Spine Quotes - Page 12

• A man is as old as his spine is flexible!

  Joseph Pilates

  Men, Flexible

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• With Material for the Spine, I am interested in alloying a technical approach to the processes of improvisation. It is a system for exploring interior and exterior muscles of the back. It aims to bring consciousness to the dark side of the body, that is, the ‘other’ side, or the inside, those sides not much self-seen, and to submit sensations from them to the mind for consideration.

  Steve Paxton

  Dark, Self, Mind

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• The more I did it-the more it owned me. It made things matter. It put a spine into my spineless life and that spine spread, into backbone, ribs, collarbone, neck held high. It was something. Don't say it wasn't.

  Megan Abbott

  Empowerment, Ribs, Matter

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• I have the most perfect belly button. When I stick my fingers in it, I feel a nerve in the center of my body shoot up my spine.

  Madonna Ciccone

  Perfect, Buttons, Nerves

  "Confessions of a Madonna". SPIN Magazine, May 27, 1985.

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• I love the tempestuousness of oceans and the calmness and solitude of lakes. Also, sensuality that drips and runs down the spine. And I'm not afraid to cry. Tears are a form of expression, and that's sexy.

  David Boreanaz

  Sexy, Running, Ocean

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• The other day I got out the shower and I bend down to reach for a towel, and I felt a sharp pain in my chest. Shot through my chest and up around my shoulder and down my spine. I thought 'Oh, Lord.' I thought I was dying. I bent over and looked, and I was standing on my own titty.

  Eddie Murphy

  Pain, Dying, Towels

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• Every time Bush talks about trust it makes chills run up and down my spine. The way he has trampled on the truth is a travesty of the American political system.

  William J. Clinton

  Running, America, Political

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• Thrills, chills, spine-tingling mystery, and lots of smiles. It's not easy to combine heart-pounding danger with gut-busting laughs and make it work, but Peterson pulls it off. For readers who want nonstop action infused with powerful, life-changing themes, North! Or Be Eaten is a must-read.

  Wayne Thomas Batson

  Powerful, Life Changing, Heart

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• I'm just a loud-mouthed middle-aged colored lady with a fused spine and three feet of intestines missing and a lot of people think I'm crazy. Maybe you do too, but I never stop to wonder why I'm not like other people. The mystery to me is why more people aren't like me.

  Florynce Kennedy

  Crazy, Thinking, Feet

  Florynce Kennedy (1976). “Color Me Flo: My Hard Life and Good Times”

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• Of course, just because we've heard a spine-chilling, blood-curdling scream of the sort to make your very marrow freeze in your bones doesn't automatically mean there's anything wrong.

  Terry Pratchett

  Mean, Blood, Chill

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• But when I look in the basin, among the curdlike blood clots, I see and elfin thorax, attentuated, its pencilline ribs all in parallel rows with tiny knobs of spine rounding upwards. A translucent arm and hand swim beside.

  Sallie Tisdale

  Blood, Hands, Abortion

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• But I think I see what these guys' problem is. You know... aside from the lack of a spine and the latent misogyny? As long as they continue to act like women are a separate species and, thus, not relate to us as HUMAN BEINGS, they'll continue to alienate the majority of us on sight or send those unfortunate souls who actually date them (Bleh!) screaming into the night.

  Sharon Cooper

  Night, Thinking, Sight

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• Hail, high Excess especially in wine,
  To thee in worship do I bend the knee
  Who preach abstemiousness unto me
  My skull thy pulpit, as my paunch thy shrine.
  Precept on precept, aye, and line on line,
  Could ne'er persuade so sweetly to agree
  With reason as thy touch, exact and free,
  Upon my forehead and along my spine.
  At thy command eschewing pleasure's cup,
  With the hot grape I warm no more my wit;
  When on thy stool of penitence I sit
  I'm quite converted, for I can't get up.
  Ungrateful he who afterward would falter
  To make new sacrifices at thine altar!

  Ambrose Bierce

  Wine, Sacrifice, Skulls

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2393, Delphi Classics

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• [Admiral Nelson's counsel] guided me time and again. On the eve of the critical battle of Santa Cruz, in which the Japanese ships outnumbered ours more than two to one, I sent my task force commanders this dispatch: ATTACK REPEAT ATTACK. They did attack, heroically, and when the battle was done, the enemy turned away. All problems, personal, national, or combat, become smaller if you don't dodge them, but confront them. Touch a thistle timidly, and it pricks you; grasp it boldly, and its spines crumble. Carry the battle to the enemy! Lay your ship alongside his!

  William Halsey

  Courage, Two, Enemy

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• You sit here for days saying, this is a strange business. You're the strange business. You have the energy of the sun in you, but you keep knotting it up at the base of your spine.

  Rumi

  Anxiety, Energy, Sun

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• Fall to your knees and thank God for Fox News. Pray for Roger Ailes and Rupert Murdoch. Pray for them. Pray for strength and spine, and pray that everybody involved has chicken salad for lunch so it doesn't clog anybody's arteries. Keep them going.

  Glenn Beck

  Strength, Fall, Lunch

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• My books are written with a strong chronological spine.

  Doris Kearns Goodwin

  Strong, Book, Written

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• German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case.

  Brian Lumley

  Real, Knowing, Thrill

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• Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases

  Hippocrates

  Disease, Chiropractic

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• He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Sarcastic, Safety Pins, Used

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “The Nine Tailors”, p.249, Open Road Media

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• If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. IF it is completely flexible at 60, you are young.

  Joseph Pilates

  Pilates, Young, Flexible

  Joseph H. Pilates, William John Miller (1998). “Pilates' Return to Life Through Contrology”, Presentation Dynamics Incorporated

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