Top 100 Vein Quotes
#1. Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.
Tobias Wolff
#2. There seemed to be little rhyme or reason as to why one day snatching the correct words from the ether was like opening a faucet and other days it was like opening a vein,
Dennis Lehane
#3. We ask actors to come to work ready to open a vein, to be emotionally thin-skinned. If someone screams, 'What about my coffee?' it's not about the coffee; it's because they're working in an emotional state. It ain't easy being an actor.
Don Scardino
#4. My tongue remembers your wounded flavor.
The vein in my neck
adores you. A sword
stands up between my hips,
my hidden fleece sends forth its scent of human oil.
Li-Young Lee
#5. We created man - We know the promptings of his soul, and are closer to him than his jugular vein - 17 and the two recording angels are recording, sitting on the right and the left: 18 each word he utters shall be noted down by a vigilant guardian.b
Anonymous
#6. This wine makes me feel like I'm bathed in amnion, breathless, fed by the motherbloodflow in the umbilical vein, fetal, slippery and tumbling over and over in the warmth of the beating womb, warm amnion, warmnion.
Samuel Shem
#7. To rip off a piece of lover's temper was a pleasure in her deepest vein of enjoyment.
Saul Bellow
#8. How, by the logic of addiction, could we not have proceeded to the needle and the vein?
Jonathan Franzen
#10. What the road really was, she fancied, was this hypodermic needle, inserted somewhere ahead into the vein of a freeway, a vein nourishing the mainliner L.A., keeping it happy, coherent, protected from pain, or whatever passes, with a city, for pain.
Thomas Pynchon
#11. Many years ago, when I was just about as complete a failure as one can become, I began to spend a good deal of time in libraries, looking for some answers. I found all the answers I needed in that golden vein of ore that every library has.
Og Mandino
#12. Go, little Book! From this my solitude
I cast thee on the Waters,
go thy ways:
And if, as I believe, thy vein be good,
The World will find thee after many days.
Be it with thee according to thy worth:
Go, little Book; in faith I send thee forth.
Robert Southey
#13. I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them.
Sara Gruen
#14. It was a Rube Goldberg disease. A change in the sequence of a gene caused the change in the sequence of a protein; that warped its shape; that shrank a cell; that clogged a vein; that jammed the flow; that racked the body (that genes built).
Siddhartha Mukherjee
#15. I walk this road of flames and danger alone. To see the ocean of dreams. And drink from its endless freedom that flows though or vein's to be someone much more than human.
Sequence Kye Kenneth Young
#16. And the thought of that makes me want to open a vein, experience pain, know I'm alive, despite this living death.
Ellen Hopkins
#17. If you continue in this vein, I'll amputate your thumbs and big toes so that you'll reel through the rest of your life like a drunken orangutan.
Wes Craven
#18. If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.
Marilyn Monroe
#19. You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking up someone else's style, their flavor. It takes a bit of time.
Janet Jackson
#20. The blossom of our family, like one of those miraculous fruit tress that taps into an invisible vein of nurture and bears radiant bushels of plums while the trees around it merely go on living.
Barbara Kingsolver
#21. Lewd to the least drop in the tiniest vein, Our sex is fitly food for Tragic Poets, Our whole life's but a pile of kisses and babies. But, hardy Spartan, if you join with me All may be righted yet. O help me, help me.
Aristophanes
#22. Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself.
Mary Karr
#23. A junior high sports bus was, in the same vein as some fancier modes of passenger transport - limousines, private jets, coaches, whatever - a place where the important people, the king and queen, sat in the back.
A.D. Aliwat
#24. 4 million volts course like lovers through her body. Eerie rays eliminate from bulbous cathodes to caress her skin penetrating deep. Also somewhat like lovers, actually. Chemicals so secret they don't even have names and bubbles and spurts in her vein.
Alan C. Martin
#25. A vein throbs to the left of his forehead. It pulsates, mirroring the violence in the room.
M.R. Gott
#26. Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein.
Charlotte Bronte
#27. It was all very isolating to think about, what people use to define themselves and their actions. And at the end of the day, did it make people feel better? Maybe it did. Maybe it gave them something to grasp at in the ambiguous vein of life on Earth.
Rhian J. Martin
#28. Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop.
Red Smith
#29. The baby, as I had reason from experience to expect and had in fact prepared my bag for, suffers from dehydration. He's dried up like a prune. The treatment is simple and the results spectacular. Slip a needle in his scalp vein and hang a bottle of glucose
Walker Percy
#30. Irigaray remarks in such a vein that "the masquerade... is what women do... in order to participate in man's desire, but at the cost of giving up their own".
Judith Butler
#31. If by it, you mean that big ass vein in the middle of your forehead, then yeah. It moved all right and it's still pulsing.
Kimberly Spencer
#32. Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.
Samuel Richardson
#33. Sometimes in churches somebody will discover a particular vein of spirituality and seek to recruit others into it, or assume a superior position because they have found certain techniques - but no one actually wants to become like them.
John Ortberg
#35. I need you like a needle needs a vein.
Tim McGraw
#36. Unless you want to hang a This Vein for Rent sign around your neck, move already!
Rachel Caine
#37. One day work is hard, and another day it is easy; but if I had waited for inspiration I am afraid I should have done nothing. The miner does not sit at the top of the shaft waiting for the coal to come bubbling up to the surface. One must go deep down, and work out every vein carefully.
Sir Arthur Sullivan
#38. When we are truly aware of our spiritual glory, a varicose vein or two is not that big a deal.
Marianne Williamson
#39. Doing jobs that are completely different to the last thing I did pushes me as an actor to change as much as I can. It would be easy for me to stay in a similar vein of characters or jobs, but I'm drawn to challenging myself.
Richard Madden
#40. We are nearer to him than his jugular vein.
Anonymous
#41. tightly and a vein throbbed at his temple. The two guards led Rogers down a long hallway. On each side were barred cell doors. The men behind them had been talking, but when Rogers came into view they abruptly stopped. The prisoners
David Baldacci
#42. Back when we were more in the industrial vein, it was almost like I had to hide the fact that I could sing. Now, I've just sort of embraced the fact that I can sing and I'm not a screamer or hiding it behind any effects, this is just what I sound like.
Jason C. Miller
#43. Firelight gleamed golden in the stiff whiskers that framed Lord Tywin's face. A vein pulsed in his neck, but he did not speak. And did not speak. And did not speak.
George R R Martin
#44. I am, I am not, I will be, I will not be are vein thoughts which is a sickness and once all are eliminated no desire arises.
Gautama Buddha
#45. From my writer's workshop, Know when it's time to put everything you've got on the page. Then, rip open a vein and do it!
Heather Burch
#46. Katie purred in pleasure as she licked the beating vein in Jared's neck.
Jodie B. Cooper
#47. What you produce as a writer is art. A voice that opens a vein and leaves the reader lapping at the blood that's been drawn.
H.N. Sieverding
#48. For this wire is as a part of our body, as a vein torn from us, glowing with our blood. Are we proud of this thread of metal, or of our hands which made it, or is there a line to divide these two?
Ayn Rand
#49. There aren't many things as therapeutic as smiles and laughter. Whenever you look at things in a lighter vein, it shows that your heart is in the right place.
Douglas Pagels
#50. I can write about prayer, you can read about prayer ... but sooner or later you have to fall to your knees and just plain pray. Then, and only then, will you begin to operate in the vein of God's miracle-working ways.
Bill Hybels
#51. It was as if a strand connected that day with this one and the Maker's pleasure was coursing through it like blood in a vein.
Andrew Peterson
#52. It's been said that mistletoe extract enhances immune function, which increases the production of the immune cells. When administered as a form of therapy for cancer, the extracts are given by injection under the skin, into a vein or directly into a tumor.
Chris Kilham
#53. Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.
Derrick Jensen
#54. He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.
Thomas Paine
#55. I had so many offers after 'True Blood' for things that were someone in the same vein, but nowhere near Alan Ball's vision. Or something that was over-the-top and fantastical. And I've always wanted to play the regular, working-class mom, and I've never really had the chance to do that.
Michelle Forbes
#56. That's what I think is smart about 'Durham County.' It's not derivative of anything American. It's more in the vein of the BBC miniseries I grew up with.
Michelle Forbes
#57. There is no science for the teguments of a leaf, for the filaments of a cell structure, the winding of a vein, the passion of a habit, or for the twists and quirks of character.
Marcel Schwob
#58. It was strange, this toxic little vein, strange to stand above it, looking down at night, in a dangerous neighborhood, as if they were in love and entitled to such adventures.
Lorrie Moore
#59. AMONG THE DEMONS that taunt a writer before he can open a vein and write in his own blood are the devils that whisper: Are you brave enough to tell the truth?
Francine Prose
#61. That's why writers write - to say things loudly with ink. To give feet to thoughts; to make quiet, still feelings loudly heard.
Tarryn Fisher
#62. I want to kill her." "Need me to help you find a good vein?
Jody Offen
#63. In darkness, in any light after dusk, you can slit a vein and the blood is black.
Michael Ondaatje
#65. Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.
Joseph Addison
#66. He was, like everyone of a strongly erotic disposition, twice as good, twice as much himself when he knew that women liked him, just as many actors find their most ardent vein when they sense that they have cast their spell over the audience, the breathing mass of spectators before them.
Stefan Zweig
#67. Holden's point of view: 'I didn't say anything for the rest of the trip to Barker's house. Quintus kept talking until I could feel a vein twitching in my forehead. I had never been so happy to see Baker in my life than when his house finally came into view.
Liz Schulte
#68. Love is like gold, you may strike a vein with less effort, or may have to go through tons of rocks to find it
Bangambiki Habyarimana
#69. Mispronouncing "buoy." The thing that floats in a navigation channel is not a "boo-ee." It's a "boy." Think about it. Would you call something that floats "boo-ee-ant"? Also, in a similar vein, pronouncing Brett Favre's last name as if the "r" comes before the "v." It doesn't, so stop it. Hotel
Bill Bryson
#70. It's in the vein, somewhere in a cross between The Beatles, Cheap Trick, The Stones, Badfinger, you know, but it's not retro at all. But it is very pop.
Steve Brown
#71. That's what it's like to be a prisoner of anything. You want your freedom until you get it,
then you feel bare without your chains.
Tarryn Fisher
#72. Upon entering my vein, the drug would start a warm edge that would surge along until the brain consumed it in a gentle explosion.It began in the back of the neck and rose rapidly until I felt such pleasure that the world sympathizing took on a soft, lofty appeal.
Gus Van Sant
#73. We may have an excellent ear for music, without being able to perform in any kind; we may judge well of poetry, without being poets, or possessing the least of a poetic vein; but we can have no tolerable notion of goodness without being tolerably good.
Anthony Ashley Cooper
#74. Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of.
Jonathan Swift
#75. When 'Ally McBeal' started, I went, 'Oh, my God.' It's like what I was doing. 'Bridget Jones' was in the same vein. I identify with all of them.
Melanie Mayron
#76. The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled crimson amongst the treetops, and the forest below had a black and forbidding face.
Joseph Conrad
#77. Slice open one of my veins and cartoons will pour out; open another vein and you'll get a flood of motor oil.
John Lasseter
#78. I think of the Ramones when I think of music that can save your life, but I'm not so sure about a band like Fall Out Boy who appears to make music in vein or that, at least, doesn't sound like something they would die for.
Shingai Shoniwa
#79. The idea of getting a, you know, syringe full of heroin and shooting it in the vein under my cock right now seems like almost a productive act.
Bill Hicks
#80. The different steps and degrees of education may be compared to the artificer's operations upon marble; it is one thing to dig it out of the quarry, and another to square it, to give it gloss and lustre, call forth every beautiful spot and vein, shape it into a column, or animate it into a statue.
Thomas Gray
#81. A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism, and spends his energies upon that
Joseph Rickaby
#82. Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it's a rich vein to tap, and I don't think I have exhausted it fully yet.
William Boyd
#83. I would like to comment on the God fiber within each living thing. This essence, this fiber of love and grace, runs in every vein, no matter how deeply buried. Each person has a God fiber, whatever their actions or hurt they have caused you or others.
Meredith L. Young-Sowers
#84. Nick was wrong about me. Having a mud vein didn't kill me; it saved me. My vein drew Isaac. He was the light and he followed me into the darkness. He became the darkness, then he carried my burdens so I wouldn't have to.
Tarryn Fisher
#85. Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me.
Criss Jami
#86. In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities.
Elijah Cummings
#87. I definitely feel like, as a singer, I've been able to transition into acting because I always saw them in the same vein. It's all about connecting and telling a story.
Naturi Naughton
#88. Sometimes it is easier to feel the veins wilted and empty than to sense the coldness of blood in fear
Munia Khan
#89. We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.
Chuck Mangione
#90. A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein.
Edward Young
#91. I think that this vein is close to being mined out already, but I'll say that my knowledge of and talent for linguistics are quite limited and I'm not aware of being a hell of a lot more interested in that topic than I am in others.
Neal Stephenson
#92. Writing is easy. Just sit down and open a vein.
Red Barber
#93. I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That's the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.
Mike Nichols
#94. Angel, who was filling the vats with his handful, suddenly ceased, and laid his hands flat upon hers. Her sleeves were rolled far above the elbow, and bending lower he kissed the inside vein of her soft arm.
Thomas Hardy
#95. Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.
Charles Lamb
#96. Ernest Hemingway talked about how writing is opening up a vein and bleeding onto the page. You prepared to do that?
Craig Lancaster
#97. I watch the vein in his neck pulse. I watch him convert oxygen to carbon dioxide. I watch him existing and existing and existing.
Jandy Nelson
#98. Carve as we will the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny constantly reappears in it.
Victor Hugo
#99. I'm working pretty slowly these days, but most of what it is, or a lot of what it is anyway, is kind of in the vein of "Bay of Pigs". Maybe not all in the same scope, but recorded using the same method and using some of the same sounds, or similar sounds.
King Khan
#100. The torture-wheel shall serve him even as these horses from Hell have served my blood-red lilies of Sotar and my vein-colored irises of Naat and my orchids from Uccastrog which were purple as the bruises of love.
Clark Ashton Smith
