Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

Sri Lanka is an island that everyone loves at some level inside themselves. A very special island that travellers, from Sinbad to Marco Polo, dreamed about. A place where the contours of the land itself forms a kind of sinewy poetry.

I have seen the movement of the sinews of the sky, And the blood coursing in the veins of the moon.

Good company and good discourse are the very sinews of virtue.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews, as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.

A story is alive, as you and I are. It is rounded by muscle and sinew. Rushed with blood. Layered with skin, both rough and smooth. At its core lies soft marrow of hard, white bone. A story beats with the heart of every person who has ever strained ears to listen. On the breath of the storyteller, it soars. Until its images and deeds become so real you can see them in the air, shimmering like oases on the horizon line. A story can fly like a bee, so straight and swift you catch only the hum of its passing. Or move so slowly it seems motionless, curled in upon itself like a snake in the sun. It can vanish like smoke before the wind. Linger like perfume in the nose. Change with every telling, yet always remain the same.

He was mastered by the sheer surging of life, the tidal wave of being, the perfect joy of each separate muscle, joint, and sinew in that it was everything that was not death, that it was aglow and rampant, expressing itself in movement, flying exultantly under the stars.

When you call upon a Thoroughbred he gives you all the speed strength of heart and sinew in him. When you call on a jackass he kicks.

Small natures require despotism to exercise their sinews as great souls thirst for equality to give play to their heart.

Anger is one of the sinews of the soul.