I don't make people bend over backwards, and I don't like that in people. I am definitely no diva.

- Dolly Parton

I was born in South Bend, and I've been a Hoosier all my life.

- Jackie Walorski

Things come in a quieter way to me. It's not laziness, and it's not diffidence. I just know how far you have to bend for work. That's important for me.

- John Hurt

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.

- John Wooden

I don't excercise. If God had wanted me to bend over, he would have put diamonds on the floor.

- Joan Rivers

I bend and do not break.

- Jean de La Fontaine

I've been around the bend in corporations.

- Indra Nooyi

Old maids, having never bent their temper or their lives to other lives and other tempers, as woman's destiny requires, have for the most part a mania for making everything about them bend to them.

- Honore de Balzac

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

- Helen Keller

My dad used to call me 'the human pretzel' because I was able to bend my body, and because my legs are very long.

- Erin Andrews

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

- Albert Camus

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

- Charles C. Mann

If you try hard enough, you can bend the spoon; you can shift reality.

- Christopher Meloni

I find that moving keeps me optimistic, the idea of what's going to be down the road a bit or around the next bend.

- Conor Oberst

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

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

- Brian Greene

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

- Bernie Mac

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

- Barbara Bush

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

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

- Anupam Kher