Backbone Quotes - page 4

To me, the hook of the riff is what makes a great guitar recording. It's the backbone of the whole song. When you have a strong riff, it's the rocket fuel for the track. (Dwight Yoakam)
Whether it's books or TV, or whatever the case may be, the backbone of what I do is my restaurants. View quote
Emeril Lagasse
For decades, community colleges have been the backbone of American workforce training. Because they are nimble and closely attuned to local community needs, they are inherently positioned to be influential leaders of the movement for a sustainable economy. View quote
Ed Begley, Jr.
Do we want in this nation to lose the backbone of manufacturing in this country? Do we want to be a nation that doesn't want to manufacture anything? View quote
Jennifer Granholm
Low-cost, high-grade coal, oil and natural gas - the backbone of the Industrial Revolution - will be a distant memory by 2050. Much higher-cost remnants will still be available, but they will not be able to drive our growth, our population and, most critically, our food supply as before. View quote
Jeremy Grantham
Good new songs are the backbone of the music industry. There isn't an artist out there who could survive without hit songs. View quote
Kara DioGuardi
There's a loss of faith in the banking system that for so long has been the backbone of prosperity and growth. View quote
Lucy Powell
A well-educated populace is the backbone of our middle-class. View quote
Mark Pocan
Answers are not enough, students should be encouraged to ask questions and explore alternatives to the norm. Entrepreneurship and invention are the backbone of the new economy, yet I doubt they get more than a nod in economics courses. View quote
Jim Hunt
The backbone of any improvement of governance, its development as well as its protection from any form of wastage or excessiveness, is a mechanism to place laws under the microscope of revision and modernization until they resonate in tune with the methodological development and new administrative technologies. View quote
Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan
My female writers have always been my backbone. I had a writing room of six women for five years so I know what women do. Cultivated by me, by the way! (Michael Patrick King)
The technology backbone is no longer an afterthought. View quote
Nick Price
There are a lot of Christian fundamentalists; there are a lot of Muslim extremists. Every religion - Mormonism - has something way on the side that's completely using the religion as some weird backbone for their twisted faith. It has nothing to do with their religion. View quote
Patrick Wilson
You don't ever see a thriller with a spiritual backbone. View quote
Patrick Wilson
The first legislation that I produced relating to the Internet was a bill to overturn a restriction inside of the law that prohibited the Internet backbone from being used for anything other than research and scientific and educational communication. View quote
Rick Boucher
Our main source of economy is agriculture. What we should do is to use the oil money that we have today to re-fuel agriculture. And so agriculture will be the backbone of the economy of South Sudan. View quote
Salva Kiir Mayardit
My solace and my blessing - unfathomably deep. It is my backbone. View quote
Ida Friederike Görres
A stable middle class is the backbone of a free society and entrepreneurs are the true job creators that power our world. View quote
Jay Samit
Campaign ads are the backbone of American democracy if American democracy suffered a gigantic spinal injury. View quote
John Oliver (comedian)
The purpose here is to demonstrate the diversity of classical formulae which appeared in architectural design, and if we look at classical architecture as a repertoire of forms rather than statements of specific design credos we can challenge teleological constructions of stylistic histories. The method of grouping the architecture from given periods of time under general stylistic labels has, without doubt, been the backbone of the discipline of architectural history. And when used skilfully and carefully it can provide useful punctuation marks in the lengthy and complex narrative that is the subject-matter of the history of western building. Yet it is only one of many tools with which to explore social and cultural contexts. View quote
Dana Arnold
The object of a New Year is not that we should have a new year. It is that we should have a new soul and a new nose; new feet, a new backbone, new ears, and new eyes. Unless a particular man made New Year resolutions, he would make no resolutions. Unless a man starts afresh about things, he will certainly do nothing effective. (G. K. Chesterton)
Country music is about new love and it's about old love. It's about gettin' drunk and gettin' sober. It's about leavin' and it's about comin' home. It's real music sung by real people for real people, the people that make up the backbone of this country. You can call us rednecks if you want. We're not offended, 'cause we know what we're all about. We get up and go to work, we get up and go to church, and we get up and go to war when necessary. View quote
Jeff Foxworthy
My parents are my backbone. Still are. They're the only group that will support you if you score zero or you score 40. View quote
Kobe Bryant
I love the word "faggot," because it describes my kind of guy! You see, I am a fag hag. Fag hags are the backbone of the gay community. Without us, you're nothing! View quote
Margaret Cho
A lot of people are afraid to tell the truth, to say no. That's where toughness comes into play. Toughness is not being a bully. It's having backbone. View quote
Robert Kiyosaki