#bodies

That body is most attractive which is well proportioned: a gangly right arm balanced by a left stump, a leg suffering from elephantitis by a meatless femur bone, a tapered waist by a bulbous head. One should be so ordered that all who see this person will say: ‘This is a figure ruled by harmony. ↗

— Bauvard

#bodies #funny #humor #proportion #funny

Time erodes us all. ↗

— Meg Rosoff

#bodies #death #deterioration #time #age

S/M flies in the face of every attempt the state makes to appropriate our bodies, our labor, our time, and our imaginations.…the state is deeply offended by any group of people who say, 'My body doesn't belong to you, it belongs to me, so fuck off'… ↗

— Pat Califia

#bdsm #bodies #imagination

It is a sexy country. We are very free with our bodies. ↗

— Ana Beatriz Barros

#country #free #our #sexy #very

But we can hold our spirits and our bodies so pure and high, we may cherish such thoughts and such ideals, and dream such dreams of lofty purpose, that we can determine and know what manner of men we will be, whenever and wherever the hour strikes and calls to noble action. ↗

— Joshua Chamberlain

#bodies #calls #cherish #determine #dream

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

Hey, any time you're throwing bodies over board it is to save yourself. ↗

— Lawrence Tierney

#board #bodies #hey #over #save

The desire to live in our imagination is driven by this suspicion that we're disembodied sensibilities cobbled into our bodies. That idea has infused most of human thought since the very beginning. ↗

— Richard Powers

#bodies #cobbled #desire #driven #human