Flesh Quotes
1391 Flesh quotes by 935 unique authors
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I'm not an advocate for disability issues. Human issues are what interest me. You can't possibly speak for a diverse group of people. I don't…
— Aimee Mullins
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Happy is the novelist who manages to preserve an actual love letter that he received when he was young within a work of fiction, embedded…
— Vladimir Nabokov
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There's nothing humane about the flesh of animals who have had one or two or even three improvements made in their singularly rotten lives on…
— Ingrid Newkirk
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These days, newish art can be priced between $10,000 and $25,000. When I tell artists that a new painting by a newish artist should go…
— Jerry Saltz
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Although I adore the Italian High Renaissance, I'd rather look at Mannerism. The former is ordered, integrated, otherworldly, and grandiose; it leaves you feeling hungry…
— Jerry Saltz
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When a baby comes you can smell two things: the smell of flesh, which smells like chicken soup, and the smell of lilies, the flower…
— Carlos Santana
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A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.
— Jessica Savitch
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I've been around the world and I've had bras made in different places, and each time I'm experiencing the same troubles: the painful shoulders, the…
— Jill Scott
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Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process.
— Peter Shaffer
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God will never tell us to do something that gratifies the flesh.
— Charles Stanley
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I mean the flesh, never fade! The flesh never leave the creation, see, because with that divine spirit the flesh cannot fade. If the spirit…
— Peter Tosh
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Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.
— Paul Valery
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The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd.
— Ida B. Wells
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Flesh-meats will depreciate the blood. Cook meat with spices, and eat it with rich cakes and pies, and you have a bad quality of blood.
— Ellen G. White
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And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
— Walt Whitman
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Flesh eating is unprovoked murder.
— Benjamin Franklin
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With that, the poignant charm vanished. Inside the fifth machine, all was rampant malignity. Deformed flowers thrust monstrous horned tusks and trumpets ending in blaring…
— Angela Carter
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I wondered what it was like to be inside her, just a curl of flesh swimming in the darkness, the quiet things that had passed…
— Sue Monk Kidd
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Is it so bad, then, to be misunderstood? Pythagoras was misunderstood, and Socrates, and Jesus, and Luther, and Copernicus, and Galileo, and Newton, and every…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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And so I went through the looking glass, stepped into the netherworld, where up is down and food is greed, where convex mirrors cover the…
— Marya Hornbacher
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to love life, to love it even when you have no stomach for it and everything you've held dear crumbles like burnt paper in your…
— Ellen Bass
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...heroine: the artist, the premier mistress writhering in a garden graced w/highly polished blades of grass... release (ethiopium) is the drug...an animal howl says it…
— Patti Smith
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The flesh is sad, alas, and I have read all the books.
— Stephane Mallarme
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He carried Paul inside and up the stairs. He gave him a drink of water and the orange chewable aspirin he like and sat with…
— Kim Edwards
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Cut off as I am, it is inevitable that I should sometimes feel like a shadow walking in a shadowy world. When this happens I…
— Helen Keller
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