Muscular Quotes
More Muscular Quotes
His Christianity was muscular.
— 1880 Endymion, ch.14.
Call the roller of big cigars, The muscular one, and bid him whip In kitchen cups of concupiscent curds.
wallace stevens— 1923 Harmonium,'The Emperor of Ice-Cream'.
The only other thing I've noticed is some kind of acute muscular spasm in my neck and left shoulder, and that's hardly entertaining, except maybe for the bit where the doctor rather brilliantly prescribed me diazepam so I necked some and walked very slowly around the Westfield shopping centre listening to Henry Mancini's Pink Panther theme on repeat on an MP3 player, smiling eerily at shoppers.
charlie brooker— The Guardian 9 February 2009. [10]
His puritan, muscular, moor-tramping soul (superbly mirrored in Higgins's hymn to the intellect in Pygmalion) bred in him a loathing of all things, whether poems or gadgets, that were designed to comfort the human condition without actively trying to improve it. (p. 103)
Kenneth Tynan— "Bernard Shaw," p. 103
In speaking of the work of machines and of natural forces we must, of course, in this comparison eliminate anything in which activity of intelligence comes into play. The latter is also capable of the hard and intense work of thinking, which tries a man just as muscular exertion does.
hermann von helmholtz— "On the Conservation of Force" (1862), p. 280
The building itself is hostile: cracked plaster, broken windows, splintered doors and carved up desks, gloomy corridors and metal stairways, dingy cafeteria (they can eat sitting down only in 20 minute shifts) and an auditorium which has no windows. It does have murals, however, depicting mute, muscular harvesters, faded and immobile under a mustard sun.
bel kaufman— Part I, ch. 5 (Sylvia Barrett)
American life is a powerful solvent. As it stamps the immigrant, almost before he can speak English, with an unmistakable muscular tension, cheery self-confidence and habitual challenge in the voice and eyes, so it seems to neutralize every intellectual element, however tough and alien it may be, and to fuse it in the native good-will, complacency, thoughtlessness, and optimism.
george santayana— "The Academic Environment" p. 47 (Hathi Trust)
His Christianity was muscular.
benjamin disraeli— Benjamin Disraeli, Endymion (1880), Chapter XIV.
