#bending

Tis this desire of bending all things to our own purposes which turns them into confusion and is the chief source of every error in our lives. ↗

— Sarah Fielding

#bending #chief #confusion #desire #error

The superior man is the providence of the inferior. He is eyes for the blind, strength for the weak, and a shield for the defenseless. He stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others. ↗

— Robert Green Ingersoll

#bending #blind #defenseless #erect #eyes

The work I'm doing on 'Watchmen' is mind bending and physically just hard. ↗

— Jeffrey Dean Morgan

#doing #hard #i #just #mind

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. ↗

— David Soul

#bending #biggest #biggest problem #down #exercise

Change. Adapt. Bend so as not to be broken. Let opportunity guide your actions. ↗

— Wayne Gerard Trotman

#adaptation #bending #breaking #change #chi-ro-jin

[W]hat upset grownups of both sexes about Elvis' performance was that he had broken the deepest taboo of all. He used his body as rhythmically and erotically and seductively as a woman--that was the forbidden territory he had entered. It was not only repulsive and offensive--it was nauseating--the word most used. It was an attack on male dignity. The kids, however, not yet grown into the stereotypes of gender, saw in him an exhilarating physical freedom. ↗

— Elaine Dundy

#genderbending #freedom

Raft told me how to walk with him in a scene: We'd start off in a long shot normal, and about the time we got together in a close-up, I'd be bending my knees so I'd be shorter. ↗

— Marie Windsor

#bending #close-up #got #him #how

The stainless-steel frets were a major breakthrough, because of the amount of playing and bending that I do. I have to get my guitars refretted every couple of months. ↗

— Eddie Van Halen

#because #bending #breakthrough #couple #every

I never mind scrubbing floors, vacuuming or bending and carrying stuff. Each time I do it I think, this is instead of going to the gym. ↗

— Joanna Lumley

#carrying #each #floors #going #gym

I think it was a possibility, I think we're all kind of delusional like that, we think that we can all carry on being who we are without bending ourselves to make ourselves acceptable and expect someone to come along and see to us and rescue to us. ↗

— Brendan Gleeson

#along #being #bending #carry #come