Physical Things

I do write by

I do write by hand. I just think – I don’t know, it’s a physical thing for me. It’s a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way through my hand. Elizabeth Strout

Mindfulness is the ability

Mindfulness is the ability to do physical things in a harmonious way; it is a way to remain centered in a physical world that is out of balance. Frederick Lenz

I think I just get excited by music, and, like, singing is a very physical thing. It releases endorphins in your body. You’re using almost muscle in there, and I think that adrenaline really helps to kind of make the songs fresh every time. Florence Welch

I’ve been blessed. I

I’ve been blessed. I have no complaints. I’ve been surrounded by people in radio, on stage and in motion pictures and television who love me. The things that have gone wrong have been simply physical things. Dick York

This was nonsense, he

This was nonsense, he thought. The need of her was a physical thing, like the thirsty of a sailor becalmed for weeks on the sea. He’d felt the need before, often, often, in their years apart. But why now? She was safe; he knew where she was – was it only the exhaustion of the … Read more

Nearly everybody nowadays accepts

Nearly everybody nowadays accepts the ‘causal completeness of physics’ – every physical event (or at least its probability) has a full physical cause. This leaves no room for non-physical things to make a causal difference to physical effects. But it would be absurd to deny that thoughts and feelings (and population movements and economic depressions … Read more

I am not clear

I am not clear that God manoeuvres physical things? After all, a conjuring trick with bones only proves that it is as clever as a conjuring trick with bones David Jenkins

I’ve been able to

I’ve been able to find just as much interesting, exciting music through the Internet and iTunes… The personal interaction is not the same, and I’m not walking out of a store with a physical thing, so there’s definitely an element that is lost, for sure. Colin Hanks

The physical thing of

The physical thing of having a man following you around all day trying to take your photograph – it’s eerie. There is a pure physical response. If you go up and kick a dog, it will bite you. But with photographers, you can’t do that. Chris Martin

Being an actress is

Being an actress is a very physical thing. If I didn’t look the way I looked, I would never have started in films. Catherine Deneuve