Famous Quotes & Sayings

Pat Metheny

Its more about conception and touch and spirit and soul than whether my hardware was in place.

Padgett Powell

I knew I was supposed to be a writer; I had made that declaration in the closet of my soul.

Pablo Neruda

sometimes i get up at dawn, and even my soul is wet.

Plautus

I am myself my own commander. [Lat., Egomet sum mihi imperator.]

Plato

Much more wretched than lackof health inthe body, it is to dwell with a soul that is not healthy, but corrupt.

Plato

If we are ever to have pure knowledge of anything, we must get rid of the body and contemplate things by themselves with the soul by itself.

Plato

No attempt should be made to cure the body without the soul

Plato

No attempt of curing the body should be made without curing the soul

Plato

Madness is a divine release of the soul from the yoke of custom and convention.

Plato

Geometry draws the soul towards truth.

Plato

Virtue is a kind of health, beauty and good habit of the soul.

Plato

No soul willfully does wrong.

Plato

Rhythm and melody enter into the soul of the well-instructed youth and produce there a certain mental harmony hardly obtainable in any other way. . . . thus music, too, is concerned with the principles of love in their application to harmony and rhythm.

Plato

The soul should concentrate itself by itself.

Plato

Before all it's necessary to look after the Soul, if you want the head and the rest of the body to function correctly.

Plato

Every soul pursues the good and does whatever it does for its sake.

Plato

The greatest privilege of a human life is to become a midwife to the awakening of the Soul in another person.

Plato

Knowledge of the soul is the only universal truth and the only wisdom - all other knowledge is transient.

Plato

Education in music is most sovereign because more than anything else rhythm and harmony find their way to the innermost soul and take strongest hold upon it

Paul Weller

When you look at so much of what we all love, there's either soul-based to it, or it's the blues. It's really the beginnings of any kind of music. It really is; it all starts there. Because after that, it's music of the moment.

Leonardo da Vinci

The five senses are the ministers of the soul.

Laini Taylor

Kizzy wanted it all so bad her soul leaned half out of her body hungering after it, and that was what drove the goblins wild, her soul hanging out there like an untucked shirt.

Laini Taylor

Is that all souls are for? For when we die?" "No. They're for living, too.

Lisa Kleypas

And I wonder how Gage knew this is what my soul has craved. He turns me to face him, his eyes searching. It occurs to me that no one in my life has ever concerned himself so thoroughly with my happiness.

Lisa Kristine

My work is about the establishment of trust. For someone to share their authenticity with me is a soul-to-soul thing. It's not a lens-to-soul thing.

Lisa Kleypas

Matthew wanted hours, days, weeks alone with her... he wanted all her thoughts and smiles and secrets. The freedom to lay his soul bare before her.

Johnny Cash

I have tried drugs and a little of everything else, and there is nothing in the world more soul-satisfying than having the kingdom of God building inside you and growing.

John Ray

Though thou has never so many counselors, yet do not forsake the counsel of your soul.

James Joyce

I confess that I do not see what good it does to fulminate against the English tyranny while the Roman tyranny occupies the palace of the soul.

James Joyce

What did it avail to pray when he knew his soul lusted after its own destruction?

James Joyce

Our souls, shame-wounded by our sins, cling to us yet more, a woman to her lover clinging, the more the more.

Libba Bray

Tonight, she went into the woods, and I fear she shall live in the woods of my soul for the rest of my days.

Libba Bray

- 'Music opens your soul, makes you ready.' - 'Ready for what?' - He smiles big. 'Exactly.