25 Quotes About Bending

  • Author Glen Cook
  • Quote

    We kept bending a little bit, but we never broke. And that was the key, giving a little bit but not giving it all.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Richard Carlson
  • Quote

    Typically you issue those releases when you get partial payment. We were bending over backward, issuing them even when we were not getting partial payment. We stopped doing that when they filed bankruptcy.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Keith Foulke
  • Quote

    It's probably on a much smaller scale, ... I do everything off my right leg now, as far as bending it. It's still uncomfortable at times, but it's not what the left knee was.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Mary Fishler
  • Quote

    Because there is a lot of footwork involved, you tighten your stomach muscles. You're bending at the knee. Back erect, and that enables you to move your heels.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Tamsin Greig
  • Quote

    I think if you're trying to be funny, sometimes you're bending a piece of metal in a direction it doesn't want to go. And sometimes comedy just needs to find itself.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author National Institute
  • Quote

    Machines this small tend to stick to everything they touch, the way sand sticks to your feet after a day at the beach, ... So we built these microrobots without any wheels or hinged joints, which must slide smoothly on their bearings. Instead, these robots move by bending their bodies like caterpillars. At very small scales, this machine is surprisingly fast.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Ernest Jones
  • Quote

    Only for the phony is commercialism-the bending of creativity to common utility-a naughty word. To the truly creative, it is a bridge to the great audience, a means of sharing rather than debasing.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Mitch Kapor
  • Quote

    Even though I had the talent, programming just didn't feel right. I never considered it very seriously. Some people get gratification from bending a machine to their will. I didn't.

  • Tags
  • Share

  • Author Xiao Qiang
  • Quote

    Who is not bending the rules, Chinese companies or otherwise? Everyone is doing it.

  • Tags
  • Share