If you bend a branch until it's horizontal, the sap will slow to a stopping point: a comma or colon, made of leaves grown into one another and over one another and hardened. Out of this pause comes a flower, which unfolds itself in spirals, as if the leaf form, unable to keep to its line, had begun to pivot.

Alice Oswald

It is just not something we need to forget easily, to just bend the knee, to put on our t-shirts, Black Lives Matter, and one week after everyone forgets that.

Abdoulaye Doucoure

Week Very Us

I am very happy for all the players doing the Black Lives Matter bend the knee. We are all in the same boat.

Abdoulaye Doucoure

Very T Same

Whether you believe it or not, you have to understand the politics. In every script, there is a political bend that the writer has included. Whether you like it or not, is on you. But it's very important to know that politics.

Abhishek Banerjee

Politics You Writer

The little reed, bending to the force of the wind, soon stood upright again when the storm had passed over.

Aesop

Wind Win Upright

My dream is to work with people like Meryl Streep, Michael Fassbender, Christian Bale and Cate Blanchett. To me, those are true storytellers - genuine people who have stories to tell and make incredible films.

AJ Michalka

Work Wit Who

In the context of general relativity, space almost is a substance. It can bend and twist and stretch, and probably the best way to think about space is to just kind of imagine a big piece of rubber that you can pull and twist and bend.

Alan Guth

Space You Way

Blessed are the hearts that can bend; they shall never be broken.

Albert Camus

Moving On Art T

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.

Albert Schweitzer

Time Moving On Great

Mr. Snowden did not start out as a spy, and calling him one bends the term past recognition. Spies don't give their secrets to journalists for free.

Alex Berenson

Art Term Tart

If you bend a branch until it's horizontal, the sap will slow to a stopping point: a comma or colon, made of leaves grown into one another and over one another and hardened. Out of this pause comes a flower, which unfolds itself in spirals, as if the leaf form, unable to keep to its line, had begun to pivot.

Alice Oswald

You Will Which

Imagination allows you to bend the rules of the temporal world.

Amy Sherald

Imagination You World

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.

Ananya Panday

Would Ways Way

I try to not go, 'I'm writing a pop song.' Music is inherently genre-bending.

Andra Day

Music Writing Us

It is to be regretted that the rich and powerful too often bend the acts of government to their own selfish purposes.

Andrew Jackson

Power Men Government

The hottest new attraction at Disney World has got to be the new Last Airbender ride.

Andrew Shaffer

World Test T

I think here in America the space programme was such an enticing thing to be going on, that the thought of a family being able to go into space and live up there was really kind of mind-bending at the time.

Angela Cartwright

Time Space Family

These days, my main guitar amps have been Magnatone. They're beautiful. Magnatones have actual tremolo, which I recently learned about guitar amps. Often what guitar amps call vibrato is really just a volume Up and Down. But Magnatone has a true vibrato, which is pitch bending. And so, it's just a lush sound.

Ani DiFranco

Which Volume Us

I have spent many hours on the beach collecting sea glass, and I almost always wonder, as I bend to pick up chunk of bottle green or a shard of meringue white, what the history of the glass was. Who used it? Was it a medicine bottle? A bit of a ship's lantern? Is that bubbled piece of glass with the charred bits inside it from a fire?

Anita Shreve

History Wonder Won

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.

Anne Michaels

Truth Mom Men

Can a democratic nation fight a War on Terror and at the same time bend over backward so as not to offend a few visitors' rights?

Annie Jacobsen

War Time Visit

Pretty much every night of their lives, my 8-year-old sons have absorbed themselves entirely in books. As toddlers, they pointed out pictures, made conjectures; lately, we find them in their bunk beds embarked upon two-hour comic-reading benders.

Anthony Doerr

The TV show 'How It's Made' brings the intricate details of assembly lines to numerous North American living rooms. But if the series were to ever branch into exposing the secrets of music production, Colin Stetson's 'New History Warfare Vol. 2: Judges' would make for a mind-bending episode.

Anthony Fantano

My first British film was Gurinder Chadha's 'Bend It Like Beckham,' which was a huge international success.

Anupam Kher

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

Ara Parseghian

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

Archie Panjabi

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

Archie Panjabi

This sweet, blessed, God-inspired place called America is a champion that has absorbed some blows. But while we bend, we don't break. This is no dark hour; this is the dawn before we remember who we are.

Artur Davis

My local newspaper, the 'Bend Bulletin,' interviewed me while I was at high school after I had just signed with the University of Oregon. I remember I wore a University of Oregon hooded sweatshirt, and they took a picture of me in the long jump pit. I was freezing!

Ashton Eaton

The artist is the confidant of nature, flowers carry on dialogues with him through the graceful bending of their stems and the harmoniously tinted nuances of their blossoms. Every flower has a cordial word which nature directs towards him.

Auguste Rodin

Listen, people like Brian Bendis did great things for comic readers, great things for comic readers.

Avi Arad

I'm sure there are people in all sports that bend the rules but I'm not going to sit here and point the finger.

B. J. Penn

I want to still be able to garden while I can bend over.

Barbara Bush

Einstein had two new predictions from general relativity. One was that light would bend. That was tested in 1919, and basically, he was proven right. The second prediction was gravitational waves, which took us 100 years to prove. The theory itself, which is thought by most to be rather obscure, you use every day, probably.

Barry Barish

It isn't obvious and it took us a while to demonstrate that we could actually design a machine that bends.

Barry Barish

I am particularly pleased to see that the Bendheim Center for Finance is thriving.

Ben Bernanke

Fassbender is fearless; he's a fearless actor.

Ben Mendelsohn

Pictorial is something that I am not used to. You have to pose, smile, bend your arm, straighten up, look to the left.

Benigno Aquino III

There is a theory that China will tend to push, and if you bend, they will push some more.

Benigno Aquino III

If I can tell someone a story that makes them bend over and laugh, that's bigger than anything else.

Bernie Mac

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.

Big Freedia

I've started doing Bikram yoga. You're in a boiling hot room, bending over pretending to be a locust, you can't do that at the gym.

Bill Bailey

My friend, I am going to tell you the story of my life, as you wish; and if it were only the story of my life I think I would not tell it; for what is one man that he should make much of his winters, even when they bend him like a heavy snow?

Black Elk

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?

Blair Brown

I had to think about ankle torsion, where the screws are on the ski, how that affects the forces going into the ski and how the ski bends, your leverage points. It was a challenge. I was having the greatest time, making the mistakes, crashing.

Bode Miller

You see, idealism detached from action is just a dream. But idealism allied with pragmatism, with rolling up your sleeves and making the world bend a bit, is very exciting. It's very real. It's very strong.

Bono

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.

Boris Pasternak

I'm honored the folks and Bendon understood why I wanted to work with them and Toys for Tots.

Brantley Gilbert

I think it was a possibility, I think we're all kind of delusional like that, we think that we can all carry on being who we are without bending ourselves to make ourselves acceptable and expect someone to come along and see to us and rescue to us.

Brendan Gleeson

When we're looking for compassion, we need someone who is deeply rooted, is able to bend and, most of all, embraces us for our strengths and struggles.

Brene Brown

Physicists are more like avant-garde composers, willing to bend traditional rules... Mathematicians are more like classical composers.

Brian Greene