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“We are resident inside with the machinery, a glimmering spread throughout the apparatus. We exist with a wind whispering inside and our moon flexing. Amid the ducts, inside the basilica of bones. The flesh is a neighborhood, but not the life.”

Wind Moon Spread Bones Flesh Neighborhood Machinery Whispering Residents Flexing

Author:Jack Gilbert

“The metaphysics of substance. The strange feeling which comes over us when we sense: this is skin - this is bone - all in a single vision that is completely unearthly. The dreaminess of our existence mixed at the same time with the indescribably sweet illusion of reality.”

Feelings Reality Existence Vision Strange Sweet Illusion Skins Bones Substance Metaphysics

Book:Max Beckmann

Source: Max Beckmann

“Mostly getting old is boring. I hate the stiffness in the bones. I was physically arrogant for years. I don't like it now that I have difficulty getting around. But a certain equanimity sets in, a certain detachment. Things seem less desperately important than they once did, and that's a pleasure.”

Years Important Seems Certain Hate Pleasure I Hate Difficulty Boring Bones Arrogant Getting Old Detachment Equanimity Stiffness

Author:Doris Lessing

“On the show, I do a very serious thing. And a lot of people have a hard time reconciling that with what I'm going to do after the show. They can't get it into their heads: "How can he be talking to Madeleine Albright one minute and then somebody half his age...." They're just jealous. But I never made any bones about it. I am a player. Always have been.”

People Has Beens Made Hard Shows Age Half Talking Player Minutes Serious Bones Hard Times Jealous One Minute Serious Things Madeleines

Author:Bill Maher

“The dog won't bite if you beat Him with a bone”

Ifs Dog Beats Bones Bites

Author:Tom Waits

“Weak dogs become bones for other, stronger dogs.”

Dog Weakness Weak Stronger Bones

Author:Tad Williams

“Zen is really extraordinarily simple as long as one doesn't try to be cute about it or beat around the bush! Zen is simply the sensation and the clear understanding ... that there is behind the multiplicity of events and creatures in this universe simply one energy -- and it appears as you, and everything is it. The practice of Zen is to understand that one energy so as to "feel it in your bones.”

Feels Trying Long Universe Energy Understanding Simple Behinds Practice Clear Events Creatures Beats Bones Cute Sensations Multiplicity

Author:Alan Watts

“We accepted a definition of ourselves which confined the self to the source and to the limitations of conscious attention. This definition is miserably insufficient, for in fact we know how to grow brains and eyes, ears and fingers, hearts and bones, in just the same way that we know how to walk and breathe, talk and think - only we can't put it into words. Words are too slow and too clumsy for describing such things, and conscious attention is too narrow for keeping track of all their details.”

“My truths are all foreknown,This anguish self-revealed.I'm naked to the bone,With nakedness my shield.”

Self Bones Naked Anguish Shields My Truth

Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“I bleed my bones, their marrow to bestowUpon that God who knows what I would know.”

Knows Bones Marrow

Book:The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

Source: The Collected Poems of Theodore Roethke

“Man's own form in space - his body - was a private prison; and that it was because of this imprisoning misery - because he was hungry and overworked and went to a horrid place called home late at night in the rain, and his bones ached and his head was heavy.”

Men Home Body Form Night Space Late Rain Prison Misery Heavy Bones Hungry Private Prisons

Author:Willem de Kooning

“In a shared fish, there are no bones.”

Fishes Bones

Author:Democritus

“Luck usually visits me at 2 am on a cold morning when, red-eyed and bone-weary, I am pouring over law books preparing a case. It never visits me when I am at the cinema, on a golf course or reclining in an easy chair.”

Book Law Courses Easy Morning Cases Cold Red Luck Golf Bones Cinema Chairs Weary Preparing Pouring Golf Course Law Books Cold Morning

Author:Louis Nizer

“He who thinks he can have flesh and bones without being subject to any external influence, or any accidents of matter, unconsciously wishes to reconcile two opposites, viz., to be at the same time subject and not subject to change. If man were never subject to change there could be no generation; there would be one single being, but no individuals forming a species.”

Ifs Thinking Men Two Matter Would Be Individual Wish Generations Influence Subjects Opposites Species Bones Accidents Flesh Reconcile Two Opposites External Influences

Book:The Guide for the Perplexed

Source: The Guide for the Perplexed

“It's an amazing feeling to know that life is actually growing inside your body. The first time you see the ultrasound and you see the little bones and you realise that it's part of you and it's in your care is life changing and this sort of protective instinct has taken over.”

Knows Firsts Littles Feelings Body Care Life Is Taken Growing First Time Instinct Bones Your Body Life Changing Realising Protective Ultrasounds

Author:Halle Berry

“A shared choice movement sees the fetus as the genes of a woman and the genes of a man; the flesh of the woman, the flesh of the man; the bone of a woman, the bone of a man; the responsibility of a woman, the responsibility of a man; the rights of a woman, the rights of a man. It desires a transition to equality.”

Men Desire Choices Responsibility Rights Movement He Man Bones Flesh Transition Genes Fetus

Author:Warren Farrell

“I haven't got a racist bone in my little finger.”

Littles Havens Fingers Bones Racist

Author:Norman Tebbit

“Where refugees seek deliverance that never comesAnd the heart consumes itself as if it would live,Where children age before their timeAnd life wears down the edges of the mind,Where the old man sits with mind grown cold,While bones and sinew, blood and cell, go slowly down to death,Where fear companions each day's life,And Perfect Love seems long delayed.CHRISTMAS IS WAITING TO BE BORN:In you, in me, in all mankind.”

Ifs Men Mind Heart Children Long Seems Age Waiting Born Perfect Blood Mankind Cold Edges Bones Cells Each Day Companion Old Man Refugee Deliverance Delayed Perfect Love

Book:Howard Thurman: Essential Writings

Source: Howard Thurman: Essential Writings

“I am too sick to work and haven't money enough to last 2 months and pay income tax. I want to keep going but do not see quite how, and there is no alternative - rather than justify my mother's 25-year dread of my "coming back on her, sick," I must kill myself. If she has to pay funeral costs, at least she will cut them to the bone and I will not be here to endure her martyrdom and prolong it by living.”

Ifs Want Years Enough Lasts Mother Pay Cutting Havens Months Cost Taxes Sick Endure Bones Income Alternatives Justify Keep Going Funeral Dread Coming Back Income Tax Martyrdom

Author:Rose Wilder Lane

“Once somebody's aware of a plot, it's like a bone sticking out. If it breaks through the skin, it's very ugly.”

Ifs Break Skins Ugly Bones Plot Break Through Sticking Out

Author:Louis Auchincloss

“London is a city that sleeps too much. This is the mould of its quality. A magnetic contract: to reinvent itself on the other side of dream, each day. And such dreams, smouldering against the tidal spine of the river, telling and retelling the tales that must be told to manifest a city's bones. Whispering the night architecture back into stone.”

Dream Night Sides Sleep Cities Quality Too Much Rivers Stones Bones London Architecture Tales Each Day Contracts Manifest Spine Whispering Magnetic Mould Retelling

Book:London: City of Disappearances

Source: London: City of Disappearances

“I have a dreadful feeling in my bones that future historians may write of the May 2014 elections: "This was the wake-up call from which Europe failed to wake up."”

Writing May Feelings Europe Wake Up Election Bones Historian Wake Up Call

Author:Timothy Garton Ash

“I am corrupted to the bone with the beauty of this forsaken world.”

World Beauty Bones Forsaken

Book:In the Heart of the Country: A Novel

Source: In the Heart of the Country: A Novel

“Let him cut your skin, and you cut his flesh. Let him cut your flesh, and you cut his bones. Let him cut your bones, and you cut off his life”

Cutting Skins Bones Flesh

Author:Toshitsugu Takamatsu

“I feel like I'm a New Yorker to the bone. But there is a lot of the South in me. I know there is a lot of the South in my mannerisms. There's a lot of the South in my expectations of other people and how people treat each other. There's a lot of the South in the way I speak, but it could never be home.”

People Knows Way Feels Home Speak Expectations Treats South Bones New Yorkers Mannerisms

Author:Jacqueline Woodson

“One of the things that all kids are taught by their parents is this old "sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me."”

Kids Parent Hurt Break Taught Stones Sticks Bones Hurt Me Sticks And Stones

Book:Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999

Source: Public Papers of the Presidents of the United States: William J. Clinton, 1999

“You dogs are smart enough to know that worry is something you do with a bone, and let it got at that. Even Pavlov couldn't do any more than prove that your brain is in your gut--something that you knew all along.”

Knows Enough Brain Worry Dog Prove Smart Bones Guts Let It Go Pavlov

Author:Frank Loesser

“I will say without reservations that from my point of view there can be no abstractions. Any shape or area that has not the pulsating concreteness of real flesh and bones, its vulnerability to pleasure or pain is nothing at all. Any picture that does not provide the environment in which the breath of life can be drawn does not interest me.”

Doe Real Pain Interest Pleasure Views Environment Shapes Areas Breaths Bones Point Of View Flesh Vulnerability Abstraction Reservations

Author:Mark Rothko

“Sticks and stones can break your bones, but names can kill you.”

Names Break Stones Sticks Bones Sticks And Stones

Author:Philip Zimbardo

“My favorite form is the short story. From an aesthetics stand point you really have to pare down to the bone. You can't write a throw-away scene.”

Writing Stories Form Scene My Favorite Bones Short Story Aesthetics

Author:Roger Zelazny

“I believe that science is best left to scientists, that you cannot have managers or directors of science, it's got to be carried out and done by people with ideas, people with concepts, people who feel in their bones that they want to go ahead and develop this, that, or the other concept which occurs to them.”

People Want Feels Believe Ideas Done Left I Believe Directors Concepts Scientist Bones Managers

Author:Mark Oliphant

“The first cup caresses my dry lips and throat, The second shatters the walls of my loneliness, The third explores the dry rivulets of my soul Searching for legends of five thousand scrolls. With the fourth the pain of past injustice vanishes through my pores. The fifth purifies my flesh and bone. With the sixth I commune with the immortals. The seventh conveys such pleasure I am overcome. The fresh wind blows through my wings As I make my way to Penglai.”

“Whether or not enlightenment is possible at the moment of death, the practices that prepare one for this possibility also bring one closer to the bone of life.”

Moments Practice Possibility Enlightenment Bones

Book:Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death

Source: Being with Dying: Cultivating Compassion and Fearlessness in the Presence of Death

“It was like losing an important weight-bearing bone, and I knew I would spend the rest of my life trying to figure out how to walk the streets without it.”

Trying Important Walks Streets Figures Losing Weight Bones

Book:The Year of Endless Sorrows: A Novel

Source: The Year of Endless Sorrows: A Novel

“Doctrine is the frame-work of life; it is the skeleton of truth, to be clothed and rounded out by the living graces of a holy life. It is only the lean creature whose bones become offensive.”

Grace Holy Creatures Bones Doctrine Offensive Skeletons Holy Life

Author:Adoniram Judson Gordon

“No British Government ever will and ever can risk the bones of a British grenadier.”

Government Risk British Bones British Government

Author:Austen Chamberlain

“When Heaven is about to confer a great office upon you, it first exercises your mind with suffering and your sinews and bones with toil.”

Mind Firsts Suffering Heaven Grace Exercise Office Bones Toil Great Office

Author:Mencius

“A rich man's body is like a premium cotton pillow, white and soft and blank. ''Ours'' is different. My father's spine was a knotted rope, the kind that women use in villages to pull water from wells; the clavicle curved around his neck in high relief, like a dog's collar; cuts and nicks and scars, like little whip marks in his flesh, ran down his chest and waist, reaching down below his hip bones into his buttocks. The story of a poor man's life is written on his body, in a sharp pen.”

“Admittedly, I do have several bones... whole war fields full of bones, in fact... to pick with organised religion of whatever stripe. This should be seen as a critique of purely temporal agencies who have, to my mind, erected more obstacles between whatever notion of spirituality and Godhead one subscribes to than they have opened doors. To me, the difference between Godhead and the Church is the difference between Elvis and Colonel Parker... although that conjures images of God dying on the toilet, which is not what I meant at all.”

“Opinion in all parts of the world would agree that Rachmaninoff is the most complete of living masters of the instrument; his technique is comprehensive, and he is, of course, musical to his bone's marrow. Most important of all, he is a composer, and for this reason he is able to approach a work as none of his pianist contemporaries can approach one - that is, from the inside, as an organic and felt creative process.”

“How can anyone be interested in war? - that glorious pursuit of annihilation with its ceremonious bellowings and trumpetings over the mangling of human bones and muscles and organs and eyes, its inconceivable agonies which could have been prevented by a few well-chosen, reasonable words. How, why, did this unnecessary business begin? Why does anyone want to read about it - this redundant human madness which men accept as inevitable?”

“Years bleach away the sense of things until all that's left is a bone-white past, stripped of feeling and significance.”

Years Feelings Past Left White Bones Significance Bleach

Book:The Light Between Oceans: A Novel

Source: The Light Between Oceans: A Novel

“This is love-not what we say to each other but what we not say. Sometime it just one look exchange. Sometime one word. But underlining everything we say or not say, something else. Something heavy and deep, like when we in bed and looking into each other's eyes. For six years, everything between husband and me was on top, like skin. Now it hidden, like bone and muscle. [] He care for me now. He finally see me. And he like what he see.”

Years Looks Eye Care Bed Husband Six Skins Heavy Bones Just One Muscles One Word

Author:Thrity Umrigar

“Thanks to my ridiculous, sometimes tragic, and always unsteady upbringing, I was given the gift of bone-crushing insecurity. One thing you'll notice about people with mental problems is constant self-absorbation. I think that's because it's such a struggle just to be who they are, so they have a hard time getting past it.”

People Thinking Self Sometimes Hard Problem Past Given Struggle One Thing Constant Bones Ridiculous Thanks Crush Hard Times Tragic Insecurity Upbringing

Author:Mark Oliver

“I could send you a bone with a file in it, only you'd eat it.”

Bones Files

Author:Terry Crowley

“Cause I might be naked and lonely Shaking branches for bones But I'm still time zones away From who I was the day before we met You were the first mile Where my heart broke a sweat And I wish you were here I wish you'd never left But mostly I wish you well I wish you my very very best.”

Source: Pole Dancing to Gospel Hymns

“Sleeping we imagine what awake we wish; D ogs dream of bones, and fishermen of fish.”

Dream Wish Sleep Imagine Sea Rivers Fishes Bones Boat Awake Lakes Fishing Fisherman

Author:Theocritus

“Right now I'm 185, which is really good for me yet very hard for me to maintain. My weight seems high for the average woman, but I've got big bones and I'm maintaining muscle.”

Hard Bigs Seems Sports Right Now Weight Average Bones Muscles Maintaining

Author:Lisa Leslie

“Don't tire yourself more than need be, even at the price of founding a culture on the fatigue of your bones.”

Needs Culture Bones Founding Tire Fatigue

Author:Antonin Artaud

“I grew up in Arkansas and that's the law. My dad was a high school basketball coach, so I was raised as a coach's son and I was a baseball player back in Arkansas, and I lived in Texas, too, so I was just surrounded by sports. So that's what I was going to do: Pitch for the St Louis Cardinals. I had no idea I was going to be an actor. So I got my collar bone broken in the Kansas City Royals training camp. And once I got hurt I started doing other things for a while.”

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