"You only really discover the strength of your spine when your back is against the wall."

-- James Geary

#Wall Quotes #Spine Quotes

“Why can't I be MVP of the league? Why can't I be the best player in the league?”
“The chain that's fixed to the throne of Jove, On which the fabric of our world depends, One link dissolved, the whole creation ends.”

Source : Edmund Waller (1854). “Poetical Works”, p.54
“We aren't trying to make poetry or anything beautiful. It's just a rock show. We just want to enjoy playing loud. That's just about it.”

Source : "Dead Child". Interview with Pitchfork, pitchfork.com. April 22, 2008.
“The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the difficulties of living properly in this grotesque contemporary world, they want to forget their own deplorable inefficiency as artists in life.”
“It is better, I think, to grab at the stars than to sit flustered because you know you cannot reach them.”

Source : R.A. Salvatore (2009). “Sojourn: The Legend of Drizzt”, p.167, Wizards of the Coast
“She couldnâ€™t hide from everyone for the rest of her lifeâ€¦ Well she could. That was the direction things were going. But she knew from long-ago experience that when you were uncertain and if you were courageous enough to let her in a real friend could do a world of good.”
“President Obama's re-election campaign said that this year they'll knock on 150 percent more doors than they did in 2008. Well, of course they will. They have to. There's so many foreclosures it's tough to tell where people live.”
“I am daily making myself what I am.”

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