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Quotes About Body

I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got to big for his body'
~ Rodman Philbrick
I tell ya, I know I'm ugly. My proctologist stuck his finger in my mouth.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
I can do everything with my language but not with my body. What I hide by my language, my body utters.
~ Roland Barthes
I can do everything with my language but not with my body. What I hide by my language, my body utters. I can deliberately mold my message, not my voice. By my voice, whatever it says, the other will recognize "that something is wrong with me". I am a liar (by preterition), not an actor. My body is a stubborn child, my language is a very civilized adult...
~ Roland Barthes
My spirit is incapable of raising itself up from the floor. Divine gravity dictates this law to me: as my body resides at ground level, there must my soul rot.
~ Roland Topor
A long time ago I learned to fear pains that arise at the top of my body, toothaches or migraines, but now I have discovered the extraordinary range of the information network. Somewhere, far away from my brain, a piece of leather is cutting into my heel, but even so my brain receives the information perfectly.
~ Roland Topor
My left foot is the best part of me. It's Suzanne.
~ Roland Topor
The moment her hymen was plucked from her body in the wilderness, Her soul was taken from sanity.
~ Roman Payne
Coffee, my delight of the morning; yoga, my delight of the noon. Then before nightfall, I run along the pleasant paths of the Jardin du Luxembourg. For when air cycles through the lungs, and the body is busy at noble tasks, creativity flows like water in a stream: the artist creates, the writer writes.
~ Roman Payne
The sword connoted an honourable way of dying, and an honourable return to the earth, but the rope left the body hanging between heaven and earth and was therefore an unseemly death.
~ Ron Brown
There at Eden it would seem that these cherubim are hostile to humans in that they guard the way, or block access to, the tree of life. On the contrary, they are exhibiting grace, for if Adam were to eat from that tree, he would have been cursed to live in an aging body forever. It was grace that set the cherubim there for us.
~ Ron Phillips
Death and Hades are companions—death claims the body, and Hades claims the soul.
~ Ron Rhodes
You know who's one of the great beauties of the world—according to everybody—and I helped create her? Ivanka. My daughter, Ivanka. She's six feet tall, she's got the best body." (Ivanka was twenty-one at the time.)
~ Ronald J. Sider
Referring to his then-infant daughter, Tiffany: "Well, I think that she's got a lot of Marla," Trump said. "She's a really beautiful baby, and she's got Marla's legs." Trump then proceeded to motion to his chest and added, "We don't know whether she's got this part yet, but time will tell.
~ Ronald J. Sider
Perhaps you have a lumpy ass because you are perserving your fat cells with diet soda
~ Rory Freedman
You are what you eat. You are a human body comprised of organs, blood and guts, and other shit. The food you put into your body works its way through your organs and bloodstream and is actually part of who you are. So every time you put crap in your body, you are crap.
~ Rory Freedman
We are spiritual beings walking around in these crazy skin suits. Our insides are much more important than our outsides.
~ Rory Freedman
I bounced around on top naturally. But that belly, yai! It grew big as a hill and I couldn't see over it. I'd call out, Are you still back there? Holler to me! Like most fat Indians he did have a skinny butt. Man, those muscles in his back cheeks were powerful, too. He swung me around like a circus act. So I enjoyed him real well, those times were good. Awee, said Mooshum. His voice was wistful.
~ Louise Erdrich
He despised his body for its boring hungers, reflex anger; its petty, obliterating rage. But now he'd become detached. He regarded his body with a tender regret. It was the thing his spirit had to haul.
~ Louise Erdrich
How come we've got these bodies? They are frail supports for what we feel. There are times I get so hemmed in by my arms and legs. I look forward to getting past them. As though death will set me free like a traveling cloud. I'll get past the ragged leaves that dead bum of my youth looked into. I'll be out there as a piece of the endless body of the world feeling pleasures so much larger than skin and bones and blood.
~ Louise Erdrich
There were so many sensations in his body that he couldn't feel them all at once, and each, as soon as he felt it, slipped away into the past.
~ Louise Erdrich
When uncle Eddie does his impression of 'Like a Virgin' it's like Madonna is coming out of his body!' Christ what an image.
~ Louise Rennison
A body always tells the truth, that's why it's usually depressing and disgusting to look at.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The soul is the body's vanity and pleasure as long as the body's in good health, but it's also the urge to escape from the body as soon as the body is sick or things go badly.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine