Physical Things Quotes:

I really want to make physical things so that the experience is a real experience and not just conceptual.

- Michael Snow

topic: Real, Want, Physical Things

Time is too conceptual. Not that it stops us from filling it in. So much so, we can't even tell whether our experiences belong to time or to the world of physical things.

- Haruki Murakami

source: FaceBook post by Haruki Murakami from Jun 12, 2015

topic: World, Filling, Physical Things

People have to know there is more to living than physical things.

- Ziggy Marley

source: "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: People, Knows, Physical Things

If you always put limit on everything you do, physical or anything else. It will spread into your work and into your life. There are no limits. There are only plateaus, and you must not stay there, you must go beyond them.

- Bruce Lee

topic: Inspirational, Being Strong, Fitness, Martial Arts Inspirational, Speed Limits

I love the physical thing of being on the earth that bore you. I have the same feeling when I walk in a very beautiful place that I have when I play and it goes right.

- Jacqueline du Pre

topic: Beautiful, Play, Feelings, Very Beautiful, Beautiful Places

Rock & Roll is the physical thing that just comes out of you .. the other stuff you have to sit down and learn .. once you learn scales and chord progressions, you can make up your own versions

- Brian Setzer

topic: Music, Rocks, Down And, Physical Things

Little Wing is like one of these beautiful girls that come around sometimes ... you play your gig; it's the same thing as the olden days, and these beautiful girls come around.. you do actually fall in love with them because that's the only love you can have. It's not always the physical thing of "Oh, there's one over there ...", it's not one of those scenes. They actually tell you something. They release different things inside themselves ... "Little Wing" was a very sweet girl that came around that gave me her whole life and more if I wanted it.

- Jimi Hendrix

topic: Music, Beautiful, Girl, Olden Days, Sweet Girl

When you really concentrate, you will get a sense of expansion. You will feel that you are larger person than you are physically, as if you become a person two or three sizes bigger than your ordinary physical self, and that you are flowing with all your being toward the object of your concentration. Whether it is a physical thing or an image that you are concentrating on, your whole invisible person will be in movement.

- Michael Chekhov

topic: Self, Two, Three, Physical Things

If the physical thing you're doing is funny, you don't have to act funny while doing it...Just be real and it will be funnier

- Gene Wilder

source: Gene Wilder (2010). “Kiss Me Like A Stranger: My Search for Love and Art”, p.149, Macmillan

topic: Real, Being Real, Physical Things

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

topic: Looks, Way, Actresses, Physical Things

The ghostly presence of virtual particles defies rational common sense and is nonintuitive for those unacquainted with physics. Religious belief in God, and Christian belief that God became Man around two thousand years ago, may seem strange to common-sense thinking. But when the most elementary physical things behave in this way, we should be prepared to accept that the deepest aspects of our existence go beyond our common-sense intuitions.

- Antony Hewish

topic: Christian, Religious, Men, Belief In God, Physical Things

They began to tune up, and suddenly the auditorium was filled with a single sound - the most alive, three-dimensional thing I had ever heard. It made the hairs on my skin stand up, my breath catch in my throat....I felt the music like a physical thing; it didn't just sit in my ears, it flowed through me, around me, made my senses vibrate. It made my skin prickle and my palms dampen...It was the most beautiful thing I had ever heard.

- Jojo Moyes

topic: Beautiful, Hair, Skins, Auditoriums, Tune Up

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 past weeks and days, or perhaps the weakness of creeping age that made his bones ache, as though she had in fact been torn from his body, as God had made Eve from Adam's rib?

- Diana Gabaldon

topic: Past, Years, Sea, Why Now, Physical Things

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

topic: Clever, Bones, Conjuring, Physical Things

I sing the best when I'm really in my voice. It's kind of like I'm meditating but I sort of imagine my voice as a physical thing. I see colours, I feel it moving out of me and I try to tap into images that I was tapping into when I was writing the song.

- Brett Dennen

topic: Song, Moving, Writing, Moving Out, Physical Things

I have manifested everything I want in the way of physical things. I have a beautiful family and enough abundance to take care of them. I put my attention on manifesting for other people, helping those who are less fortunate.

- Wayne Dyer

source: "Become A Mighty Manifester. An Interview with Wayne Dyer". Interview with Randy Peyser, www.randypeyser.com.

topic: Beautiful, People, Attention, Less Fortunate, Beautiful Family

I love the whole physical thing in films. It keeps me on my toes, it keeps me awake, it keeps me alive. If I'm going to be shooting a movie from 7pm to 7am six nights a week, I best be as physical as possible because then I'll never get tired. Otherwise you sit down, it sounds really weird, but that's the part that wears you out.

- Sharni Vinson

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Tired, Night, Sound, Really Weird, Physical Things

If you're prematurely born or if you have things happening when you're like a baby being born. If you have to learn how to walk right or if there's something wrong with your gait or just physical things that are happening. Illnesses affect your family and they impact you because you want to do the best you can to help your family member become more healthy.

- Queen Latifah

topic: Baby, Impact, Healthy, Babies Being Born, Gait

Silent is about needing to make a scene shorter by having physical things to cut to. That way, you can manipulate a character to the other side of the room. But, if they say the wrong thing, it might locate that action in a particular part of the scene. It's a mechanical need.

- Gus Van Sant

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Character, Cutting, Needs, Physical Things

You'll be riding along in an automobile. You'll be the driver perhaps. You're a Christian. There'll be several people in the automobile with you, maybe someone who is not a Christian. When the trumpet sounds you and the other born-again believers in that automobile will be instantly caught away - you will disappear, leaving behind only your clothes and physical things that cannot inherit eternal life. That unsaved person or persons in the automobile will suddenly be startled to find the car suddenly somewhere crashes....

- Jerry Falwell

topic: Christian, Religious, Humor, Physical Things

Oh, love is very much a physical thing.... I realize that it's very complicated, and I'm sure it can't be traced to individual neurons and hormones, but I think it's very much a physiological sensation that takes place in the brain.

- Alan Lightman

topic: Love Is, Thinking, Brain, Physical Things

Nothing is more human than for man to desire naturally things impossible to his nature. It is, indeed, the property of a nature which is not closed up in matter like the nature of physical things, but which is intellectual or infinitized by the spirit. It is the property of a metaphysical nature. Such desires reach for the infinite, because the intellect thirsts for being and being is infinite.

- Jacques Maritain

source: Jacques Maritain (2015). “Approaches to God”, p.72, Paulist Press

topic: Men, Intellectual, Desire, Physical Things

If you want to feel safe, healthy, and hopeful, try to act as if you did feel that way. "Fake it 'till you feel it." maybe start with health -- try to walk energetically, speak energetically, do physical things.

- Gretchen Rubin

source: "Slate Discussion: The Happiness Project". The Washington Post Live Q&As, www.washingtonpost.com. January 15, 2009.

topic: Hopeful, Fake, Healthy, Physical Things

What's interesting about making art is that you take everything you know about it and you bring it up to that point, and you start making a physical thing that addresses what that is. And when you do it, you don't know anything about it - if it's going to work or not work.

- Julian Schnabel

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Art, Interesting, Addresses, Physical Things

I really like the interplay between thinking of text as ephemeral and thinking of it as a concrete, physical thing. With almost anything that I write, I'll stay completely immersed in the electronic text of it for a period of time and in another period, I'll stay immersed in it as a physical thing that can cut your skin. So with the apocalypses, I had them taped all over the wall and they had codes on them. Sometimes I would color code them in terms of thematic elements, sometimes in terms of voice, sometimes visual forms or images.

- Lucy Corin

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Wall, Writing, Cutting, Thematic, Physical Things

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 . . .) cause physical effects. So they must be physical things.

- David Papineau

source: "Physical". Interview with Richard Marshall, www.3ammagazine.com. April 8, 2013.

topic: Differences, Feelings, Events, Economic Depression, Thoughts And Feelings

I also like to do physical things. I like swimming a lot. I like traveling. Not touring traveling but just plain traveling. I also read a lot. Reading takes up most of my time.

- Van Morrison

source: The Ritchie Yorke Project Interview, ritchieyorke.com. April 21, 2015.

topic: Reading, Swimming, Touring, Physical Things

According to "matter-ism," matter is all that exists. The only things that are real are physical things in motion governed by natural law. That story starts, "In the beginning were the particles," or, as one famous person put it, "The cosmos is all that is, or ever was, or ever will be." No God. No souls. No Heaven or Hell. No miracles. No transcendent morality. Just molecules in motion following the patterns of natural law. This is the story that most atheists, most "skeptics," most humanists, and most Marxists believe is true.

- Greg Koukl

source: Source: www.biblegateway.com

topic: Atheist, Real, Believe, Heaven Or Hell, Physical Things

I always thought that in the countries that the modernity kicks in later, it seems that everything changes on the surface, the physical things change, but inside, things haven't changed, really. This is always the challenge of this kind of community, to make a harmony between the cultural traditions and the modernity of modern life.

- Asghar Farhadi

source: Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

topic: Physical Things

For me, love is very non-academic. Love, it’s a very physical thing. I don’t mean physical in terms of - I mean, it can be sexual. But those moments when I’m aware of the fact that I love someone or love something, it really manifests physically.

- Moby

source: "Moby | Inside the brain of a genius. Meditator. Vegan. Outlaw". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

topic: Mean, Love Is, Facts, Physical Things

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

topic: Dog, Men, Eerie, Physical Things

Scientists study physical things, then describe them; engineers describe physical things, then build them.

- K. Eric Drexler

source: K. Eric Drexler (2013). “Radical Abundance: How a Revolution in Nanotechnology Will Change Civilization”, p.28, PublicAffairs

topic: Study, Scientist, Engineers, Physical Things

There is a physical relation between physical things. But it is different with commodities.

- Karl Marx

source: Karl Marx (2007). “Capital: A Critique of Political Economy - The Process of Capitalist Production”, p.83, Cosimo, Inc.

topic: Different, Commodity, Relation, Physical Things

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

source: Frederick Lenz (1995). “Surfing the Himalayas: A Spiritual Adventure”, St Martins Press

topic: Buddhism, Balance, Mindfulness, Physical Things

We are not compelled in naturalism, or even in materialism, to ignore immaterial things; the point is that any immaterial things which are recognized shall be regarded as names, aspects, functions, or concomitant products of those physical things among which action goes on.

- George Santayana

topic: Names, Goes On, Action, Naturalism, Physical Things

Choose the whole of your environment, things and events, based upon the value, meaning and function they hold. Do not allow obligation or immediacy to bind you to physical things or specific actions.

- Mary Anne Radmacher

source: Mary Anne Radmacher (2008). “Live Boldly: Cultivate the Qualities That Can Change Your Life”, Conari Press

topic: Cancer, Events, Action, Immediacy, Physical Attraction

I spoke to friends that have panic attacks, and I spoke to a doctor who has panic attacks, himself. I also did a bit of research into them. It seemed like everyone's version of a panic attack had slightly different physical things. So, I decided to choose my own physical things.

- Holliday Grainger

source: Source: collider.com

topic: Doctors, Different, Research, Physical Things

I wanted to make a site where I wasn't mailing physical things to people, but I was still giving people things, and I would have this relationship with that person, and if that person was interested in the object, they would have to email me and I would send that object digitally to them. So, I wanted the relationship with that person, however brief, and I wanted to spread the digital record of the things I have.

- Mary Mattingly

topic: People, Giving, Email, Physical Things, Mailing

I can make a scene that's not supposed to be sexy, very sexy. It's a power you're born with. It's not a physical thing, it comes from inside. It's all in the eyes.

- Tara Reid

topic: Sexy, Eye, Scene, Physical Things

This is a physical thing that is fixable. I know, I'm a survivor. Believe me, there was no way I thought I could survive. There are answers out there that need to be found.

- Marie Osmond

topic: Believe, Survivor, Answers, Physical Things

Its so hard to talk when you want to kill yourself. That's above and beyond everything else, and it's not a mental complaint-it's a physical thing, like it's physically hard to open your mouth and make the words come out. They don't come out smooth and in conjunction with your brain the way normal people's words do; they come out in chunks as if from a crushed-ice dispenser; you stumble on them as they gather behind your lower lip. So you just keep quiet.

- Ned Vizzini

topic: Depression, Ice, People, Above And Beyond, Physical Things

The paper, the stapler, the staples, the tape. It makes me sick. Physical things. Forty years of loving someone becomes staples and tape.

- Jonathan Safran Foer

topic: Years, Loving Someone, Sick, Physical Things

Time is important to me now, I tell myself.Not that it should pass quickly or slowly, but only be time, be something I live inside and fill with physical things and activities that I can divide it up by. so that it grows distict to me and does not vanish when I am not looking.

- Per Petterson

topic: Important, Doe, Should, Physical Things

Each day as I travel through downtown Tucson, I am amazed at how quickly the most ancient of human behaviors have changed. For as long as there have been Homo sapiens - roughly 200,000 years - people have filled their lives principally with two activities: talking directly with other people, and doing physical things.

- Andrew Weil

source: "Pressing The Bar" by Dr. Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. February 10, 2013.

topic: Talking, Years, Two, Tucson, Physical Things

There's very little you're not exposed to in New York City, in terms of ideas and physical things - sights, sounds, smells, different kinds of people. But one good thing about growing up fast is you get over it fast, too.

- Olivia Thirlby

source: "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: New York, Growing Up, Sight, Physical Things

Words for mental processes are all derived from physical things.

- Robert Smithson

topic: Mental Illness, Illness, Process, Physical Things

Taxes will eventually become a voluntary process, with the possible exception of real estate-the one physical thing that does not move easily and has computable value ... wait until that's all there is left to tax, when the rest of the things we buy and sell come from everywhere, anywhere, and nowhere.

- Nicholas Negroponte

topic: Business, Real, Moving, Physical Things

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

topic: Writing, Thinking, Hands, Physical Things

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

topic: Song, Thinking, Singing, Endorphins, Physical Things