A Quote by Roald Dahl

The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain.

Roald Dahl

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Roald Dahl
British - Novelist
September 13, 1916 - November 23, 1990

The Alexander Technique transformed my life. it is the result of an acknowledged genius. I would recommend it to anyone.

Tony Buzan

The Alexander Technique will benefit anyone whether they are an elite athlete or whether they just wish to live life without the aches and pains that many people suffer and accept as part of life. It is a pity that these techniques are not shown to us all at an early age for I have no doubt that this would alleviate many of the causes of ill health in our communities.

Greg Chappell

A lot of time, my inspiration comes from pain: growing pains, hunger pains, or money pains.

Machine Gun Kelly

I met Richard Burton, an RAF cadet on a two-term course. I would have flirted more enthusiastically if it had not been for the horrid boils on the back of his neck.

Nina Bawden

I am lucky, I don't have aches and pains. I do Pilates regularly, which is a series of stretching exercises, and I recommend it to anyone of my age because the temptation is not to exercise when you get older. Well, you should.

Ian Mckellen

I find the Alexander Technique very helpful in my work. Things happen without you trying. They get to be light and relaxed. You must get an Alexander teacher to show it to you.

John Cleese

Postural exercises such as yoga, Pilates, Egoscues, Alexander technique and martial arts are about avoiding pain and injury as much as helping you feel good. Attractive men and women have good posture.

Liz Miller

The Alexander Technique helped a long-standing back problem and to get a good night's sleep after many years of tossing and turning.

Paul Newman

Dancers, you know, they have pain everywhere: ankles in the morning, or back or neck or ribs or knees or the muscles. You are never free of pain, you know.

Sylvie Guillem

Chiropractic solved my neck and shoulder pains; it put me back on my feet. I think chiropractic is great!

Marlo Thomas

I am a bull. I am Taurus. My will is awful. If I like something, there is nothing else. I was a pain in the neck. I still am a pain in the neck.

Elsa Peretti

It is not for nothing that artists have called their works the children of their brains and likened the pains of production to the pains of childbirth.

W. Somerset Maugham

Those bombs have brought me immeasurable pain. Even now, some 40 years later, I am still receiving treatment for burns that cover my arms, back, and neck. The emotional and spiritual pain was even harder to endure.

Phan Thi Kim Phuc

I have acting technique; I have singing technique; I don't have a writing technique to fall back on.

Jane Lynch

The pains of childbirth were altogether different from the enveloping effects of other kinds of pain. These were pains one could follow with one's mind.