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Quotes About Physical

What opened up before me was, for lack of a better word, a space, but not our ordinary concept of space, just the pure awareness of a realm without form and void of content. And into that realm came a celestial entity, which was the emergence of the physical world. It was like the big bang, but without the boom or the blinding light. It was the birth of the physical universe. In
~ Michael Pollan
The criticism that was often levelled at the penitentiary system in the early nineteenth century (imprisonment is not a sufficient punishment: prisoners are less hungry, less cold, less deprived in general than many poor people or even workers) suggests a postulate that was never explicitly denied: it is just that a condemned man should suffer physically more than other men. It is difficult to dissociate punishment from additional physical pain. What would a non-corporal punishment be?
~ Michel Foucault
In Russia a straight nose is rarer than a small foot.
~ Mikhail Lermontov
By giving the love act a name, if only an innocent little word like, it, he paved the way for other words, words that would reflect physical love as in a set of mirrors.
~ Milan Kundera
el acto del amor físico es un instante de absoluta intimidad en el que el mundo que nos rodea se convierte en un desierto interminable en medio del cual se aprietan uno contra otro dos cuerpos solitarios
~ Milan Kundera
Omul care alearg? îÈ™i simte greutatea, vârsta, este mai conÈ™tient ca oricând de sine È™i de curgerea vieÈ›ii sale.
~ Milan Kundera
I love broad comedy. It has its place. If I were to do that, I'd love to do physical comedy.
~ Rashida Jones
I love arguing. I always say that I'll never win a physical battle, but I can always win a mental battle. I mean, not really, because I never really argue with anyone.
~ Shailene Woodley
I love the cello, I love the physical sense of an instrument that's about the size of your body that vibrates enough that even if you play an open string, you feel it.
~ Tod Machover
I'm a physical type of actor and love projects in which I can get physical. The more action, the better.
~ Wesley Snipes
I love things where I can be physical and I so love high stakes, and you usually don't get that unless you're doing a play or an action movie.
~ Will Patton
To be really honest, I don't love the gym.
~ Anna Torv
As a dancer, I was always the physical comedy girl. I love it so much.
~ Anne Fletcher
I love playing sport.
~ Damian Lewis
I love Buster Keaton and I love physical comedy when it's done in an emotionally understated way. I just like to play it, and I need the attention.
~ Demetri Martin
I really like nice forearms - nice strong hands and forearms. I love that because then they can wear a watch really well.
~ Eva Mendes
Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life.
~ Leo Tolstoy
I tried not to stare at his body because I already knew it was good. Instead I focused on his eyes.
~ Robert J. Crane
Leonard Read noted admiringly that her simple and unobjectionable principle that no one ought to initiate physical force against another would, if applied "to present-day practices . . . be shocking to many persons.
~ Brian Doherty
The point being that everything emerges from the same collection of ingredients governed by the same physical principles. And those principles, as attested to by a few hundred years of observation, experimentation, and theorizing, will likely be expressed by a handful of symbols arranged in a small collection of mathematical equations. That is an elegant universe.
~ Brian Greene
When the brain's penchant for simplified schematic representations is applied to itself, to its own attention, the resulting description ignores the very physical processes responsible for that attention. That is why thoughts and sensations seem ethereal, as if they come from nowhere, as if they hover in our heads. If your schematic representation of your body were to leave out your arms, the motion of your hands would seem ethereal too.
~ Brian Greene
the startling idea that the comings and goings we observe in the three dimensions of day-to-day life might themselves be holographic projections of physical processes taking place on a distant, two-dimensional surface.
~ Brian Greene
We are human not because of our physical form, but because of our underlying nature. Even when fitted with a machine body, a man may have a heart and soul Ã¢â'¬Â¦ but not always. People made of flesh can be monsters, too. —PTOLEMY, Laboratory Sketches
~ Brian Herbert
Everyone's body has its own relative strengths
~ Calvin D. Banyan