Octopuses have HUNDREDS of suckers, each one equipped with its own ganglion with thousands of neurons. These 'mini-brains' are interconnected, making for a widely distributed nervous system. That is why a severed OCTOPUS ARM may crawl on its own and EVEN pick up food.

Countless HOURS of physical therapy - and the talents of the medical community - have brought me new movement in my right ARM. It's fractional progress, and it TOOK a long TIME, but my arm moves when I tell it to.

At 14 I discovered GIRLS. At that time dancing was the only way you could PUT your arm AROUND the GIRL. Dancing was courtship.

I'm as STRONG and supple as a pane of thin GLASS. I've got too many ailments - left shoulder, left elbow and left wrist - in FACT, the whole of the left arm.

You WATCH Bono in a room - and we're talking about a room of THOUSANDS swarming around him - he'll take EVERY single person and make that moment about them. You can PAT him on the back or pull his arm, he's not looking away from the person he's talking to.

She bowed her HEAD, clasping her HANDS tightly before her upon the arm of his chair, for her heart yearned towards him, yet could not reach him, and it made her throat ache with unhappiness to meet that look of his that rested on her face WITHOUT SEEING it.

If you've had the No. 1 job, why would you go BACK and be reserve MANAGER? Is Alex Ferguson going to be reserve manager for Manchester United? It's LIKE a boxer going into the ring with one arm BEHIND his back. Why would you do it? You're going to get knocked out.

A PITCHER's ARM GOES, and they're DONE.

A MENTOR long departed told me that the GREATEST gift in political LIFE, in any life, is to view yourself objectively, at ARM's length, to MAKE an assessment of yourself. So whom do I rely on? I rely on myself.

A decision by the GOVERNMENT to ARM the rebels in Syria ought to be taken as carefully as one to commit British TROOPS. It is akin to WAR, albeit by proxy, and must be treated with equal seriousness and meet the tests for a just war.

Stop at HOME. ARM for IRELAND. Fight for Ireland and no other land.

I SAW it with my own EYES: Israelis and Palestinians, arm in arm, walking off together and clearly pricing how you could GET your truck to the top of the LINE or get it through at all. It was an ABSOLUTELY transparently corrupt system at the border - you had to buy your truck's way across. I thought it was a disgrace.

I was the person who had a 10 lb BABY on my arm called my purse, and now that I have a crossover BAG it's stupid. I realize I need my wallet, my PHONE and my LIP gloss - that's it.

I went to Walter Reed HOSPITAL a COUPLE of times to VISIT wounded soldiers, kids with no legs and one arm. You start to QUESTION some things.

The STRONG ARM of GOVERNMENT should not FORCE Americans to buy health-care PRODUCTS that they have reasoned objections to.