Spinal Quotations

I got really, really sick with a spinal infection that put me in a hospital for a couple of months, and it was touch and go. I had my guitar with me, and as soon as I got well enough to play, there was nothing else to do in that hospital. The nurses would come in and request songs.

I could not do the film Spinal Tap because I was already at MTV and it was occupying all my time.

I was in the pilot for Spinal Tap before it was a movie.

I have arthritis. The space around my spinal cord has become compressed.

You only worry about your head or spinal column. Everything else, some way or another, will repair in time.

What makes spinal-cord injuries as devastating as they are is that everything about them plays out in absolutes: they are instantaneous, utterly disabling and horribly permanent.

I don't know if you have ever seen the Woody Allen film 'Annie Hall,' but it is, in a way, to Los Angeles and 'Hollywood' what 'This Is Spinal Tap' is to many musicians.

Man is in a transition stage; he has 31 pairs of spinal nerves which keys him to the solar month, but the nerves in the so-called cauda-equina - literally horse-tail, at the end of our spinal cord, are still too undeveloped to act as avenues for the spiritual ray of the sun.

There are people who think the film 'This Is Spinal Tap' is simply a very funny 'mockumentary.' Well, with Yes, we lived it. Take the hilarious scene in the film in which the bass player is trapped in a giant pod - that actually happened to Alan one night.

From about 26 weeks you can talk about there being a complete system in terms of biology, a link from the skin to the spinal cord to the brain, and we know that set-up is reasonably functional.

Based on this new research, if just one infected cow entered the U.S. feed supply and the brain and spinal cord of that animal were maximally dispersed in feed, it could potentially infect 45,000 other cows. That's why we have to be extremely vigilant about keeping any infected animal material out of feed and food.

Based on this new research, if just one infected cow entered the US feed supply and the brain and spinal cord of that animal were maximally dispersed in feed, it could potentially infect 45,000 other cows. That's why we have to be extremely vigilant about keeping any infected animal material out of feed and food.

Because of where the discs rupture in these little dogs and because of the length of the spinal cord in dogs, they tend to put direct pressure either on the spinal cord in the back or the neck. They're not just painful nerve pressures, they're actually paralyzing injuries.

Lack of adequate NIH funding is particularly dangerous in a relatively small field like spinal cord injury. For our field to continue to grow and push therapies to the patient, NIH funding is critical. Our scientists are telling us the situation is desperate. How do you tell someone recently paralyzed that the science is there but the funding is not?

Irritation of the spinal cord, with its resultant evils, is one of the most common of the nervous affections originating in this cause.

Recent work using neural stem cells has indicated that stem cell transplantation to the injured spinal cord may help recovery, so ... this is really occurring at a very encouraging time and we hope that these particular stem cells will also make a contribution,

I thought to myself at least a couple of times after a hit, 'Boy, that's going to leave a mark. I'm going to pay for that some day down the road.' We didn't talk about spinal compression. I'm sure I lost at least 2 inches in height in my career. I'm barely hanging onto 6-2 now.

Well, it so happens that I have had a spinal curvature since I was about thirteen and every once in a while that has given me some trouble, and at that time it began to kick up again. and occasionally I have to get into bed and nurse a severe backache.

(The program) covers the brain and spinal cord injuries, being safe at school, being safe around buses. It also talks about water safety, how you always check to see how deep it is before you dive in, and about weapons, such as guns and knives.

The promise of stem cell research is that instead of prescribing medication and rehabilitation for people with heart attacks, strokes, spinal cord injuries and Alzheimer's disease, we will cure them.

There's a little Spinal Tap in all of us.

While much of the work is made from the traditional media of painting, sculpture and photography, other work is very nontraditional in particular those submissions by grad students in the sciences that were done as a part of professional development, such as photographs of spinal cords, reproductions of microscopic views or sculptural models of electrical coils.

When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can't go much further because ultimately it's feeding off of somebody else's creativity.

The slipped disc went almost into the spinal cord. She's fine, but could've been in a lot of trouble.

We've probably evaluated close to 400 children worldwide that have severe spinal and chest malformations,

While it sounds pretty small, in terms of overall improvements, there usually is very little recovery that occurs after the first 18 months after a spinal cord injury,

We had sort of Spinal Tap moment in Europe . . . when I caught on fire. Vince almost had to stop singing, he was laughing so hard.

Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.

As computer intelligence gets better, what will be possible when we interface our brains with computers? It might sound scary, but early evidence suggests otherwise: interfacing brains with machines can be helpful in treating traumatic brain injury, repairing spinal cord damage, and countless other applications.

The participants are severely disabled vets with spinal cord injuries, amputees, brain injuries.

I know the difference between an inconvenience and a problem, an inconvenience is losing a job. A problem is a spinal cord injury.

I'm ticking things off my list: I had a tumor removed; I had spinal surgery; I had four surgeries in three months.

IN'ARDS, n. The stomach, heart, soul and other bowels. Many eminent investigators do not class the soul as an in'ard, but that acute observer and renowned authority, Dr. Gunsaulus, is persuaded that the mysterious organ known as the spleen is nothing less than our important part. To the contrary, Professor Garrett P. Servis holds that man's soul is that prolongation of his spinal marrow which forms the pith of his no tail; and for demonstration of his faith points confidently to the fact that no tailed animals have no souls. Concerning these two theories, it is best to suspend judgment by believing both.

If your daughter has diabetes, if your father has Parkinson's, if your sister has a spinal cord injury, ... your views will be swayed more powerfully than you can imagine by the hope that a cure will be found in those magnificent cells, recently discovered, that today originate only in an embryo.

If you have a spinal cord injury you don't want to wait four hours,

Evidence has demonstrated that cord-blood stem cells have treated a variety of problems, such as spinal cord injuries and neurological diseases.

In a blink of an eye, that bullet ripped across his spinal cord and changed this kid's life.

It kind of scared me a little bit because he didn't move and nowadays you see so many people go down with spinal injuries. I hit him head up so I didn't think it was that serious. I was glad to see him get up.

Has there ever been an Inquisitor who didn't die a horrible death?" Simon wondered out loud. " It's like being the drummer in Spinal Tap.

The Children's Hospital of Philadelphia has completed research that clearly demonstrates booster seats reduce the risk of injury by nearly 60 percent when compared to safety belts alone. When we compared types of injuries between booster seat users and those who used seat belts alone, we found that children in booster seats suffered virtually no abdominal or spinal injuries while children in seat belts suffered injuries to every body region.

The first nutrient is folic acid. This reduces the risk of the baby having neural tube effects. That is basically birth defects on the brain or the spinal cord. You can get 100 percent of you daily value of folic acid by having a cup of fortified cereal.

It's been studied to the point where we know that the impact on humans would be from consuming the most infected parts of the cow; that is, the brain and the spinal cord.

Everyone is against human cloning but the real purpose of this bill is to restrict stem cell research, which holds enormous potential for our state as well as the promise of curing juvenile diabetes, spinal cord injuries and Parkinson's disease,

I came down with my patients all the way from the ninth floor including people with spinal fractures,

You can't really dust for vomit.

It's such a fine line between stupid and clever.

I would love to do a comedy spoof, like a Spinal Tap kind of thing.

We lived the life with Keith Moon. It was all Spinal Tap magnified a thousand times.

I don't find the business easy. The moment you start talking about the business, you start sounding like someone in Spinal Tap.

for those who would joyously march in rank and file, they have already earned my contempt, for they were given a large brain by accident when a spinal chord would have sufficed.

He who joyfully marches in rank and file has already earned my contempt. He has been given a large brain by mistake, since for him the spinal cord would suffice.