Vertebrae Quotes

#1. Taking Mum's hand, I whispered Are we really safe, here?

Alwyn Evans

#2. Leisure and the cultivation of human capacities are inextricably interdependent.

Margaret Mead

#3. The loss inside him kept piling - vertebrae shattered, finger bones lost, gravestone past and guillotine future, ghost woman and her ghost curls,

Ryan Graudin

#4. In a perfect patch of paradise he stays immobile for an eternity while the predawn breath strokes his skin and kisses each vertebrae down his spine.

Poppet

#5. I am growing old of course, but I am still in the early stages of disintegration, and regarded as just about cool enough by some fashionable young ppl to be permitted to think aloud.

Pete Townshend

#6. The worst beauty advice that I have ever taken has been from people who have told me that sunscreen isn't necessary. Not true!

Amanda Schull

#7. This is what books should do: Carry a person and not be carried by him; take the day off his back, not add its own ounces of paper to his vertebrae.

Erri De Luca

#8. Another time I cracked two of the vertebrae in my back and broke a rib.

Zakk Wylde

#9. What I need is an Urban Thesaurus. I know what money is what I need is 600 different ways to say it.

Gary Gulman

#10. The physical concerns and misalignment we experience in the spinal vertebrae of our body are often directly correlated with the spiritual energetic ability to flow freely as well.

Dashama Konah Gordon

#11. It's amazing how quickly evangelicals turn into evangellyfish with no spiritual vertebrae when they start to lose money, job security, cultural clout, or public support.

Mark Driscoll

#12. All the drugs in the world cannot adjust a subluxated vertebrae

B. J. Palmer

#13. Once you start compromising your thoughts, you're a candidate for mediocrity.

Neil Simon

#14. A pat on the back is only a few vertebrae removed from a kick in the pants, but is miles ahead in results.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#15. We spent the next two hours holding each other, Adrian's fingers kneading his history across my skin. My vertebrae became pinpoints on the time line he lingered upon, as I kissed my questions along his shoulders and neck.

Jessica Topper

#16. When you have committed enough words to paper, you feel you have a spine stiff enough to stand up in the wind. But when you stop writing, you find that's all you are - a spine, a row of rattling vertebrae, dried out like an old quill pen.

Hilary Mantel

#17. Life imitates art but art intimidates life.

Dana Gould

#18. It is most necessary to know the nature of the spine. One or more vertebrae may or may not go out of place very much and if they do, they are likely to produce serious complications and even death, if not properly adjusted. Many diseases are related to the spine.

Hippocrates

#19. She was young and alive, untouchable. Why did she want to go?

Courtney Summers

#20. The Line welcomed rain and sun. Seeds germinated in mass graves, between skulls and femurs and broken pick handles, tendrils rose up alongside dog spikes and clavicles, thrust around teak sleepers and tibias, scapulas, vertebrae, fibulas and femurs.

Richard Flanagan

#21. Twenty thousand days and nights in one place, each layered and trapped and folded on top of the last, the creases in her hands, the aches between her vertebrae. Embryo, seed coat, endosperm: What is a seed if not the purest kind of memory, a link to every generation that has gone before it?

Anthony Doerr

#22. I'm out in the ring, Shawn Michaels turns to me and says, 'Hey, I got a couple of vertebrae out. Would you mind puttin 'em in with that chair?' He turns his back, I whack him and all of a sudden I'm a bad guy.

Kevin Nash

#23. The basic principle, and the principles of chiropractic which have been developed from it are not new. They are as old as the vertebrae ... I am not the first person to replace subluxated vertebra, for this art has been practiced for thousands of years.

Daniel D. Palmer

#24. Empedolces claims that in utero, our backbone is one long solid; and that through the constriction of the womb and the punishments of birth it must be snapped again and again to form our vertebrae; that for the child to have a spine, his back must first be broken

M T Anderson

#25. But there's one thing that I understand, and it is that when all those emotional vertebrae broke and reformed they had a different quality. They began to have a word-making, listen-to-me quality. They began to know they were worth more.

Cara Ellison

#26. Envy blinds men and makes it impossible for them to think clearly.

Malcolm X

#27. If leadership is the spinal cord of success then discipline is its lumbar vertebrae.

Noel DeJesus

#28. I cannot love a soul so dark it eats up others' light

Lauren Kate

#29. Caxton crawled into the back while Arkeley took the front passenger seat. His fused vertebrae trumped her sprained ribs, he announced.

David Wellington

#30. Spanking outdoors has the double pleasure of doing something illicit and doing it in a place where you might be seen. In every woman, I came to realise, there is a desire to be naked, a desire to be seen naked and the desire to be spanked.

Chloe Thurlow

#31. The alliance of love between a man and a woman, an alliance for life, cannot be improvised, and is not made in a day.

Pope Francis

#32. Just like many Popish Plotters before them, these had promptly begun to "commit suicide" in the Tower. One had even managed the heroic feat of cutting his own throat all the way to the vertebrae!

Neal Stephenson

#33. A beautiful nap this afternoon that put velvet between my vertebrae.

Henry Miller

#34. [Jack] checked his watch, then returned to studying her back. damn if she didn't have a nice back, too - smooth, unblemished skin, nicely shaped vertebrae-
He pulled himself up short. Nicely shaped vertebrae? Was he going insane?

Sarah Mayberry

#35. Every vertebrae on his back was a prayer bead under my hands.

Amy Lane

#36. The skeleton picked up the second skull, so worn as to barely be recognisable as such. The vertebrae fell and rolled like beads from a string.

J.A. Clement