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1 " He was so pumped, jumping up and down on the spot, showing off the taut lean muscles in his quads and calves so different to the bulkiness of a lot of the other players. He bristled with energy, shaking out his arms, flicking his fingers. Flicking off invisible globules of testosterone so powerful she could feel their pull all the way up here. He dropped his head from side to side to work his traps, bending at the waist right in front of the box to execute a perfect hamstring stretch.Ooh la freaking la. "
― Amy Andrews , Playing With Forever (Sydney Smoke Rugby, #4)
2 " [James M. Buchanan] directed hostility toward college students, public employees, recipients of any kind of government assistance, and liberal intellectuals. His intellectual lineage went back to such bitter establishment opponents of Populism as the social Darwinists Herbert Spencer and William Graham Sumner. The battle between " the oppressed and their oppressors," as one People's Party publication had termed it in 1892, was redefined in his milieu: " the working masses who produce" became businessmen, and " the favored parasites who prey and fatten on the toil of others" became those who gained anything from government without paying proportional income taxes. " The mighty struggle" became one to hamstring the people who refused to stop making claims on government. "
3 " Writing is a muscle. Smaller than a hamstring and slightly bigger than a bicep, and it needs to be exercised to get stronger. Think of your words as reps, your paragraphs as sets, your pages as daily workouts. Think of your laptop as a machine like the one at the gym where you open and close your inner thighs in front of everyone, exposing both your insecurities and your genitals. Because that is what writing is all about. "
