Top 144 Bend Quotes

I don’t ever want to be hugely famous because I had a little taste of it after ‘East Is East’ and ‘Bend It.’

In any story, the villain is the catalyst. The hero’s not a person who will bend the rules or show the cracks in his armor. He’s one-dimensional intentionally, but the villain is the person who owns up to what he is and stands by it.

I’ve been around the bend in corporations.

If God wanted us to bend over he’d put diamonds on the floor.

I don’t have any respect for judges who arrive at the result first, and then try to figure out some way they can bend the law to reach their particular predilections.

When I started playing hockey, I realised the entire game relies on your back- you have to bend to play it.

I left for Fiji 36 hours after we wrapped ‘Lucha Underground’ season 4. The producers of ‘Lucha Underground’ had to bend over backwards to get me wrapped out of the season to leave for ‘Survivor.’

Events are the best teacher for us. You try to learn from people, there is always some bend to it.

I worry about Zimbabweans. They bend, they bend, they bend, they bend – where do the people break? How long can they go on scrounging for food in garbage dumps and using the moisture from sewage drains to plant vegetables?

I’ve known Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles and they’re two of the most independent people I’ve ever known in my life, and the thought we could somehow bend their views I find really beyond my capacity to believe.

A strong willed woman is often feared. But more often she is pushed to the tether of her patience, forced to bend down.

I come here to speak poetry. It will always be in the grass. It will also be necessary to bend down to hear it. It will always be too simple to be discussed in assemblies.

I stuck with that size because I could bend the strings so well, and somewhere along the line I must have gotten it into my mind that I had small hands, so I was thinking I’d never be able to play a full-scale guitar, but I also felt like I was cheating or cutting corners.

Certain things can’t be approximated, so I’m always interested in getting in another way, one which makes the reader bend in closer to the scene even if that scene, especially if that scene, is painful… Brutal language isn’t necessarily the most truthful way of describing a brutal moment.

Who cares if a carrot has a slight bend? They’re all the same when they end up on the plate.

I just want to bend fire. You know, it’d be cool to throw some fire to a couple of old agents, the ex wife.

You can bend, but never break. Stay Unbreakable!

Never bend your head. Always hold it high. Look the world straight in the eye.

People, they don’t know how to bend; they just break.

I can bend my wrist down to my forearm. I can wrench my fingers backward until they rest on my hand. A hitchhiker’s thumb might arc into a 90-degree angle; mine will go to 135.

It was the success of ‘Bend it Like Beckham’ which got my name out there. ‘A Mighty Heart’ also helped.

I’ve got a feeling that with the best coppers – and in fact the best people in any field of work – what sets them apart is a maverick quality. People who are not afraid to bend the rules in order to achieve the universally desired end.

I have short hands. That’s why I have to bend up to notes; I can’t always reach the frets.

From the start, I held the pick in an unusual way. I used to bend my thumb way back in order to get a good angle for fast playing. I played that way for 10 years.

The first 300 m., I go slow and pick up speed at the bend. That’s Hima’s style.

Compared with U.S. cities, Japanese cities bend over backward to help foreigners. The countryside is another matter.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

Convention speeches are powerful tools to bend the curve of public opinion. George H. W. Bush’s 1988 convention speech is a great example. His son’s speech was also quite powerful.

I would get called a hunchback as I am tall and would always bend down to hear people. This is the reason trolls don’t affect me, as I have been bullied in school.

The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it’s going to go and where you’ll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don’t let anyone deter you from that.

It’s not true that I never left South Bend to recruit a player. It is true that I didn’t leave very often.

Men, like nails, lose their usefulness when they lose their direction and begin to bend.

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.

Everybody in the world now wants to twerk. We don’t twerk here in New Orleans, we bounce, we wiggle, we wobble, we shake, we bust it open, bend it over, we do it all.

The Radiohead record, The Bends is my all-time favorite record on the planet.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

Sometimes you get a glimpse of a semicolon coming, a few lines farther on, and it is like climbing a steep path through woods and seeing a wooden bench just at a bend in the road ahead, a place where you can expect to sit for a moment, catching your breath.

All the things I do in my videos – the jumps, twirls and back bends – will also be onstage.

For me, playing hurt was a battle in itself: a mind-over-matter head game I refused to lose. Often, I was barely able to bend my knees or elbows, flex my feet, make a fist, bend forward or turn my head. Heck, it hurt to blink.

Who cares if a carrot has a slight bend? They’re all the same when they end up on the plate.

I grew up in Stoneham, a little suburb of Boston. It’s pronounced ‘Stone ’em’ because Massachusetts doesn’t bend to the will of ‘how letters are supposed to be said.’

I’d be satisfied just coaching in high school. I turned down a number of colleges when I was teaching in South Bend, Indiana, before I went into the service. I honestly believe that if I hadn’t enlisted in the service, I would never have left high school teaching. I’m sure I would have never left.

You can bend, but never break. Stay Unbreakable!

You have to be careful so you don’t make your character dull and predictable. Sometimes you have to bend the script a little… The bad guys are mostly the same on the paper… A bad guy wouldn’t think of himself as bad.

I didn’t do anything with the thought that I want to go against society or bend any rules.

The cocoa-nut palm grows best near salt water, no matter how loose and sandy the soil is, and in these congenial circumstances needs neither manure nor care of any kind. It bends lovingly toward the sea and drops its ripe fruit into it.

In today’s politics, it would be good to have politicians who are more upfront about what they felt and actually not trying to bend with every breeze. They’re infuriating, all of them.

Whenever I leave Manhattan, I get the bends!

It’s always fun to play a character that bends the rules.

Heart is what drives us and determines our fate. That is what I need for my characters in my books: a passionate heart. I need mavericks, dissidents, adventurers, outsiders and rebels, who ask questions, bend the rules and take risks.

The willow is my favorite tree. I grew up near one. It’s the most flexible tree in nature and nothing can break it – no wind, no elements, it can bend and withstand anything.

Few will have the greatness to bend history itself; but each of us can work to change a small portion of events, and in the total; of all those acts will be written the history of this generation.

The willow which bends to the tempest, often escapes better than the oak which resists it; and so in great calamities, it sometimes happens that light and frivolous spirits recover their elasticity and presence of mind sooner than those of a loftier character.

Embrace the faff. Stare out of the window. Bend paperclips. Stand in the middle of the room trying to remember what you came downstairs for. Pace. Drum your fingertips. Move papers around. Hum. Look at the garden.

Australians have a fantastic sense of humour and incredible taste. I was there for ‘Bend It Like Beckham,’ and I had a great time. Aussies loved it, and I think ‘Bride & Prejudice’ is going to do well, too, because it’s all about having a good time.

I felt that as long as we were being honest, and that we didn’t bend the truth to accomplish another goal, to be entertaining or to be a happy ending, I was confident that we’d be able to tell the story the way it happened.

If God wanted us to bend over he’d put diamonds on the floor.

When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.

It takes someone like Ram Gopal Varma to change the norms, bend the rules, shake convention, and come up with something like ‘Road.’

I’m less of a ‘Star Wars’ fan, with googley monsters, than actually how do we bend this reality out, and how many other realities exist?