Spine Quotes

270 Spine quotes by 222 unique authors

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… — Spike Lee
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… — Jerry Lewis
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… — Hilary Mantel
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… — Conor Oberst
'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… — Jerry Saltz
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.… — Jill Scott
Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well. — Lawrence Welk
he looked around at the books on the walls, at their dark, worn spines, and he seemed to hear a strange, distant murmur coming from… — Arturo PÃ©rez-Reverte
Bubble gum angels swooped from top margins or scraped their wings between teeming paragraphs, maidens with golden hair dripped sea blue tears into the books… — Jeffrey Eugenides
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. — Jodi Picoult
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… — Vladimir Nabokov
I read," I say. "I study and read. I bet I've read everything you read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out… — David Foster Wallace
You have to be an artist and a madman, a creature of infinite melancholy, with a bubble of hot poison in your loins and a… — Vladimir Nabokov
That was the funniest thing I'd heard in days. You're kidding, right? PLEASE tell me you have a stronger motive for me than 'fair is… — James Patterson
I woke with a terrible headache and wobbled around 'till I fell out the window." "You what?" "Fell out the window. That one over there."… — Megan Whalen Turner
Although we read with our minds, the seat of artistic delight is between the shoulder blades. That little shiver behind is quite certainly the highest… — Vladimir Nabokov
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. — Steven Morrissey
She said it out loud, the words distributed into a room that was full of cold air and books. Books everywhere! Each wall was armed… — Markus Zusak
When they made love Geryon liked to touch in slow succession each of the bones of Herakles' back as it arched away from him into… — Anne Carson
How not to imagine the tumors ripening beneath his skin, flesh I have kissed, stroked with my fingertips, pressed my belly and breasts against, some… — Dorianne Laux
The zipper opened all the way down our spines. — Jeffrey Eugenides
The front door flew open, and Mary shot out of the house, jumping off the porch, not even bothering with the steps to the ground.… — J R Ward
His eyes were eggs of unstable crystal, vibrating with a frequency whose name was rain and the sound of trains, suddenly sprouting a humming forest… — William Gibson
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… — Carlos Ruiz Zafon
Books can be possessive, can't they? You're walking around in a bookstore and a certain one will jump out at you, like it had moved… — Sarah Addison Allen

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