#blood

The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood. ↗

— Augustine of Hippo

#blood #carried #dust #dwell #soul

We have an uncanny ability to make birds do what we want them to do. In Blood Simple there's a shot from the bumper of a car and it's going up this road and a huge flock of birds takes off at the perfect moment. ↗

— Joel Coen

#birds #blood #bumper #car #flock

Writing is easy: All you do is sit staring at a blank sheet of paper until drops of blood form on your forehead. ↗

— Gene Fowler

#blood #drops #easy #forehead #form

I am no more a witch than you are a wizard. If you take my life away, God will give you blood to drink. ↗

— Sarah Good

#away #blood #drink #give #god

To me, it's far more efficient to mobilize the imagination. It's far more efficient to hear a creaking step, for example, than to see the face of a monster, which usually looks ridiculous, and where you know that the blood is ketchup. ↗

— Michael Haneke

#efficient #example #face #far #for example

This bloody past suggests to us that enemies cease hostilities only when they are battered enough to acknowledge that there is no hope in victory - and thus that further resistance means only useless sacrifice. ↗

— Victor Davis Hanson

#battered #bloody #cease #enough #further

The best blood will at some time get into a fool or a mosquito. ↗

— Benito Mussolini

#blood #fool #get #into #mosquito

Sometimes democracy must be bathed in blood. ↗

— Augusto Pinochet

#blood #democracy #must #sometimes

No one had ever called me unnatural before, except for the time I put ketchup on a taco. But seriously, we'd been out of salsa, so what else was I supposed to do? ↗

— Richelle Mead

#richelle-mead #rose-hathaway #vampire-academy #blood

And quit baring your fangs at me. It's making me nervous." "Good," Simon said. "if you want to know why, it's because you smell like blood." "It's my cologne. Eau de Recent Injury." Jace raised his left hand. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#blood