Body Quotes - Page 36

• My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body.

  Christian Dior

  Thinking, Weakness, Female

  Christian Dior (2007). “Dior by Dior”, Victoria & Albert Museum

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• I don't think that everything that's popular is necessarily right for every body and so I'd like for girls to be confident enough to make the right choice for themselves and to look unique.

  Rachel Roy

  Girl, Unique, Thinking

  "Estelle and Rachel Roy Talk About Their New Jewelry Line at Macy's". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. April 5, 2010.

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• I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that.

  Donovan Bailey

  Exercise, Long, Track

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• The medium of poetry is a human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth. In this sense, poetry is just as physical or bodily an art as dancing.

  Robert Pinsky

  Art, Air, Dancing

  Robert Pinsky (2014). “The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide”, p.8, Macmillan

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• This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in these houses, these streets; all that flesh hungering, coming together, separating, continuing, accumulating, relinquishing, aging and breaking down. Bodies as tulips bent to the demands of light, colored into blossom, spent.

  Mark Doty

  Moving, Light, House

  Mark Doty (2001). “Still Life with Oysters and Lemon”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• We stop the one who can't cease from seeking things outside, and practice with our bodies with a posture that seeks absolutely nothing. This is zazen.

  Kodo Sawaki

  Practice, Posture, Absolutely Nothing

  Complete Collection of Sawaki Kodo, vol. 15, p. 336, 1966.

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• What has been attained may again be lost. Only when you realise the true peace, the peace you have never lost, that peace will remain with you for it was never away. Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what is it that you have never lost. That which is there before the beginning and after the ending of everything, to That there is no birth nor death. That Immovable state, which is not affected by the birth and death of a body or a mind, that state you must perceive.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Mind, May, Birth

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• You are so accustomed to think of yourselves as bodies having consciousness that you just cannot imagine consciousness as having bodies. Once you realize that bodily existence is but a state of mind, a movement in consciousness, that the ocean of consciousness is infinite and eternal, and that, when in touch with consciousness, you are the witness only, you will be able to withdraw beyond consciousness altogether.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ocean, Thinking, Mind

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• Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor.

  Paul Sarbanes

  Important, Attention, Done

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• I really look forward to revisiting this body of work which has been such a huge part of my life and bringing it to the concert stage. And the idea of performing some of Jack Skellington's songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas live for the very first time is immensely exciting.

  Danny Elfman

  Song, Ideas, Looks

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• The art I like concentrates on the body. I don't have a feel for Poussin, but for Courbet, Velásquez - artists who get to the flesh. Visceral artists - Bacon, Freud. And de Kooning, of course. He's really my man. He doesn't depict anything, yet it's more than representation, it's about the meaning of existence and pushing the medium of paint.

  Jenny Saville

  Art, Men, Flesh

  "Under the skin" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2005.

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• Pain, I came to feel, might well prove to be the sole proof of the persistence of consciousness within the flesh, the sole physical expression of consciousness. As my body acquired muscle, and in turn strength, there was gradually born within me a tendency towards the positive acceptance of pain, and my interest in physical suffering deepened.

  Yukio Mishima

  Pain, Acceptance, Persistence

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• The Human body is sacred - the veritable tabernacle of the Divine Spirit which inhabits it. It is a solemn duty of mankind to develop, protect, and preserve it from pollution, unnecessary wastage, and weakness.

  Stephen L. Richards

  Weakness, Divinity, Sacred

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• I listen to myself. I listen to my body, my mind, I follow my heart.

  Alonzo Mourning

  Heart, Mind, My Heart

  "Zo talks comeback and Wade being NBA MVP". Interview with Sarah Rothschild, blogs.herald.com. August 13, 2008.

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• Some people's joints articulate in a manner that allows them to benefit greatly from squats; others may not benefit at all. If you're not too tall and have short limbs, it may be the best exercise for you, but if you're tall with long legs, it might be both ineffective and dangerous.I was stubbornly faithful to squats for years until I finally realized they were not well-suited for my body structure. After I switched tomore muscle-intensive movements, my gains in leg size were astounding.

  Dorian Yates

  Exercise, Years, Long

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• Man, is an indivisible entity, an integrated unit of mind and body.

  Mike Mentzer

  Men, Mind, Entity

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• Do you think there's such a thing as a ghost who masquerades as a person? Do you believe that there are people whose bodies are still alive here on earth but whose souls are already in hell?

  Ann-Marie MacDonald

  Believe, Thinking, People

  Ann-Marie Macdonald (2010). “Fall on Your Knees”, p.518, Vintage Canada

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• I shall not rest quiet in Montparnasse.
  I shall not lie easy at Winchelsea.
  You may bury my body in Sussex grass,
  You may bury my tongue at Champmedy.
  I shall not be there. I shall rise and pass.
  Bury my heart at Wounded Knee

  Stephen Vincent Benet

  Lying, Heart, May

  "American Names" l. 30 (1927)

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• Hearing, which, by the motion of the air, informs us of the motion of sounding or vibrating bodies.

  Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

  Air, Hearing

  Brillat Savarin (2015). “The Physyology of Taste”, p.46, Editorial MAXTOR

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• A hairy body, and arms stiff with bristles, give promise of a manly soul.

  Juvenal

  Giving, Soul, Promise

  Juvenal (1940). “Juvenal and Persius”

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• One day, my daughter Tybee came to me, and she said, ‘I have so much love for you in my body, Daddy, I can’t stop giving you hugs and kisses. And when I have no more love left, I just drink milk, because that’s where love comes from.’

  Bruce Feiler

  Daughter, Motivation, Inspiration

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• Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body (melatonin) - It?s not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into.

  Bill Crawford

  Fall, Sleep, Brain

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• My body is my body, every part of it.

  Marilyn

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• Our own theological Church, as we know, has scorned and vilified the body till it has seemed almost a reproach and a shame to have one, yet at the same time has credited it with power to drag the soul to perdition.

  Eliza Farnham

  Soul, Church, Shame

  "Woman and Her Era". Book by Eliza Farnham, pt. 1, ch. 1, 1864.

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• If you had a bump on your nose, it made no difference so long as you had a marvelous body & good carriage. You held your head high, & you were a beauty You knew how to water-ski, & how to take a jet plane fast in the morning, arrive anywhere, & be anyone when you got off.

  Diana Vreeland

  Morning, Differences, Long

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