Councilman Bodies Quotes & Sayings

If you meet me on the street you should hurry on without a backward glance, and later when you climb into bed beside a happy girl with simple thoughts and stroke her perfect hair with fingers that are still shaky from our near-miss, you can whisper that you had a brush with death today, darling, and somehow lived. — Julie Johnson

He (Shaithan) is extremely patient. He won't get you in one shot. He'll come at you and he'll put a little bit and a little bit and a little bit until he destroys your character. — Nouman Ali Khan

The warm and radiant yes of the heart is perfect, like the sun, in bringing all things to life and nourishing all that is truly human. — John Welwood

In what a delightful communion with God does that man live who habitually seeketh love! With the same mantle thrown over him from the cross - with the same act of amnesty, by which we hope to be saved - injuries the most provoked, and transgressions the most aggravated, are covered in eternal forgetfulness. — Elias Lyman Magoon

According to scholars of linguistics, the relation between a word and its meaning is arbitrary. — Roy Blount Jr.

I play in a lot of empty rooms. — Colin Hay

I don't know that I 'look up' to them, but in our predictably partisan media world, I admire journalists who are genuinely nonpartisan and totally fearless in their work - people who have no interest in being invited to the cocktail party. I don't agree with everything he writes, but Glenn Greenwald comes to mind. — Willie Geist

What difference does it make after all?
anonymity in the world of men is better than fame in heaven, for what's heaven? what's earth? All in the mind. — Jack Kerouac

I wish to die painting. — Paul Cezanne

I like the spreads - designing them is a welcome challenge - but for a dyed-in-the-wool page-a-day journeyman like me, it can be tough to leave a drawing unfinished at the end of the workday. — Stuart Immonen

When I do write, it happens really easily. I'll just kind of sing along to whatever I'm playing, then find a line to build off of, then sit down and write. When I do write, I take care of business! — Isaac Brock

For the only slavery is desire, and he who learns to let go, to climb the wind-swept hills of self-becoming, naked of all possessions and desire, will drink the mountain air of freedom, and find the peace that lies not in the satisfaction but in the controlling of desire. — Christmas Humphreys

Those who cannot dance, should not dance. — Cian Beirdd

So usually even if you like a sentence or a story or something, it won't come out that way - it'll come out years later, and in a different way, and you don't really control that. — Keren Ann

It's not your word that matters, it's who you give it too. — Ernest Borgnine