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Body Quotes - Page 144

And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Not her body--her life.

Tim O'Brien (1990). “The Things They Carried: A Work of Fiction”

Even then, at nine years old, I wanted to live inside her body. I wanted to melt into her bones - THAT kind of love.

Tim O'Brien (2009). “The Things They Carried”, p.216, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

I don't have a big hang-up about my body.

"Q&A: Tim Heidecker on The Comedy and Being Stabbed". Interview with Eric Spitznagel, www.esquire.com. November 9, 2012.

Imprisonment of the body is bitter; imprisonment of the mind is worse

Thornton Wilder (2014). “The Ides of March: A Novel”, p.15, Harper Collins

With that truncheon thou hast slain a good knight, and now it sticketh in thy body.

Sir Thomas Malory “Annotated Le Morta D'Arthur King Arthur and his Noble Knights of the Round Table, Vol I with English Grammar Exercises: by Sir Thomas Malory (Author), Robert Powell (Editor)”, Powell Publications, LLC

The spirit of 1776 is not dead. It had only been slumbering. The body of the American people is substantially republican.

Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoirs, correspondence and private papers of Thomas Jefferson, ed. by T.J. Randolph”, p.432

No knowledge can be more satisfactory to a man than that of his own frame, its parts, their functions and actions.

Thomas Jefferson, Henry Augustine Washington (1854). “The Writings of Thomas Jefferson: Correspondence, contin”, p.390

Intense fear comes in waves; the body can't stand it for long at a time.

Thomas Harris (2009). “Red Dragon”, p.356, Penguin

Nor do they speak properly who say that time consumeth all things; for time is not effective, nor are bodies destroyed by it.

Sir Thomas Browne (1852). “The Works of Sir Thomas Browne: Preface. Dr. Johnson's Life of Sir Thomas Browne. Supplementary memoir by the editor. Mrs. Lyttleton's communication to Bishop Kennet. Pseudodoxia epidemica, books I-IV”, p.435

Circles and right lines limit and close all bodies, and the mortal right-lined circle must conclude and shut up all.

Sir Thomas Browne, James Thomas Fields (1862). “Religio Medici: A Letter to a Friend, Christian Morals, Urn-burial, and Other Papers”, p.343

You gotta learn your body, how clothes fit on you.

Interview with James Gaddy, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 16, 2011.

You should treat your body like a canvas.

Interview with Sowmya Krishnamurthy, www.askmen.com.