Umbilical Cord Quotes - Page 2

• No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.

  Robert Burton

  Love, Dream, Thread

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• As a songwriter you have an umbilical cord to the song and it's hard to expand on your understanding of the lyrics. Whereas when you cover a song you can create your own reason why you're attached to it.

  K. D. Lang

  Song, Understanding, Reason Why

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

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• Women age early, and their mistake is not knowing where to hide all the time that lies behind them so that no one sees it. What are they to do, devour it like the umbilical cords of their children? Hell and damnation!

  Elfriede Jelinek

  Children, Mistake, Women

  Elfriede Jelinek, Michael Hulse (1992). “Lust”, Profile Books

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• It's a fine balance between design and the thing making itself happen. The stroke has to have complete precision to work. Sometimes I lose it on the exit. You can't fudge it. It ruins the whole thing.” The resulting figures are almost always contained within the rectangle. “It's less of a window if I keep it within the confines of the canvas, but there's almost always a drip that's an umbilical cord.

  James Nares

  Design, Balance, Fudge

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• Spiritual is hooked up to the invisible umbilical cord of my Lord, Kumbiya.

  Ludacris

  Spiritual, Religious, Religion

  Song: Mouthing Off

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• The British have an umbilical cord which has never been cut and through which tea flows constantly. It is curious to watch them in times of sudden horror, tragedy or disaster. The pulse stops apparently, and nothing can be done, and not one move made, until a “nice cup of tea” is quickly made. There is no question that it brings solace and does steady the mind. What a pity all countries are not.

  Marlene Dietrich

  Running, Country, Nice

  "Marlene Dietrich's ABC: Wit, Wisdom, & Recipes".

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• I'd learned how to lie and manipulate from an early age so a combination of that, desperation, having to have my own fridge and my umbilical cord back... I had to go out into the world. Then some angel somewhere said: "Have you considered going to drama school?" And this sounded like the solution to all of my problems.

  Tom Hardy

  Drama, Lying, Angel

  "Martina Cole's The Take - Tom Hardy interview". Interview, www.indielondon.co.uk.

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• Hey birthers, wanna hear my theory? My theory was that Obama was born in America and you were born with the umbilical cord around your neck.

  Bill Maher

  America, Hey, Necks

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• Most cinema is not about images but text. Why on earth have we based cinema on text? Why can't we break that umbilical cord? Why do we have to pollute cinema?

  Peter Greenaway

  Cinema, Earth, Break

  "'You have naked bodies and genitalia, don't you? Why are you so adolescent?': Director Peter Greenaway on 'Puritan' Americans and the intense sex scenes in 'Eisenstein in Guanajuato'". Interview with Gary M. Kramer, www.salon.com. February 4, 2016.

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