Body Quotes - Page 34

• I've always been a late bloomer. My body developed late. From ninth to 10th grade, I grew like 3 inches. Just kind of stretched out. I was like 6-1, grew to 6-4 in 10th grade.

  Paul Pierce

  Kind, Inches, Grew

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• My weakness ... is architecture. I think of my work as ephemeral architecture, dedicated to the beauty of the female body.

  Christian Dior

  Thinking, Weakness, Female

  Christian Dior (2007). “Dior by Dior”, Victoria & Albert Museum

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• I don't think that everything that's popular is necessarily right for every body and so I'd like for girls to be confident enough to make the right choice for themselves and to look unique.

  Rachel Roy

  Girl, Unique, Thinking

  "Estelle and Rachel Roy Talk About Their New Jewelry Line at Macy's". Seventeen Magazine Interview, www.seventeen.com. April 5, 2010.

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• I always keep a woman's body in mind, accentuating her best features.

  Rachel Roy

  Mind, Women's Bodies, Features

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• I was working in corporate Canada and I was doing all right. But I was burnt out... Long hours, a lot of clients. I just wanted to get away. Track and field was sort of like the elimination thing. I just wanted to go and do something. Exercise my brain and my body and kind of gravitate to that.

  Donovan Bailey

  Exercise, Long, Track

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• The medium of poetry is a human body: the column of air inside the chest, shaped into signifying sounds in the larynx and the mouth. In this sense, poetry is just as physical or bodily an art as dancing.

  Robert Pinsky

  Art, Air, Dancing

  Robert Pinsky (2014). “The Sounds of Poetry: A Brief Guide”, p.8, Macmillan

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• I’m constantly criticised for being too skinny. I’m trying to gain weight but my body won’t let it happen. What people don’t understand is that calling someone too skinny is the same as calling someone too fat, it’s not a nice feeling.

  Kendall Jenner

  Nice, People, Feelings

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• Anyone is capable of anything (will plus belief is ability) if they themselves create the opportune moment and incentive. Heaven gives no genius to disbelievers and no vengeance worse than the body denied.

  Austin Osman Spare

  Giving, Heaven, Genius

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• The automatic mind of the patient, the lowest level of subconsciousness which controls the etheric double, is manipulated and is the vehicle of the healing.

  Dion Fortune

  Mind, Vehicle

  "Aspects of Occultism".

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• This is what history is: all those centuries of bodies, moving over these canals, twisting and blooming into life in these houses, these streets; all that flesh hungering, coming together, separating, continuing, accumulating, relinquishing, aging and breaking down. Bodies as tulips bent to the demands of light, colored into blossom, spent.

  Mark Doty

  Moving, Light, House

  Mark Doty (2001). “Still Life with Oysters and Lemon”, Beacon Press (MA)

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• We stop the one who can't cease from seeking things outside, and practice with our bodies with a posture that seeks absolutely nothing. This is zazen.

  Kodo Sawaki

  Practice, Posture, Absolutely Nothing

  Complete Collection of Sawaki Kodo, vol. 15, p. 336, 1966.

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• The body is the soul's poor house or home, whose ribs the laths are and whose flesh the loam.

  Robert Herrick

  Home, House, Soul

  Robert Herrick (1852). “Hesperides; or, Works both human and divine”

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• What has been attained may again be lost. Only when you realise the true peace, the peace you have never lost, that peace will remain with you for it was never away. Instead of searching for what you do not have, find out what is it that you have never lost. That which is there before the beginning and after the ending of everything, to That there is no birth nor death. That Immovable state, which is not affected by the birth and death of a body or a mind, that state you must perceive.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Mind, May, Birth

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• You are so accustomed to think of yourselves as bodies having consciousness that you just cannot imagine consciousness as having bodies. Once you realize that bodily existence is but a state of mind, a movement in consciousness, that the ocean of consciousness is infinite and eternal, and that, when in touch with consciousness, you are the witness only, you will be able to withdraw beyond consciousness altogether.

  Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

  Ocean, Thinking, Mind

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• It's not easy waking up every single morning knowing what you're going to put your body through and having to do it. We don't have days off.

  Bryan Clay

  Morning, Knowing, Days Off

  "Gold Medalist Bryan Clay Goes Beyond Reason for Games". Interview with Kiera Aaron, www.menshealth.com. April 23, 2012.

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• All the arts serving human desires and needs are derived from the breath that Godsent into the human body.

  Hildegard of Bingen

  Art, Desire, Needs

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• Students of American history will recall that the important place where work gets done in the legislative body, almost without exception, is in the committees, more so than on the floor although sometimes more attention is paid to the floor.

  Paul Sarbanes

  Important, Attention, Done

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• I really look forward to revisiting this body of work which has been such a huge part of my life and bringing it to the concert stage. And the idea of performing some of Jack Skellington's songs from The Nightmare Before Christmas live for the very first time is immensely exciting.

  Danny Elfman

  Song, Ideas, Looks

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• To our way of thinking the Indians' symbol is the circle, the hoop. Nature wants to be round. The bodies of human beings and animals have no corners. With us, the circle stands for togetherness of people who sit with one another around the campfire, relatives and friends united in peace while the sacred pipe passes from hand to hand. To us this is beautiful and fitting, symbol and reality at the same time, expressing the harmony of life and nature.

  John Fire Lame Deer

  Beautiful, Reality, Thinking

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• The art I like concentrates on the body. I don't have a feel for Poussin, but for Courbet, Velásquez - artists who get to the flesh. Visceral artists - Bacon, Freud. And de Kooning, of course. He's really my man. He doesn't depict anything, yet it's more than representation, it's about the meaning of existence and pushing the medium of paint.

  Jenny Saville

  Art, Men, Flesh

  "Under the skin" by Suzie Mackenzie, www.theguardian.com. October 21, 2005.

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• Pain, I came to feel, might well prove to be the sole proof of the persistence of consciousness within the flesh, the sole physical expression of consciousness. As my body acquired muscle, and in turn strength, there was gradually born within me a tendency towards the positive acceptance of pain, and my interest in physical suffering deepened.

  Yukio Mishima

  Pain, Acceptance, Persistence

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• We usually do pay attention to our outer appearance, typically noticing whatever part of our bodies we are unhappy about. It behooves us, however, to get on very good terms with more than just the surface of our bodies as we grow older; for if we don't listen to our bodies and pay attention to our physical needs and pleasures, this vehicle that we need to be running well to take us into a long and comfortable life, will limit what we can do and who we become.

  Jean Shinoda Bolen

  Running, Long, Unhappy

  Jean Shinoda Bolen, Jean Shinoda Bolen M. D. (2011). “Crones Don't Whine: Concentrated Wisdom for Juicy Women”, p.46, ReadHowYouWant.com

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• More than any other drummer, Ringo Starr changed my life. The impact and memory of that band on Ed Sullivan Show in 1964 will never leave me. I can still see Ringo in the back moving that beat with his whole body, his right hand swinging off his sock cymbal while his left hand pounds the snare. He was fantastic, but I think what got to me the most was his smile. I knew he was having the time of his life.

  Max Weinberg

  Memories, Moving, Thinking

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• The Human body is sacred - the veritable tabernacle of the Divine Spirit which inhabits it. It is a solemn duty of mankind to develop, protect, and preserve it from pollution, unnecessary wastage, and weakness.

  Stephen L. Richards

  Weakness, Divinity, Sacred

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