When I was 14, and for the next four years, I was lifting and hauling 10-gallon milk cans full of milk. That will put muscles on you even if you're not trying.
The word power has such a generally negative implication in our society. What are people talking about? Are they talking about muscles, or control?
You have to deduce a person's real feelings about a thing by a smile she does not know is on her face, by the way bitterness tightens muscles at a mouth's corner, or the way air is allowed to flow from the lungs.
Your mind is the strongest and most valuable muscle you can grow in the gym.
Muscle and water is critical in burning fat.
Most female models don't have any muscle mass.
A child might be made to bow every time he met a certain person by pressure on his neck muscles, and bowing would finally become automatic. It would not, however, be an act of recognition or deference on his part, till he did it with a certain end in view - as having a certain meaning.
You've got muscles and you use them everywhere else in your body when you want it. Why not your face?
There are muscles that we have in our feet that most human beings don't even know that we have. The strength that we have is so detailed.
Ultimately, we become aware of most of what is going on within us mainly through the muscles.
Biological possibility and desire are not the same as biological need. Women have childbearing equipment. For them to choose not to use the equipment is no more blocking what is instinctive than it is for a man who, muscles or no, chooses not to be a weightlifter.
Though my muscles may stiffen, though my skin may wrinkle, may I never find myself yawning at life.
The man who prays grows, and the muscles of the soul swell from this whipcord to iron bands.
You can't live in a dialect without tremendous work. Like any muscle, accents and voices and languages are all formed out of the muscles that we have in our mouths and faces and tongues.
A strong woman is a woman at work, cleaning out the cesspool of the ages, and while she shovels, she talks about how she doesn't mind crying, it opens the ducts of the eyes, and throwing up develops the stomach muscles, and she goes on shoveling with tears in her nose.
People think athleticism is just physical, but it's not. It's connected to the brain and how the brain can learn to execute and see a movement or not. Especially at high speed. Being athletic is not just jumping and running and being powerful. It's the nervous system that guides the body. The muscles don't decide anything. The brain decides and makes things happen.
One reason why men and women lose their heads so often is that they use them so little! It is the same with everything. If we have anything that is valuable, it must be put to some sort of use. If a man's muscles are neglected, he soon has none, or rather none worth mentioning. The more the mind is used the more flexible it becomes, and the more it takes upon itself new interests.
I've found that it's a great stress reliever to get adjusted. It takes away a lot of the tightness in the muscles.
We all start out equal, little blobs of blood and muscle. It’s a set-up of awesome potential.
Sometimes acting is really cool because it forces you to exercise certain muscles in your personality that you wouldn't normally be called upon in life.