- Nov 07, 2020
Bending Quotes
These bending quotes range from the physics of force and tension to social pressure and the ambitious, sometimes reckless bending of nature to human will.
These bending quotes span physical science, stage performance, and social pressure, all built around the idea of yielding to some outside force. For related themes of everyday action, our Doing quotes explore a similar idea.
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- Always
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- Nov 07, 2020
Hence no force, however great, can stretch a cord, however fine, into a horizontal line which is accurately straight: there will always be a bending downwards.
- Humanity
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- Nov 07, 2020
China's headlong rush to industrialize was pursued with the most Marxist of prejudices - bending nature to man's will. That's a desperately hard trick to pull off when one fifth of humanity, having previously subsisted on 7 percent of the world's freshwater supply, decides that it wants to instantaneously increase its caloric intake.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.
- Knowing
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- Nov 07, 2020
And I taught acting for years, and without knowing it that was the real thing that started bending me toward directing.
- Desire
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Erect
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Energy
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- Nov 07, 2020
The existence of dark matter and dark energy are inferred from observations! They are not theoretical constructs. Though invisible, both reveal their presence through the effects that they exert on motions of celestial bodies and in the case of dark matter - the bending of light as well.
- Big
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- Nov 07, 2020
In London there was an article about all these girls bending it like Beckham, and in India there's this big wave of girls playing football. Wow! I can't believe a movie's done this!
- Over
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- Nov 07, 2020
We had this scene where I'm supposed to be bending over to get something. I thought it was kind of cute.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have odd thumbs that are extremely flexible. I can bend them quite far down the back side of my hand, basically the opposite side you'd even try to attempt bending your thumb. Because of that, I'm a very good thumb wrestler.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
What I like about Japanese venues is that the front barrier is right up against the stage, so when you're bending over, they're right there in front of you. In some European festivals, they're so paranoid, you need a taxi to go and touch the crowd!
- Haters
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certain people are like 'Oh, here come the Feminazis!' You end up acting 10 times nicer than you even need to be, to be the opposite of the stereotype like 'You're the man haters!' We're always bending over backwards being extra nice. And I don't know if being nice is my legacy.
- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
The best comedy and horror feel like they take place in reality. You have a rule or two you are bending or heightening, but the world around it is real.
- Mind
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- Nov 07, 2020