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The temple bell stops but I still hear the sound coming out of the flowers.

Matsuo Basho

Japanese poet

I have a little history. I met Stone Temple Pilots, and their guitar player was a huge Extreme fan. Somewhere down the road, Extreme made its statement.

Gary Cherone

American singer

The entire world is my temple, and a very fine one too, if I’m not mistaken, and I’ll never lack priests to serve it as long as there are men.

Desiderius Erasmus

Mary, my little girl, was confirmed in a Buddhist temple. She saw the Life write up on Buddhism, with pictures of the ceremony, and she said she wanted to be confirmed there because she only liked Jesus as a kid. She was a little disappointed in him when he grew up.

Kenneth Rexroth

American poet, writer, anarchist, academic and conscientious objector

Ah, who can tell how hard it is to climb the steep where Fame’s proud temple shines afar?

James Beattie

You’re just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You’ve got to get down to your own God in your own temple. It’s all down to you, mate.

John Lennon

British musician (1940-1980)

When their city was occupied by the Gauls, and the Romans, who were besieged in the Capitol, had made military engines from the hair of the women, they dedicated a temple to the Bald Venus.

Lactantius

God is not present in idols. Your feelings are your god. The soul is your temple.

Chanakya

Ancient Indian statesman and philosopher

Tower Records is like a temple to me. I’ll stay there for hours. Nobody can shop for records with me. It drives them out of their minds.

Billy Bob Thornton

God gave me a great body and it’s my duty to take care of my physical temple.

Jean Claude Van Damme

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