Vein Quotes

#1. I'm definitely a singer-songwriter. I'm somewhere in the vein between Elliott Smith and Jack Johnson.

Bryan Greenberg

#2. Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.

John Locke

#3. It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein.

Anne Rice

#4. And - maybe it's ridiculous to go on in this vein, although it doesn't matter since no one's ever going to see this - but does it make any sense at all to know that it ends badly for all of us, even the happiest

Donna Tartt

#5. Somebody said writing is easy, you just sit down at your typewriter and open a vein. It depends on the book. Some, I have to do quite a lot of research, which I like. Others are much closer to me.

Anne Rivers Siddons

#6. I think that, most importantly, when I see issues of war, I see them in a personal vein, and I am reluctant to go to war unless there's a real, valid American interest because I've seen the wounded soldiers.

Rand Paul

#7. Yet some natures are too good to be spoiled by praise, and wherever the vein of thought reaches down into the profound, there is no danger from vanity. Solemn friends will warn them of the danger of the head's being turned by the flourish of trumpets, but they can afford to smile.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#8. You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck.

Rumi

#9. You twitch as the darkness moves in and out of you. It crawls up your spine and nestles in your brain like an evil thought from out of nowhere, burying itself in your psyche like a starving leech looking for a vein.

Stephen Biro

#10. People may think of Southern humor in terms of missing teeth and outhouse accidents, but the best of it is a rich vein running through the best of Southern literature.

Roy Blount Jr.

#11. Baker's point of view: Femi directed her cat eyes to me with a devious glint in them. "So you've been banging the boss's daughter." I choked on my sandwich. She raised an eyebrow. "That's pretty gutsy, Baker." Holden pinched the bridge of his nose and an angry vein popped out of his forehead.

Liz Schulte

#12. I feel television is in a fantastically rich vein of what it's presenting both by opportunity to actors and to audiences.

David Oyelowo

#13. We chip away as best we can at the mysterious block of marble our lives are made of- in vain; the black vein of destiny always reappears.

Victor Hugo

#14. In 1978, in the space of 10 months, 28 leukemia patients came to me and they could all work after six days. It is a portal vein circulation disease, not cancer of the blood. So far 150 leukemia patients have come to me and I could help all of them. Do not fear this disease any more.

Rudolf Breuss

#15. Abundant talent is like a rich vein of water underground that finds all sorts of places to gush forth(..)

Haruki Murakami

#16. Of all America's natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony.

Markham Shaw Pyle

#17. We have an electronic vein we have tapped and applied it to a rock setting like tons of bands out there.

Mike Lowry

#18. I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.

Elisabeth Shue

#19. Even in an organization that's doing something big and bold, there's the mundane, day-to-day execution work of keeping it going. But people need to stay connected to the boldness, to the vision, and stay plugged in to the main vein of the dream.

Peter Diamandis

#20. I'm too busy looking for the next role to do. I think about how to continue, to survive in the same vein. I like my career and my life as it is.

John Travolta

#21. Are you happy when you stick a needle in your vein?

Stevie Wonder

#22. I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

Jim Jarmusch

#23. I came in with a completely new perspective. I would write songs and they would pick tunes they felt were in the Purple vein.

Tommy Bolin

#24. I've always liked music that has a darker vein to it. I come from such a safe upbringing - very stable, classic family, everything's nice and good - I was always looking for something different.

Tove Lo

#25. The craft with which the world is made runs also into the mind and character of men. No man is quite sane; each has a vein of folly in his composition, a slight determination of blood to the head, to make sure of holding him hard to some one point which Nature has taken to heart.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#26. If you're going to be a wannabe, make sure you 'wannabe' something great. The most shocking thing about wannabes, is they largely want to be something irrelevant, vein, or just plain petty.

Andrew Williams

#27. Even this vein of writing is so foreign to me that I am amazed.

David O. Selznick

#28. It may be that just as tonality recurs in music and realism in painting, so the idea of liberalism recurs in politics-though each time in a different vein.

Eva Hoffman

#29. When I was in high school, there was 'Superbad' and 'The Girl Next Door' and 'Wedding Crashers' and all these great movies. You hope to be a part of something that's smart, funny and in that Todd Phillips-vein. You want to make something like 'Superbad.' That movie was so good and so funny.

Miles Teller

#30. In a similar vein the author recalls sending an email to a senior music executive in the early 2000's and getting a reply in the post, hand written on a print out of his original email.

Mark Mulligan

#31. In the same vein, tally up the sum total of your earned income so far, subtract your savings, and compare the difference to your pile of stuff. Was it really a good deal?

Jacob Lund Fisker

#32. I consider an human soul without education like marble in the quarry, which shows none of its inherent beauties till the skill of the polisher fetches out the colours, makes the surface shine, and discovers every ornamental cloud, spot and vein that runs through the body of it.

Joseph Addison

#33. All the pictures I do are contemporary. I've sort of discovered I haven't really been into science fiction or period pictures. And so, in that vein, psychological thrillers play a big part.

Michael Douglas

#34. Trying to destroy yourself gives a pretty clear message and it's not one I think you'd like. Sounds a bit like, I'm too self-centered to be constructive, so I have to open a vein ...

Thomm Quackenbush

#35. I felt it was really, really important, not just in the vein of feminist erasure or whatever but also just as an artist that I honored my work.

Kathleen Hanna

#36. In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny reappears continuously.

Victor Hugo

#37. Well, once I did 'Grease,' everyone was offering me studio pictures in a similar vein - you know, popcorn movie.

Randal Kleiser

#38. Any skills that I have, I couldn't really make money with them. I would like to think that maybe I would be doing something in psychology or something of that nature because I love that vein of medicine - the getting down and getting nitty-gritty.

Ian Harding

#39. I have visions and ideas about different things. Other actors just inspire you, so writing is something I would love to do more of. I would really be interested in doing something in that vein, writing something for myself or someone else and directing for sure.

Emayatzy E. Corinealdi

#40. Anna took his hand to gauge the swelling. 'Let's at least put something cold around it. Frozen peas work pretty well.'
'Do I have to eat them?'
'No, you just have to inject them into a vein,' Anna said.

Antonia Michaelis

#41. I've always said that I didn't want to be given a job because I was a female, I wanted it because I was the most well-qualified person for the job. And making certain that companies are going to move forward in that vein, that is what women want.

Marsha Blackburn

#42. I've always wanted to write science fiction. It was one of my first loves, and I knew if I became a writer someday I'd probably write something in the science fiction vein, but I hesitated for a long while because it's such well-trod ground.

Rick Yancey

#43. O, if so much beauty doth reveal
Itself in every vein of life and nature,
How beautiful must be the Source itself,
The Ever Bright One.

Esaias Tegner

#44. I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

Earl King

#45. He asks, in a softer voice, "Does your arm still hurt?"
You touch it with your hand. The big ache is gone, leaving only the little, underneath ache that will gather and swell against the bone. The blood leaks out of the vein where he grabbed you. But you say, "It's better now.

Jim Grimsley

#46. Shall any be his own artificer? or can there elsewhere be derived any vein, which may stream essence and life into us, save from thee, O Lord, in whom essence and life are one? for Thou Thyself art supremely Essence and Life.

Augustine Of Hippo

#47. The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn't just common to me; it's anybody who's funny.

Bill Bryson

#48. Progression is important. I'm always going to play music in the general vein of rock'n'roll, but when I started I was very much associated with the West Coast lo-fi thing and I didn't want to get anchored in with anything that was just in vogue for the time being.

Dee Dee Ramone

#49. Carlyle must undoubtedly plead guilty to the charge of mannerism. He not only has his vein, but his peculiar manner of working it.He has a style which can be imitated, and sometimes is an imitator of himself.

Henry David Thoreau

#50. In a world where irony reigns, where you have to separate, protect and laugh at anything that is honest or has an emotional charge, I bet for catharsis. I like to invest emotionally in things. And catharsis, when it touches the emotional vein, can open the doors of even those who protect themselves.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

#51. Yo, you 14-carat gold slum computer wizard,
Tappin' inside my rap vein causes blizzards!

Ghostface Killah

#52. The dog did not move as the needle was inserted, and, as the barbiturate began to flow into the vein, the anxious expression left his face and the muscles began to relax. By the time the injection was finished, the breathing had stopped.

James Herriot

#53. They rushed in like sickle cells forced through a vein.

Alex Adams

#54. But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.

Richard Marx

#55. I had a hand fetish. His hands were big, probably beneficial for that stupid sport he played. His were the kind of hands that made wedding rings look sexy - tan with vein lines that ran like snaking rivers to his wrist and disappeared under his sleeves.

Tarryn Fisher

#56. In comfort and abundance the Friend raised me. With vein and skin He tailored this ragged body. It's just a robe worn by a Sufi, the heart. The whole universe is a khaneqah1 and He is my Shaikh.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#57. There's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein.

Sol Stein

#58. Pretentiousness is a comedy vein filled with riches.

Torry Martin

#59. She was pretty sure Sample #17 had been some Lancre Blue Vein, which had reacted vigorously with the acid, blown a small hole in the ceiling and covered half the work-bench with a dark green substance that was setting like tar.

Terry Pratchett

#60. I find myself applying the addict's impulse to how I cruise. I don't look at the ass. If I see a hot guy walking towards me I look at his arm, and if he has a vein I fantasize about shooting up with him.

Kevin Sessums

#61. A generic vampire tale in the Underworld vein that comes closer to the infamous Van Helsing than a memorable re-interpretation of a legendary monster.

James Berardinelli

#62. The fever of war that would presently clog vein and artery, deaden nerve, and destroy brain, had yet to develop.

H.G.Wells

#63. The biggest challenges are in the same vein. It's about retaining all that stuff. Also, the physical stuff is not as easy as we originally thought. I play a lot of sports and I remember saying, "Oh, I'll be fine, running around or doing anything."

Steven Yeun

#64. Flattery does not encourage the perfect flow of love in the vein of your relationship. Be genuine and speak out what you feel for each other without hiding the painful truth.

Michael Bassey

#65. Writers should cut as close to the vein as possible. The readers don't want to be covered in your warm sticky blood, but they want to come as close to it as possible.

Robert Black

#66. I have all kinds of chest injuries; I tore my vein during 'Rocky II' and had 60 stitches. If you've seen 'Rocky Balboa,' you'll know how bad they look.

Sylvester Stallone

#67. Patience is the path to opportunities. We gain patience through prayer and meditation. Within that vein, we never consider ourselves having failed.

Ellen J. Barrier

#68. He slides his button-up under my ass and pulls down his boxer-briefs, freeing an enormous, vein-striped, purple-headed fuck machine.

Ella James

#69. And that is how a self-seeking hotchpotch distorts and debases the very finest social schemes. It is the black vein in white marble; it gets everywhere, appears under your chisel at any moment without warning. Your statue has to be redone.

Victor Hugo

#70. There is no essential self that lies pure as a vein of gold under the chaos of experience and chemistry. Anything can be changed, and we must understand the human organism as a sequence of selves that succumb to or choose one another.

Andrew Solomon

#71. Men ought to find the difference between saltiness and bitterness. Certainly, he that hath a satirical vein, as he maketh others afraid of his wit, so he had need be afraid of others' memory.

Francis Bacon

#72. The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

Thomas Carlyle

#73. I was surprised I was nominated for an Oscar because 'Cocoon' was such an ensemble picture. But now I'm certain it wasn't only for 'Cocoon.' It was a lifetime award, so I accepted it in that vein, and it probably meant more from a recognition standpoint.

Don Ameche

#74. It's time to start really writing some stuff, and I really wanted to write some stuff in the vein of the original Misfits, and this was really the first step in that direction.

Jerry Only

#75. the sound of a barrel organ rising from the deepest golden vein of the day; two or three bars of a chorus, played on a distant piano over and over again, melting in the sun on the white pavement, lost in the fire of high noon.

Bruno Schulz

#76. If I see another game that involves a kidnapped princess, queen, king or other royal family member, I'll scream. In the same vein, I think the karate genre has been done to death.

Andy Eddy

#77. It's your darkness that pulls me in. Your mud vein. But sometimes having a mud vein will kill you.

Tarryn Fisher

#78. My heart beats so hard it hurts, and I can't scream and I can't breathe, but I also feel everything, every vein and every fiber, every bone and every nerve, all awake and buzzing in my body as if charged with electricity. I am pure adrenaline.

Veronica Roth

#79. Stylistically speaking I would put us in the pop/rock vein. Although our songs tend to have a darker or moodier current running through them than usual pop/rock. I would say our music is very honest. We're not trying to be anybody or anything for anyone

Sherri DuPree

#80. When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.

Charles Lamb

#81. I have worked with this red all over the world - in Japan, California, France, Britain, Australia - a vein running round the earth. It has taught me about the flow, energy and life that connects one place with another.

Andy Goldsworthy

#82. Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one.

Henry David Thoreau

#83. I love Bob Dylan. Who doesn't? He tapped into some kind of vein and it keeps on keeping on. There's nobody like him. He's unique, and just ... way out cool.

David Lynch

#84. Mountains have long-lost kinfolk on the other side of the Atlantic. The bloodline that marks that kinship is a vein of a green mineral called serpentine ...

Sharyn McCrumb

#85. I don't like to use writing assignments, exercises. I think too often people get comfortable writing in that vein, but you can't go on to write a novel comprised of short writing exercises.

Chang-rae Lee

#86. May I take your vein for a moment? I find myself ... curiously depleted
Okay, right. Talk about your Johnny-on-the-spots: He locked them in and all but tore off his arm and threw it at her.

J.R. Ward

#87. The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited.

Cyril Connolly

#88. The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.

Karl Shapiro

#89. When I write...
I open a vein and bleed for the masses
It's all I know...

Suzanne Steele

#90. Once he became president, George [H.] Bush revealed a vein of Styrofoam and no matter how deep he tried to go, he always ended up bobbing on the surface. His inaugural speech was like being present at the death of language ...

Kate Clinton

#91. Better overcautious than missing a jugular vein, as the saying goes.
That was a very morbid saying. Maybe only vampire said it.

Sarah Rees Brennan

#92. I loved him beyond madness being one soul one vein one body , which he never deserved

Seema Gupta

#93. In the numerous observations made in my laboratory upon this object, we have only once seen a combination of vessels in which there might be a direct communication between a small artery and a vein, though the two observers could not come to a final conclusion on the point.

August Krogh

#94. The old junky has found a vein ... blood blossoms in the dropper like a Chinese flower ... he push home the heroin and the boy who jacked off fifty years ago shine immaculate through the ravaged flesh, fill the outhouse with the sweet nutty smell of young male lust.

William S. Burroughs

#95. I feel in colour, strong tones that I hue down for the comfort of the pastelly inclined. Beige and magnolia and a hint of pink are what the well-decorated heart is wearing; who wants my blood red and vein-blue?

Jeanette Winterson

#96. And she went on in this vein for a minute or two; she could talk about alloys the way some girls talked about shoes.

Neal Stephenson

#97. Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.

Victor Hugo

#98. and the inhabitants of Hispaniola, and other parts of the West Indies, when found out by Columbus, which abounded with gold mines, declared that they found by experience that the vein of gold is a living tree, (and

John Gill

#99. Some people think plant-based diet, whole foods diet is extreme. Half a million people a year will have their chests opened up and a vein taken from their leg and sewn onto their coronary artery. Some people would call that extreme.

Caldwell Esselstyn

#100. More interest you have more knowledge you have and more knowledge you have more questions you have and more questions means more wisdom you have and you are already inside the vein of life which is running with enormous speed.

Baris Gencel