Bends, or the bends may refer to:
- "The bends", the common term used to refer to decompression sickness
- The Bends, a 1995 album by British band Radiohead
- "The Bends", a song from the above album
- "The Bends", a song by the group Mr. Bungle on their 1995 album, Disco Volante
Famous quotes containing the word bends:
“What did you hit her for?
I’ll let you in on something, she’s a lush, the lady. After she bends the elbow a few times, she begins to see things. Rats, roaches, snakes, bats, you know. A sock in the kisser’s the only thing that’ll bring her out of it.”
—Richard Brooks (1912–1992)
“Silent is the house: all are laid asleep:
One alone looks out o’er the snow-wreaths deep,
Watching every cloud, dreading every breeze
That whirls the ‘wildering drift, and bends the groaning trees.”
—Emily Brontë (1818–1848)
“A wet sheet and a flowing sea,
A wind that follows fast
And fills the white and rustling sail
And bends the gallant mast;”
—Allan Cunningham (1784–1842)