“He pressed his forehead against mine, clasped me round the waist, and said that henceforth we were married... Thus, then, in our hearts' honeymoon, lay I and Queequeg - a cosy, loving pair.”
Herman Melville
“I'm a hero with coward's legs. I'm a hero from the waist up.”
Spike Milligan
“You don't have to be a size 2 or have a wonderful little waist, which helps you get over the despair of shopping.”
Valerie Steele
“I'm basically a hoofer, a tap dancer. I was always very good from the waist down, moving with the feet... I became what's known as a total dancer, using the entire body in order to express what you want to express in tap dancing and line.”
Donald O'Connor
“I may be paralyzed from the waist down, but unlike Gray Davis, I'm not paralyzed from the neck up.”
Larry Flynt
“Talk of unusual swell of waist In maid of honor loosely laced”
Matthew Green
“The scenario is they are paralyzed from their waist down plus one half of their upper body. They have to navigate the apartment in a wheelchair, make a sandwich, make the bed.”
Carla Granstrom