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Quotes About Veins

I think the thing that has made it possible for me to write personal songs and sing them year after year is the sensibility for good writing. Just opening your veins all over the paper is not necessarily going to be interesting. I wanted to speak to people.
~ Shawn Colvin
I've got Disney blood running through my veins.
~ John Lasseter
Since muscular contractions are usually more or less regularly alternated with relaxations, the system of valves makes of the veins of every muscle a very effective pump, capable of maintaining a low pressure in the muscle capillaries.
~ August Krogh
My fans go crazy over jaw clenches. They also love hand veins... they're infatuated with hands in general.
~ Jacob Whitesides
It was but then, when you're, one of the great poisonous events that have infected us all who were in South Africa is that the idea of difference is drip fed into your veins. It's that that you fight.
~ Janet Suzman
A dramatic turn has matched me with acute myeloid leukemia. From the sidelines to being sidelined, 40 veins and 40 electrolytes.
~ Craig Sager
One of the beautiful parts about Hamilton is it takes these figures that we've always revered as figures of antiquity and there's real blood flowing through their veins. There's real conflict. There's real life.
~ Christopher Jackson
He felt the chill of her secrecy, numbing him, like a poison spreading quickly through his veins.
~ Jhumpa Lahiri
Herr Konsul, sorry to take your time." A man's voice. The blood in Reiss' veins instantly stopped its motion.
~ Philip K. Dick
she looks at herself, at her bloodshot eyes, the small veins like red scattered roads and branching streams.
~ Unknown
If either of you gentlemen should forget himself, I will have his blood, or he will have mine.' "'Amen!' called Daddy Gobseck as he put his pistols back in their place; 'but a man must have blood in his veins though before he can risk it, my son, and you have nothing but mud in yours.
~ Honore de Balzac
sense of safety was tingling in his veins like a generous wine
~ Unknown
Habits are to the soul what the veins and arteries are to the blood, the courses in which it moves
~ Horace Bushnell
Veins raised themselves along the backs of my hands that summer. My handwriting changed several times. I began reading Time magazine. Soon after that it was time to go.
~ Lorene Cary
The blood of Abraham,1 God's father of the chosen, still flows in the veins of Arab, Jew, and Christian, and too much of it has been spilled in grasping for the inheritance of the revered patriarch in the Middle East. The spilled blood in the Holy Land still cries out to God—an anguished cry for peace.
~ Jimmy Carter
She nourishes the poison in her veins and is consumed by a secret fire.
~ Virgil
Getting two-inch silver chain chokers around the neck of a guy, especially Shane, proved to be more of a problem. Shane held the jewelry at arm's length, dangling it like a dead rat. No way in hell am I caught dead or alive wearing that. Oh, come on, just this once, Eve said. Protects your neck. As in your arteries and veins? That's kind of crucial, right? Thanks for the thought, but it doesn't go with my shoes.
~ Rachel Caine
The empire is being crushed by its own weight," Kublai thinks, and in his dreams now cities light as kites appear, pierced cities like laces, cities transparent as mosquito netting, cities like leaves' veins, cities lined like a hand's palm, filigree cities to be seen through their opaque and fictitious thickness.
~ Italo Calvino
The ghosts in fire freeze and the ghosts in ice burn. Some died long ago; some were never born. Some ride the blood in my veins until it reaches my brain. Sometimes I even mistake myself for one. Sometimes I am one.
~ Unknown
His skin was pocked and ruddy, his nose large and misshapen, red and veined as though he'd snorted, and retained, Burgundy.
~ Louise Penny
Loyalty never put blood back in a man's veins.
~ Unknown
We carry the ocean within us; our veins mirror the tides.
~ Diane Ackerman
I felt a strange sensation inside. Like the past coming to life. The watery stirring of a previous life turning in my belly, creating a tide that rose in my veins and sent cool wavelets to lap at my temples. The ghastly excitement of it.
~ Diane Setterfield
Grass: I've invested heavily in blood futures. I have a direct line to the trading floor for polyester blood. There's a heaving mass of men crying out their bids. The blood arrives at the warehouse in the form of double-knit suits. It's the only kind of suit I wear. When I collapse in the street, paramedics rush me to the hospital, liquefy the suit and inject it in my veins.
~ Don DeLillo