Spine Quotes - Page 5

• I don't recommend shadow travel if you're scared of: a) The dark b) Cold shivers up your spine c) Strange noises d) Going so fast you feel like your face is peeling off In other words, I thought it was awesome.

  Rick Riordan

  Dark, Shadow, Faces

  Rick Riordan (2009). “Percy Jackson and the Last Olympian”, p.68, Penguin UK

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• I want the cabinet to stand up and have a spine and a backbone and take responsibility.

  Alex Sink

  Responsibility, Want, Cabinets

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• If you have a good spine, the gods will chase you. Nobody has psychological or emotional problems, everyone has a bad spine.

  Bikram Choudhury

  Emotional, Problem, Psychological

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• A mature person does not fall in love, he or she rises in love. Only immature people fall; they stumble and fall down in love. Somehow they were managing and standing. Now they cannot manage and they cannot stand. They were always ready to fall on the ground and to creep. They don't have the backbone, the spine; they don't have the integrity to stand alone.

  Rajneesh

  Falling In Love, Freedom, Integrity

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• I stayed under the moon too long.I am silvered with lust.Dreams flick like minnows through my eyes.My voice is trees tossing in the wind.I loose myself like a flock of blackbirdsstorming into your face.My lightest touch leaves blue prints,bruises on your mind.Desire sandpapers your skinso thin I read the veins and arteriesmaps of routes I will traveltill I lodge in your spine.The night is our fur.We curl inside it licking.

  Marge Piercy

  Dream, Eye, Moon

  Marge Piercy (2013). “What Are Big Girls Made Of?: Poems”, p.69, Knopf

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• You know that feeling you get when your leg falls asleep? Well, I suddenly had that feeling in my spine. Like termites were chewing through the marrow in my backbone.

  Neal Shusterman

  Fear, Fall, Feelings

  Neal Shusterman (2006). “Dread Locks #1”, p.14, Penguin

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• Pelosi's problem is her spine doesn't reach her brain.

  Liz Cheney

  Brain, Politics, Problem

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• The FA would remove him tomorrow if they had a spine, but clearly, in former lives, were cruel to jellyfish which is why they have returned as them now.

  Martin Samuel

  Soccer, Football, Tomorrow

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• I have often caught sight of myself, my spine humped over, defining my hollowness, my head too heavy for my body, swinging like the oversized blossom of some cruelly bred plant; admiration for the world spread for the world to see on my gullible face-unlike my other face with the sour look of a starved peasant.

  Maureen Howard

  Sight, Looks, World

  Maureen Howard (1965). “Bridgeport Bus”, Penguin Group USA

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• Many years before when I had serious back pain from a sports injury, the surgeons said they would explore my spine and "figure it out." Out of frustration I had impulsively opted for the procedure. They ended up fusing the vertebrae. It left me debilitated. In hindsight, I blamed myself more than the surgeons. I had pressed them for a solution when in fact none was apparent because the cause of the pain was obscure.

  Jerome Groopman

  Sports, Pain, Frustration

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• Sometimes ... the short short appears to rest on nothing more than a fragile anecdote which the writer has managed to drape with a quantity of suggestion. A single incident, a mere anecdote - these form the spine of the short short.

  Irving Howe

  Writing, Suggestions, Anecdotes

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• To understand others you should get behind their eyes and walk down their spines.

  Rod McKuen

  Eye, Understanding, Should

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• I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates.

  Leonard Cohen

  Travel, Home, Want

  Leonard Cohen (2011). “Beautiful Losers”, p.233, Vintage

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• The force behind the movement of time is a mourning that will not be comforted. That is why the first event is known to have been an expulsion, and the last is hoped to be a reconciliation and return. So memory pulls us forward, so prophecy is only brilliant memory - there will be a garden where all of us as one child will sleep in our mother Eve, hooped in her ribs and staved by her spine.

  Marilynne Robinson

  Mother, Time, Children

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• When we got around to books, I was finally set, as our minister would say, on solid ground. I gorged on books. I sneaked them at night. I rubbed their spines and sniffed in the musty smell of them in the library.

  Lorene Cary

  Reading, Book, Night

  Lorene Cary (2010). “Black Ice”, p.27, Vintage

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• There's not one club in Europe with an anthem like You'll Never Walk Alone. There's not one club in the world so united with their fans. I sat there watching the Liverpool fans and they sent shivers down my spine. A mass of 40,000 people became one force behind their team. That's something not many teams have. For that I admire Liverpool more than anything.

  Johan Cruijff

  Team, Europe, People

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• No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace.

  Agnetha Faltskog

  Feelings, Lines, Celebration

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I also say with backbends, you have to be cautiously bold. Not carelessly bold. You have to descend to the dictation of the spine. You cannot command from the brain to do the poses. As you play with a child, guarding the child from injuries, similarly you have to play in backbends, guarding your spine.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Children, Play, Brain

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• In an interview, former vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan said he does not have a racist bone in his body. However, he admitted he has three sexist bones and his spine is homophobic.

  Conan O'Brien

  Presidential, Racist, Body

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• Someone is dead.
  Even the trees know it,
  those poor old dancers who come on lewdly,
  all pea-green scarfs and spine pole.

  Anne Sexton

  Dancer, Tree, Green

  Anne Sexton, Diane Wood Middlebrook, Diana Hume George (2000). “Selected Poems of Anne Sexton”, p.47, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Presidential Democratic front-runner Howard Dean admitted to Chris Matthews on the 'Hardball' show that he got out of the draft because of a bad back. He had a curvature of the spine. Apparently it curved too far to the left.

  Jay Leno

  Presidential, Dean, Democratic

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• The Pavlovian view of women voters - plug the words in, and they will respond - sends a chill down my spine because it sounds like an adaptation of something I have written about communication between the sexes: When a woman tells a man about a problem, she doesn't want him to fix it; she just wants him to listen and let her know he understands. But there's a difference between a private conversation and a presidential election, between what we want from our leaders.

  Deborah Tannen

  Sex, Women, Communication

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• When guys come over to date my daughter, I'm going to tell them, 'I want you to go out and have a very good time with my daughter. I want you to enjoy yourself and have her home on time. If you abuse her in any way, I'm going to kill your mother and father, cut your back open, pull out your spine, and leave you in a wheelchair so you can think about what you did for the rest of your life. Now, go out and have a good time!'

  Conrad Dobler

  Daughter, Mother, Father

  "Conrad Dobler: What I've Learned" by Cal Fussman, www.esquire.com. January 29, 2007.

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• I have a very strong, very proven record that I am not a compromiser. [...] I have a spine made out of titanium.

  Michele Bachmann

  Strong, Records, Made

  "I Have a Spine Made Out of Titanium". Interview with Marc Hujer, www.spiegel.de. April 18, 2011.

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• Complaining about your current position in life is worthless. Have a spine and do something about it instead.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Inspirational, Inspire, Complaining

  Twitter post from Jan 16, 2014

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