Veins Quotations

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.

I have wondered sometimes if there are not perhaps some disadvantages in having really blue blood in one's veins, like grandmamma and me.

Summer has filled her veins with light and her heart is washed with noon.

Like a tracer running through the veins of the city, networks of air quality sensors attached to bikes can help measure an individual's exposure to pollution and draw a dynamic map of the urban air on a human scale, as in the case of the Copenhagen Wheel developed by new startup Superpedestrian.

Los Angeles survives on that which is unpredictable. The unexpected courses through its very veins.

I can't look at people's wrists. Something about the veins makes me weak. My siblings used to torture me with that because they knew it was the thing I couldn't handle. They would stick their wrists in my face.

Memory is funny. Once you hit a vein the problem is not how to remember but how to control the flow.

Do we change every time we have a new encounter? Are we endlessly mutable? I think these are fascinating questions: it's a rich vein to tap, and I don't think I have exhausted it fully yet.

And when you see it the first time you put the film together, the roughest cut, is when you want to go home and open up your veins and get in a warm tub and just go away. And then it gradually, maybe, works its way back, somewhere toward that spot you were at before.

I've got spider veins all over my legs, so I wear opaque tights all winter. All sorts of colours.

The whole soul is in the whole body, in the bones and in the veins and in the heart; it is no more present in one part than in another, and it is no less present in one part than in the whole, nor in the whole less than in one part.

The Legislature, which was elected under the Constitution framed and supported by colored men, declared that a man having more than an eighth of African blood in his veins was ineligible to office or a seat in the Legislature of the State of Georgia.

Some girls are just born with glitter in their veins.

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.

I've got Disney blood running through my veins.

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

We all gonna die, we bleed from similar veins.

Without my specs on, I think I look really great; then I put them on, and I scream. But at 62, I still think less is better. I use Clarins foundation, but I don't put it everywhere - I hate that covered look - so just on the sides of my nose where the veins have gone bang.

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.

I first noticed my varicose veins when I was pregnant with my second child, and I'd always thought that it was something that affected older, inactive people. I looked at my lifestyle and thought, 'I can't be a candidate for this.' Eventually, the pain became something I couldn't ignore.

The real problem you get with humour is that you only have so many kinds of jokes within you, and you mine that vein a lot. This isn't just common to me; it's anybody who's funny.

When you're used to being at a point where you're deadlifting close to 600 pounds, getting to be 5.5 percent body fat and seeing veins in places you shouldn't see them, it kind of skews your understanding of what is normal and OK.

Her coming was my hope each day, Her parting was my pain; The chance that did her steps delay Was ice in every vein.

When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.

We all have the republican spirit in our veins, like syphilis in our bones. We are democratized and venerealized.

I am the vampire at my own veins.

When you see the veins popping out of my neck, that's an exclamation point.

I felt the tributaries of his veins, wished to enter into his bloodstream, travel there, dissolved and bodiless, to take refuge in the thick walled chambers of his heart.

As an actor, you only get to work 15 minutes an hour; as a director you're fully immersed. It's incredibly more complex and challenging and I love it. I'm sort of a glutton for work and to direct something that I'm acting in feeds the vein.

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.

Beyond my body my veins are invisible.

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.

Junkies find veins in their toes when the veins in their arms collapse. Developing tars sands is the equivalent.

A good writer must have more than vin rose in his veins, use more than Chablis for ink.

She has the build of a runner and appears to be in good shape, but she simply couldn't breathe. As a coach, I think it's very easy to spot someone with asthma. ... You notice a lot of kids whose breathing is very labored, regardless of the distance they're running. You notice if their lips start to turn blue or if veins stick out in their necks.

Since muscular contractions are usually more or less regularly alternated with relaxations, the system of valves makes of the veins of every muscle a very effective pump, capable of maintaining a low pressure in the muscle capillaries.

My grandmothers are full of memories,Smelling of soap and onions and wet clay, With veins rolling roughly over quick hands, They have many clean words to say, My grandmothers were strong.

Nobody was doing veins at the time I started and there wasn't much written about it. All you did was strip a vein out, big scars, painful. I figured there must be something better to do.

Gibbs is our money free throw shooter. Down the stretch, there's not a guy on the team I'd rather have with the basketball in his hands than him. He's got ice in his veins and knocks those free throws down.

I always looked to about thirty as the barrier of any real or fierce delight in the passions, and determined to work them out in the younger ore and better veins of the mine /and I flatter myself (perhaps) that I have pretty well done so /and now the dross is coming.

Her veins are like ice. She acts like she's a senior. Nothing surprises me with her.

We may have an excellent ear for music, without being able to perform in any kind; we may judge well of poetry, without being poets, or possessing the least of a poetic vein; but we can have no tolerable notion of goodness without being tolerably good.

There are some veins that essentially are torn at the time of head injury. Over time, that blood accumulates ... and puts pressure on the brain.

It is not to the softer and more perishable parts of his massy mind, I would direct my attention; but to those veins of a primitive formation, which, now that time has loosened and removed all else, still stand out as the iron frame work of his being.

Our vein structures are completely different, especially when you look at the palm. In a way, it's like looking at a bar code. We convert your veins to a bar code.

Mathematics is not a book confined within a cover and bound between brazen clasps, whose contents it needs only patience to ransack; it is not a mine, whose treasures may take long to reduce into possession, but which fill only a limited number of veins and lodes; it is not a soil, whose fertility can be exhausted by the yield of successive harvests; it is not a continent or an ocean, whose area can be mapped out and its contour defined: it is limitless as that space which it finds too narrow for its aspirations; its possibilities are as infinite as the worlds which are forever crowding in and multiplying upon the astronomer's gaze.

Martin Luther King said it was time to inject a new dimension of love into the veins of human civilization. I don't think anyone is calling Martin Luther King a New Age woo-woo.

We never set out to make a 'Christian' movie. The book taps different veins in different people. If we overstressed what little symbolism there is, we would have thrown away the project.

That was definitely a highlight of the trip. It is absolutely one of the most amazing things you will ever see. The detail is unbelievable. It is impossible to believe that the lifelike veins protruding from David's arms are made of marble.

We do not believe that any went away with the same views, and the same feelings in relation to any one in whose veins courses African blood.

It is eastwards, only and always eastwards, that the veins of our race must expand. It is the direction which Nature herself has decreed for the expansion of the German peoples. (7th February 1945)

The freeway is just like veins without a heart.

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.

I ran. I ran until my muscles burned and my veins pumped battery acid. Then I ran some more.

Jigging veins of rhyming mother wits.

Only my books anoint me, and a few friends, those who reach into my veins.

And then there came the pounding of another drum, as if another giant were coming yards behind him, and each giant, intent on his own drum, gave no notice to the rhythm of the other. The sound grew louder and louder until it seemed to fill not just my hearing but all my senses, to be throbbing in my lips and fingers, in the flesh of my temples, in my veins.

There's estrogen running through my veins!

We may be finding that in some blacks, when the choke hold is applied, the veins or arteries do not open up like in normal people.

For she doth make my veins and pulses tremble.

Not one drop of blood is left inside my veins that does not throb: I recognize signs of the ancient flame.

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.

The detective story itself is in a dilemma. It is a vein which is in danger of being worked out, the demand is constant, the powers of supply variable, and the reader, with each one he absorbs, grows a little more sophisticated and harder to please, while the novelist, after each one he writes, becomes a little more exhausted.

Well, winter's gonna endI'm gonna clean these veins againSo close to dying that I finally can start living

Well, winter's gonna end I'm gonna clean these veins again So close to dying that I finally can start living

It really requires ice in your veins and good conviction.

That guy that David beat ... was this year's Big Ten singles champion (Nolan Polley). David has ice water in his veins and just doesn't make mistakes. He did a great job of putting the ball in play and returning an incredibly difficult lefty serve.

It kind of looks like common blight, but the dead areas and yellowing is in the center of the leaf and is only limited by the veins and veinlets,

It's hard because I dreamed about the Olympics for upwards of a decade. And that dream didn't include getting sick with a stomach flu, getting stuck with IVs, having my veins collapse and falling in the short program. It became about something different ... courage.

The feather structure is unmistakable. You see a central shaft, and then veins or barbs coming off the side. It is identical to a modern bird feather. It was even obvious to my 3-year-old daughter.

I learned that the heart pumps blood to your pinky toe and then the veins send the extra stuff back to the heart, ... I didn't know that before.

I love this man from Alaska. I do. I love him. I feel that I have my blood in my veins is with his blood. I love him. But I love the Senate more.

I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky,And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

My blood in his veins." ~Jace

he dared to explore her withered neck w/his fingertips…her hips w/their decaying bones, her thighs with their aging veins.

He that is drunken * * * Is outlawed by himself; all kind of ill Did with his liquor slide into his veins.

I have seafoam in my veins, I understand the language of waves.

It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.

We couldn't imagine the emptiness of a creature who put a razor to her wrists and opened her veins, the emptiness and the calm.

If you're a redneck, you have that blood flowing through your veins. That's almost on the bucket list, to hear Lynyrd Skynyrd`s "Freebird" live.

The blood in my veins is frozen but it sings of love.

Her blood coursed through my veins sweeter than life itself. And as it did, Lestat's words made sense to me. I knew peace only when I killed and when I heard her heart in that terrible rhythm, I knew again what peace could be.

I don’t expect you will really understand the beauty of the softly simmering cauldron with its shimmering fumes, the delicate power of liquids that creep through human veins, bewitching the mind, ensnaring the senses...

I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

Wine, it's in my veins and I can't get it out.

When you're writing something and you know it's good, you get flushed, you can feel the blood coursing through your veins, you feel alive, all your nerve endings stand up, something just clicks.

Well, once I did 'Grease,' everyone was offering me studio pictures in a similar vein - you know, popcorn movie.

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.

I opened my veins. Unstoppably life spurts out with no remedy. Now I set out bowls and plates. Every bowl will be shallow. Every plate will be small. And overflowing their rims, into the black earth, to nourish the rushes unstoppably without cure, gushes poetry ...

Almost all rich veins of original and striking speculation have been opened by systematic half-thinkers.

The trick is after a workout you're supposed to have gummy bears or some candy to get your veins to stick out. Of course, it's all about protein, too, but right before you're filming a shirtless scene, you have a little bit of sugar to pop the veins.

I think that this vein is close to being mined out already, but I'll say that my knowledge of and talent for linguistics are quite limited and I'm not aware of being a hell of a lot more interested in that topic than I am in others.

People say that rock 'n' roll is dead, and I am making it my mission to resurrect it. I have rock 'n' roll pumping through my veins.

how cruel, your veins are full of ice-water and mine are boiling

Poisonous jealousy thrummed through my veins.

Let's hope his nerves will run through his veins.

"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."

I almost never get nervous. I have ice water in my veins.

The skyline is etched in my veins. You can never put that out, no matter how hard it rains.

Slice open one of my veins and cartoons will pour out; open another vein and you'll get a flood of motor oil.