The Spine Quotes
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Life itself had become disembodied. My family, the spine of my days, had crumbled. I was lost in invertebrate time.
— Joseph O'Neill
If Jenny were a book, she would be a paperback just out of the box - no dog ears, no waterlogging, no creases in her spine.
— Gabrielle Zevin
Mother is the spine in me . The iron.
— Pierce Brown
The problem was that I wanted to talk about this and she didn't. The problem was also that I'd somehow misplaced my balls and my spine.
— Christina Lauren
The master is bringing Darwin through to examine lower life-forms, Rhoda. Straighten your spine or you'll be mistook for a mollusk.
— Gregory Maguire
You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall.
— James Geary
More and more, he heard his spine playing stick games through his skin, singing old dusty words, the words of all his years.
— Sherman Alexie
She steeled her spine. "Like Boleyn to the chopping block." Anna smirked. "Queen of England, are we?"
Mara shrugged. "Something to aspire to. — Sarah MacLean
I might be able to get Vince alone and break him down. He's got all the spine of a dying jellyfish.
— Stephen King
Thus we see how that the spine of even the hugest of living things tapers off at last into simple child's play.
— Herman Melville
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.
— Anne Fadiman
So they profiled the Gingerbread Man with a curved spine." "It's just a hunch," I said.
— J.A. Konrath
A shrieking battle cry echoed on the wind, a spine-tingling scream that sounded like the baying of the wolves closing in on their prey.
— Raymond E. Feist
My mother wrote a couple of romances when I was a kid, and I always saw books in our bookshelf with 'Schroeder' on the spine.
— Karl Schroeder
The broken spine of the book shows the webbing of binder's string, and my fingers have worn white spots in the cover.
— Susan Straight
The spine is the highway to the Infinite. Your own body is the temple of God. It is within your own self that God must be realized.
— Paramahansa Yogananda
It was always nice when you snapped the spine - helped with the pain.
— Brandon Sanderson
The spine is best at bearing a load in an arch
— Mark Rippetoe
TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own.
— Ambrose Bierce
pain that would extend down his spine into one leg or the other, like a wooden stake set aflame and thrust into him:
— Hanya Yanagihara
When in sickness, look to the spine first.
— Hippocrates
I've cried, and you'd think I'd be better for it, but the sadness just sleeps, and it stays in my spine the rest of my life.
— Conor Oberst
Family's the luck of the draw, Lena. What you make of yourself, because of or despite it, that's where the spine and heart come in.
— Nora Roberts
An intelligent man will use a book to settle an argument. Preferably a hardback with a thick spine, flat across the bridge of the nose.
— Shatrujeet Nath
My spine shoots up straight like I'd been plugged into an eight-volt, and the mere sight of him literally causes my breath to leave my body.
— Allison Winn Scotch
I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine.
— Gwendoline Christie
My mother ... she is beautiful, softened at the edges and tempered with a spine of steel. I want to grow old and be like her.
— Jodi Picoult
The spine, and I do not attempt to conceal the fact, had become soluble, in the last degree.
— P.G. Wodehouse
Le spine della rosa sono nacoste dal fiore: the thorns of the rose are hidden by the bloom.
— Lynda La Plante
You take all of our pain, you are the spine. You are the blood soaked rag that holds closed the wounds in our soul.
— Cedric Nye
I've always treated the man with unremitting kindness, and if he wont do a little thing like this for me, I'll kick his spine through his hat.
— P.G. Wodehouse
I did all the serious things that serious people do. The complacent face. The folded hands. The stiff spine. Check, check, double check.
— Krista Ritchie
Without the accurate spine movement, one can't exist dynamically.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
I'm sorry, but are you pissed at me? Me? I'm the one who had your knee practically crushing my spine, buddy, so let's check the attitude.
— Rachel Hawkins
The spine that refused to bend at all was often the most malleable once it gave way.
— Robert Jordan
the lizard living at the base of her spine
— James S.A. Corey
The Houselands. Graveyard to the oneswho got locked out. A chill ran up London's spine. What the hell
were they doing? — Anna Silver
No one achieves great things by following the crowd. Have a spine. Strike your own path.
— Robert Kiyosaki
I have the most perfect belly button. When I stick my fingers in it, I feel a nerve in the center of my body shoot up my spine.
— Madonna Ciccone
Suddenly I got shivers down my spine thinking about how many different people one and the same person can be.
— Janne Teller
..his tone, like warm maple syrup, drizzled down her spine and licked all the way back up.
— Jasmine Haynes
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert.
— B.K.S. Iyengar
There will be a whole new spirit blowing through Texas. There will be a smile on everybody's face and a chill up the spine of every politician.
— Kinky Friedman
I always thought that the spine of a character was awe and wonder.
— William Shatner
The yogi will tell you that you feel and look as young as your spine is elastic.
— Richard Hittleman
The spine is the tree of life. Respect it.
— Martha Graham
Clothes dissolving, skin pressing together like the pages of a book, bound by a common spine.
— Chris Cole
Crash, from the Russian krashenina Noun: a rough fabric sometimes used to strengthen the spine of a book
— Blue Balliett
This is no way to treat a book," he said. "Look, he's bent the spine right back. People always do that, they've got no idea of how to treat them.
— Terry Pratchett
Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
— Hippocrates
The mystical kundalini goes the other direction. It starts at the base of the spine, at the root chakra and goes up.
— Frederick Lenz
The shushumna is a tube. It is an astral tube, like a reed. It runs from the base of the spine to between the eyebrows and a little bit above.
— Frederick Lenz
down her spine as she fought both the dread and
— Gretchen Craig
Kade nodded as he reached out to trace one finger down the spine and along the legs of his image. "I don't look broken like this.
— Tempeste O'Riley
You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.
— Patrick Rothfuss
The thought occurred to me that she could easily take her knife and slash it though my spine.
— Alexandra Bracken
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
A memory swam up from the depths, its hideous, reptilian spine almost breaking the surface before it swam powerfully away from him.
— Matthew FitzSimmons
Do no drown me with mediocrity, give me passion, desire, make me inhale breaths of lust and love in the dark hours that tingle down my spine...
— Virginia Alison
Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well.
— Lawrence Welk
The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that.
— Glenn Beck
Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine.
— Flannery O'Connor
The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine.
— Angela Bassett
Just the night before, a puma's howl had set a chill at my spine and, man, life didn't get any richer than that.
— Ed Lynskey
History, with its hard spine & dog-eared Corners, will be replaced with nuance, Just like the dinosaurs gave way To mounds and mounds of ice.
— Tracy K. Smith
The spine is the lifeline. A lot of people should go to a chiropractor but they don't know it.
— Jack LaLanne
Someone is dead.Even the trees know it,
those poor old dancers who come on lewdly,
all pea-green scarfs and spine pole. — Anne Sexton
I could have reached him in three quick strides and slipped my blade into his spine before he had the chance to fart.
— Oliver Bowden
In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.
— Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Her spine was the crease on a piece of paper, her bones no more than diagonal folds on a bit of origami
— Lisa Mantchev
Never judge the length of a book by it's spine!
— Stephanie Bates
The vice minister's wife sits so upright that it seems as if her spine is hewn from oak.
— Anthony Doerr
