I was in a state of gnawing, sensuous agitation that excited continually both blood and nerves when I sketched out the music for ‘Tannhauser’ and brought it to completion. – Richard Wagner
The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood. – Saint Augustine
Subtle horror is where you rarely see the blood and gore. The violent people are called splatter-punks, who prefer graphic, unrelenting, violent, fast-paced horror. I prefer horror stories with mysterious elements that are chock-full of suspense. – Richard Chizmar
I tell students they will know they are getting somewhere when a scene is so painful they can just barely bring themselves to write about it. A writer has to draw blood. – Robert Morgan
A strange potion runs through the basketball blood of Portland. It’s stayed hot from the days of games at the Memorial Coliseum, where the Blazers played from their inception in 1970 until 1995. – Rowan Ricardo Phillips
This means a lot. I’m being recognized for all the blood, sweat and tears I put into a 17-year career. – Patrick Ewing
That’s the secret of ‘True Blood’ – all the creatures that roam Bon Temps become a metaphor for our insatiable lusts and inner desires. Humans craving what they can’t have and those secret appetites transforming them into beasts, or even killers. – Rob Sheffield
If there’s one thing I’ve shown, I’m not scared of physicality. I’m not scared to take some of my own blood. I play hurt; I play injured. – Roman Reigns
Vampires and teens have a lot in common. Teens have surging hormones, vampires have surging blood lust. Teenagers think they’re immortal. – P. C. Cast
It is something that is called MDS. It is a rare blood disorder that affects the bone marrow. I’m going to beat this. My doctors say it and my faith says it. – Robin Roberts
Twice a week I would receive injections or IV’s of Factor VIII which clotted the blood and then broke it down. – Ryan White
I was made a sinner by deriving my being from Adam; I am made just by being washed in the blood of Christ and not by Christ’s ‘words and example.’ – Saint Bernard
Nothing of any importance can be taught. It can only be learned, and with blood and sweat. – Robert Anton Wilson
I never tried to use anything besides my own sweat and blood and talent to get somewhere. – Olivia Munn
Any musician who can stop may be a musician, but they’re no artist. If it’s in your blood, it can’t stop flowing. – Paul Westerberg
The toxic effect of carbon monoxide on man has nothing to do with inhibition of cellular respiration by carbon monoxide but is based on the reaction of carbon monoxide with blood iron. – Otto Heinrich Warburg
No real blood flows in the veins of the knowing subject constructed by Locke, Hume, and Kant, but rather the diluted extract of reason as a mere activity of thought. – Wilhelm Dilthey
I wouldn’t specifically say rock n’ roll is dead, but I don’t see a lot of charismatic performers in the way of new blood who are edgy and dangerous on stage, like Marilyn Manson, who you never quite know if he’s going to make it through his own show. – Tommy Lee
There is a difference between using a made-up name and using real people as pseudonyms. People are not costumes you can wear. They are flesh and blood. – Siri Hustvedt
I grow as many of our vegetables as I can, because my granddad was a professional gardener, and it’s in the blood. – Terry Pratchett
We are asking the nations of Europe between whom rivers of blood have flowed to forget the feuds of a thousand years. – Winston Churchill
Questions have also arisen about AIDS being transmitted to hemophiliacs via blood transfusions. – Serge Lang
Either we’re going to solve this by realistic negotiation or there will be blood on the border. – Tom Metzger
