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Books are so strong, you can break their spines and they will still stand for eternity.
Besides, if I'd decided to pull Carver's spine out of his body, I would've done it already."
"Can you actually do that?"
Curran frowned. "I don't know. I mean theoretically if you broke the spine above the pelvis, you could, but then there are ribs ... I'll have to try it sometime.
We have eyes and we have nerveses
We have tails we have teeth
You'll all get what you deserveses
When we rise from underneath.
Network Spinal Analysis represents the epitome of body work; it is at the leading of body/mind/spirit integration. This work will transform the planet.
There is a place where cerebral an corporeal meet: they call it rowing
Her spine wasn't really made of steel, after all. That was a silly saying, made up by someone who had never felt what it meant to be broken.
Our lives, and sometimes deaths, are stories written in bone.
Can angels lie spine to spine?
If not, how they must envy us humans
Look well to the spine for the cause of disease.
Why don't you show me the little bit of spine you've been saving for his mattress?
[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?
That which seems most feeble and bewildered in you is the strongest and most determined.
Is it not your breath that has erected and hardened the structure of your bones?
If leadership is the spinal cord of success then discipline is its lumbar vertebrae.
The body is a rock; the arms are snakes
What's still squirming in our bones when everything else is stripped?
Our ape-like and arboreal ancestors entered upon the first of many short cuts. To crack a marrow-bone with a rock was the act which fathered the tool, and between the cracking of a marrow-bone and the riding down town in an automobile lies only a difference of degree.
The tongue has no bones, but can break a heart.
"Christ, here we go. Backbone."
the strongest backs bear the heaviest burdens
And in my spine, at the very core of me, I am a tiger. Passionate and daring, impetuous, longing to rebel. Unpredictable and quick-tempered. But also determined and as obstinate as a solid wall of shidan--stone.
Blood, fat, marrow, grease, sinew, muscle, guts, hide, fur, sleep
They may twitch in their dreams when they sleep
but they sleep deep
I have two secret weapons
my legs, my arms and my brain.
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.
You do have a tendency to severe spinal cords."
"Only for you.
shoulders of a skeleton, and the five people
The weak sinews become strong by their conflict with difficulties.
Walls have tongues, and hedges ears.
The ribs are the wings of the body. Open your wings.
Commonly they must use their feet for defense whose only weapon is their tongue.
While my mind is flexible, these brittle bones don't bend.
Mother is the spine in me . The iron.
The long neck that extended from his stiff collar.
Deep ridges crossed his forehead like terraces in a Thai hillside, tucks in a leather cushion, troughs across a bloodhound's jowls.
I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotia - by the dog they would, if they had been moved only by their own idea of what was best.
(tr Jowett)
Beastly things, teeth. Give us trouble from the cradle to the grave.
Bumps are the things we climb on.
Bones gotta have a special place of respect," she'd told Ceelie more times than she could count. "You treat them right and they'll always speak true."
"The bones never lie," Ceelie whispered, placing the last one - a tiny skull - into the box and closing the lid.
Shiatsu, deep-tissue or maybe even Rolfing: Which manner of pummeling becomes a cephalopod most?
When it comes to the battle of the molluscs, cephalopods win tentacles down.
The tongue like a sharp knife ... Kills without drawing blood.
Some people develop a wishbone where their backbone should be.
Shoulders can carry great weights; minds, even much greater!
A weathered skeleton
in windy fields of memory,
piercing like a knife.
My fingers positively itched to drift at length along their spines, to arrive at one whose lure I could not pass, to pluck it down, to inch it open, then to close my eyes and inhale the soul-sparking scent of old and literate dust.
Bent creatures are full of fears
And even though the dinosaur's arms have frequently been ridiculed, T. rex traded grasping arms for a heavy skull capable of delivering devastating bites.
NECK: I am flexible. I welcome other viewpoints.
A tongue is about the size of a bullet, but much more fierce and powerful.
Ever since the development of the spine, the individual had become paramount, the group disregarded. Ghiselle was only following the downhill path of her species.
Biceps are like ornaments on a Christmas tree.
But when I look in the basin, among the curdlike blood clots, I see and elfin thorax, attentuated, its pencilline ribs all in parallel rows with tiny knobs of spine rounding upwards. A translucent arm and hand swim beside.
When TJ and I got to the bottom, we found Hope staring terrified at Molly. The dog had something long and horrible and meaty in her jaws. It took me a moment to register that it was a very fresh-looking human spine. Damn, she was hungry.
Purled and meandering lines drawn by knives; brain and bone exposed by stones; the rope still digging at his throat.
Every vertebra, every knuckle, both kneecaps, both hips. I am a pile of bones on the floor and no one knows it but me. I am a broken skeleton with a beating heart.
the brains of your generation.
The spine of the FBI is the rule of law. The spine of the FBI is a commitment to doing the right thing, in the right way, while protecting civil liberties.
How are my ribs? They're so meaningless it's hard to believe,
Muscles I know; they are my friends. But I have forgotten their names.
Pain is the touchstone of all growth
I am inclined to think that these muscles and bones of mine would have gone off long ago to Megara or Boeotia - by the dog they would, if they had been moved only by their own idea of what was best.
(<>trong>trtrong> Jowett)
I took my brains out and stretched them on the rack, now I'm not too sure I'm gonna get them back.
Would that the Roman people had but one neck!
And upper to midcervical spinal cord, above C4.
A brain of feathers, and a heart of lead.
The animals' neural pathways have woven themselves into a new map that corresponds to the new arrangement of nerves in their hands. At first, he can't believe what he's seen. Like every other neuroscientist, he's been taught that the structure of the adult brain is fixed.
Strength? What strength! This is a weak, flopping, sloshy, repulsive collection of nerves and ganglia. Don't even mention the word 'strength.
A memory swam up from the depths, its hideous, reptilian spine almost breaking the surface before it swam powerfully away from him.
A hard pain it Munro's spine as it lurched into an awkward curve, arching his back off the surface where he lay. Muscles contracted, jerking and releasing, jerking and releasing. The calm voices grew insistent and frenzied, but in a controlled, orchestrated way.
Limbs of a dismembered poet.
the wrinkled sleeve of the head
Get a backbone, not a wishbone,
They have shrunk from inquiry, though they have strained after punishment. I have in every shape dared the one, that I might, so far as lay in my power, be able to secure the other.
To understand others you should get behind their eyes and walk down their spines.
I was raised with all the advantages except a backbone.
A plane of cheekbone,
Some people think their fingers are toes or claws, but they're actually finger bones.
The truth of the matter is, the soul is a monstrous beast. The heart a most unwieldy and a fair weather friend. Why else woud ribs be cages
If I tell my bones they're a cage
maybe they'll keep this
snarling heart contained.
Tell me my heart beats a war drum
that my eyes are not just armies
but my spine
is a harpoon.
Tortoises are incredible creatures," Dad says earnestly. "What they lack in elegance and beauty they more than make up for in the ability to curl up and defend themselves from predators."
"What, like me?
That special substance according to whose mass and degree of development all the creatures of this world take rank in the scale of creation, is not bone, but brain.
Wide gape the gates of yellowed bone. A tongue of plank is our path between the teeth as we walk toward the gullet. Here I will be devoured. This is a true thing, near unavoidable on any path. I must enter those jaws.
Never grow a wishbone, daughter, where you backbone ought to be.
Fingers. They had served them to Littlefinger,
Spine transplants are what we really need to take Reagan on.
The teeth on [the viperfish] are so long that if they closed inside the mouth of the fish, it would actually impale its own brain.
Where does the hand become the wrist?
where does the neck become the shoulder? The watershed
and then the weight, whatever turns up and tips us over that
razor's edge
between something and nothing, between
one and the other.
The Vengeance's sides and bow were covered in metal spikes, making it resemble a large floating cactus.
Things that go bump in the brain.
The bones are hard and by themselves seem dead and stony, but by rooting into and pulling against the skeleton, the rest of the body carries out all the motions of life.
One dumb-bell, Watson! Consider an athlete with one dumb-bell. Picture to yourself the unilateral development - the imminent danger of a spinal curvature. Shocking, Watson, shocking!
- What are those?
- Teeth. Wood.
- But w ...
- I like to bite them back.
Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna, they deserve both our study and our appreciation.
The currency of evolution is neither hunger nor pain, but rather copies of DNA helixes
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.
He was so crooked, you could have used his spine for a safety-pin.
The collar-bone is my favourite part of the human body.
HEARTS ARE
WILD CREATURES
THAT'S WHY
OUR RIBS
ARE CAGES.
What I remember are tentacles. Tentacles and teeth.
Three things at least they [good politicians] must require; the first is back-bone; the second is back-bone; and the third is back-bone.