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Quotes About Anatomy

Her every step seemed an advertisement of her entire anatomy.
~ Joseph Campbell
That's another thing that pisses me off about that Michelangelo statue of me in Florence. He's got me standing there uncircumcised! Who the fuck did he think I was?
~ Joseph Heller
In the throat, the male is as vulnerable as the female. Once the sharp points of the shears pierce his skin, puncture the artery, there will be no turning back for either of them.
~ Joyce Carol Oates
his liver was enlarged and rode across the small of his back like a hard-rubbery leech
~ Joyce Carol Oates
But don't men have breast and womb envy?
~ Wendy Wasserstein
Sometimes the dendrites leading into the nonsensory neuron are so plentiful that, under a microscope, they look very much like a richly branched coral, or perhaps like a piece of finely tatted lace
~ Wendy Williams
The pre-frontal region of the Peking man resembles that found in some parts of the Middle West.
~ Will Cuppy
He sometimes thought of a crime scene as a woman's body. Every man naturally took interest in a few specific locations and largely ignored the rest. It was those other places—the skin at the base of the neck, the dimple on the lower back, the pad of her palm—where he could make a difference. A crime scene was no different. It was a woman who deserved to be explored completely. This was not an analogy Roger had ever shared with his wife.
~ Danielle Girard
I said, 'Do you know what shoulder blades are for?' She giggled. 'Do you not even know that?' she said. 'Do you?' 'It's a proven fact, common knowledge. They're where your wings were, and where they'll grow again.
~ David Almond
When assessing family connections, the anatomy of a larva is obviously as valid a piece of evidence as that of an adult. Indeed, it is usually even more significant, for animals have the remarkable tendency to repeat during their individual development the stages through which their ancestors passed during evolutionary history.
~ David Attenborough
The skull is nature's sculpture.
~ David Bailey
As a result, human female pelvises are exceptionally large – even before puberty, but much more so after it, when its internal capacity increases at the expense of efficient walking and running.
~ David Bainbridge
I have a tiny wiener.
~ James Carville
Curious, I thought, the way nature provided for eyelids, but not lids for the ears.
~ James Church
Even my dick was relaxing, and had fallen from the upright to the horizontal.
~ James Lear
If God had wanted men to ride bikes, He wouldn't have put our balls where they are.
~ James Rollins
from any anatomical disgust
~ James Rollins
I say, I don't think the human frame is very thoughtfully constructed for this sleuthhound business. If one could go on all fours, or had eyes in ones knees, it would be a lot more practical'… 'What luck! Here's a deep, damp ditch on the other side, which I shall now proceed to fall into.' A slithering crash proclaimed that he had carried out his intention.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
I say, I don't think the human frame is very thoughtfully constructed for this sleuthhound business. If one could go on all-fours, or had eyes in one's knees, it would be a lot more practical.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
Evrim mi? dediler kendi kendilerine, Ne gereÄŸi var? ve daha büyük anatomik uygunsuzluklar?n? düzeltebilecek noktaya gelene kadar doÄŸan?n onlara vermeyi reddettiÄŸi ÅŸey olmadan da yaÅŸad?lar.
~ Douglas Adams
You're right, a spleen is a strange thing-we technically don't need one, but maybe spleens are kept in our bodies in case we mutate or evolve, and if we grow wings or tentacles we need to have the spleen in place in order for them to work.
~ Douglas Coupland
man and ape are separated more by ego than anatomy
~ Douglas Preston
Every man has his own way of courting the female sex. I should not, myself, choose to do it with photographs of spleens, diseased or otherwise.
~ Agatha Christie
It was the former ballet star Robert Helpmann who famously observed the problem with dancing naked: when you stop on the music, not all parts of your anatomy stop at the same time.
~ Alastair Macaulay