I had a serious childhood illness - sort of like spinal meningitis - that led to a three-month hospitalization. Afterward, I couldn't be insured because of a pre-existing condition.
Saxon, if you are unfamiliar, is a British heavy-metal band that has been around since the mid-'70s and was in no small part the inspiration for Spinal Tap.
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices.
Friendship, awareness, happiness, all of the arts of the good life, are brilliant beads strung on the golden cord of love.
Take, if you must, this little bag of dreams, Unloose the cord, and they will wrap you round.
I'm very involved with Pilates as well; you have to be careful. I can't do headstands any more, I have a neck and a spinal problem, but I used to do it.
Wireless is freedom. It's about being unleashed from the telephone cord and having the ability to be virtually anywhere when you want to be.
Bind together your spare hours by the cord of some definite purpose.
I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.
My obstetrician was so dumb that when I gave birth he forgot to cut the cord. For a year that kid followed me everywhere. It was like having a dog on a leash.
When giving, praying, and fasting are practiced together in the life of a believer, it creates a type of threefold cord that is not easily broken.
The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.
Copywriting cuts the communication cord between word and feeling. By offering instant gratification, it atrophies more subtle emotions.
When you have a spinal or brain injury, or any kind of devastating illness, you kind of fall through the cracks in a sense. Your world implodes, and no one is really there to help pick up the pieces.
Hopefully, somebody who's hearing my music, it's relatable to them, and it strikes a cord with them.
The vocal cord will be eliminated by a process of evolution, as was the tail of man when he came from the ape.
I bought an electric-powered chain saw with a plug-in cord so if I run away fast enough, you can only chase me so far.
The Golden Gate Bridge should have a long bungee cord for people who aren't quite ready to commit suicide but want to get in a little practice.
It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the law and not by the crooked cord of discretion.
No cord or cable can draw so forcibly, or bind so fast, as love can do with a single thread.
I cut the cord for my son, which was a tremendous pleasure, though Ive never eaten calamari since.
how much better to make no vow; then at least when the cord of attraction snaps, we can go free, still defying the lightning in our untarnished pride.
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices
There's a cord sticking out of the back. Might you tell me where it goes?
Spiritual is hooked up to the invisible umbilical cord of my Lord, Kumbiya.
The iron chain and the silken cord are both equally bonds.
Godly fear, faith, and humility is the true threefold cord that can’t easily be broken (see Ecclesiastes 4:12).
Kundalini energy passes through the shushumna, which is a Sanskrit name for an astral nerve channel that runs along the spinal column.
You only worry about your head or spinal column. Everything else, some way or another, will repair in time.
I know that with my spinal condition I can never be full time again - I just can't do that, but I do wanna be full time, and I don't want to retire.
I may have been born in Tel Aviv, but my umbilical cord emerges from the Temple Mount.
There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire.
[monkeys] are used only when no other species and no alternatice approach can provide the answers to questions about such conditions as Alzhemers, stroke, Parkinson's, spinal injury, hormone disorders, and vaccines for HIV
I've made movies that nobody saw initially, and then, all the sudden, people over the years pick up on it. Like 'Spinal Tap' and 'Princess Bride.'
With my first son I cut his umbilical cord and everything, so I'm a hands-on father, to say the least.
When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can't go much further because ultimately it's feeding off of somebody else's creativity.
In 'Spinal Tap,' there's the fake historical quality of 'Stonehenge.' It's something the musicians look at with a mystical reverence. In folk music, it's the seriousness with which these people approach their 'art.'
The movie Spinal Tap rocked my world. It's for rock what The Sound of Music was for hills. They really nailed how dumb rock can be.
I remember once, years ago, I met Sting, and he told me that he had seen 'Spinal Tap' 50 times. He said: 'Every time I watch it, I don't know whether to laugh or cry.'
Hearing people clapping draws you in pretty quick. It's like bungee cord jumping - it's a rush; you just want to do it again.
'Waiting For Guffman' was different right away from 'Spinal Tap,' because we didn't show the interviewer. That person became invisible immediately. That created a different way of tuning it and ultimately editing it.
I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.
I became a clown when these docs came to the house in Berkeley and asked me to come cheer up kids. I'd just had my third spinal fusion and I was looking for something to take my mind off the pain I was in.
We are financially strong. We are self-sustaining. We don't have an umbilical cord that we are concerned about.
Over the next ten years, everything that has a cord is going to have data in it.
I tried to hang myself with a bungee cord. I kept almost dying.
'Spinal Tap' influenced me, I think, specifically in making me really pay attention to tone.
My fiancee's brother-in-law was recently paralysed in an accident and it really brought home the fact that thousands of young people live with spinal injuries. It's an issue I wish had more coverage.
I saw 'Purple Rain' in the summer of '84, and, 'Spinal Tap' notwithstanding, it's the greatest rock & roll film of all time. There's so much Prince coming at you that you have to remind yourself he's also a breathtaking guitar player.
Has there ever been an Inquisitor who didn't die a horrible death?" Simon wondered out loud. " It's like being the drummer in Spinal Tap.
Cut the umbilical cord to yesterday. Although we can't change history, we change the effect the past has on the future.
The spider's most attenuated thread Is cord, is cable, to man's tender tie On earthly bliss; it breaks at every breeze.
I'm not saying I'm smarter than Steve Jobs was, but I would have made the iPhone charger cord twice as long.
Why do I always feel like you're trying to staple my umbilical cord to the corner of your desk?
The last step in parental love involves the release of the beloved; the willing cutting of the cord that would otherwise keep the child in a state of emotional dependence.
My father cut the umbilical cord for my son, because I wasn't actually there.
I was an ugly kid; when I was born, after the doctor cut the cord, he hung himself.
I was born dead. Yeah, the umbilical cord was like, floppy baby, the whole thing. Yeah, it was bad.
I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a way, to Los Angeles and 'Hollywood' what 'This Is Spinal Tap' is to many musicians.
When I was born, the umbilical cord came wrapped around my neck, so when I came out, I wasn't breathing.
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