#ankle

Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise. ↗

— Vince Cable

#assets #banks #breathing #british #business

An interim government was set up in Afghanistan. It included two women, one of whom was Minister of Women's Affairs. Man, who'd she have to show here ankles to to get that job? ↗

— Tina Fey

#afghanistan #ankles #get #government #here

I have asked the village blacksmith to forge golden chains to tie our ankles together. I have gathered all the gay ribbons in the world to wind around and around and around and around and around and around again around our two waists. ↗

— Harry Crosby

#ankles #around #asked #chains #forge

They put me in a whole body suit, from my neck to my ankles. It was so bad, I couldn't straighten my legs. ↗

— Kieran Culkin

#bad #body #i #legs #me

If I don't get food in my mouth, I'm still happy. If my pants are round my ankles, as long as I don't get arrested for indecent exposure, I'm happy. I'm worried about keeping my hair, not how it's combed. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#ankles #arrested #exposure #food #get

Ankles are nearly always neat and good-looking, but knees are nearly always not. ↗

— Dwight D. Eisenhower

#ankles #good-looking #knees #nearly #neat

I've always had the impression that real militants are like cleaning women, doing a thankless, daily but necessary job. ↗

— Francois Truffaut

#cleaning #daily #doing #had #i

My mother was always in those films where it's the end of the world and a meteor's about to hit London; there's only six people left, and one of them's in purple underwear. That was always my mother, running from this meteor in purple underwear and spraining her ankle. ↗

— Paula Yates

#always #ankle #end #end of the world #films

If I break my ankle right now, this Olympics wasn't meant to be. ↗

— Ryan Lochte

#break #i #meant #meant to be #now

I had to think about ankle torsion, where the screws are on the ski, how that affects the forces going into the ski and how the ski bends, your leverage points. It was a challenge. I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing. ↗

— Bode Miller

#affects #ankle #bends #challenge #crashing