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The worst is still ahead of us. But no one in Washington has the spine to tell you that. -- Glenn Beck
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 life. -- Conor Oberst
Total relaxation is the secret to enjoying sitting meditation. I sit with my spine upright, but not rigid; and I relax all the muscles in my body. -- Nhat Hanh
The first time I acted was in high school in Florida, and when I heard that applause I felt so alive and felt that electricity go up my spine. -- Angela Bassett
I have a bad back partially from playing the drums and singing. I used to have to hold my body in such a position that my spine got out of alignment. -- Don Henley
That old black magic has me in its spell, That old black magic that you weave so well; Icy fingers up and down my spine, The same old witchcraft when your eyes meet mine. -- Johnny Mercer
I think most people, even if they say they hate horror movies, there's that feeling you get inside that you love. I mean, I love it. I love to have the hairs on the back of my neck stand up or get that chill up my spine. -- Barry Watson
My body is damaged from music in two ways. I have a red irritation in my stomach. It's psychosomatic, caused by all the anger and the screaming. I have scoliosis, where the curvature of your spine is bent, and the weight of my guitar has made it worse. I'm always in pain, and that adds to the anger in our music. -- Kurt Cobain
You're only as old as your spine. -- Joseph Pilates
A man is as old as his spine is flexible! -- Joseph Pilates
He is simply a shiver looking for a spine to run up -- Paul Keating
You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me. -- Patrick Rothfuss
Yoga is the fountain of youth. You're only as young as your spine is flexible. -- Bob Harper
You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall. -- James Geary
The yogi will tell you that you feel and look as young as your spine is elastic. -- Richard Hittleman
The spine is the lifeline. A lot of people should go to a chiropractor but they don't know it. -- Jack LaLanne
If your spine is inflexibly stiff at 30, you are old. IF it is completely flexible at 60, you are young. -- Joseph Pilates
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 that occurs the telltale tingle... -- Vladimir Nabokov
I like the weight, look, and feel of a book. I enjoy turning the pages, and frequently scan the spines of my many books on the wall, each title a reminder of the stored information and creative thoughts contained therein. -- Al Seckel
No man worth his salt, no man of spirit and spine, no man for whom I could have any respect, could rejoice in the identification of Tallulah's husband. It's tough enough to be bogged down in a legend. It would be even tougher to marry one. -- Tallulah Bankhead
No one who has experienced facing a screaming, boiling, hysterical audience can avoid feeling shivers in the spine. It's a thin line between celebration and menace. -- Agnetha Faltskog
What an electric thrill it sends up and down the spine, how it sets the heart racing: A Royal Romance! A Royal Wedding! The pomp and the pageantry! -- Hamish Bowles
I believe that political correctness can be a form of linguistic fascism, and it sends shivers down the spine of my generation who went to war against fascism. -- P. D. James
Stop a minute, right where you are. Relax your shoulders, shake your head and spine like a dog shaking off cold water. Tell that imperious voice in your head to be still. -- Barbara Kingsolver
When your mind is fully withdrawn in superconsciousness, it becomes centered in the bliss of the spine. You are then in your ideational, or causal, body. That is the level of the soul. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
Michael Myers is a very famous character. This is the ninth movie with Michael Myers, and when you put on that mask for the first time, you get a little chill going down your spine. -- Tyler Mane
A great number of the women are victims to falling of the womb and weakness in the spine; but these are necessary results of their laborious existence, and do not belong either to climate or constitution. -- Fanny Kemble
Especially with the live, just the way I curve words, it's about expression. It's so emotive, to be able to release these words into a mike. It really emphasizes this insane tingle down my spine whenever I play. -- King Krule
When it kind of went to 'Street Fighter', where you had to push 13 buttons with all 13 of your fingers and ripped the spine out of somebody, you know, violent games lost the women. Complexity lost the casual gamer. -- Nolan Bushnell
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 choices. You go this way, or that way, and either way, there's going to be consequences. -- Spike Lee
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. And all of that has made me feel sexier and stronger. I call it 'lava in my spine.' -- Jill Scott
But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter. -- Sally Field
I admired the way McCain worked on campaign finance reform. I admired the way Nancy Pelosi stiffened the Democrats' spine during the health care debate. I admire the way Barack Obama has raised a dog in the White House without ever putting it on the roof of the car for a vacation drive. -- Gail Collins
My life changed irrevocably four-and-a-half years ago when my spine failed and collapsed. I spent two years on the floor, in excruciating, debilitating and unrelenting pain. I can only describe the pain as being submerged into a vat of scalding acid that has an electric current running through it. And you can never get out, ever. -- Bill Walton
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 cut bone away to accommodate it. Now I put on the power here. If I have the pain, the stimulator starts. It's tingling, like when your foot falls asleep, you know? -- Jerry Lewis
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 in color or felt with his intellect, the radical color, dynamic distortion, heart, soul, and part-by-part structure in these paintings make him a bridge to a new vision and the vision itself. -- Jerry Saltz
For my first show at 'SNL', I wrote a Bill Clinton sketch, and during our read-through, it wasn't getting any laughs. This weight of embarrassment came over me, and I felt like I was sweating from my spine out. But I realized, 'Okay, that happened, and I did not die.' You've got to experience failure to understand that you can survive it. -- Tina Fey
Meat' is a vague term and can be used to refer to many parts of an animal, including internal organs and skin. For the most part, the meat we eat consists of muscle tissue taken from farm animals, whether it's a sirloin steak, which is cut from the rear of a cow, or a pork chop, taken from flesh near the spine of a pig. -- Michael Specter
Life is so spine chillingly beautiful. -- Amani
I can snap your spine like a toothpick. -- Dave Barry
When in sickness, look to the spine first. -- Hippocrates
Pelosi's problem is her spine doesn't reach her brain. -- Liz Cheney
My books are written with a strong chronological spine. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
Without the accurate spine movement, one can't exist dynamically. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
You are as young as your spine is flexible. -- Richard Hittleman
The spine is the tree of life. Respect it. -- Martha Graham
Stiffening the spine of progressive members of Congress is crucial. -- Ezra G. Levin
You are only as young as your spine is flexible. -- Joseph Pilates
If you would seek health, look first to the spine. -- Socrates
The famous pilot season literally sends shivers down my spine. -- Lily James
Look well to the spine for the cause of disease. -- Hippocrates
The spine is best at bearing a load in an arch -- Mark Rippetoe
I want history to jump on Canada's spine with sharp skates. -- Leonard Cohen
The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine. -- Ralph Waldo Emerson
Get knowledge of the spine, for this is the requisite for many diseases -- Hippocrates
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I always thought that the spine of a character was awe and wonder. -- William Shatner
He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin. -- Dorothy L. Sayers
Purpose is a soft virtue- but it's what gives you steel in your spine. -- Rich Karlgaard
Son, you'll know you're in love when a woman's voice settles into your spine. -- David Weber
Your core supports your spine and your torso. Everything you do depends on it. -- Jaime Pressly
I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron. -- St. Vincent
When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called rent-a-spine -- Margaret Thatcher
Real hope is much more than wishful musing. It stiffens, not slackens, the spiritual spine. -- Neal A. Maxwell
No one achieves great things by following the crowd. Have a spine. Strike your own path. -- Robert Kiyosaki
Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars. -- Robert Anton Wilson
Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars." -- Robert Anton Wilson
Each spine was an encapsulated memory, each book represented hours, days of pleasure, of immersion into words. -- Audrey Niffenegger
I want the cabinet to stand up and have a spine and a backbone and take responsibility. -- Alex Sink
If something goes wrong, don't whine about it. Have a spine about it. Adjust, adapt, and move forward. -- Ralph Marston
Complaining about your current position in life is worthless. Have a spine and do something about it instead. -- Robert Kiyosaki
My rhyming skills got you climbing hills, I'll travel through your mind into your spine like siren drills. -- Eminem
Focus on keeping your spine straight. It is the job of the spine to keep the brain alert. -- B.K.S. Iyengar
Hey man, I gotta straighten my face. This mellow thighed chick just put my spine out of place. -- David Bowie
The spine, and I do not attempt to conceal the fact, had become soluble, in the last degree. -- P. G. Wodehouse
Night after night I could feel the chills go up and down my spine, they played so well. -- Lawrence Welk
I missed him. Love, I realized, was something your spine memorized. There was nothing you could do about that. -- Lorrie Moore
What doesn't kill you, makes you stronger...unless it instead snaps your spine. Then it makes you a paraplegic. -- Kelli Jae Baeli
The spine should be empty so that energy moves up and down. I always felt this way as a child. -- Laura Huxley
It takes a lot of spine and stomach to make yourself into something when no one gives you a foundation. -- Nora Roberts
A shiver runs down your spine when you realize it is not our imagination. Something is watching us out there.... -- Sophy Burnham
Someone is dead. Even the trees know it, those poor old dancers who come on lewdly, all pea-green scarfs and spine pole. -- Anne Sexton
Watching artists like Joplin perform, I felt that tingle down my spine; I experienced the wonders of a cultural and musical revolution. -- Clive Davis
I rejoice in my spine, as in the firm audacious staff of that flag which I fling half out to the world. -- Herman Melville
If you have a good spine, the gods will chase you. Nobody has psychological or emotional problems, everyone has a bad spine. -- Bikram Choudhury
The mystical kundalini goes the other direction. It starts at the base of the spine, at the root chakra and goes up. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I have a very strong, very proven record that I am not a compromiser. I have a spine made out of titanium. -- Michele Bachmann
But when I thought I hit bottom, it started hitting back. There is no bruise like the bruise loneliness kicks into your spine. -- Andrea Gibson
The reason the Democrats are so intent on passing a stem-cell bill is they're depending on the research to grow themselves a spine. -- Will Durst
I like women who can throw a ball and laugh loud and have some spine, and I like men who don't mind cooking dinner. -- Paula Cole
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
It was spine tingling, actually, when you saw how people kept saying, "Release Nelson Mandela," and meaning really, "Release all of our political prisoners." -- Desmond Tutu
You do what you have to do or a bigger demon eats out your liver and uses your spine to pick its teeth. (Caleb) -- Sherrilyn Kenyon
History, with its hard spine & dog-eared Corners, will be replaced with nuance, Just like the dinosaurs gave way To mounds and mounds of ice. -- Tracy K. Smith
I was a semi-professional gymnast as a child. I did rhythmic gymnastics, but I sustained an injury and strained all the muscles in my spine. -- Gwendoline Christie
Nothing scares me, because I used to think I was indestructible. Now I know I'm indestructible, not to mention my spine is indestructible. It's all titanium. -- Jason Priestley
TAIL, n. The part of an animal's spine that has transcended its natural limitations to set up an independent existence in a world of its own. -- Ambrose Bierce
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 dreams. -- Carlos Ruiz Zafon
My whole family is in orthotics and prosthetics, so I grew up having to check for scoliosis every week. 'Come over. Let me feel your spine. -- Logan Lerman
There will be a whole new spirit blowing through Texas. There will be a smile on everybody's face and a chill up the spine of every politician. -- Kinky Friedman
The book itself [The Thorn and The Blossom] is bound accordion-style: it has no spine, so it can open in either direction, and it's in a slipcase. -- Theodora Goss
The spine is the highway to the Infinite. Your own body is the temple of God. It is within your own self that God must be realized. -- Paramahansa Yogananda
People are under the assumption that the kundalini just flows from the base of the spine up. That's not the case at all. Kundalini also flows downward. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
I've had 36 orthopedic operations, have two fused ankles, my knees, hands and wrists don't work, I now have a fused spine, other than that, everything is great. -- Bill Walton
Sitting tightens your chest. For a great release, lie faceup on a foam roller placed lengthwise under your spine, and stretch your arms out to your side. -- Mary Whipple
Iggy's spine tightened, his face like ice. When he'd been at the School, they'd tried to surgically enhance his night vision. Now he was blind forever. Oops. -- James Patterson
Peter." The fine hair along her spine rising, Vicky could feel the power in a name. This is who you are, it said. Come back to us. -- Tanya Huff
I have the most perfect belly button. When I stick my fingers in it, I feel a nerve in the center of my body shoot up my spine. -- Madonna Ciccone
Gone is the blinding glow in his hands - gone, too, is the illusion of purity and beauty! In it's place all that remains is mind-numbing, spine-chilling reality! -- Dave Sim
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Of course, just because we've heard a spine-chilling, blood-curdling scream of the sort to make your very marrow freeze in your bones doesn't automatically mean there's anything wrong. -- Terry Pratchett
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Shivers up and down my spine It's a feeling so divine Let me go back for a while Got to go back for a while To that magic time... -- Van Morrison
The FA would remove him tomorrow if they had a spine, but clearly, in former lives, were cruel to jellyfish which is why they have returned as them now. -- Martin Samuel
I am thinking of our family's womenas faraway bulbs, their historywith crippling loss, and how I am pieced together, shell and sand,from the spine of their collective strength. -- Jerrold Yam
A bubble of fear passes up my spine. It's the feeling of standing on ice and suddenly hearing it crack under your weight - both thrilling and terrifying together. -- Hannah Kent
You know that feeling you get when your leg falls asleep? Well, I suddenly had that feeling in my spine. Like termites were chewing through the marrow in my backbone. -- Neal Shusterman
Actually, if you could see close in my eyes, the American flag is waving in both of them and up my spine is growing this red, white and blue stripe. -- Walt Disney
The shushumna is a tube. It is an astral tube, like a reed. It runs from the base of the spine to between the eyebrows and a little bit above. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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