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Quotes About Body

Huck Finn. Loss of identity drives people to nostalgia. Electronic man has no physical body, so he [Jimmy Carter] puts nostalgia in its place.
~ Marshall McLuhan
A body without wine is like a dessert without sugar. A pale woman can only be coloured with lipstick and rouge, and a pale man can only be coloured with wine!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Every man must be like Stephen Hawking. His body is here on earth, but his mind walks in the universe!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
The most advanced medical brains in the universe have yet to discover a way for a man to relax himself, and looking at a golf ball is not the cure.
~ Milt Gross
In addition, Islam stressed on purifying the body, clothes and everything that is related to man's private life in his land and home, from the unclean impurity.
~ Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
Socially, the issue of men's weight is simply not a big deal.
~ Nia Vardalos
I regretted not being a person in shape many a day while we were making this film [Swiss Army Man].
~ Paul Dano
The body is extremely important to me, because it is a planet. For instance, if you compare Earth and an astronomer, you will see that the man is a planet.
~ Paul Virilio
There is never the body of a man, how strong and stout soever, if it be troubled and inflamed, but will take more harm and offense by wine being poured into it.
~ Plutarch
I thought Fred Astaire was the most chic man. I loved the way he dressed. Never mind his dancing, which was beyond - he was just so elegant and had this freedom of body.
~ Polly Allen Mellen
It can therefore be said that, from the viewpoint of the doctrine of the faith, there are no difficulties in explaining the origin of man in regard to the body, by means of the theory of evolution.
~ Pope John Paul II
Bodily pain affects man as a whole down to the deepest layers of his moral being.
~ Pope Pius XII
Medicine heals the body, meditation heals the soul. Medicine is outwardly, meditation is inwardly. And man is whole only when medicine and meditation are together in deep harmony.
~ Rajneesh
The world proceeds from the same spirit as the body of man. It is a remoter and inferior incarnation of God, a projection of God in the unconscious.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Man is the broken giant, and in all his weakness both his body and his mind are invigorated by habits of conversation with nature.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Human life is now molded to a large extent by the changes that man has brought about in his external environment and by his attempts at controlling body and soul.
~ Rene Dubos
Diseases crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, rivel them up like old apples, make them as so many Anatomies.
~ Robert A. Burton
A rich man cannot enjoy a sound mind nor a sound body without exercise and abstinence; and yet these are truly the worst ingredients of poverty.
~ Henry Home, Lord Kames
Listen, my friend, all forms that exist in God's universe can be found in the human figure. A man's body and face can tell everything he represents. So how could I ever exhaust my interest in it?
~ Irving Stone
Men do not knowingly drink for the effect alcohol produces on the body. What they drink for is the brain-effect; and if it must come through the body, so much the worse for the body.
~ Jack London
Men have conceived a twofold use of sleep; it is a refreshing of the body in this life, and a preparing of the soul for the next.
~ John Donne
The world is a great volume, and man the index of that book; even in the body of man, you may turn to the whole world.
~ John Donne
I gained 80 pounds for my pregnancy so this is like my coming out party.
~ Cindy Margolis
I wasn't at all trying to be skinny, My Mom is Jayne Mansfield, I'm allowed to have curves.
~ Mariska Hargitay