Man Without Backbone Quotes

#1. Hello, Miss Adler. Irene Adler. Wow," he said, his voice hushed. "This is so weird.

Colleen Gleason

#2. That a man can take pleasure in marching in formation to the strains of a band is enough to make me despise him. He has only been given his big brain by mistake; a backbone was all he needed.

Albert Einstein

#3. Much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull, whoever you are. A thin joist of a spine never yet upheld a full and noble soul.

Herman Melville

#4. But as she looked at his matted fur, his blood-soaked muzzle and chest, she couldn't help but think: If this winter god, this walking rug, this one-eyed whining bear is the magical guardian of Russia, then Russia is going to have a very troubled future.

Orson Scott Card

#5. Clap along if you feel like a room without a roof. Clap along if you feel like happiness is the truth.

Pharrell Williams

#6. Many a man has failed because he had his wishbone where his backbone should have been.

Ronald Reagan

#7. Wherever I've been, and I've been to over 20, maybe 25, countries in Africa, I've noticed how their backbone is broken. They don't have any confidence in themselves. They always think a white man will solve their problems from outside for them.

Bunker Roy

#8. My faith is an important part of my life and over the years I've learnt that it takes a proud man to say he doesn't need anything. It has been a quiet strength and a backbone through a lot of difficult times.

Bear Grylls

#9. The 'eathen in 'is blindness must end where 'e began. But the backbone of the Army is the non-commissioned man!

Rudyard Kipling

#10. It is a great thing to have a big brain, a fertile imagination, grand ideals, but the man with these, bereft of a good backbone, is sure to serve no useful end.

George Matthew Adams

#11. Most people come out of their Ph.D. experience trying to prove themselves, trying to get ahead, trying to get published. You're scared everybody else is going to do your research and get your topic.

Bernice Johnson Reagon

#12. I initially thought I would be an architect, maybe. So I went to architecture camp and quickly learned that I did not want to be an architect. I was like, 'No. This is not for me.'

Robin Lord Taylor

#13. Through my years of working on war and peace in Africa, I have learned that there are solutions to some of the greatest human rights challenges, and we all can be a part of those solutions.

John Prendergast

#14. Grit is the grain of character. It may generally be described as heroism materialized,
spirit and will thrust into heart, brain, and backbone, so as to form part of the physical substance of the man.

Edwin Percy Whipple

#15. You know before you know, of course. You are bending over the dryer, pulling out the still-warm sheets, and the knowledge walks up your backbone. You stare at the man you love and you are staring at nothing; he is gone before he is gone.

Elizabeth Berg

#16. Not being boring is quite a challenge.

Ian McEwan

#17. If you care too much about what other people think, you will always be their prisoner. Lao Tzu

Avan Jogia

#18. The individual activity of one man with backbone will do more than a thousand men with a mere wishbone.

William J.H. Boetcker

#19. When television came along, I'd already done more than 10 years of radio work and I thought everyone would want me. I sat around waiting for the phone to ring - and it didn't.

Orson Welles