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Quotes About Anatomy

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.
~ Plato
Men are creatures with eight hands.
~ Jayne Mansfield
The length of a man's outspread arms is equal to his height.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I often say if men were meant to fly we would have been born with either feathers and wings or at the very least parachutes that pop out of our butts.
~ John Zakour
Take note that, before going any farther, I will give you the exact proportion of a man. Those of a woman I will disregard, for she does not have any set proportion.
~ Cennino Cennini
I've never been quite sure what the point of a eunuch is, if truth be told. It seems to me they're only men with the useful bits cut off.
~ George R. R. Martin
All bones are white and our blood is red
~ Thabiso Monkoe
Men that look no further than their outsides, think health an appurtenance unto life, and quarrel with their constitutions for being sick; but I that have examined the parts of man, and know upon what tender filaments that fabric hangs, do wonder that we are not always so; and considering the thousand doors that lead to death, do thank my God that we can die but once.
~ Thomas Browne
I have what I like to call a 'chinneck.' My chin just flows rather easily into my neck.
~ Matthew Perry
My torso is short, but my arms are really long and gangly and my legs and my neck, and my feet and hands are really long, and I look like a duck.
~ Cyndi Lauper
I'd like to have a neck. Everyone else has a neck, but I never got one; I don't know what happened. I'm not asking for much: just some sort of separation between my head and my body would be great.
~ Ben Miller
I don't have a brilliant body at all. I've got very broad shoulders. I've got very big feet. I've also got a very muscular neck.
~ Jaye Davidson
Kids' brains are developing. Their heads are a larger part of their body, and their necks are not as strong as adults' necks. So kids may be at a greater risk of head and brain injuries than adults.
~ Ann McKee
We are all connected on the inside. Your ass is just the far end of your mouth.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Look at your fingers, how the first joint is longer than the second is longer than the end joint. The ratio is Phi, after the sculptor Phidias. The architecture of you.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
How physical beauty turns out to be chemistry and geometry and anatomy. Art is really science. Discovering why people like something is so you can replicate it. Copy it. It's a paradox, creating a real smile. Rehearsing again and again a spontaneous moment of horror. All the sweat and boring effort that goes into creating what looks easy and instant.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I am Joe's Complete Lack of Surprise.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Picture-perfect, state-of-the-art vaginas lengthened using sections of colon, self-cleaning and lubricated with its own mucosa. Sensate clitorises made by cropping and rerouting bits of the glans penis. The Cadillac of vaginoplasty. Some of these Cadillacs turn out so succesful that the flood of colon mucosa means wearing a maxipad every day.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The mentalis, the corrugator, all those little muscles of the face, those are the first things you learn in art school anatomy. After that, you can tell a fake smile because the risorius and platysma muscles pull the lower lip down and out, squaring it and exposing the lower teeth. Just for the record, knowing when people are only pretending to like you isn't such a great skill to have.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I am John's raging bile duct.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Too much estrogen, and you get bitch tits.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I am totally Joe's Gallbladder.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
The single-breasted cut is symmetrical except for the hole pumping out blood.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
Here are some examples of long, over-stretched muscles at odds with short, tight muscles: rhomboids versus pectoralis major infraspinatus and teres minor versus subscapularis and pectoralis major superficial spinal muscles versus abdominal muscles hamstrings versus the rectus femoris triceps versus the biceps supinator versus pronator teres
~ Clair Davies