Spine Quotes - Page 6

• 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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• The spine should be empty so that energy moves up and down. I always felt this way as a child.

  Laura Huxley

  Children, Moving, Way

  Source: www.whitelotus.org

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• My administration will put new American metal into the spine of this nation.

  Donald Trump

  Administration, Metals, Nations

  Source: www.npr.org

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• In a way, America's the shadow of everything I do, everywhere I go, everything I carry, no matter if I travel to the ends of the earth. And I live frequently on the spine of the continent, near the Great Divide. Then there's the side of it being the real energy center for a truly post-postmodernist poetry mind, which is also archaic, because we can still be close to the land.

  Anne Waldman

  Real, Land, America

  Source: www.raintaxi.com

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• The thing with Superman is that he's completely emotionally open to the reader. Meaning what he tells you is what he's feeling; there's a transparency there. And what he tells other characters is usually as transparent as can be. What he says he believes in. So there's an honesty that is both really inspiring writing the character. One thing I love about Clark Kent is that there is a badassery that you don't see a lot. Even as Superman, he's always kind of restraining himself. When you challenge him, I think there's nobody that has a stronger spine than Superman.

  Scott Snyder

  Honesty, Believe, Writing

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• I like women who can throw a ball and laugh loud and have some spine, and I like men who don't mind cooking dinner.

  Paula Cole

  Men, Cooking Dinner, Laughing

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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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• 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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• I can't wait to do a fully improvised script again, to find people who are really comfortable and into it. It's about the capabilities of the people you're working with, what are their strengths and weaknesses. Some of the most brilliant actors need the spine of the text to work off of, and there's no shame in that; they're actors, not writers.

  Lynn Shelton

  People, Waiting, Weakness

  "Lynn Shelton On ‘Touchy Feely,’ Improvisation & Having Catherine Keener As A Casting Director". Interview with Oliver Lyttelton, www.indiewire.com. May 2, 2013.

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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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• 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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• 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 seen salmon swimming upstream to spawn even with their eyes pecked out. Even as they are dying, as their flesh is falling away from their spines, I have seen salmon fighting to protect their nests. I have seen them push up creeks so small that they rammed themselves across the gravel. I have seen them swim upstream with huge chunks bitten out of their bodies by bears. Salmon are incredibly driven to spawn. They will not give up. This gives me hope.

  Kathleen Moore

  Giving Up, Fall, Eye

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

  Rod McKuen

  Eye, Understanding, Should

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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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• At present, [in the desert] an exasperating clarity reigns. The sky has become less visible than water in a jar. Black peaks, spines of granite, a twisted tree are sculpted in this atmosphere basted with reflections. All that remains: a countryside of imperishable contours.

  Mohammed Dib

  Nature, Reflection, Sky

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• The worst evil is - and that's the product of censorship - is the self-censorship, because that twists spines, that destroys my character because I have to think something else and say something else, I have to always control myself.

  Milos Forman

  Character, Thinking, Self

  The George Washington University Interview, nsarchive2.gwu.edu. January 18, 1997.

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• I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.

  Gwendoline Christie

  Children, Gymnastics, Injury

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your fingers and ripped the spine out of somebody, you know, violent games lost the women. Complexity lost the casual gamer.

  Nolan Bushnell

  Games, Buttons, Fighter

  "Pong: The Ping Heard 'Round the World". Interview with Liane Hansen, www.npr.org. December 2, 2007.

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• Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

  Stanislaw Lem

  Business, Recycling, Entrepreneurship

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