Flesh Quotes

Once I've got the first draft down on paper then I do five or six more drafts, the last two of which will be polishing drafts. The ones in between will flesh out the characters and maybe I'll check my research.

Yet, so far from laboring to know the forbidden tree of worldly pleasures and its various fruits, man gives himself up to a careless and thoughtless state of life, and yields to the lust of the flesh, not considering that this lust is really the forbidden tree.

Tyrannies not only want to control your mind and thoughts but your flesh as well.

In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell.

As far as I am concerned the paint is the person. I want it to work for me just as flesh does.

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.

Social democracy... is only the advance guard of the proletariat, a small piece of the total working masses; blood from their blood, and flesh from their flesh.

Every child was taught from his cradle that money was Mammon, the chief agent of the flesh and the devil.

A Boston man is the east wind made flesh.

Indeed, the whole company, although thin in flesh, and generally of slight forms, and limbs, especially, are as good looking and intelligent a body of men as we usually meet with.

Mr. Faulkner, of course, is interested in making your mind rather than your flesh creep.

I don't know what a scoundrel is like, but I know what a respectable man is like, and it's enough to make one's flesh creep.

God sent Jesus as an example to see if we could retain and maintain the Holy Spirit in human flesh.

Chinese women are much more modest than American women when it comes to clothes. We tend to show less flesh.

Long years must pass before the truths we have made for ourselves become our very flesh.

The first time my father saw me in the flesh was on the stage, which is a bit weird. We went out to dinner, and he was charming and sweet, but I did all the talking.

The way to Heaven is ascending; we must be content to travel uphill, though it be hard and tiresome, and contrary to the natural bias of our flesh.

Flesh sells. People don't want to see pictures of churches. They want to see naked bodies.

If Jesus is the Son of God in human flesh, He's one of a kind of the 13 billions of people who have ever lived.

I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images.

The more flesh you show, the higher up the ladder you go.

Thus was the King and the Lord of glory judged by man's judgment, when manifest in flesh: far be it from any of his ministers to expect better treatment.

Dear God! how beauty varies in nature and art. In a woman the flesh must be like marble; in a statue the marble must be like flesh.

I suppose meeting people whether it's in real life and actually shaking their flesh and blood hand or shaking the mystical hand of the character all rub off on you in some way.

I have loved corsets since I was small. When I was a child, my grandmother took me to an exhibition, and they had a corset on display. I loved the flesh color, the salmon satin, the lace.

Father Fernando did every thing in his power to assist the sick; and although he arrived much reduced in flesh, he did not become ill, and is now well.

Well, it gives, certainly to my father, who is the one that suffered the most in our family, and understanding of how the ideals of a country are only as good as the people who give it flesh and blood.

I am an invisible man. I am a man of substance, of flesh and bone, fiber and liquids - and I might even be said to possess a mind. I am invisible, understand, simply because people refuse to see me.

A press card does not provide you with an invisible shield. You're flesh and blood.

It's taken me a long time to become the person I am, for all the ugliness to fall away. The rotten flesh is gone, and the seed is there. I can touch that now.