Spine Quotes - Page 3

• I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive.

  Gail Collins

  Dog, Vacation, White

  "Politicians, Love ’Em or Hate ’Em". Interview with David Brooks, opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. September 21, 2011.

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• A woman’s beauty lies, not in any exaggeration of the specialized zones, nor in any general harmony that could be worked out by means of the sectio aurea or a similar aesthetic superstition; but in the arabesque of the spine. The curve by which the back modulates into the buttocks. It is here that grace sits and rides a woman’s body.

  John Updike

  Lying, Mean, Curves

  Laurie G. Kirszner, John Updike (1998). “A and P”, Heinle & Heinle Pub

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• ... there are spines to which the immobility of worship is not a strain.

  Edith Wharton

  Worship, Strain

  Edith Wharton (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Edith Wharton (Illustrated)”, p.5433, Delphi Classics

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• I was an adult and I was in the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. I was performing in this cave - they used to bury the plague victims in these caves underneath the streets of Edinburgh, when I got this weird cold sensation up my spine, it gave me this really weird feeling, and then I looked up and there was this white, sudden white shape, that just zapped from me and went straight to the light that was at the back of the room, and I just stopped cold and said to the audience, "Did you guys see that?" No one saw it.

  Rhys Darby

  White, Light, Guy

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• And then he tells her stories. Myths he learned from his instructor. Fantasies he created himself, inspired by bits and pieces of others read in archaic books with crackling spines.

  Erin Morgenstern

  Book, Stories, Pieces

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• Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run.

  Lauren Oliver

  Change, Letting Go, Running

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• They watched storms out there so distant they could not be heard, the silent lightning flaring sheetwise and the thin black spine of the mountain chain fluttering and sucked away again in the dark. They saw wild horses racing on the plain, pounding their shadows down the night and- leaving in the moonlight a vaporous dust like the palest stain of their passing.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Horse, Dark, Night

  Cormac McCarthy (2015). “Blood Meridian: Picador Classic”, p.49, Pan Macmillan

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• I read,' I say. 'I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, "The library, and step on it.

  David Foster Wallace

  Book, Reading, Thinking

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• Life is so spine chillingly beautiful.

  Amani

  Beautiful, Life Is

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• Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words.

  Audrey Niffenegger

  Memories, Book, Hours

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• No one achieves great things by following the crowd. Have a spine. Strike your own path.

  Robert Kiyosaki

  Following The Crowd, Crowds, Path

  Twitter post from Sep 27, 2017

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• There is a greater Christian faith than one which settles for the temporal happiness, and that is the augmentation of faith. The more faithful you become, the harder the obstacles get; but the harder the obstacles get, the tougher your spine grows; and the tougher your spine grows, the less dependent you are on man's approval. I came to know this about Christianity when valuing faith before comfort.

  Criss Jami

  Christian, Men, Faithful

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.44, Criss Jami

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• Shivers up and down my spine It's a feeling so divine Let me go back for a while Got to go back for a while To that magic time.

  Van Morrison

  Time, Feelings, Magic

  Song: Magic Time, Album: Magic Time, 2005

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• It seems to me that romantic comedies used to be about falling in love, but in recent years they've really become just comedies where the love story is only there as a spine to hang the jokes on.

  Nigel Cole

  Falling In Love, Years, Stories

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• Gone is the blinding glow in his hands - gone, too, is the illusion of purity and beauty! In it's place all that remains is mind-numbing, spine-chilling reality!

  Dave Sim

  Beauty, Reality, Hands

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• My whole family is in orthotics and prosthetics, so I grew up having to check for scoliosis every week. 'Come over. Let me feel your spine.

  Logan Lerman

  Scoliosis, Week, Whole Family

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• Nothing scares me, because I used to think I was indestructible. Now I know I'm indestructible, not to mention my spine is indestructible. It's all titanium.

  Jason Priestley

  Thinking, Scare, Used

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• The summer breeze was blowing on your face
  Within your violet you treasure your summery words
  And as the shiver from my neck down to my spine
  Ignited me in daylight and nature in the garden

  Van Morrison

  Summer, Nature, Garden

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• The kundalini rises and the kundalini is hot, it's a hot energy. Sometimes you feel it cascading up your spine, and it's kind of searing or it's tingling, it almost feels sexual.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Energy, Hot

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• The mystical kundalini goes the other direction. It starts at the base of the spine, at the root chakra and goes up.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, Roots, Chakra

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• People are under the assumption that the kundalini just flows from the base of the spine up. That's not the case at all. Kundalini also flows downward.

  Frederick Lenz

  Buddhism, People, Flow

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• The shushumna is a tube. It is an astral tube, like a reed. It runs from the base of the spine to between the eyebrows and a little bit above.

  Frederick Lenz

  Running, Buddhism, Eyebrows

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• If something goes wrong, don’t whine about it. Have a spine about it. Adjust, adapt, and move forward.

  Ralph Marston

  Moving, Moving Forward, Ifs

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• Touching his hair, she leaned hesitantly forward, and he folded his arms around her, sinking into sensation again as they kissed--the slight weight of her on his lap, the smell of her. He glided his hands up the warm dip of her spine, felt her shiver and press closer. He could never get enough of this. Never.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Hair, Hands, Smell

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• Why is it”—she shivered as he kissed the top of her spine, went lower—“that I always end up naked while you remain dressed?” A husky masculine chuckle, his lips moving over her shoulder, his hands on her hips. “Because I'm a smart man.

  Nalini Singh

  Smart, Moving, Men

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