKE A MUTHAFUCKA. IT'S CLEANER THAN A BROKE DICK DOG.