Quote by

The last thing the hockey ball symbolized was Time itself, the unstoppability of it, the way we're chained to our bodies, which are chained to Time.

The last thing the hockey ball symbolized was Time itself, the unstoppability of it, the way we’re chained to our bodies, which are chained to Time.
– Jeffrey Eugenides

Related Quotes:

  1. You either learn to play hard ball or you become the ball. – Crystal Woods
  2. You don’t need to play every ball but every ball needs your judgement. – Amit Ray
  3. Success has six holistic dimensions symbolized by: Heart, Mind, Body, Passion, Focus and Health. – Asoka Nimal Jinadasa
  4. The Statue of Liberty’s gender changed nothing. It was the same here as anywhere: men and their wars. – Jeffrey Eugenides
  5. My change from girl to boy was far less dramatic than the distance anybody travels from infancy to adulthood. – Jeffrey Eugenides
  6. Virgin suicideWhat was that she cried?No use in stayin’On this holocaust rideShe gave me her cherryShe’s my virgin suicide – Jeffrey Eugenides
  7. We realized that the version of the world they rendered for us was not the world they really believed in… – Jeffrey Eugenides
  8. Mr. Lisbon had the feeling that he didn’t know who she was, that children were only strangers you agreed to live with. – Jeffrey Eugenides
  9. Children learn to speak Male or Female the way they learn to speak English or French. – Jeffrey Eugenides
  10. He had the feeling that there was something physically behind his eyes, blocking the light. – Jeffrey Eugenides
  11. Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling. – Jeffrey Eugenides
  12. This whole country’s stolen. – Jeffrey Eugenides
  13. in Detroit, in July of 1967, what happened was no less than a guerrilla uprising.The Second American Revolution. – Jeffrey Eugenides
  14. If they were going to kill you, would they knock? – Jeffrey Eugenides
  15. This was a characteroloical prelude, but it wasn’t chemical or somatic. It was the anatomy of melancholy, not the anatomy of his brain. – Jeffrey Eugenides
  16. Bodies lay in the sun. Bodies stood in the sun. – NJ Hallard
  17. Eating connects us to our histories as much as it connects our souls to our bodies, our bodies to the earth. – Evan DG Fraser
  18. We do not have bodies-”we are bodies! What could possibly be wrong with that form of consciousness? It is all energy anyways. – Christopher Zzenn Loren
  19. stress is not stress until we experience it in our bodies and have a physiological reaction in our bodies. – Linda Lantieri
  20. stress is not stress until we experience it in our bodies and have a physiological reaction in our bodies. – Linda Lantieri
  21. stress is not stress until we experience it in our bodies and have a physiological reaction in our bodies. – Linda Lantieri
  22. Monogamous musicians are like vegan hockey players. – Rob Sheffield
  23. Mary, you know I hate parties. My idea of hell is a very large party in a cold room where everybody has to play hockey properly. – Stella Gibbons
  24. Dessert was an over baked chocolate chip cookies the size of a hockey puck and just about as tasty. – Carl Hiaasen
  25. I wondered how a man ever got an English girl into bed. What did they do with her hockey stick? – James A Michener
  26. Lord Ironman, please play tonsil hockey with me, just this one time. There, does that make you happy? – Mercy Celeste
  27. Lord Ironman, please play tonsil hockey with me, just this one time. There, does that make you happy? – Mercy Celeste
  28. You are born to be wild but end up being named, tamed and chained. – Haresh Sippy
  29. Rather be a thin dog that is free than a fat one chained – Thabiso Monkoe
  30. Rather be a thin dog free, than to be a fat one chained – Thabiso Monkoe
  31. Most of the other visitors were chained to their audio guides, looking only at what their little headsets told them was worth seeing. – Dara Horn
  32. We are chained by our own control. Life is nothing more than finding the key that unlocks every part of our soul. – Shannon L Alder
  33. Zeitgeist -“ spirit of the age. No such thing. Imposition by hierarchy. People rebel -“ & are marginalised; or follow, chained. – Anthony North
  34. They were villages forgotten in the depth of time, peopled by creatures chained forever to their tiny destinies. – Bruno Schulz
  35. Good and evil are so close as to be chained together in the soul. – Robert Louis Stevenson
  36. He was desire, and I was his prisoner, chained up by his kisses. Submissive to his touch. – Candace Knoebel
  37. Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. – Logan Pearsall Smith
  38. The ball of dark fur pressed itself into my chest, and I wished she was my kitten, and knew that she was not. – Neil Gaiman
  39. The meaning of life is life itself. The reward of love is love itself. The joy of the journey is not in the destination but in the journey itself. – Debasish Mridha
  40. He lies to himself. If Eugenides talked in his sleep, he’d lie then, too. – Megan Whalen Turner

More Quotes

, , , , , , , , ,