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My guitars are my umbilical cord. They're directly wired into my head. -- Kirk Hammett
The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord. -- John Gregory Dunne
I was born dead. Yeah, the umbilical cord was like, floppy baby, the whole thing. Yeah, it was bad. -- Charlie Sheen
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices -- Irwin Shaw
There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire. -- Moss Hart
Cut the umbilical cord to yesterday. Although we can't change history, we change the effect the past has on the future. -- Lee Ezell
Hey birthers, wanna hear my theory? My theory was that Obama was born in America and you were born with the umbilical cord around your neck. -- Bill Maher
In fighting nature, man can win every battle except the last. If he should win that too, he will perish, like an embryo cutting its own umbilical cord. -- Thor Heyerdahl
Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers. -- Charles Bukowski
Even the two times that I left, I never really felt like I left the band. It's very bizarre. It's like there's sort of an umbilical cord that stretches between us spiritually. -- Rick Wakeman
Using adult stem cells drawn from bone marrow and umbilical cord blood system cells, scientists have discovered new treatments for scores of diseases and conditions such as Parkinson's disease, juvenile diabetes, and spinal cord injuries. -- Nathan Deal
Story is the umbilical cord that connects us to the past, present, and future. Family. Story is a relationship between the teller and the listener, a responsibility. . . . Story is an affirmation of our ties to one another. -- Terry Tempest Williams
Women age early, and their mistake is not knowing where to hide all the time that lies behind them so that no one sees it. What are they to do, devour it like the umbilical cords of their children? Hell and damnation! -- Elfriede Jelinek
Art lost its basic creative drive the moment it was separated from worship. It severed an umbilical cord and now lives its own sterile life, generating and degenerating itself. In former days the artist remained unknown and his work was to the glory of God. -- Ingmar Bergman
In a sane society no woman would be left to struggle on her own with the huge transformation that is motherhood, when a single individual finds herself joined by an invisible umbilical cord to another person from whom she will never be separated, even by death. -- Germaine Greer
My mother was very involved with me. And we had a dialogue constantly. And it was like an umbilical cord. As long as the words were flowing back and forth we were connected and feeding each other. And I probably grew up very afraid of losing that connection. -- Howard Stern
For a writer, mail is not just a collection of bills and letters and offers to subscribe to Sports Illustrated. It's an umbilical cord, a connection to the outside world, the giver of pleasure and pain. It shapes the day, is the moment, inexorable as the tide, toward which all the hours rise and fall. -- Mameve Medwed
I'd learned how to lie and manipulate from an early age so a combination of that, desperation, having to have my own fridge and my umbilical cord back... I had to go out into the world. Then some angel somewhere said: "Have you considered going to drama school?" And this sounded like the solution to all of my problems. -- Tom Hardy
When I was born, the umbilical cord came wrapped around my neck, so when I came out, I wasn't breathing. The cord had cut off my oxygen - not the entire time, just at the end, when my mom was giving birth. When I came out, I wasn't conscious, so they had to work on bringing me back. It was a crazy moment. -- LaMarcus Aldridge
Spiritual is hooked up to the invisible umbilical cord of my Lord, Kumbiya. -- Ludacris
Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk? -- James Lee Burke
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices. -- Irwin Shaw
With my first son I cut his umbilical cord and everything, so I'm a hands-on father, to say the least. -- Mekhi Phifer
Well, people got attatched. Once you cut the umbilical cord they attatched to the other things. Sight, sound, sex, money, mirages, mothers, masturbation, murder, and Monday morning hangovers -- Charles Bukowski
Most cinema is not about images but text. Why on earth have we based cinema on text? Why can't we break that umbilical cord? Why do we have to pollute cinema? -- Peter Greenaway
The greatest satisfaction, I think, is when a building opens and the public possesses it and you cut the umbilical cord and you see it taking on its own life. There's no greater satisfaction. -- Moshe Safdie

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