Quotes about Spine

The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body. Votes: 6

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. Votes: 6

I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment. Votes: 6

That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine. Votes: 6

I think most people, even if they say they hate horror movies, there's that feeling you get inside that you love. I mean, I love it. I love to have the hairs on the back of my neck stand up or get that chill up my spine. Votes: 6

My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music. Votes: 6

You're only as old as your spine. Votes: 4

A man is as old as his spine is flexible! Votes: 4

He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up Votes: 4

You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me. Votes: 4

Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible. Votes: 4

You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall. Votes: 4

The yogi will tell you that you feel and look as young as your spine is elastic. Votes: 4

The spine is the lifeline. A lot of people should go to a chiropractor but they don't know it. Votes: 4

If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. IF it is completely flexible at 60, you are young. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

A wise reader reads the book of genius not with his heart, not so much with his brain, but with his spine. It is there that occurs the telltale tingle... Votes: 4

I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein. Votes: 4

No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one. Votes: 4

No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace. Votes: 2

What an electric thrill it sends up and down the spine, how it sets the heart racing: A Royal Romance! A Royal Wedding! The pomp and the pageantry! Votes: 2

I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism. Votes: 2

Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still. Votes: 2

When your mind is fully withdrawn in superconsciousness, it becomes centered in the bliss of the spine. You are then in your ideational, or causal, body. That is the level of the soul. Votes: 2

Michael Myers is a very famous character. This is the ninth movie with Michael Myers, and when you put on that mask for the first time, you get a little chill going down your spine. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Especially with the live, just the way I curve words, it's about expression. It's so emotive, to be able to release these words into a mike. It really emphasizes this insane tingle down my spine whenever I play. Votes: 2

When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your fingers and ripped the spine out of somebody, you know, violent games lost the women. Complexity lost the casual gamer. Votes: 2

A spine to my films that's become more evident to me is that many are about the choices people make, and the reverberations of those choices. You go this way, or that way, and either way, there's going to be consequences. Votes: 2

Being a mom, it feels like I did something so powerful and amazing. It's such a gigantic blessing, and a confirmation that the Creator exists. And all of that has made me feel sexier and stronger. I call it 'lava in my spine.' Votes: 2

But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter. Votes: 2

I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive. Votes: 2

My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever. Votes: 2

This is the pain pacemaker. I've got a battery under my skin. From that battery are two electrodes that go into the spine where they cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It's tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know? Votes: 2

The Night Cafe' and 'The Starry Night' still emit such pathos, density, and intensity that they send shivers down the spine. Whether Van Gogh thought in color or felt with his intellect, the radical color, dynamic distortion, heart, soul, and part-by-part structure in these paintings make him a bridge to a new vision and the vision itself. Votes: 2

For my first show at 'SNL', I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn't getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, 'Okay, that happened, and I did not die.' You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it. Votes: 2

Meat' is a vague term and can be used to refer to many parts of an animal, including internal organs and skin. For the most part, the meat we eat consists of muscle tissue taken from farm animals, whether it's a sirloin steak, which is cut from the rear of a cow, or a pork chop, taken from flesh near the spine of a pig. Votes: 2

Life is so spine chillingly beautiful. Votes: 0

I can snap your spine like a toothpick. Votes: 0

When in sickness, look to the spine first. Votes: 0

Pelosi's problem is her spine doesn't reach her brain. Votes: 0

My books are written with a strong chronological spine. Votes: 0

Without the accurate spine movement, one can't exist dynamically. Votes: 0

You are as young as your spine is flexible. Votes: 0

The spine is the tree of life. Respect it. Votes: 0

Stiffening the spine of progressive members of Congress is crucial. Votes: 0

You are only as young as your spine is flexible. Votes: 0

If you would seek health, look first to the spine. Votes: 0

The famous pilot season literally sends shivers down my spine. Votes: 0

Look well to the spine for the cause of disease. Votes: 0

The spine is best at bearing a load in an arch Votes: 0

I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates. Votes: 0

The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine. Votes: 0

Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases Votes: 0

Good and evil appear to be joined in every culture at the spine. Votes: 0

I always thought that the spine of a character was awe and wonder. Votes: 0

He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin. Votes: 0

Purpose is a soft virtue- but it's what gives you steel in your spine. Votes: 0

Son, you'll know you're in love when a woman's voice settles into your spine. Votes: 0

Your core supports your spine and your torso. Everything you do depends on it. Votes: 0

I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron. Votes: 0

When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine Votes: 0

Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine. Votes: 0

No one achieves great things by following the crowd. Have a spine. Strike your own path. Votes: 0

Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars. Votes: 0

Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars." Votes: 0

Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words. Votes: 0

I want the cabinet to stand up and have a spine and a backbone and take responsibility. Votes: 0

If something goes wrong, don't whine about it. Have a spine about it. Adjust, adapt, and move forward. Votes: 0

Complaining about your current position in life is worthless. Have a spine and do something about it instead. Votes: 0

My rhyming skills got you climbing hills, I'll travel through your mind into your spine like siren drills. Votes: 0

Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert. Votes: 0

Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place. Votes: 0

The spine, and I do not attempt to conceal the fact, had become soluble, in the last degree. Votes: 0

Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well. Votes: 0

I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was nothing you could do about that. Votes: 0

What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger...unless it instead snaps your spine. Then it makes you a paraplegic. Votes: 0

The spine should be empty so that energy moves up and down. I always felt this way as a child. Votes: 0

It takes a lot of spine and stomach to make yourself into something when no one gives you a foundation. Votes: 0

A shiver runs down your spine when you realize it is not our imagination. Something is watching us out there.... Votes: 0

Someone is dead. Even the trees know it, those poor old dancers who come on lewdly, all pea-green scarfs and spine pole. Votes: 0

Watching artists like Joplin perform, I felt that tingle down my spine; I experienced the wonders of a cultural and musical revolution. Votes: 0

I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world. Votes: 0

If you have a good spine, the gods will chase you. Nobody has psychological or emotional problems, everyone has a bad spine. Votes: 0

The mystical kundalini goes the other direction. It starts at the base of the spine, at the root chakra and goes up. Votes: 0

I have a very strong, very proven record that I am not a compromiser. I have a spine made out of titanium. Votes: 0

But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back. There is no bruise like the bruise loneliness kicks into your spine. Votes: 0

The reason the Democrats are so intent on passing a stem-cell bill is they're depending on the research to grow themselves a spine. Votes: 0

I like women who can throw a ball and laugh loud and have some spine, and I like men who don't mind cooking dinner. Votes: 0

I was driving my car, I crashed and broke my spine. So yes there are things worse in life than never being someone's sweetie. Votes: 0

It was spine tingling, actually, when you saw how people kept saying, "Release Nelson Mandela," and meaning really, "Release all of our political prisoners." Votes: 0

You do what you have to do or a bigger demon eats out your liver and uses your spine to pick its teeth. (Caleb) Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Nothing scares me, because I used to think I was indestructible. Now I know I'm indestructible, not to mention my spine is indestructible. It's all titanium. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

My whole family is in orthotics and prosthetics, so I grew up having to check for scoliosis every week. 'Come over. Let me feel your spine. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

The book itself [The Thorn and The Blossom] is bound accordion-style: it has no spine, so it can open in either direction, and it's in a slipcase. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

People are under the assumption that the kundalini just flows from the base of the spine up. That's not the case at all. Kundalini also flows downward. Votes: 0

I've had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don't work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great. Votes: 0

Sitting tightens your chest. For a great release, lie faceup on a foam roller placed lengthwise under your spine, and stretch your arms out to your side. Votes: 0

Iggy's spine tightened, his face like ice. When he'd been at the School, they'd tried to surgically enhance his night vision. Now he was blind forever. Oops. Votes: 0

Peter." The fine hair along her spine rising, Vicky could feel the power in a name. This is who you are, it said. Come back to us. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

Gone is the blinding glow in his hands - gone, too, is the illusion of purity and beauty! In it's place all that remains is mind-numbing, spine-chilling reality! Votes: 0

Excuse me, but I believe you have my lady,” one of them said in a quiet, deep voice that sent veritable chills down George's spine. Harry. Votes: 0

Of course, just because we've heard a spine-chilling, blood-curdling scream of the sort to make your very marrow freeze in your bones doesn't automatically mean there's anything wrong. Votes: 0

It's happened a couple of times in training when I hyper-extend my back. Some facet joints send all the muscles in my lower back and lumbar-spine into spasm. Votes: 0

Shivers up and down my spine It's a feeling so divine Let me go back for a while Got to go back for a while To that magic time... Votes: 0

The FA would remove him tomorrow if they had a spine, but clearly, in former lives, were cruel to jellyfish which is why they have returned as them now. Votes: 0

I am thinking of our family's womenas faraway bulbs, their historywith crippling loss, and how I am pieced together, shell and sand,from the spine of their collective strength. Votes: 0

A bubble of fear passes up my spine. It's the feeling of standing on ice and suddenly hearing it crack under your weight - both thrilling and terrifying together. Votes: 0

You know that feeling you get when your leg falls asleep? Well, I suddenly had that feeling in my spine. Like termites were chewing through the marrow in my backbone. Votes: 0

Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe. Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

I love the process of cracking the spine for the first time and slowly sinking into a book. That will soon seem old-fashioned, I'm sure, like the time of illuminated manuscripts. Votes: 0

That is what chills your spine when you read an account of a suicide: not the frail corpse hanging from the window bars but what happened inside that heart immediately before. Votes: 0

Mounting tensions in Eastern Europe send shivers down the spine. Barely a quarter of a century after the end of the Cold War we seem to be sliding inexorably towards another. Votes: 0

Every time Bush talks about trust it makes chills run up and down my spine. The way he has trampled on the truth is a travesty of the American political system. Votes: 0

In the second and third debates the jacket has a generally padded shape across a large part of the entire back which tapers inward toward the spine in a downward direction. Votes: 0

The spine as a whole operates as a functional unit. Each vertabra can affect its neighbor and one portion of the spine may affect or damage other areas of the body. Votes: 0

The spine of the FBI is the rule of law. The spine of the FBI is a commitment to doing the right thing, in the right way, while protecting civil liberties. Votes: 0

Lies are a tremendous karmic setback. Keep it up and you'll come back in the next life as something without a spine. You're not fine. And you don't have to be fine. Votes: 0

The kundalini rises and the kundalini is hot, it's a hot energy. Sometimes you feel it cascading up your spine, and it's kind of searing or it's tingling, it almost feels sexual. Votes: 0

In an interview, former vice-presidential candidate Paul Ryan said he does not have a racist bone in his body. However, he admitted he has three sexist bones and his spine is homophobic. Votes: 0

Take it from me: If you hear the past speaking to you, feel it tugging up your back and runing its fingers up your spine, the best thing to do-the only thing-is run. Votes: 0

It's so, so awful for my entire body and my spine and my hands, and I have a perfectly good desk to write at, but I don't care. I love writing in bed. Votes: 0

It takes quite a spine to turn the other cheek. It takes phenomenal fortitude to love your enemy. It takes firm resolve to pray for those who persecute you. (with reference to Matthew 5) Votes: 0

Once you accept the power of spine in the creative act, you will become much more efficient in your creativity. You will still get lost on occasion, but having a spine will anchor you. Votes: 0

His lips soften into a smile that cracks apart my spine. He repeats my name like the word amuses him. Entertains him. Delights him. In seventeen years no one has said my name like that Votes: 0

German readers are much like Brits or Americans: They read for the thrill of it, the occasional shudder down the spine, knowing it's not real - but looking over their shoulders anyway, just in case. Votes: 0