Top 213 Vein Quotes & Sayings

Eventually, when I recorded 'Release Me,' it sort of stamped my style, and I've followed in that vein ever since.

When thus the heart is in a vein Of tender thought, the simplest strain Can touch it with peculiar power.

Writing is easy. Just sit down and open a vein.

Unless you want to hang a This Vein for Rent sign around your neck, move already!

I am not of the vein of actors - and I will not pretend to be one - that takes my character home with me. I don't.

Found a good voice and took advantage of it. Each of my specialties was like a prospector discovering a vein of gold. I worked each until the vein was exhausted.

I thought I'd have a career playing women in the vein of Ruth Gordon, and we've seen that type almost disappear.

I'm a person who is always trying to write in a different vein.

Yo, you 14-carat gold slum computer wizard, Tappin' inside my rap vein causes blizzards!

Writing is really very easy. Tap a vein and bleed onto the page. Everything else is just technical.

Many a good poetic vein is buried under a trade, and never produces any thing for want of improvement.

I shot a vein in my neck and coughed up a quaalude.

It's in the vein, somewhere in a cross between The Beatles, Cheap Trick, The Stones, Badfinger, you know, but it's not retro at all. But it is very pop.

The work an unknown good man has done is like a vein of water flowing hidden underground, secretly making the ground green.

And the thought of that makes me want to open a vein, experience pain, know I'm alive, despite this living death.

Donald Trump has tapped into a deep vein of racism, nativism, and misogyny.

We may play in a contemporary rock vein, use standard bebop themes, and many other things besides.

I'm not a superstar, per se... but I'm a musical creator - a producer in the same vein as what Quincy Jones was, or Pharrell and Timbaland were.

A great man is one who seizes the vital issue in a complex question, what we might call the jugular vein of the whole organism, and spends his energies upon that

Work your vein till it is exhausted, or conducts you to a broader one.

I made an electronic record in the vein of Cluster. I was programming synthesizers and drum machines and that sort of thing.

Love is a second life; it grows into the soul, warms every vein, and beats in every pulse.

A vein of poetry exists in the hearts of all men.

The Africans were oftentimes allied with the antagonist of the Republic. Now, you may want to step back and ask yourself why that might be. It may lead you to a reconsideration of the origins of the nation now known as the United States of America. As opposed to seeing it in the same vein as the French Revolution and the Haitian Revolution, you might see it in the same vein as the revolt against British rule in Rhodesia in 1965, and, if so, that might help to shed light on why conservatism is so deeply entrenched in this republic.

Are you happy when you stick a needle in your vein?

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That's the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

There are a lot of writers who find a groove and spend a career mining that vein. I seem to be exactly the opposite.

It is in men as in soils where sometimes there is a vein of gold which the owner knows not.

If I close my eyes and think of Hollywood, all I see is one big varicose vein.

You are dreaming your thirst when the water you want is inside the big vein on your neck.

But once you have some success in one style, the business wants to lock you in that vein forever.

I'm definitely a singer-songwriter. I'm somewhere in the vein between Elliott Smith and Jack Johnson.

Domestic realism has dominated the American marketplace for decades now. It leeches into literary fiction, and I don't think it's that rich a vein.

I feel television is in a fantastically rich vein of what it's presenting both by opportunity to actors and to audiences.

We have an electronic vein we have tapped and applied it to a rock setting like tons of bands out there.

...Though we chisel away as best we can at the mysterious block from which our life is made, the black vein of destiny continually reappears.

Friendly satire may be compared to a fine lancet, which gently breathes a vein for health's sake.

He who is the author of a war lets loose the whole contagion of hell and opens a vein that bleeds a nation to death.

I was a big Magic Johnson fan. And I guess people who knew that gave a name that... In that vein. I tried to play like him.

I'm not a futurist, and my taste in science fiction was sort of in the gothic horror vein, not space movies and futuristic stuff.

I'm too busy looking for the next role to do. I think about how to continue, to survive in the same vein. I like my career and my life as it is.

The lesson one can learn from Firbank is that of inconsequence. There is the vein which he tapped and which has not yet been fully exploited.

I'm a New Yorker, so I have the sort of tough vein that's naturally bred into me. In general, I'm a nice person, and that seems to surprise people sometimes.

You've got two veins; one carries blood directly to the body, one carries blood to the heart. That tumor was growing and was pressing on that vein. That vein was getting skinnier and skinnier.

Many people don't know that I experienced a blood clot caused by deep vein thrombosis, or DVT, which is when a blood clot forms in a deep vein in the body, often the leg or thigh. I'm fortunate that my DVT was diagnosed and treated before it led to something even more serious and that's why I encourage people to talk to their doctor if they think something is wrong. I've teamed up with Janssen Pharmaceuticals to raise awareness about blood clot prevention and treatment.

I am not in the giving vein today.

I prefer to be subcultural rather than mass-cultural. I'm not interested in hitting the vein of the mainstream.

When 'Ally McBeal' started, I went, 'Oh, my God.' It's like what I was doing. 'Bridget Jones' was in the same vein. I identify with all of them.

That's what I think is smart about 'Durham County.' It's not derivative of anything American. It's more in the vein of the BBC miniseries I grew up with.

Even this vein of writing is so foreign to me that I am amazed.

Well, once I did 'Grease,' everyone was offering me studio pictures in a similar vein - you know, popcorn movie.

It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein.

The doctor punched my vein, the captain called me Cain, upon my belly sat the sow of fear.

When we are truly aware of our spiritual glory, a varicose vein or two is not that big a deal.

The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.

I love to take actors to a place where they open a vein. That’s the job. The key is that I make it safe for them to open the vein.

Clap an extinguisher upon your irony if you are unhappily blessed with a vein of it.

I was so focused on being serious. All the guys I enjoyed watching as a kid were in that vein - Ron Simmons, Scott Steiner, Vader.

I don't think 'Cocktail' was a perfect critical success, but it touched a vein in our culture.

A generic vampire tale in the Underworld vein that comes closer to the infamous Van Helsing than a memorable re-interpretation of a legendary monster.