Best Bending Quotes

What I need more in my culture and in my life right now is hope, and so I tend to write to that. I’ll always end up bending more toward optimism.

He stands erect by bending over the fallen. He rises by lifting others.

I love my gay brothers. I love my lesbian sisters. I love my transvestite, my gender-bending folk. For me, it’s a matter of embracing their humanity, allowing them to choose in such a way that they are in the driver’s seat regarding their lives.

The first rule of hurricane coverage is that every broadcast must begin with palm trees bending in the wind.

The making of ‘Naked’ was an absolutely phenomenal, mind-bending experience. That film was life-changing and put my career onto a whole different level.

Fear is definitely part of the recording process, it’s just something you’ve got to overcome. Any time you’re doing something new, you don’t have any examples of it will work or won’t work. Especially when it comes to genre bending.

Once in a while I’ll get moved to do some exercise. It’s something I long for but the biggest problem is bending down and putting my tennis shoes on. Once I go out I’m OK.

For me it’s just so exciting to have a daughter because I do think she will have even more opportunities than I had, and I had more opportunities than certainly my grandmother had. It’s the arc of history, always bending toward justice and opportunity, and she will be part of that.

When you have a well developed body and you’re confident, you see people bending your way, wanting to be on your side, wanting to do things for you.

How should the best parts of psychology and economics interrelate in an enlightened economist’s mind?… I think that these behavioral economics…or economists are probably the ones that are bending them in the correct direction. I don’t think it’s going to be that hard to bend economics a little to accommodate what’s right in psychology.

In short, Beauty is everywhere. It is not that she is lacking to our eye, but our eyes which fail to perceive her. Beauty is character and expression. Well, there is nothing in nature which has more character than the human body. In its strength and its grace it evokes the most varied images. One moment it resembles a flower: the bending torso is the stalk; the breasts, the head, and the splendor of the hair answer to the blossoming of the corolla. The next moment it recalls the pliant creeper, or the proud and upright sapling.

I think rejection is a huge part of the business and there’s so many cute girls that grow up with kind of being adored or people kind of bending over backwards for them. I see a lot of girls who aren’t used to rejection because of that, and now all of a sudden they drop out of the business.

[Max Planck] was one of the finest people I have ever known… but he really didn’t understand physics, [because] during the eclipse of 1919 he stayed up all night to see if it would confirm the bending of light by the gravitational field. If he had really understood [general relativity], he would have gone to bed the way I did

Whatever it is probably won’t go away, so we might as well live and laugh through it. When we double over laughing, we’re bending so we won’t break. If you think your particular troubles are too heavy and too traumatic to laugh about, remember that laughing is like changing a baby’s diaper. It doesn’t solve any problems permanently, but it makes things more acceptable for awhile.

Once you pass forty, a dime isn’t worth bending over to pick up if you drop one.

Suppose time is a circle, bending back on itself. The world repeats itself, precisely, endlessly.

Here’s my pet peeve: The not-so-unstated rule that all women are only to be treated as sexual objects and gawked at-you know, sitting up against a car, washing something, bending over, licking something. That just drives me crazy.

These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They’re beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar amps call vibrato is really just a volume Up and Down. But Magnatone has a true vibrato, which is pitch bending. And so, it’s just a lush sound.

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms, Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time.

I think people everywhere have a very dismaying feeling that politics are going over their heads, are being decided by wealthy interests that don’t take them into consideration. And are bending the legislative process in their own behalf.

Notice that the stiffest tree is most easily cracked, while the bamboo or willow survives by bending with the wind.

One dies if necessary, one breaks rather than bending. But I bend, because I continue to love myself.