Best Calluses Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“At its core, the collection is built around a very wise line from a Beatles song: I want to hold your hand. I want to hold your hand with no further expectations. I want to hold your hand instead of telling you I understand when I don’t. I want to hold your hand although we don’t always get along. I want to hold your hand despite the calluses, scratches, and scars that get in the way. I want to hold your hand knowing I’ll have to let it go one day.”

Love Home Food Expectations Scratches Scars Expired Calluses Dated Expired Things Poetry Singapore Literature

Book:We Were Always Eating Expired Things

Source: We Were Always Eating Expired Things

“When I was younger, my feet would hurt a lot, but you build up calluses and strength and you don't feel as much pain there.”

Feels Pain Hurt Feet Calluses

Author:Misty Copeland

“It was the kind of experience, Molly said, that would grow calluses on an angel's ass.”

Kind Said Grows Angel Ass Calluses

Book:Spin

Source: Spin

“In order to even begin to learn how to play his instrument, it takes the guitarist weeks to build calluses on his fingertips; it takes the saxophonist months to strengthen his lip so that he might play his instrument for only a five-minute stretch; it can take the pianist years to develop dual hand and multiple finger coordination. Why do writers assume they can just “write” with no training whatsoever-and then expect, on their first attempt, to be published internationally? What makes them think they're so much inherently greater, need so much less training than any other artists?”

Source: The First Five Pages: A Writer's Guide to Staying Out of the Rejection Pile

“It means eating your words, this thing of refusing to be a fence-sitter, but I'd rather eat my words than get calluses from sitting. No one who has not experienced the condescension of a buyer toward an ordinary salesgirl can have any conception of its withering effect.”

Mean Effects Eating Ordinary Sitting Conception Fence Buyers Withering Condescension Calluses

Author:Mary Barnett Gilson

“You can tell a lot about a man from his hands. If they don't have any scars or calluses on them, you might as well assume they cry at romantic comedy films, too.”

Ifs Men Wells Hands Might Film Comedy Cry Assuming Scar Calluses

Author:Ellen Hollman

“I just had a pedicure. My feet are soft like a baby's behind. If his ass was covered in calluses.”

Ifs Behinds Feet Baby Ass Covered Calluses Pedicures

Author:Bob Saget

“Most things break, including hearts. The lessons of life amount not to wisdom, but to scar tissue and callus.”

Heart Break Inspirational Life Amount Lessons Encouragement Including Broken Heart Life Lesson Scar Tissues Scar Tissue Calluses

Book:The Spectator Bird

Source: The Spectator Bird

“She wrote poetry constantly; that was her "work". She was a slow bleeder and she slaved over it for long, exhausting hours, and many a middle of a night I could hear her creaking around the dead house with a pen in one hand, a clipboard and a flashlight in the other, refining her poems, jotting down the lines of a conceit. Writing never came easy for her; it gave her calluses. She never courted the muses, she wrestled them, mauled them all over the house and came up, after weeks of peripatetic labor, with a slim Spencerian sonnet, fourteen lines of imagistic jabberwocky.”

Writing Long Hands Night House Easy Hours Lines Week Middle Labor Over It Pens Muse Sonnet Conceit Exhausting Fourteen Slim Refining Flashlights Calluses Clipboards

Author:Millard Kaufman

“Everything is a self-portrait. A diary. Your whole drug history’s in a strand of your hair. Your fingernails. The forensic details. The lining of your stomach is a document. The calluses on your hand tell all your secrets. Your teeth give you away. Your accent. The wrinkles around your mouth and eyes. Everything you do shows your hand.”

Source: Diary: A Novel

“But after Mr. Evers got shot a week ago, lot a colored folk is frustrated in this town. Especially the younger ones, who ain't built up a callus yet.”

Week Shots Built Towns Folks Frustrated Calluses

Book:The Help

Source: The Help

“We have long become overgrown with calluses; we no longer hear people being killed. ("X")”

People Long Calluses

Author:Yevgeny Zamyatin

“The string slices into the skin of his fingers and no matter how tough the calluses, it tears. But this beat is fast and even though his joints are aching, his arm's out of control like it has a mind of its own and the sweat tat drenches his hair and face seems to smother him, but nothing's going to stop Tom. He;s aiming for oblivion.”

Mind Matter Seems Faces Tears Hair Arms Beats Tough Skins Fingers Strings Sweat Toms Oblivion Joints Calluses

Author:Melina Marchetta

“Keep working. Keep trying. Keep believing. You still might not make it, but at least you gave it your best shot. If you don’t have calluses on your soul, this isn’t for you. Take up knitting instead.”

Ifs Trying Believe Stills Soul Might Shots Your Soul Keep Trying Knitting Keep Believing Best Shot Calluses

Author:David Eddings

“Have you ever been anyone's?" I ask, a feathery whisper in the quiet bedroom. He lifts his head to mine, and I want him so bad I feel consumed inside, like he's already possessed my soul, and now my soul aches for him to possess my body. A powerful emotion tightens his features as he reaches out to cradle my cheek in his big hand, and there's an unexpected fierceness in his eyes, in his touch, as he cups me. "No. And you?" The calluses in his palm rasp on my skin, and I find myself tucking my cheek deeper into them. "I've never wanted to." "Neither have I." The moment is intimate.”

“I watched a small man with thick calluses on both hands work 15 and 16 hours a day. I saw him once literally bleed from the bottoms of his feet, a man who came here uneducated, alone, unable to speak the language, who taught me all I needed to know about faith and hard work by the simple eloquence of his example.”

“Revolutions require work, revolutions require sacrifice, revolutions, and our own included, require a certain amount of rationing, a certain amount of calluses, a certain amount of sacrifice”

Certain Sacrifice Revolution Amount Calluses

Book:The Mind of Oswald

Source: The Mind of Oswald

“It hurts, but that’s all it does. The most difficult part of the training is training your mind. You build calluses on your feet to endure the road. You build calluses on your mind to endure the pain. There’s only one way to do that. You have to get out there and run.”

Way Mind Doe Running Pain Difficult Hurt Feet Training Endure One Way It Hurts Calluses

Author:David Goggins

“The only legitimate use for a glove is to cover an injury... A desire to prevent callus formation (possibly so as to not snag one's pantyhose) does not constitute a legitimate use. And if you do insist on wearing gloves, make sure they match your purse.”

Ifs Doe Use Desire Injury Formation Purses Gloves Calluses Pantyhose

Author:Mark Rippetoe

“One good thing that comes from living the nomadic life demanded by an expedition is that one sheds the fake skin donned from living too closely among society. For those of us who live for the freedom of such a lifestyle, that skin is dry and itchy and ill fitting. From my observances, that skin is much like a callus caused by the pure irritation of being forced to spend so much time with one's fellow man. Thank God I am spared such nonsense.”

Men Pure Skins Fellows Good Things Ill Lifestyle Fake Dry Nonsense Thank God Shed Fellow Man Fitting Irritation Expeditions Observance Nomadic Itchy Calluses

Book:The Taming of a Scottish Princess

Source: The Taming of a Scottish Princess

“When I came off the boat I was very proud of the thick calluses which had developed on my feet. But now, I am struggling to get into my favourite high heels which is a shame, as I have so many.”

Struggle Feet Proud Shame Boat Thick Favourite Heels High Heels Calluses

Author:Pamela Stephenson

“The beauty of my body is not measured by the size of the clothes it can fit into, but by the stories that it tells. I have a belly and hips that say, "We grew a child in here," and breasts that say, "We nourished life." My hands, with bitten nails and a writer's callus, say, "We create amazing things.”

Children Stories Body Hands Grew Fit Clothes Size Hips Breasts Nails Belly Amazing Things Calluses

Author:Sarah

“Work makes a callus against grief.”

Work Grief Calluses

Author:Marcus Tullius Cicero