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Quotes About Dissection

The kidneys also provide a perfect illustration of an age-old anatomical truth: the body is designed to protect itself, not to be easy to dissect.
~ Bill Hayes
The walking wounded, impaired in life and dissected in death, were our primary clues to where and how parts of the brain work.
~ Ian Hacking
I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room
~ Gustave Flaubert
Alas! It seems to me that when one is as good as this at dissecting children who are to born, one can't stiffen up enough to create them.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Sometimes, in a daze, they completely dismantled the cadaver, then found themselves hard put to it to fit the pieces together again.
~ Gustave Flaubert
I can actually trace the moment I decided I couldn't be a doctor. It was in biology, they brought in these African crickets and we were supposed to dissect them - but there's no way I was touching those bugs.
~ Meg Rosoff
If you pluck out my heart To find what makes it move, You'll halt the clock That syncopates our love.
~ Sylvia Plath
Be there, or Mal will find you," he said to his squat little lab partner, Le Fou Deux, as they both dissected a frog that would never turn into a prince in Unnatural Biology class. "Be there, or Mal will find you and ban you from the city streets," he whispered to the Gastons as they took turns stuffing each other in doomball nets in PE.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
The kennel smelled like experiments and blood.
~ Susan Barnes
Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.
~ Susan Meissner
I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.
~ Bob Saget
Humes consequently did no dissection to determine exactly where the bullet had gone. In fact, Dr. Finck later said that the autopsy doctors were ordered not to perform a bullet tracking procedure, "but I don't remember by whom."15
~ Bonar Menninger
It's best to keep things as free and open as you can. It's good to have a template, but then you go back and dissect it and see where you can make improvements. That's pretty much been the case with every Priest song that's ever been written.
~ Rob Halford
In earlier times, when there was a rage for physiognomy, a Gall might have dissected the brains of such chess champions to determine whether there was a special convolution in their gray matter, a kind of chess muscle or chess bump more strongly marked than in the skulls of others. And how excited such a physiognomist would
~ Stefan Zweig
THE MOST POWERFUL impression you get in a dissecting room is that the human body is not a wondrous piece of precision engineering. It's meat.
~ Bill Bryson
If you pluck out my heart To find what makes it move, You'll halt the clock That syncopates our love.
~ Sylvia Plath
If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.
~ Sylvia Plath
Save your carving for the joint, dear Chesarius, I'll not be dissected.
~ Tanith Lee
La razón sólo nos sirve para disecar la realidad en calma, o analizar sus futuras tormentas, nunca para resolver una crisis momentánea
~ Julio Cortazar
Anthropology seems so bland and friendly now, but in the early 20th century, Jews could only be dissected badly by these fields. The Jews were extremely assimilated; it's a different world than now.
~ Tom Reiss
I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?
~ Bret Easton Ellis
This is the greatest damn thing about the universe. That we can know so much, recognize so much, dissect, do everything, and we can't grasp it.
~ Henry Miller
All were dissected or decapitated or sexually assaulted after death. He cut leg meat from two of his victims into a macaroni casserole he prepared and ate. Kemper bludgeoned his mother with a hammer as she slept. He sawed off her head, had sex with her corpse, and carved out her larynx and shoved it down the garbage disposal.
~ Stephen G. Michaud
I love finding songs, going through them, tearing them apart, and seeing if I can find anything wrong with them.
~ Randy Travis