Body Quotes · Page 191

Certain thoughts are prayers. There are moments when, whatever be the attitude of the body, the soul is on its knees.

— Victor Hugo

What is an epigram? A dwarfish whole, its body brevity, and wit its soul.

— Samuel Taylor Coleridge

The Alexander Technique works... I recommend it enthusiastically to anyone who has neck pains or back pain.

— Roald Dahl

Some people travel to other dimensions in their astral bodies when they meditate.

— Frederick Lenz

We cannot sense without acting and we cannot act without sensing.

— Thomas Hanna

When you tour, it's so hard on the body. Being in one place is cool. It's a more stable environment.

— Britney Spears

Critical lice are like body lice, which desert corpses to seek the living.

— Theophile Gautier

When the body of the people is possessed of the supreme power, it is called a democracy.

— Anonymous

A nation can survive its fools, even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within…for the traitor appears not to be…

— Anonymous

Refine your senses a little more each day; stretch them...your awareness will pierce deeply into your body and into the world.

— Dan Millman

I think what's perhaps lacking in Indian body builders is advanced knowledge of the sport. You'd be surprised to know that even…

— Dorian Yates

Every body has mind power, I have learned to direct it toward my body and thus influence the cold and heating-system of…

— Wim Hof

Over and over, when I ask God why all of these injustices are allowed to exist in the world, I can feel…

— Shane Claiborne

The noblest art is the nude. This truth is recognized by all, and followed by painters, sculptors and poets. Only the dancer…

— Isadora Duncan

The body does not want you to do this. As you run, it tells you to stop but the mind must be…

— Jacqueline Gareau

I feel pain everyday of my life. When you see me perform, it's that pain you're seeing coming out. I put all…

— Henry Rollins

Whenever Beauty looks, Love is also there; Whenever beauty shows a rosy cheek Love lights Her fire from that flame. When beauty…

— Rumi

My young son asked me what happens after we die. I told him we get buried under a bunch of dirt and…

— Jack Handey

I think happiness really happens when you least expect it: it's when you're not really thinking about it, when you're not trying…

— Bill Bailey

“Every secret of the body was rendered up--bone risen through flesh, sacrilegious glimpses of an intestine or an optic nerve. From this…

— Ian McEwan

I am quite a wise old bird, but I am no desert hermit who can only prophesy when his guts are knotted…

— Robertson Davies

When I started swimming again two years ago, it felt like I was starting from scratch. My mind-set was [to tell myself…

— Janet Evans

Right now, as I've gotten older, my tics sustain for five or ten years. So, I can deal with them on a…

— Tim Howard

I feel like I am kind of mentally in a place of, like, I was married to a really famous guy that…

— Larsa Pippen

When I talk to kids who are overweight, I see my face on their bodies.

— Richard Simmons

Nothing but stillness can remain when hearts are full Of their own sweetness, bodies of their loveliness.

— William Butler Yeats

My mother was a dancer, so I like to use the body as part of the instrument of acting.

— Nicolas Cage

As I've got older, I feel more confident in my body, so wouldn't want to tamper with it.

— Helen McCrory

No government body is more notorious for over-legislation than the Department of Trade and Industry.

— Charles Kennedy

Just one living cell in the human body is, more complex than New York City.

— Linus Pauling

Stimulation-wise, I might be a little bit addicted when it comes to pushing my body to extremes.

— Takeru Kobayashi

I believe that a simple and unassuming manner of life is best for everyone, best both for the body and the mind.

— Albert Einstein

Everyone danced -- sweaty bodies packed tight, drunk with sound.

— Holly Black

The social body persists although the component cells may change.

— Aldous Huxley

Dead bodies are such trouble,” Evie said with a little sigh, and Mabel had to turn her head away so as not…

— Libba Bray

I was the perfect person to have a burnout because I was not listening to my body at all.

— Robin Soderling

It is through the alignment of the body that I discovered the alignment of my mind, self, and intelligence.

— B.K.S. Iyengar

How did I go from 'Menace II Society' to 'Love Jones?' There wasn't a poetic moment or romantic bone in O-Dog's body.

— Larenz Tate

I'm sort of a gay man trapped in a woman's body when it comes to music sometimes - it's crowded in here!

— Sia Furler

You may bury my body down by the highway side. So my old evil spirit can catch a Greyhound bus and ride.

— Robert Johnson