Quotes of: Body-image Keyword

...there is no real person whose embodiment plays no role in meaning, whose meaning is purely objective and defined by the external world, and whose language can fit the external world with no significant role played by mind, brain, or body. Because ...

Philosophy in the Flesh: The Embodied Mind and its Challenge to Western Thought

I do not need to understand words to know he is disappointed I am not a boy. Some things need no translation. And I know, because my body remembers without benefit of words, that men who do not welcome girl-babies will not treasure me as I grow to wo...

What the Body Remembers

As the sun began to rise, the man reached out to the woman, and they clasped hands. He cradled her, and languidly they lifted themselves up to their feet, their bodies brushing, their eyes lost in each other's. Sensuously, deliberately, they danced, ...

Hannah Fielding

One of the Age of Enlightenment's most hypnotic images is Ledoux's rendering of his neoclassical theater of 1775 - 1784 in Besancon, surreally reflected in the colossal eye of an unidentified cosmic being.

Martin Filler

I was trained as an actor and taught to believe at a very young age that I could be anything and do anything, and then you find yourself painted into a corner by your own image or persona.

Pierce Brosnan

Isn't it amazing that we are all made in God's image, and yet there is so much diversity among his people?

Desmond Tutu

My public image is so low-key, but I get to travel the world and still have an audience and it's really amazing. I don't take that for granted.

K. D. Lang

Movies become art after editing. Instead of just reproducing reality, they juxtapose images of it. That implies expression; that's art.

Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu

You can't just take an image and randomly distort it and call it art - although many people in La Jolla where I come from do precisely that.

Vilayanur S. Ramachandran

The television image sanctified, conferred identity. The more familiar the face, the more to be trusted.

Innocent Blood

What is seen by mind, is an environmental image that projected by public consciousness in vicinity.

Master of Stupidity

A rock pile ceases to be a rock pile the moment a single man contemplates it, bearing within him the image of a cathedral.

The Little Prince

Because the eye has seen, thoughts are structured upon images and not upon ideas.

On Trademarks: A Thesis

The image of the journalist as wallflower at the orgy has been replaced by the journalist as the life of the party.

Wallflower at the Orgy

Yeah, I try to be the best example I can be for young girls just as far as my person goes - just to uphold a good image.

Miranda Lambert

Everything about Christianity is contained in the pathetic image of 'the flock.

Hitch-22: A Memoir

I've always been very image prone, along the lines of bands like Black Sabbath and even Devo.

Peter Steele

People have really strong images of what church is, and it's almost certainly not the same as mine.

Sally Phillips

I see that all of us who live are nothing but images or insubstantial shadow.

Sophocles

If you could see your perfect image in the mirror it would remove all your fear.

Stanley Victor Paskavich

The delicate balance of mentoring someone is not creating them in your own image, but giving them the opportunity to create themselves.

Steven Spielberg