Quotes of: Body-language Keyword

Her grief has not so much changed her as stripped her down, stripped her body and her face.

The Number of Missing

On account of its scale and complexity, the world will always outstrip the capacity of any single body to ask fertile questions of it.

The News: A User's Manual

Lost, so small amid that dark, hands grown cold, body image fading down corridors of television sky.

Neuromancer

But the body had its own cultural forms. It had its own art. Executions were its tragedies, pornography was its romance.

Oryx and Crake

How talented was death. How many expressions and manipulations of hand, face, body, no two alike.

The October Country

I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects...

Letters. A Selection, 1825–1859

The eye--it cannot choose but see; We cannot bid the ear be still; Our bodies feel, where'er they be, Against or with our will.

Lyrical Ballads

I was a boy that age once, and I know that 97.7 percent of their bodies are semen and the 2.8 percent is an incendiary device for spraying it.

Loving Day

Fear blossomed within her - not like a flower, but like blood welling from a gunshot wound, spreading throughout her entire body.

Love is Darkness

You cannot separate passion from pathology any more than you can separate a person's spirit from his body.

Letters to a Young Doctor

Mrs. Turner gripped my baby finger. It's amazing how a man can feel sex anywhere on his body.

A Little Yellow Dog

That’s why we get involved with other people, right? Not just for their bodies, but for everything else, too – their dreams and their scars and their stories.

The Leftovers

To want and not to have, sent all up her body a hardness, a hollowness, a strain. And then to want and not to have- to want and want- how that wrung the heart, and wrung it again and again!

To the Lighthouse

It was interesting. Isabelle thought, the children that chose you. Some come through your body; others came in cars in the middle of the night.

The Lost Art of Mixing

Mulled ale for the frozen man, And mulled ale for the weary: For mulled ale is the body's friend And makes the sick heart merry.

The Long Ships

There is earth below your earth, a deep room where gas and oil, rock and stone, circulate like slow blood through a body.

The Lease

She learned that an act intended to express love could have nothing to do with it. That her heart and her body were different things.

The Lowland

At time I find the true material of my spirit, this earthly body is no longer my only vessel.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Essence of any creature encompasses more than one realm. Here now this body, is a vehicle of my essence in this universe.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

Body needs variable of time to be able to settle presence of soul in this three-dimensional space.

My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

When you walk this earth on borrowed time, each day on the calendar is a beloved friend you know for only a short time.

Minding the Body