73 Quotes About Muscles



  • Author E.M. Forster
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    He never did his dumb-bells or played in his school fifteen. But the muscles came. He thinks they came while he was reading Pindar.

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  • Author Oscar Wilde
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    Then there is the true Academy model. He is usually a man of thirty, rarely good-looking, but a perfect miracle of muscles. In fact he is the apotheosis of anatomy, and is so conscious of his own splendour that he tells you of his tibia and his thorax, as if no one else had anything of the kind.

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  • Author Susan Morris Shaffer
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    [T]he pressure to become muscular begins even earlier, as evidenced by the extreme bulking up of male action figures. These popular toys, including G.I.Joe and Star Wars characters, have increased in muscle size every decade since the 1960s; such subtleties can begin to exert size pressure on boys at a young age.

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  • Author Andy Andrews
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    Adversity builds muscle. Adversity creates strength. Adversity, it turns out, is preparation for success.

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  • Author Jacob Bronowski
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    Mass, time , magnetic moment, the unconscious: we have grown up with these symbolic concepts, so that we are startled to be told that man had once to create them for himself. He had indeed, and he has: for mass is not an intuition in the muscle, and time is not bought ready-made at the watchmaker's.

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