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  • Unless you want to hang a This Vein for Rent sign around your neck, move already! -- Rachel Caine
  • I'm definitely a singer-songwriter. I'm somewhere in the vein between Elliott Smith and Jack Johnson. -- Bryan Greenberg
  • Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it. -- Charles Lamb
  • I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture. -- Elisabeth Shue
  • If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein. -- Marilyn Monroe
  • The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear. -- Karl Shapiro
  • Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical. -- Derrick Jensen
  • But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever. -- Richard Marx
  • When we are truly aware of our spiritual glory, a varicose vein or two is not that big a deal. -- Marianne Williamson
  • Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow. -- Tobias Wolff
  • The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green. -- Thomas Carlyle
  • He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death. -- Thomas Paine
  • 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
  • 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
  • I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That's the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein. -- Mike Nichols
  • 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
  • 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
  • You get used to working with one choreographer. You kind of get stuck in that vein and you work your way out of it, picking up someone else's style, their flavor. It takes a bit of time. -- Janet Jackson
  • For some reason, I seem to be bothered whenever I see acts of injustice and assaults on people's civil liberties. I imagine what I write in the future will follow in that vein. Whether it's fiction or non-fiction. -- Iris Chang
  • Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength. It is in men as in soils, where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not of. -- Jonathan Swift
  • Sometimes in churches somebody will discover a particular vein of spirituality and seek to recruit others into it, or assume a superior position because they have found certain techniques - but no one actually wants to become like them. -- John Ortberg
  • 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
  • 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
  • The Host' is very much in the same vein as 'Twilight', and there's clearly a huge fan base out there. But I can't imagine myself being as huge as Robert Pattinson. I'm not sure I could handle that level of fame. -- Max Irons
  • 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
  • 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
  • Music is a language and different people who come along are each using that language to do something different, but all coming at it in a similar vein inasmuch as it's always community based and for the most part nonprofit. Most bands don't ever come within a mile of profit - clearly these people are not playing music to make money. -- Ian MacKaye
  • I am not in the giving vein today. -- William Shakespeare
  • Writing is easy. Just sit down and open a vein. -- Red Barber
  • Are you happy when you stick a needle in your vein? -- Stevie Wonder
  • A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men. -- Thomas Carlyle
  • I shot a vein in my neck and coughed up a quaalude. -- Lou Reed
  • I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein. -- Earl King
  • Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • Yo, you 14-carat gold slum computer wizard, Tappin' inside my rap vein causes blizzards! -- Ghostface Killah
  • I loved him beyond madness being one soul one vein one body , which he never deserved -- Seema Gupta
  • Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake. -- Samuel Richardson
  • We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides. -- Chuck Mangione
  • You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck. -- Rumi
  • Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse. -- Joseph Addison
  • I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream. -- Jim Jarmusch
  • Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement. -- John Locke
  • When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power. -- Charles Lamb
  • I think there is just a vein of humanity that really loves animals and really loves to read about them. -- Sara Gruen
  • It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not. -- Jonathan Swift
  • We have an electronic vein we have tapped and applied it to a rock setting like tons of bands out there. -- Mike Lowry
  • And the thought of that makes me want to open a vein, experience pain, know I'm alive, despite this living death. -- Ellen Hopkins
  • I feel television is in a fantastically rich vein of what it's presenting both by opportunity to actors and to audiences. -- David Oyelowo
  • Writing is easy. Just sit in front of a typewriter, open up a vein and bleed it out drop by drop. -- Red Smith
  • Well, once I did 'Grease,' everyone was offering me studio pictures in a similar vein - you know, popcorn movie. -- Randal Kleiser
  • Slice open one of my veins and cartoons will pour out; open another vein and you'll get a flood of motor oil. -- John Lasseter
  • Showing a lack of self-control is in the same vein granting authority to others: 'Perhaps I need someone else to control me. -- Criss Jami
  • 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
  • The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong. -- Virginia Woolf
  • Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein. -- Charlotte Bronte
  • 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
  • In vain we chisel, as best we can, the mysterious block of which our life is made, the black vein of destiny reappears continually -- Victor Hugo
  • 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
  • ...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
  • A man I knew who lived upon a smile, And well it fed him; he look'd plump and fair, While rankest venom foam'd through every vein. -- Edward Young
  • 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
  • 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
  • I am, I am not, I will be, I will not be are vein thoughts which is a sickness and once all are eliminated no desire arises. -- Gautama Buddha
  • 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
  • As polishing expresses the vein in marble, and grain in wood, so music brings out what of heroic lurks anywhere. The hero is the sole patron of music. -- Henry David Thoreau
  • When 'Ally McBeal' started, I went, 'Oh, my God.' It's like what I was doing. 'Bridget Jones' was in the same vein. I identify with all of them. -- Melanie Mayron
  • There aren't many things as therapeutic as smiles and laughter. Whenever you look at things in a lighter vein, it shows that your heart is in the right place. -- Douglas Pagels
  • That's what I think is smart about 'Durham County.' It's not derivative of anything American. It's more in the vein of the BBC miniseries I grew up with. -- Michelle Forbes
  • The sky over Patusan was blood-red, immense, streaming like an open vein. An enormous sun nestled crimson amongst the treetops, and the forest below had a black and forbidding face. -- Joseph Conrad
  • Found a good voice and took advantage of it. Each of my specialties was like a prospector discovering a vein of gold. I worked each until the vein was exhausted. -- W. P. Kinsella
  • 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.
  • In the same vein as these events, National Minority Health Month also serves as a reminder of how much work needs to be done to eliminate health and healthcare inequities. -- Elijah Cummings
  • Young writers often mistakenly choose a certain vein or style based on who they want to be, unconsciously trying to blot out who they actually are. You want to escape yourself. -- Mary Karr
  • A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism, and spends his energies upon that -- Joseph Rickaby
  • I definitely feel like, as a singer, I've been able to transition into acting because I always saw them in the same vein. It's all about connecting and telling a story. -- Naturi Naughton
  • 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 Johnson
  • 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 Johnson
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
  • I walk this road of flames and danger alone. To see the ocean of dreams. And drink from its endless freedom that flows though our vein's to be someone/something much more than human. -- sequence kye kenneth young
  • 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
  • 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
  • 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
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