Weekend Words: Arm
This week came the report of a new robotic arm that can be operated with the power of thought.
This week came the report of a new robotic arm that can be operated with the power of thought.
There is much to support the view that it is clothes that wear us, and not we, them; we may make them take the mould of arm or breast, but they mould our hearts, our brains, our tongues to their liking.
—Virginia Woolf
These are bagpipes. I understand the inventor of the bagpipes was inspired when he saw a man carrying an indignant, asthmatic pig under his arm. Unfortunately, the man-made sound never equalled the purity of the sound achieved by the pig.
—Alfred Hitchcock
I am Mother Jones. The Government can’t take my life and you can’t take my arm, but you can take my suitcase.
—Mary Harris Jones
Take my arm, take my leg, oh baby don’t you take my head.
—Mick Jagger & Keith Richards, “Let It Bleed’
What a dog I got, his favorite bone is in my arm.
—Rodney Dangerfield
I was blessed with a strong arm and a weak mind.
—Dizzy Dean
When you’re mad at someone, it’s probably best not to break his arm with a baseball bat.
—Evel Knievel
