Top 1200 Body Language Quotes & Sayings - Page 20

[On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private body.

I run like an electric golf cart. Now I look at eating as a way to feed my body and keep me younger. It's not about starving your body, but treating your body like a Ferrari. You don't put in the crappiest gas you can find. You use supreme. In the long term, you'll run clean.

The less the thought of the body, the better. For it is the body that drags us down.

Everything in writing begins with language. Language begins with listening.

I have only one body, which is the home of my spirit; therefore, I cherish my body.

There is nothing terribly difficult in the Bible - at least in a technical way. The Bible is written in street language, common language. Most of it was oral and spoken to illiterate people. They were the first ones to receive it. So when we make everything academic, we lose something.

If a language is corruptible, then a constitution written in that language is corruptible.

the body is simple as a turtle / and straight as a dog: / the body cannot lie.

Language is not subtle enough, tender enough, to express all that we feel; and when language fails, the highest and deepest longings are translated into music. Music is the sunshine - the climate - of the soul, and it floods the heart with a perfect June.

It is an absolute privilege to be able to speak another language and have it be something you grew up with. I think it's a very important thing and I think that everywhere else in the world people speak more than one language.

Disgust for the female body is always tinged with anxiety, since the body symbolizes mortality.

I know that I am more than my personality, my body, and my body image.

If 'bounded by a surface' is the definition of body there cannot be an infinite body either intelligible or sensible.

A book, at the same time, also has to do with what I call a buzz in the head. It's a certain kind of music that I start hearing. It's the music of the language, but it's also the music of the story. I have to live with that music for a while before I can put any words on the page. I think that's because I have to get my body as much as my mind accustomed to the music of writing that particular book. It really is a mysterious feeling.

I lived in Paris for two years with my family. I would roam the streets of Paris during the day for a few hours in the subway, on the streets, and I listened to the French language, and I got a sense of the rhythm and the melody of the language.

I don't subscribe to the idea that if you don't have the body you want, you can't be proud of the body you have. I think you can do both.

I don't stretch my body as if it is an object. I do yoga from the self towards the body, not the other way around.

I'm interested in the way our world is defined by language, the living word. How restrained we are by the concept of language, but when you tweak it a little bit your eyes can be opened and your world is totally changed.

I don't have a model's body. But I'm not one of those crazy girls who thinks that they're fat. I'm okay with what I have. I can rock this body, you know?

Yes, I was beaten on every part of my body, and the marks are still on my body.

I write in order to understand the images. Being what my agent . . . somewhat ruefully calls a language playwright, is problematic because in production, you have to make the language lift off the page. But a good actor can turn it into human speech. I err sometimes toward having such a compound of images that if an actor lands heavily on each one, you never pull through to a larger idea. That's a problem for the audience. But I come to playwriting from the visual world - I used to be a painter. I also really love novels and that use of language. But it's tricky to ask that of the theatre.

May not men earn their bread by intellectual labor? No, the needs of the body must be supplied by the body.

The power that made the body, HEALS THE BODY. It happens no other way.

John Bunyan, while he had a surpassing genius, would not condescend to cull his language from the garden of flowers; but he went into the hayfield and the meadow, and plucked up his language by the roots, and spoke out in the words that the people used in their cottages.

I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.

Living freely means being able to freely communicate in your native language and to be guided by the 10th article of the constitution, which defines Ukrainian as the only state language and guarantees the unhindered development of Russian and all the other languages.

My body, plowed by your body, will turn into a field where one is sown and a hundred reaped.

Remove stress from the body and the body regenerates itself. You can heal yourself.

Whether I was in my body or out of my body as I wrote it I know not. God knows.

Reincarnation is a process of moving from one state of mind to another. Whether you are in a body or out of a body is immaterial.

I am Walter, a body, but more important than the body is my spirit.

I run like an electric golf cart. Now I look at eating as a way to feed my body and keep me younger. It's not about starving your body, but treating your body like a Ferrari. You don't put in the crappiest gas you can find. You use supreme. In the long term, you'll run clean

I think the more rational explanation is that the excision of a five-to-six-foot leech from the surface of a human body means that that body is going to have more of its own blood in its own veins. Unless the leech finds another body, it is going to go hungry.

If French is no longer the language of a power, it can be the language of a counter power.

If you think back to the moments when you've gone through the most pain in your life, or the most severe anxiety, your body is very much involved in that. Your body is expressing those emotions. So, when we, as actors, try to access those feelings, the body is a great tool to use.

I like my body when it is with your body. It is so quite new a thing. Muscles better and nerves more.

The body is not simply the combination of dance, muscles, body-building, strength and sex: it is a universe.

Stretching exercises in the morning for face & body or my body feels heavy and I can't do anything else.

I want to be able to speak every language. If I could have any talent and I get to choose it, and be naturally gifted and speak every language. It's not going to happen, but it sure would be nice. It's a good wish.

If I put the right fuel in my body, then my body will pretty much do what I ask it to.

Attention to the human body brings healing and regeneration. Through awareness of the body we remember who we really are.

Body am I entirely, and nothing else; and soul is only a word for something about the body.

One of the things I love about shooting the most is that there's no specific body type or body build that someone has to have.

Purists behave as if there was a vintage year when language achieved a measure of excellence which we should all strive to maintain. In fact, there was never such a year. The language of Chaucer's or Shakespeare's time was no better and no worse than that of our own - just different.

As a writer, I've often said that, among the other things that we need to reclaim, other than the obscene wealth of billionaires, is language. Language has been deployed to mean the exact opposite of what it really means when they talk about democracy or freedom.

My inspiration came especially in the 1950s through the Vienna Group founded by writer H.C. Artmann. It showed me that if you want to say something, you have to let the language itself say it, because language is usually more meaningful than the mere content that one wishes to convey.

We think in language. We think in words. Language is the landscape of thought.

The Language of the Dream/Night is contrary to that of Waking/Day. It is a language of Images and Sensations, the various dialects of which are far less different from each other, than the various Day-Languages of Nations.

I sometimes feel that my goal as a novelist would be to write a novel in which the language was so transparent that the reader would forget that language was the medium of understanding. Of course that's not possible, but it's some sort of idealized goal.

You cant get beyond the body unless you free the body itself.

The art of healing, the art of ecstasy, the art of God-consciousness has millions of names in mystic terms. It has to do with rhythm and reality. When the body is in rhythm, there is ease. When the body, or any part of the body goes out of rhythm, there is dis-ease.

When an asana is done correctly the body movements are smooth, there is lightness in the body and freedom in the mind.

But if thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.

Mathematics is not just a language. Mathematics is a language plus reasoning.

What came out of that was an intense obsession with status anxiety. So much of these portraits are about fashioning oneself into the image of perfection that ruled the day in the 18th and 19th centuries. It's an antiquated language, but I think we've inherited that language and have forwarded it to its most useful points in the 21st century.

It helps to have a fit body if you are meditating. Yoga conditions the body so that the mind can meditate.

Architecture is a wrapping for the human body, and dance is the finest expression of the body.

When you start writing a picture book, you have to write a manuscript that has enough language to prompt the illustrator to get his or her gears running, but then you end up having to cut it out because you don't want any of the language to be redundant to the pictures that are being drawn.

The body is the prop for the soul. So why not let the body be propped by a wall or a block?

Language corresponds only to itself. Intellectuals suffer from that. And once you begin to question language, you cannot stop at studying linguistics. Analytical philosophy becomes insufficient, artificial grammar becomes insufficient.