“your body is not a temple, it's an amusement park. Enjoy the ride.”
Source: Kitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly
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“Your body is the temple of your soul. Your soul is God's temple.”
Baba Hari Dass (1923–2018) master yogi, author, builder, commentator of Indian spiritual tradition
Source: The Yellow Book, 1974, p.79
“Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park.”
Paddy Chayefsky (1923–1981) American playwright, screenwriter and novelist
Network (1976)
Context: Television is not the truth. Television is a goddamned amusement park. Television is a circus, a carnival, a traveling troupe of acrobats, storytellers, dancers, singers, jugglers, sideshow freaks, lion tamers, a football players. We're in the boredom-killing business.
“Make your body the temple of God.”
Basava (1134–1196) a 12th-century Hindu philosopher, statesman, Kannada Bhakti poet of Lingayatism
[Chekki, Danesh A., Religion and Social System of the Vīraśaiva Community, http://books.google.com/books?id=x7JZMy1qntgC&pg=PA48, 1 January 1997, Greenwood Publishing Group, 978-0-313-30251-0, 48–]
“Your body is a temple, whether you're a Jew or not.”
April Winchell (1960) American voice actor and writer
KFI-Los Angeles radio broadcast, October 8, 2000, available at AprilWinchell.com http://www.aprilwinchell.com/2000/10/08/kfi-sunday-october-2000/
“Like cars in an amusement park, our direction is often determined through collisions.”
Yahia Lababidi (1973)
Signposts to Elsewhere (2008)
“(Sylvia to her daughter) Rita, your body may be a temple. Mine is a Chevy Vega.”
Nicole Hollander (1939) Cartoonist
Source: Sylvia cartoon strip, p.105
Immanuel Kant (1724–1804) German philosopher
A lecture at Königsberg (1775), as quoted in A New Dictionary of Quotations on Historical Principles from Ancient and Modern Sources (1946) by H. L. Mencken, p. 1043
Lora Leigh (1965) American writer
Source: Jacob's Faith