Quotes About Body

Breathing is our primary nonverbal language. Sharp, uneven breaths convey a message of stress even though someone might insist she is perfectly all right.

More so than with any other instrument, the violin becomes part of the body. Good musicians are physically dissolved when playing, and for violinists, who cannot see where to place their fingers and have nothing to guide them through touch, music must be more than ever about memory than fingertips and breath; the ventage is deeper, more of the self, closer to singing.

Love is the hastening gravitation of spirit towards spirit, and body towards body, in the joy of creation.

The brain consumes 20 percent of the body's energy, far more than any other organ, while making up only 2 percent of an adult's body weight.

One of the most poetic facts I know about the universe is that essentially every atom in your body was once inside a star that exploded. Moreover, the atoms in your left hand probably came from a different star than did those in your right. We are all, literally, star children, and our bodies made of stardust.

Nipples are a fact of life. We all have them.

Exactly. If you keep up this pace much longer, you'll burn out, one way or another. Your body will quit on you, or you'll make a big mistake or take a foolish risk that either kills you, kills your career, kills somebody else, or all of the above. You've come pretty damn close to that twice already.

The assassin wore only a Speedo and his lean body was slathered with sunscreen that made him smell like a baked coconut.

Genetics or brain chemistry, trauma or karma? It doesn't really matter what it's called—after all, no one really knows for sure what causes this affliction—except that it ends. Can I stop doing this? Am I even able? The bees trapped inside my body buzz and whir, needling my nerve endings with delicate stings.

said that when you die and go to heaven, you get your body back. I can finally get rid of this

The soul follows its own laws, and the body its own likewise, and they accord by virtue of the harmony pre-established among all substances, since they are all representations of one and the same universe.

This Adonis in loveliness was a corpulent man of fifty.

I'm a grown woman and sometimes, I might be a little fat, you know? Am I alone there? Not really.

I've never had plastic surgery. I still have my own real breasts. I know, because when I lay on my back they roll underneath my arms, and I look like a hammerhead shark.

In times of extreme stress, one can often find energy hidden in even the most exhausted areas of the body.

Various parts of my body told me that in the future they would appreciate it if I slept lying down on a bed instead of sitting at the counter of Black Cat Coffee. I quietly reassured them that this was an unusual situation, and had the machinery make me some bread as a breakfast.

The human body is about 60% water- more than half of each and every one of us. Being a body of water is something you can say about absolutely anyone. So if you are ever asked what a certain person is like and you cannot think of anything nice to say, you can just reply "they're mostly water.

Sign language occupies the interstice where space and silence come together; sign language is the locus where the body meets language.

H]e (Socrates) thus implies that there is a parallelism between the city and the human individual or, more precisely, between the city and the soul of the human individual. This means that the parallelism between the city and the human individual is based upon a certain abstraction from the human body.

A man's every action is inevitably conditioned by what surrounds him and by his own body.

the health of the body is determined to a great degree by our mental processes: what we think of life and especially of ourselves, at both the conscious and the unconscious levels.

He lived in it helplessly as we live in our bodies when we are older.

I used to wake up at 4 A.M. and start sneezing, sometimes for five hours. I tried to find out what sort of allergy I had but finally came to the conclusion that it must be an allergy to consciousness.

Su cabeza trabaja tan deprisa que su cuerpo no puede seguirla