
Paralyzed, written by Otis Blackwell and Elvis Presley (1956)
Song lyrics
A collection of quotes on the topic of spine, likeness, man, down.
Paralyzed, written by Otis Blackwell and Elvis Presley (1956)
Song lyrics
2000s, Kingdom of Fear: Loathsome Secrets of a Star-crossed Child in the Final Days of the American Century (2004)
“Having a spine is overrated. If everybody squealed and ran away, there'd be no more wars.”
“When I'm out of politics I'm going to run a business, it'll be called 'rent-a-spine.”
Quoted from an interview for the television programme "The Thatcher Years - Part 2" on BBC1 The Thatcher Years 2 of 4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AEYPKLyug5c (13 october 1993)
Post-Prime Ministerial
“You lack the requisite spine and testicular fortitude to study under me.”
Source: The Name of the Wind
“Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.”
"A Time for Moral Courage", Reader’s Digest (July 1964)
Variant: Courage is contagious. When a brave man takes a stand, the spines of others are often stiffened.
“The best lightning rod for your protection is your own spine.”
Suffragette City
Song lyrics, The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars (1972)
"The Thing Bill Walton Still Can't Forgive Himself For" https://www.gq.com/story/bill-walton-back-from-the-dead-interview, interview with GQ (March 26, 2016).
From the thirteenth book, "The Book of the Dead"
The Pillow Book
Paris Review (1995), as cited in The Oxford Treasury of Sayings and Quotations (2011), ed. Susan Ratcliffe, Oxford University Press, p. 250 : ISBN 0199609128
Other
One of Those People
Untold Decades: Seven Comedies of Gay Romance (1988)
Tonight's the Night
Song lyrics, Tonight's the Night (1975)
Sjálfstætt fólk (Independent People) (1935), Book Two, Part I: Hard Times
Confessions of a Madonna, SPIN, 1985-05-01 https://books.google.ru/books?id=9ugCQfxwym0C,
Gerald Brenan "Bloomsbury in Spain and England", in S. P. Rosenbaum (ed.) The Bloomsbury Group (1995) p. 347.
Criticism
Introduction (Some They Can't Contain)
On Spoken Word
Source: 1860s, Evidence as to Man's Place in Nature (1863), Ch.2, p. 92
Following the resignation of Alberto Gonzales as Attorney General
Gonzales resigns as U.S. attorney general, MSNBC.com, August 27, 2007, 2007-08-27 http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20459457/,
“Resisting the slow touch of a frozen finger tracing out my spine.”
The Signal-Man http://www.charles-dickens.org/three-ghost-stories-the-signal-man/ebook-page-04.asp (1866)
Source: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (2012), Chapter 15 “The Strangest Clerk in Five Hundred Years” (p. 136)
"The Masochism Tango"
An Evening (Wasted) With Tom Lehrer (1959)
The First Night.
The White Tiger (2008)
Ch 1 (First lines).
A Canticle for Leibowitz (1959), Fiat Homo
“Son, you'll know you're in love when a woman's voice settles into your spine.”
a remembered quote from Victor Cachat's father
"Honorverse", Crown of Slaves (2004)
Time magazine, April 20, 2017. http://time.com/collection/2017-time-100/4736339/reince-priebus/
16 November 2017 https://twitter.com/rosemcgowan/status/931338274542460928
“The trouble with you John, is that your spine does not reach your brain.”
On Conservative backbencher John Whittingdale after being summoned to her room to urge MPs to vote against the Maastricht Treaty. Whittingdale was reported to have emerged from the room in tears. (The Times 26 November 1992)
Post-Prime Ministerial
How I Write: John Banville on ‘Ancient Light,’ Nabokov, and Dublin (2012)
Review http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/wolf-creek-2005 of Wolf Creek (23 December 2005)
Reviews, Zero star reviews
The One
Song lyrics, The One (1992)
Ringan Gilhaize (Edinburgh: Oliver & Boyd, 1823) vol. 3, p. 313.
Source: More Than Just Comfort: An Answer to Cancer (c. 1979)
Wu Family T'ai Chi Ch'uan (1980)
From his 1971 World Series MVP acceptance speech, recalling the time in 1957 when he considered quitting baseball, as quoted in "Pittsburgh's Clemente Honored" https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1454&dat=19711021&id=66lOAAAAIBAJ&sjid=tQkEAAAAIBAJ&pg=7211,3919174 by United {Press International, in The Wilmington Star-News (Thursday, October 21, 1971), p. 1-D
Baseball-related, <big><big>1970s</big></big>, <big>1971</big>
As quoted in "Clemente a Doc" by Red Foley, in The New York Daily News (October 10, 1971), pp. 69, 75
Other, <big><big>1970s</big></big>, <big>1971</big>
“I wish I had a gentle mind and a spine made up of iron.”
"Marrow"
Actor (2009)
As quoted in "Dr. Clemente, I Presume" https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=fL1HAAAAIBAJ&sjid=ZoAMAAAAIBAJ&pg=6750%2C4033368 by Jim Murray, in The Los Angeles Times (March 24, 1972), p. E1
Other, <big><big>1970s</big></big>, <big>1972</big>
LA Times http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/music_blog/2009/08/dj-am-in-the-la-times-and-a-collection-of-video-performances.html
Description of a Yankee rector, in The Wapshot Scandal (1964).
A Messiah, a first disciple, and a rapture. Check, check, and double-check. Penumbra is, right now, teetering right on the boundary between charmingly weird old guy and disturbingly weird old guy. Two things tip the scales toward charm: First, his wry smile, which is not the smile of the disturbed, and micromuscles don’t lie. Second, the look in Kat’s eyes. She’s enthralled. I guess people believe weirder things than this, right? Presidents and popes believe weirder things than this.
Source: Mr. Penumbra's 24-Hour Bookstore (2012), Chapter 15 “The Strangest Clerk in Five Hundred Years” (p. 136)
The Aquarian Conspiracy (1980), Chapter Three, Brains Changing, Minds Changing