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Quotes About Anatomy

Well, if the belly buttons are to grow like-lines to give the baby blood, and only girls have babies, how come boys have belly buttons?" Maureen hesitated. "I don't know," she admitted. "But boys have all sorts of things they don't need.
~ Toni Morrison
Why do women not achieve orgasms during intercourse the same way men do? The answer is straightforward. The most sensitive sexual nerves in women are in the clitoris, which is outside and above the vagina. So, during traditional intercourse (with the couple face-to-face in the missionary position), while the man is having a grand ol'time, the woman may be compiling a grocery list for dinner that night.
~ Toni Weschler
Jane read her Anatomy, occasionally raising her eyes from a diagram to consider any human within sight in a dissecting sort of way which, Dot said, gave her the willies.
~ Kerry Greenwood
John Calvin called the Book of Psalms 'an anatomy of all parts of the soul.' All the range of emotions are expressed; the Psalms weave an emotional fabric for the human soul. These inspired lyrics take us by the hand and train us in proper emotion. They lead us to emotional maturity.
~ Kevin Swanson
The alimentary canal is thirty-two feet long. You control only the first three inches of it. Control it well.
~ Kin Hubbard
Sakaki and Osaka lying on towels at the beach) ... Osaka: You know them Hemmorrhoids... Sakaki: ...Eh? =-O Osaka: Some folks call 'em "Hemorrhoids", but others call 'em "Roids". Why does the one not have an "H" in it? Which one's right? Sakaki: ...... Osaka: Would it be under "H" or "R" in the dictionary? Sakaki: ...I don't know. =/
~ Kiyohiko Azuma
I know better than most men that she is a conglomerate of skin, blood, tissue, bones, muscles and nerves, but only look how nicely arranged.
~ Carla Kelly
I was onstage last night talking. I said, "You know the diaphragm is a pain in the ass." Someone yelled out, "You were putting it in the wrong way."
~ Carol Montgomery
You picture a garden gone to seed: moss growing on the surface of our spleens, vines squeezing our kidneys. Tiny mushrooms spreading across the linings of our intestines.
~ Carolyn Parkhurst
Do chickens have lips?
~ George Noory
If a man does not use his member it grows smaller and smaller until one day he wants to piss and cannot find it.
~ George R.R. Martin
Might have punctured a lung, if he had a lung. Most trees don't, as a rule.
~ George R.R. Martin
As a matter of biology, if something bites you it is probably female.
~ Scott M. Kruse
You were forthcoming, articulate, and gave the details. You're alibied up to your gonads--Oh, sorry. Not a problem, I like knowing that part of my anatomy is protected.
~ J.D. Robb
Craniul,si apoi temperamentul:cele mai solide parti din corpul omenesc.
~ J.M. Coetzee
The skull, followed by the temperament: the two hardest parts of the body.
~ J.M. Coetzee
ya que la anatomía es el destino: un vacío, o una concha, una película sobre un vacío que ansía verse colmado en un mundo en el que nada se colma.
~ J.M. Coetzee
Primero el cráneo, luego el temperamento: las dos partes más duras del cuerpo.
~ J.M. Coetzee
His abdomen was ribbed as if he were smuggling paint rollers under his skin.
~ J.R. Ward
The brain sits snugly inside the skull, but it's not a completely flush fit - there is still a layer of fluid between bone and soft tissue that serves as a natural shock absorber. Some shocks, however, can't be absorbed, and when the head gets clobbered too hard, the brain can twist or torque or rattle around inside its skeletal casing.
~ Jeffrey Kluger
My cerebral cortex, the gray matter that MIT neuroscientist Steven Pinker likens to 'a large sheet of two-dimensional tissue that has been wadded up to fit inside the spherical skull,' is riddled instead of whole.
~ Floyd Skloot
I have always had an abiding interest in that type of female anatomy.
~ Robert Crumb
It's such an insult that foul gas comes out of a hole in our butt with a sound to announce itself. It's the ultimate bad thing about being a person.
~ Kate McKinnon
Ultimately, the problem is that sex is perceived as a personal, intimate thing, not in the realm of science. But that's not true. It's physiology; it's anatomy. It deserves to be studied.
~ Mary Roach