Battered Soul Quotes

#1. When we lay together, she showed me her soul, and I showed her mine, and they were the same. As you can imagine, mine was battered and bruised, tarnished like ancient metal. She scrubbed it clean. I cannot deny my own soul any more than I can deny she held it in her hands for a time.

Carol Oates

#2. We can't expect to ride the wave if we aren't even willing to catch it.

Jake Ducey

#3. There is nothing which has yet been contrived by man by which so much happiness is produced as by a good tavern or inn. - SAMUEL JOHNSON

Kingsley Amis

#4. If you want to see theater you go to New York.

John O'Hurley

#5. I always think it's interesting to switch genres, because if I read a script and I know exactly how to manifest a story, I don't really want to do it anymore, because I've already done it in my head.

Marc Forster

#6. The image of feeling created by artists, in every kind of art
plastic, musical, poetic, balletic
serves to hold the reality itself for our labile and volatile memory, as a touchstone to test the scope of our intellectual constructions.

Susanne Katherina Langer

#7. My soul was a lot more battered than my body, but I couldn't see it in the mirror. Hopefully no one else could either.

Patricia Briggs

#8. Nothing like that warm and fuzzy Soviet architecture ... Pretty much as close to the Klingon home world as you're gonna get.

Josh Gates

#9. Unholy battered old thing you were, my sunflower O my soul, I loved you then!

Allen Ginsberg

#10. Perfect doesn't just mean happy. Perfect can have lots of different parts. - Niles.

Pat Conroy

#11. For that which is boundless in you abides in the mansion of the sky, whose door is the morning mist, and whose windows are the songs and the silences of night.

Kahlil Gibran

#12. Before I met her, I drank and swore without reason ... now I have a reason.

Benny Hill

#13. Then how about one kiss?' he said with a sexy grin. 'Something to remember me by?'
'I'll give you something to remember me by,' I said. The back of my head.' I pushed past him and escaped through the door to freedom.

Ellen Schreiber

#14. A parking lot attendant who's a guy makes a lot more money than a child-care attendant who's a woman.

Gloria Steinem

#15. Each person was in the power of the Creator, or could be turned over to be battered by the Refuser. Every soul was equal in the Creator's eyes.
That was comforting and troubling at the same time.

Trish Mercer

#16. Coming up through the ranks of any calling can be rough, but that battered soul who survives the early years of courting the comic muse comes close to knowing what only the soldier knows: What combat is like.

Dick Cavett

#17. Ultimately, jokes are this really special thing that we can all share. It's exciting to have basically a thousand people in a room together that can laugh at the same time, but I think of it almost as, like, a religious experience.

Mike Birbiglia