Quotes About Anatomy

He said, Just as there exists in writing a literal truth and a poetic truth, there also exists in a human being a literal anatomy and a poetic anatomy. One, you can see; one, you cannot. One is made of bones and teeth and flesh; the other is made of energy and memory and faith. But both are equally true.

en un ser humano también existe una anatomía literal y una anatomía poética. Una se ve; la otra, no. Una está hecha de huesos y dientes y carne; la otra está hecha de energía y memoria y fe. Pero ambas son igual de verdaderas».

there's only one part of a man's anatomy that any potential mate should worry about measuring, and that is the length of his vasopressin receptor gene.

Man is a wonderful creature; he sees through the layers of fat (eyes), hears through a bone (ears) and speaks through a lump of flesh (tongue).

How It Works: The Human Body, by Kate Barnes and Steve Weston. It's a children's "atlas of the human body

usually the liver or the heart, that he

The wrists, the Achilles' tendons, and the neck are some of the weakest points of the human body, so a lot of people have phobias about those things. I can't deal with the undersides of wrists.

It's kind of a language I've developed over time that's basically breaking up the face into components and planes. Inside each plane, I draw gradation marks, and when planes come together, they form sinews, a hairlike weave that's like a landscape of the face.

The Coyote is limited, as Bugs is limited, by his anatomy.

We know more about our credit cards than we know about our bodies.

It's not easy to cut through a human head with a hacksaw.

The circulatory system of man and the vertebrate animals can be considered as made up of a small number of organs or subordinate systems, which are easy to recognize anatomically, and the functions of which are on the whole quite distinct.

compared to that of great apes, the reduction in human gut size saves humans at least 10 percent of daily energy expenditure: the more gut tissue in the body, the more energy must be spent on its metabolism.

Did you know that it's a lot harder to put organs back in the body than it is to get them out?

I refer the cynical reader back to the 31-year-old scientist quoted earlier who said "I can feel myself actually fusing with the other person – it is difficult to know even anatomically what part of myself is me and what part is the woman." He was not even using ritual programming to get that result; the drug alone led him there, and it was only comparatively weak marijuana, not the stronger hashish.

Regin to Fegley: I finally understand what a dickie-do is. Your gut does stick out more than your dickie do.

Regin: "I finally understand what a dickie-do is. Your gut does stick out more than your dickie do.

Apparently, he was a show-er and a grower.

I finally understand what a dickie-do is. Your gut does stick out more than your dickie do.

Isn't the human body a miracle

God didn't make Eve from Adam's rib. He took out half of Adam's brain by accident.

I wonder why men get serious at all. They have this delicate, long thing hanging outside their bodies which goes up and down by its own will. If I were a man I would always be laughing at myself.

The fact is that a jumbo brain is a jumbo drain on the body. It's not easy to carry around, especially when encased inside a massive skull. It's even harder to fuel. In Homo sapiens, the brain accounts for about 2–3 per cent of total body weight, but it consumes 25 per cent of the body's energy when the body is at rest.

Curiously, anatomical reality in art was apparently a horrifying concept to the same men and women who lined up to see bodies at the morgue.