Quotes About Body

If the human body's obscene, complain to the manufacturer, not me.

Walter Benjamin writes: The talent of a good writer is to make use of his style to supply his thought with a spectacle of the kind provided by a well-trained body. He never says more than he has thought. Hence, his writing redounds not. . . to his own benefit, but solely to the benefit of what he wants to say.

The naked human body is the grave in blossom: it is both Sad & instructive.

You sit and are aware of the breathing, but not in a pinpoint way. Your attention is not at the nostrils or chest or abdomen but, in a much more open way, on the whole body, a panoramic view of the sitting breathing body.

Note also Paul's portrayal of this meal as a corporate participation (koin?nia) in Jesus' body and blood (1 Cor 10:15-16), which further testifies to the centrality of Jesus in this ritual event.

When Joe and I got married two years ago, we were both super strictly Paleo and we were shredded for the wedding! All of our wedding pictures consequently turned out fantastic. I wish I could say I was as thin now as I was then!

Pain of mind is worse than pain of body.

His body was worn and weathered, his skin scratched with lines mapping the miles of his life.

I have to go around with my shirt open so that I have enough room for my chest.

Man is preoccupied with freedom yet laden with handicaps. The breadth of his activity and experience is narrowed by the limitations of his relatively weak, sluggish body. The racehorse, by virtue of his awesome physical gifts, freed the jockey from himself.

Am I ever happy," he wrote to Louie. "I have to go around with my shirt open so that I have enough room for my chest." Louie

Let hunger sharpen your awareness. Abstain liquor and frivolous recreation, which dull the mind and weaken the body.

Mr. McCleod: And if there's anything I want you guys to take with you from this class, as you're abusing your bodies over break, is three things: the heart is the body's strongest muscle, that the brain has more cells in it than our galaxy has stars, and that the body is 72% water. So wherever you go over vacation, don't get too dehydrated.

Fire will burn any human body it touches, and starvation will waste it, but stories are not so predictable in their effects.

Dance was a visualization of divinity, a way for dancers to realize that they were not in their bodies—their bodies were inside of them.

The feeling of your baby taking nourishment from your body for the first time is amazing, and it remains the most touching moment of my life.

I like a woman with meat on her bones." She laughed. "My hips express their deepest appreciation, Major Winslow.

Sizeism = like racism, only against people who aren't a size two or four.

I need to help you kill someone and hide the body?

Belly buttons are cool!

He slung both arms around the back of his chair, and it reminded me how different girls and guys were. Girls kept their bodies tucked in tight, while boys took up every inch of room they could.

I looked up "skin" in the encyclopedia and confirmed that, sure enough, it is the human body's largest organ, a fact that suggests our surfaces are critical to who we are, not just the gateway to physical or spiritual depths but a profoundly important web of cells that, in protecting us, gives us form and function.

Eleanor peeled back the sleeve of her T-shirt to show off a small helicopter tattoo on her shoulder.

The men wore a simple G-string and occasionally a headpiece made of feathers; the women were fully clothed.