Spine Quotes

• The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.

  Angela Bassett

  School, Florida, Alive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• If you would seek health, look first to the spine.

  Socrates

  Looks, Firsts, Ifs

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• You are as young as your spine is flexible.

  Richard Hittleman

  Young, Flexible

  Richard Hittleman (1982). “Yoga, 28 Day Exercise Plan”, Bantam Books

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• Without the accurate spine movement, one can't exist dynamically.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Movement, Accurate

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• I think most people, even if they say they hate horror movies, there's that feeling you get inside that you love. I mean, I love it. I love to have the hairs on the back of my neck stand up or get that chill up my spine.

  Barry Watson

  Hate, Mean, Thinking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment.

  Don Henley

  Singing, Body, Used

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

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• That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine.

  Johnny Mercer

  Eye, Black, Magic

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• No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Husband, Men, Would Be

  "Tallulah: My Autobiography". Book by Tallulah Bankhead, 1952.

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• The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that.

  Glenn Beck

  Worst, Stills

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• I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.

  Conor Oberst

  Sadness, Sleep, Thinking

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• It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine.  One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted.  Many diseases are related to the spine.

  Hippocrates

  Serious, May, Disease

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• Purpose is a soft virtue- but it's what gives you steel in your spine.

  Rich Karlgaard

  Leadership, Giving, Steel

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• Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.

  Billy Graham

  Motivational, Veterans Day, Memorial Day

  "A Time for Moral Courage". Reader's Digest, July 1964.

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• Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible.

  Bob Harper

  Success, Yoga, Asana

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• The devil is no fool. He can get people feeling about heaven the way they ought to feel about hell. He can make them fear the means of grace the way they do not fear sin. And he does so, not by light but by obscurity, not by realities but by shadows; not by clarity and substance, but by dreams and the creatures of psychosis. And men are so poor in intellect that a few cold chills down their spine will be enough to keep them from ever finding out the truth about anything.

  Thomas Merton

  Wisdom, Dream, Mean

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• The spine is the highway to the Infinite. Your own body is the temple of God. It is within your own self that God must be realized.

  Paramahansa Yogananda

  Self, Body, Temples

  Paramahansa Yogananda (1990). “The Essence of Self-Realization: The Wisdom of Paramhansa Yogananda”, Crystal Clarity Pubs

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• He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up

  Paul Keating

  Running, Witty, Clever

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• The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Self Esteem, Pride, Light

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1886). “Lectures and Biographical Sketches”

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• Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place.

  David Bowie

  Men, Hey, Faces

  Song: Suffragette City

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• When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine

  Margaret Thatcher

  Running

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• This body is yours. No one can ever take it from you, if only you will accept yourself, claim it again--your arms, your spine, your ribs, the small of your back. It's all yours. All this bounty, all this beauty, all this strength and grace is yours. This garden is yours. Take it back. Take it back.

  Jean Hegland

  Garden, Grace, Ribs

  Jean Hegland (2016). “Into The Forest”, p.146, Random House

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• That's the beauty of backbends. Emotionally we can never be disturbed, for the emotional centre becomes an extrovert. When you do Viparita Dandasana, your head looks backwards, but your conscious mind stretches everywhere. Study by observing how the mind gets regulated. You not only know the freedom in the spine, but also the freedom in the spirit.

  B.K.S. Iyengar

  Emotional, Mind, Looks

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• The spine is best at bearing a load in an arch

  Mark Rippetoe

  Arches, Load

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• When I am dancing, it feels like my prayer. It's like an offering. I offer my head back to the dance, I offer my shoulders back to the dance, my elbows, my hands, my spine, my knees, my feet, my whole self, my bones, my blood, my experience, my suffering... I offer it all back to the dance and I say: take it, do whatever you want with me. Release me.

  Gabrielle Roth

  Prayer, Offering, Self

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• When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you stop writing, you find that's all you are - a spine, a row of rattling vertebrae, dried out like an old quill pen.

  Hilary Mantel

  Writing, Wind, Paper

  Hilary Mantel (2004). “Giving Up the Ghost: A Memoir”, p.200, Macmillan

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