A Quote by Betty White

I have the backbone of an eel.

Betty White

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Betty White
American - Actress
January 17, 1922 - December 31, 2021

You see that in his foreign policy [Barack] Obama lacks a backbone - both a constitutional backbone and a personal backbone.

Nat Hentoff

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail. Index-hunter is a term used mockingly, meaning one who acquires superficial knowledge merely by consulting indexes. The '[holding] the eel of science by the tail' allusion was used in 1728 by Alexander Pope (q.v.).

Tobias Smollett

The farmers may be the backbone of the country, but who wants to be a backbone?

F. Scott Fitzgerald

Sometimes it's great to have a backbone, but you've got to be careful. Remember that sometimes, when you hurt your backbone, you can't get it fixed because you don't have enough money.

Terry Funk

I have always regarded as a stroke of good fortune that I was not born or brought up in a small American town; they may be the backbone of the nation, but they are also the backbone of ignorance, bigotry, and boredom, all in vast quantities.

Gore Vidal

I don't really want to make casual games or games with no sort of story backbone or character backbone.

Cory Barlog

Talking to you is like -- like talking to an eel!" "No, is it? I've never tried to talk to an eel. Isn't it as waste of time?" "Not such a waste of time as talking to you!

Georgette Heyer

Be an electric eel in a goldfish pond!

Sark

Life isn't all fricasseed frogs and eel pie.

C. S. Lewis

Love is a slippery eel that bites like hell

Bertrand Russell

I am an unpopular electric eel in a pool of catfish.

Edith Sitwell

A mere index hunter, who held the eel of science by the tail.

Tobias Smollett

I am an unpopular electric eel set in a pond of goldfish.

Edith Sitwell

The Peruvian Amazon was amazing. We cooked alligator and I got stung by an electric eel.

Jock Zonfrillo

We like them big ... but we'll settle for players with three kinds of bones - a funnybone, a wishbone and a backbone. The funnybone is to enjoy a laugh, even at one's own expense. The wishbone is to think by, set one's goals high and have dreams and ambitions. And the backbone - well, that's what a player needs to get up and go to work and make those dreams come true.

Duffy Daugherty

How index-learning turns no student pale, Yet holds the eel of science by the tail!

Alexander Pope

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