Death--a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought,… — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
No man beholds his mother's womb Yet who denies it's there? Coiled To the navel of the world is that Endless cord… — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
I have a lot of brothers. It's easy for me to do physical stuff. I had to survive. I really love it,… — Stana Katic Copy Share Image
Men think God is destroying them because he is tuning them. The violinist screws up the key till the tense cord sounds… — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
When we're upset, our vocal cords tighten and we can't speak. And when I lie - well, I can't lie, because the… — Aleksandar Hemon Copy Share Image
I'd learned how to lie and manipulate from an early age so a combination of that, desperation, having to have my own… — Tom Hardy Copy Share Image
For a writer, mail is not just a collection of bills and letters and offers to subscribe to Sports Illustrated. It's an… — Mameve Medwed Copy Share Image
I began reading Harper Lee's novel in the skimpy shade of a pine outside my grandmother's house, fat beagles pressing against me,… — Rick Bragg Copy Share Image
My dad started teaching me how to play guitar when I was 13 years old. When he'd go to work, he'd map… — Jason Aldean Copy Share Image
There was nothing in all Douglas's powerful effort that appealed to the higher instincts of human nature, while Lincoln always touched sympathetic… — Henry Villard Copy Share Image
If you have a sense that anyone is draining your energy, mentally cut the etheric psychic cord between you and the other… — Doreen Virtue Copy Share Image
Love consists not in feeling great things but in having great detachment and in suffering for the Beloved. The soul that is… — John of the Cross Copy Share Image
Another thing very injurious to the child is the tying and cutting of the navel string too soon, which should always be… — Erasmus Darwin Copy Share Image
There is nothing like tasting the grit of fear for rediscovering that the umbilical cord is made of piano wire. — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
But the most annoying of all public reformers is the personal satirist. Though he may be considered by some few as a… — Jane Porter Copy Share Image
I was an ugly kid; when I was born, after the doctor cut the cord, he hung himself. — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
What interests me, ... is why people are so repelled when, after all, everyone started life attached. In a sense, the twins… — Judith Perelman Rossner Copy Share Image
It is the function of a judge not to make but to declare the law, according to the golden mete-wand of the… — Edmund Burke Copy Share Image
The Golden Gate Bridge should have a long bungee cord for people who aren't quite ready to commit suicide but want to… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Most cinema is not about images but text. Why on earth have we based cinema on text? Why can't we break that… — Peter Greenaway Copy Share Image
It is hard to sever the cords that tie us to our slavery and leave intact those that bind us to ourselves. — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
I travel with a boom box. When I get on a plane, I stuff the power cord for the boom box into… — Mitch Hedberg Copy Share Image
