Quotes of: Spine Keyword

The golf swing is a violent swing. You twist, and your spine is under continual stress when you're making a golf swing. Your neck, your spine, your hands, your knees, everything.

Tom Watson

George, if you ever break the spine of one of my books, I want you to know that you might as well be breaking my own spine.

Ex Libris: Confessions of a Common Reader

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.

Dare Me

The patron gets comfortable in bed and opens up the book -- it opens tentatively -- and the patron bends the open book backward until there is a satisfying crack and the book is a little more supple, a little easier to read. The book spine has just b...

Don Borchert

When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you stop writing, you find that's all you are - a spine, a row of rattling vertebrae, dried out like an old quill pen.

Hilary Mantel

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; a...

Killosophy

Cannibals prefer those who have no spines.

Stanislaw Lem

Life is so spine chillingly beautiful.

Amani Abbas

And the Flatline aligned the nose of Kuang's sting with the center of the dark below. And dove. Case's sensory input warped with their velocity. His mouth filled with an aching taste of blue. His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a f...

Neuromancer

Never judge a book by its "spine".

Stanley Victor Paskavich

My books are written with a strong chronological spine.

Doris Kearns Goodwin

When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine

Margaret Thatcher

Your core supports your spine and your torso. Everything you do depends on it.

Jaime Pressly

Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.

Patricia Schroeder

Break the spine of one of my books and I break yours.

By Midnight

In science ... "discovery" can mean finding a guppy with an extra spine in its dorsal fin.

Thomas Hayden

Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.

Robert Anton Wilson

It's not easy to kill a mountain goat. He thinks with his spine.

Grendel

A line of perspiration slipped down my spine like a waterslide at an unamusement park.

Tall, Dark & Fangsome

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution.

Fanny Kemble