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Freud was one of the greatest influences on me. He made myth into psychiatry, and I've been trying to turn it back into myth again. — Ross Macdonald

I was a horrible limo driver: I ran out of gas with passengers in the back and I used to get lost on a regular basis. — John Slattery

When you lose people that are close to you it brings everything into focus, and the rest kind of gets put on the back burner. — Vince Gill

I felt like time was a great sea, and I was floating on the back of a turtle, and no sails broke the horizon. — Janet Fitch

Friendship of the unshakeable kind. Friendship you could swear on. That could be busted nearly to breaking and come back stronger than before. — Maggie Stiefvater

The Wheel will turn again. She would eventually be back on top of the world. For now, she was grateful for her semblance of stability. — Lynne Cantwell

I was pissin' Vince McMahon off when the red on the back of your neck was diaper rash! — Roddy Piper

To come back on the ice was hard, and at the same time it was kind of a healing process. — Ekaterina Gordeeva

Each man is forever thrown back on himself alone, and there is danger that he may be shut up in the solitude of his own heart. — Alexis De Tocqueville

Hand that on parting squeezes your shoulder, salutes the small of your back. — Joan Didion

The relative success of the bitcoin proves that money first and foremost depends on trust. Neither gold nor bonds are needed to back up a currency. — Arnon Grunberg

Life may have knocked you down on the outside but the key to a great life is to learn how to get back up on the inside. Always let your spirit soar. — Timothy Pina

Sometimes all it takes is a kind word of encouragement to get your heroes back on the right path. — Nancy Duarte

Just saw a woman with a big tattoo of Jesus on her back. I guess it's an ixnay on the oggy style-day. — Dana Gould

On the back of Satan's neck is a nail scarred footprint. — C.S. Lewis

Lying on his back, Jess kicked furiously at the windshield. Damn. It. Break. Already. You. Sorry. Son. Of. A. Biscuit. Eating. Cat. — Sherrilyn Kenyon

So when the blue smoke of brittle leaves was in the air and the wind blew the wet laundry stiff on the line I decided to come back home. — F Scott Fitzgerald

You'll pay the highest price on back roads and in back seats and in a cheap highway motel. But what's a few more strangers in a life of nothing else. — Dolly Parton

You don't even need a computer plugged into the back of your head to be hopelessly dependent on the system. — Russell Eric Dobda

I didn't love stickers and unicorns and stuff, but just if I were to ride on the back of a beast to work, I want it to be a frickin' unicorn. — Laura Benanti

There is no better place to heal a broken heart than on the back of a horse. — Missy Lyons

[He stared into the camera] like some sort of an animal gazing from across the back of its sty. (On Winston Churchill) — Cecil Beaton

If you're selfish enough to kill yourself write your suicide note on the back of your will — Stanley Victor Paskavich

If you kiss someone on the back of the neck, it spreads. — H. Jackson Brown Jr.

In the back of my mind's eye, everything had a fuzzy green haze on it, like a brand-new tennis ball. The world was getting its Shine on. — Nalo Hopkinson

He wants me to boss you around."
"We'll pick up a pair of stilettos on the way home," he said.
I said, "I need to go back to Philiadelphia. — Melissa Bank

There are a lot of guys in Hollywood who clap you on the back just a little too hard. — James Caan

It says on the back of the Nyquil box, 'May cause drowsiness.' It should say, 'Don't make any plans, OK? Kiss your family and friends good-bye.' — Denis Leary

It's a damn good story. If you have any comments, write them on the back of a check. — Erle Stanley Gardner

I would be surprised to see the White House scaling back on anything. That would be an admission they are operating from a position of weakness. — Rich Galen

When causes are vague and goals uncertain... it becomes necessary to fall back on the bloated and honeyed words of propaganda. — Peter Englund

Just because i know how to change a guys oil doesn't mean i want to spend the rest of my life on my back, staring up his undercarriage. — Janet Evanovich

Take a glass of wine while reading, your feet on the back of your slave. This is the best combination of pleasures that is. — Danny Tyran

Move on, don't let the little things of Life hold you back. Forget, Forgive, and Move on. - RVM. — R.v.m.

Many of the alarmists on global warming, they've got a problem because the science doesn't back them up. — Ted Cruz

If you want milk, don't sit on a stool in the middle of a field in the hope that a cow will back up to you. — Richard Branson

Our good time is sitting in a coffee shop with a newspaper, writing a line on the back of a napkin. That is the most fun comedians ever have — Jerry Seinfeld

What you have told us is rubbish. The world is really a flat plate supported on the back of a giant tortoise. — Stephen Hawking

Before you can hear, much less follow, the voice of your soul, you have to win back your body. You have to go on a pilgrimage beneath the skin. — Meggan Watterson

I may not survive," Roderick said, resting his hand on the small of her back,"if I wait any longer to kiss you. — Margaret Mallory

Go on, hitch a ride on the back of a butterfly. There's no better way to fly. — Patrick Monahan

We do not believe voters gave President Bush a mandate to turn back the clock decades on so many of our legal protections. — Ralph G. Neas

YOU GONNA STAND THERE WITH YOUR BUTT ON THE BACK OF YOUR BODY OR ARE YOU GONNA GET IN ON THIS, BEEF? — Chris Onstad

All personal, psychological, social, and institutionalized domination on this earth can be traced back to its source: the phallic identities of men. — Andrea Dworkin

The best compliment was Ben Kingsley coming up to me, putting his hand on the back of my neck, and saying, "Good job, son.". — Aaron Stanford

I went to this tattoo parlor in the East Village and I got an outline of a violin on my lower back. They call them tramp stamps now. — Katherine Moennig

Fifty years ago I learned to jump off the calendar but I kept getting drawn back on for reasons of greed and my imperishable stupidity. — Jim Harrison

Flagrant, adj. I would be standing right there, and you would walk out of the bathroom without putting the cap back on the toothpaste. — David Levithan

To choose art means to turn one's back on the world, or at least on certain of its distractions. — Melvin Maddocks

Feel not as though it is a sphere we live on. Rather, an infinite plane which has the illusion of leading yourself back to the point of origin. — Reggie Watts

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I'm in a small way quite proud of some of it - I only wish I'd done more. — Christopher Hitchens

The most exciting business ideas fit on the back of an airplane napkin. — Carmine Gallo

Running, the music flew into him, became the wind that pushed back his hair and the slap of his own feet on the pavement. — Ann Patchett

That town sits on the coals of the earth, at the very mouth of hell. They say that when people from there go to hell, they come back for a blanket. — Juan Rulfo

Too much school."
"Would you rather be dead?! Would you rather die? Here, on your knees in the back of a convenience store?! — Chuck Palahniuk

Be hard on yourself and easy on others. Carry your own cross but never lay one on the back of another — Aiden Wilson Tozer

My back's not big enough for the number of targets on it. — Eric Swalwell

I worked on the United Parcel Service truck, I sold home delivery of milk. But always, in the back of my mind, I wanted to get into radio. — Larry King

The boat struck the bank full tilt. The dreamer, the joyous oarsman, lay on his back at the bottom of the boat, his heels in the air. — Kenneth Grahame

The back door of every tomb opens on a hilltop. — George MacDonald

A man who had the legions of the east marching at his back could be bred by a donkey on a mule and the senate would have no choice but to accept him. — M.C. Scott

The Trees shone on Valinor, and Valinor gave back their light in a thousand scintillations of splintered colours; — Anonymous

I was born in a hovel on the banks of the Tyne, as so many of us were back then. — David Almond

He set Miss Goodnight back on her feet. As he lowered her to the floor, her body slid down his, like a raindrop easing down the surface of a rock. — Tessa Dare

Show me a man who longs to live a day beyond his time who turns his back on a decent length of life, I'll show the world a man who clings to folly. — Sophocles

Tremors of fear scrolled up her back and across her scalp. Why did she have these dreams only when she slept on the beach? — Bonnie S. Calhoun

Every human being on this planet has their pain and their heartache and it's up to all of us to find our way back to the light. — Diana Nyad

I sometimes use music as way of getting back to a certain time, dredging up stuff from the past and putting it down on canvas. — Danny Fox

But unfortunately, in my unrelenting drive to get back on that drum stool, the major casualty in all of it was that I really forgot about me. — Rick Allen

She was back in western Washington state, where rain was so prevalent that a day of sunshine was the lead story on the local news. — Susan Mallery

Who thinks to put sunblock on the back of their kneecaps? Not me. — Nikki Reed

Other people are like a mirror which reflects back on us the kind of image we cast. — Fulton J. Sheen

A home to come back to every day of their lives.
Where they would all belong or long to be.
A place on the Jellicoe Road. — Melina Marchetta

I want to look back on my career and be proud of the work, and be proud that I tried everything. — Jon Stewart

Back in East St. Louis, tennis wasn't the real thing. If you weren't playing baseball, basketball, football, you were kind of on the outside. — Jimmy Connors

Abraham Lincoln and Winston Churchill rode to glory on the back of the strong declarative sentence. — William Zinsser

Machines were devised not to do a man out of a job, but to take the heavy labor from man's back and place it on the broad back of the machine. — Henry Ford

I used to arch my back for boys who couldn't even remember the color of my bedsheets.
But you, however, made me turnover the arch on my mouth. — Sade Andria Zabala

I have taken a moment here to rest, to steal a view of the glorious vista that surrounds me, to look back on the distance I have come. — Nelson Mandela

I'm not ashamed of who you are. And the only time I would look down on you is if I were helping you back up. — Belle Aurora

Time moves on. You can't go back in time. Everything has a consequence, and the last episode of the last season is no exception. — Jon Hamm

Most sitcoms and cartoons, especially, you can rely on, because they go back to square one at the beginning of every episode. — Scott Adsit

I prefer a positive view of freedom, drawing on another tradition of political thinking that goes all the way back to the ancient Greek polis. — David Blunkett

If superstition could contradict science, the world may as well be on the back of a turtle. But giving into turtle worship was a bridge too far. — Thomm Quackenbush

Johnny pats his son on the back like the owner of a violent dog trying to keep it on a leash. — Bijou Hunter

Still following the rules, huh?" He grabbed his shift off the back of the kitchen chair and pulled it on.
"Still breaking them?" she fired back. — Robin Bielman

Until we start thinking in terms of revolution instead of compromise the Church will continue to pat itself on the back with token steps of renewal. — Mike Yaconelli

When you're frightened don't sit still, keep on doing something. The act of doing will give your back your courage. — Grace Ogot

[T]hat's the way of torturers of every age, to put the blame on the victim, especially when he strikes back. — Orson Scott Card

I mean, if you go back to 1960 on major pieces of legislation, the filibuster was used about eight percent of the time. — Tom Udall

When I was a kid, I used to send away for those ventriloquist kits on the back of comic books. — Alan King

Soaring through the icy sky on the back of a dragon would not have been her first choice as a place to meditate, but it would do. — Joseph R. Lallo

With a lot of comedies, the characters go on a journey, and they come back, and they're the exact same people. — David Walton

I'm working on bringing the instant film camera back as part of the future. — Lady Gaga

I've been taking a trapeze class for the last couple of years. I'm working on my double back flip right now. — Neil Patrick Harris

Once light is shed on a truth, you can never pull it back into the safety of shadow. — Lynn Kelling

I've never laid a cane on the back of a lord before, but if you force me to I shall speedily become used to the practice. — Stanley Kubrick

One way of ending the poem is to turn it back on itself, like a serpent with its tail in its mouth. — Maxine Kumin

You can't just look at the back section of the newspaper or the sports section by itself. You need to understand everything that's going on. — Mike Tirico

I do have a bit of a garden, and I'd love a hovercraft to get around it - one of the big four-seater ones with the fan on the back. — Tom Felton