“It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.”

— Charlaine Harris, book Dead Until Dark

Source: Dead Until Dark

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body." by Charlaine Harris?

Charlaine Harris128

American writer 1951

Related quotes

“My mind has been the most discontented and restless one that ever was put into a body too small for it.”

John Keats (1795–1821) English Romantic poet

“I'm not offended by all the dumb blonde jokes because I know I'm not dumb - and I'm not blonde either.”

Dolly Parton (1946) American singer-songwriter and actress

“A nickname may be the best record of a success. That's what I call putting the face of a joke upon the body of a truth.”

Joseph Conrad book Nostromo

Part Third: The Lighthouse, Ch. 1
Often misquoted as "A caricature is putting the face of a joke on the body of a truth."
Nostromo (1904)

“… the "Mind of God," which Einstein wrote eloquently about, is cosmic music resonating throughout hyperspace.”

Michio Kaku (1947) American theoretical physicist, futurist and author

Source: Parallel Worlds: A Journey Through Creation, Higher Dimensions, and the Future of the Cosmos

“World Health organices have speech of body and mind and spirit as total health. But I am altering these words and putting mind, body and spirit. According to me, very little mind is in the body, but the whole body is in the mind. It is mind all that matter, body will follow the mind, mind will never follow the body”

Hira Ratan Manek (1937)

The lecture in Ashland, Oregon (8th of July 2005)

“All our power lies in both mind and body; we employ the mind to rule, the body rather to serve; the one we have in common with the Gods, the other with the brutes.”
Sed nostra omnis vis in animo et corpore sita est; animi imperio, corporis servitio magis utimur; alterum nobis cum dis, alterum cum beluis commune est.

Sallust (-86–-34 BC) Roman historian, politician

Source: Bellum Catilinae (c. 44 BC), Chapter I

““Liquor does this? Even after you’re sober?”
“A cruel joke, isn’t it? The gods put a price tag on everything, it seems.””

Scott Lynch The Lies of Locke Lamora

Interlude “The Last Mistake” section 1 (p. 179)
The Lies of Locke Lamora (2006)

“A despot doesn't fear eloquent writers preaching freedom — he fears a drunken poet who may crack a joke that will take hold.”

E. B. White (1899–1985) American writer

Salt Water Farm http://books.google.com/books?id=njRHAAAAYAAJ&q=%22A+despot+doesn't+fear+eloquent+writers+preaching+freedom+he+fears+a+drunken+poet+who+may+crack+a+joke+that+will+take+hold%22&pg=PA52#v=onepage <br class="br">One Man's Meat (1942)

“I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one. ”

Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer

“No one in his right mind wants to die. That cry is God-given. The Bible tells us that God has put eternity in our hearts.”

Ray Comfort (1949) New Zealand-born Christian minister and evangelist

God doesn't believe in atheists (2002)

“It was one of God's jokes that such a dumb mind had been put in such an eloquent body.”

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Charlaine Harris128

Related quotes

Related topics