#dies

So much of our lives is given over to the consideration of our imperfections that there is no time to improve our imaginary virtues. The truth is we only perfect our vices, and man is a worse creature when he dies than he was when he was born. ↗

— Edward Dahlberg

#consideration #creature #dies #given #imaginary

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

Most of my confidence came from being with ladies, because I certainly wasn't getting any acting jobs. ↗

— Vin Diesel

#any #because #being #came #certainly

My buddies wanted to be firemen, farmers or policemen, something like that. Not me, I just wanted to steal people's money! ↗

— John Dillinger

#farmers #firemen #i #just #like

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains. ↗

— Edward Dowden

#tragedies #villains #without

When belief in a god dies, the god dies. ↗

— Harlan Ellison

#dies #god

I've played villains on stage - you know, the Iagos and so on - but I think of myself as a funny person. I mostly did comedies before I did TV work. ↗

— Michael Emerson

#comedies #did #funny #funny person #i

There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk. ↗

— M. F. K. Fisher

#bread #broken #communion #drunk #more

You know what I want? The answer is, I truly don't know what I want. I don't want to do a television series. I want to do dramas as well as comedies, but I have no idea what kind or in what order. Just give me the chance at them. ↗

— Michael J. Fox

#chance #comedies #dramas #give #give me