#flesh

The former measured six feet and an inch in his stockings, and, without a single pound of cumbrous flesh about him, weighed a hundred and eighty. The latter was an inch shorter than his rival, and ten pounds lighter; but he was much the most active of the two. ↗

— Augustus Baldwin Longstreet

#active #eighty #feet #flesh #former

The act of tattooing one's skin was a tranformative declaration of power, an announcment to the world: I am in control of my own flesh. ↗

— Dan Brown

#control #dan-brown #flesh #tattoo #the-lost-symbol

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated. ↗

— David Low

#another #bernard #churchill #each #even

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

— Helen Mirren

#churches #flesh #naked #people #pictures

What would it take for me to eat human flesh? If that was the only way to stay alive, I would. I would eat anything. ↗

— Dominic Monaghan

#anything #eat #flesh #human #i

I've never really been one of those girls who's scared of showing a bit of flesh. ↗

— Anna Paquin

#bit #flesh #i #never #really

MINISTER: All he has done is to find some means of bewitching the intelligence. He has only induced a radical suspension of disbelief. As in the early days of the cinema, all the citizens are jumping through the screen to lay their hands on the naked lady in the bathtub! AMBASSADOR: And yet, in fact, their fingers touch flesh. MINISTER: They believe they do. Yet all they touch is substantial shadow. AMBASSADOR: And what a beautiful definition of flesh! You know I am only substantial shadow, Minister, but if you cut me, I bleed. Touch me, I palpitate! ↗

— Angela Carter

#desire #flesh #shadow #beauty

Too much nudity is a turn off. Especially if all that flesh is on one person.
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— Jarod Kintz

#naked #nudity #sexy #turn-off #sexy

I don’t drink water, because if water can erode rock, think what it can do to flesh.
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— Jarod Kintz

#drinking #erode #erosion #flesh #geology

And because his Spirit was wholly God, he is called God, and he is called man on account of his flesh. ↗

— Michael Servetus

#because #called #flesh #god #his