Quotes About Body

Naturally torturers giggle while they work: The body's dumb obedience to physics (pull hard enough and this comes off, squeeze tight enough and that pops out) against which the nuances of the victim's personality count for nothing has in it one of the roots of comedy—the spirit's subservience to the flesh. You can cut a head off and shove it in a bag, stick it on a pole, play volleyball or footie with it. Hilarious, among other things.

The absense of a soul, by the way, makes it easy to inhabit a body. (Therefore, why is Elton John still pudging around unpossessed? I hear you ask?)

Extraordinary what the body remembers. The bones loded with love, grief silting the arteries, fear the bowels' recurring mould. Who would have thought mere flesh and blood could hold so much of psyche's ghostly script?)

The guy with the biggest stomach will be the first to take off his shirt at a baseball game.

Each individual woman's body demands to be accepted on its own terms.

I didn't hear words that were accurate, much less prideful. For example, I never once heard the word clitoris. It would be years before I learned that females possessed the only organ in the human body with no function than to feel pleasure. (If such an organ were unique to the male body, can you imagine how much we would hear about it—and what it would be used to justify?)

Self-painting is a further development of the art of painting. The surface of an image has lost its function as the sole means of conveying expression. It was taken back to its roots,to the wall,to the object,to the living being,to the human body. By using my body as a means of conveying expression,the result created is a happening captured by a camera as it progresses,and an experience which viewers can share.

My body is the intention. My body is the event. My body is the result.

It came to me that I was crying, a steady runoff, a bodily function like anything else the body does on its own, a beating heart, a breath[...]

Self-CONFIDENCE grows out of self-RESPECT. Make every choice with respect for your BODY, your MIND and your SOUL.

You are an infinite SOUL enjoying the wonderful illusion of a solid BODY in a beautiful physical World.

He who is our Eternal Father has blessed you with miraculous powers of mind and body. He never intended that you should be less than the crowning glory of His creations.

There was a minority among the human race, as there always had been, that found comfort in trading a personal freedom of mind and body for the relief of clinging to a stronger certainty than they were able to produce within themselves.

Middle age is when the narrow waist and the broad mind begin to change places.

With each passing year, the body turns more prison than shelter.

Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels — except cupcakes.

I like big bundts and I cannot lie.

Greek dress was in its essence inartistic. Nothing should reveal the body but the body.

A nudist is simply a human being without artificial additives.

The truest expression of a people is in its dances and in its music. Bodies never lie.

My ideal weight is moobless.

I keep trying to lose weight — but it keeps finding me!

The older you get, the tougher it is to lose weight, because by then your body and your fat are really good friends.

The first thing you lose on a diet is your sense of humor.