#bodies

Politics is never about the people. It's about money. And wars. And how many heads you can step on and bodies you can step over. And I'm just not that kind of person. ↗

— Gary Coleman

#bodies #heads #how #i #just

According to an ancient Sardinian legend, the bodies of those who are born on Christmas Eve will never dissolve into dust but are preserved until the end of time. ↗

— Grazia Deledda

#ancient #bodies #born #christmas #christmas eve

The real message of the Dance opens up the vistas of life to all who have the urge to express beauty with no other instrument than their own bodies, with no apparatus and no dependence on anything other than space. ↗

— Ruth St. Denis

#apparatus #beauty #bodies #dance #dependence

Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies. ↗

— Helen Mirren

#churches #flesh #naked #people #pictures

I love a man in a suit. Men should stay clothed, even if they have nice bodies. ↗

— Leah Remini

#clothed #even #i #i love #love

They are such thin things, these lives of ours; cheap got, cheap lost, mere flickers against the ever dark, brief shadows on a wall. This life no more substantial than breath, a light which fills the chambers of our bodies, and is gone. ↗

— James Bradley

#death #life #death

But it does make me sad that we've forgotten our names. Out of everything, this seems to be the most tragic. I miss my own and I mourn for everyone else's, because I'd like to love them, but I don't know who they are. ↗

— Isaac Marion

#warm-bodies #love

Few travelled in these days, for, thanks to the advance of science, the earth was exactly alike all over. Rapid intercourse, from which the previous civilization had hoped so much, had ended by defeating itself. What was the good of going to Peking when it was just like Shrewsbury? Why return to Shrewsbury when it would all be like Peking? Men seldom moved their bodies; all unrest was concentrated in the soul. ↗

— E.M. Forster

#civilisation #civilization #future #machine #science-fiction

I'd like people to listen to our soldiers. They were there. They heard the alarms go off. They tasted the substance in the air. They spit up blood. They had rashes on their bodies. They got sick. ↗

— Christopher Shays

#blood #bodies #go #got #had

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

— Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

#bodies #hearing #informs #motion #sounding