Quotes of: Backbone Keyword

Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.

Clementine Paddleford

The backbone of surprise is fusing speed with secrecy.

Carl von Clausewitz

The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

William J. H. Boetcker

Be the background music of people’s life, and they will in turn be the backbone of your success.

Vishwas Chavan

Small business is the backbone of our economy. I'm for big business, too. But small business is where the jobs are generated.

Michele Bachmann

Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs.

Kara DioGuardi

To succeed in life, you need three things: a wishbone, a backbone and a funny bone.

Reba McEntire

This country needs to get a backbone and stand up for its economic interest.

Byron Dorgan

I co-own the ranch with my brother, and he and his wife are really the backbone of the operation.

Bill Pullman

My mom has always been kind of my backbone. She keeps me strong. She is a mother, a friend. She is really everything to me.

Aerin Lauder

It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

George Matthew Adams

Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants.

Emeril Lagasse

For Devil's Backbone I loved it but I felt very pressured but so I was neurotic on the shoot.

Guillermo del Toro

Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury.

John Oliver

Poetry puts starch in your backbone so you can stand, so you can compose your life.

Maya Angelou

I'm a big fan of small business ownership. I think it's the backbone of American innovation. But to be successful, you first have to have the courage to go for it.

Bill Rancic

The moral backbone of literature is about that whole question of memory. To my mind it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives.

W. G. Sebald

To me, the hook of the riff is what makes a great guitar recording. It's the backbone of the whole song. When you have a strong riff, it's the rocket fuel for the track.

Dwight Yoakam

Bending over backwards does not bring you the love and attention you crave, but having your own life, your own goals and a backbone will.

Sherry Argov

So I'm just waiting until one party or the other actually gets a moral compass and a backbone.

John Perry Barlow

The gas tax has been the backbone of the transportation system since the inception of the Interstate highway system in the 1950s.

Anthony Foxx