Quotes of: Bending Keyword

The blues. It runs through all American music. Somebody bending the note. The other is the two-beat groove. It's in New Orleans music, it's in jazz, it's in country music, it's in gospel.

Wynton Marsalis

I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn't bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we'd be able to tell the story the way it happened.

Ted Demme

I'm less of a 'Star Wars' fan, with googley monsters, than actually how do we bend this reality out, and how many other realities exist?

Blair Brown

Who cares if a carrot has a slight bend? They're all the same when they end up on the plate.

Tristram Stuart

Born in iniquity and conceived in sin, the spirit of nationalism has never ceased to bend human institutions to the service of dissension and distress.

Thorstein Veblen

(Referring to the piano's natural shape) Isn't it a shame when those big fat opera singers lean against the pianos and bend them?

Victor Borge

What was I supposed to do then I wondered. Was there even a supposed-to for this kind of situation? A situation when when I looked at my receding past everything seemed retrospectively marked by an extreme order and predictability yet all moments sin...

A Naked Singularity

It wasn't what lay at the end of her road that frightened Ammu as much as the nature of the road itself. No milestones marked its progress. No trees grew along it. No dappled shadows shaded it. No mists rolled over it. No birds circled it. No twists,...

Arundhati Roy

She looked back as well as she could; but it was all confusion. She had taken up the idea, she supposed and made everything bend to it.

Emma

Whoever had created humanity had left in a major design flaw. It was its tendency to bend at the knees.

Feet of Clay

Did Belikov bend the rules of time and space to get here so fast? He can do that, right?

The Fiery Heart

...I know Shakespeare said art is holding up a mirror to nature- but you're actually bending and refracting it through your interior dialogue ...

A Familiar Rain

Non può esservi alcuna sottomissione – perché il fatto stesso che parliamo di questi argomenti indica che vi è curiosità, e la curiosità è insubordinazione nella forma più pura.

Bend Sinister

Sometimes the fluffy bunny of incredulity zooms around the bend so rapidly that the greyhound of language is left, agog, in the starting cage.

Cloud Atlas

There's nothing to be gained, and much to be lost, in trying to bend every child to match a one-size-fits-all notion of what it means to be a boy or girl of a specific age. Better to set a few parameters and then go with the flow. Call it 'jazz paren...

Ezekiel Emanuel

For an apple you can’t reach up and pick, you have to climb that tree; the tree won’t bend down for you!

Antiquary Arago's Diary

Human life and human labour were near. I must struggle on: strive to live and bend to toil like the rest.

Jane Eyre

I cried out at the sudden visitation of pain, everyone in a silent church standing in a rustle of suits and dresses to bend back their longest fingernail.

The Rocket Garden

Love's not Time's fool, though rosy lips and cheeks within his bending sickle's compass come.

Love Poems and Sonnets

When she can't bring me to heal with scolding, she bends me to shape with guilt.

The Sweet Far Thing

And Meredith and Bonnie, who's going to bend some spoons for us next. I'm going to throw you down a rope… that is, unless Bonnie can levitate you out.

The Struggle