Quotes About Dissection

A realization and a dissection of the canon gave rise to the work. But there's also a sneaking suspicion of the canon.

A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived).

When you take something apart, you get a great sense of what it took to originally put it together.

In fact he was quite pleased with it: one of the few female corpses he had seen with that curious quasicalcification of the palmar aponeuroses – fresh, too – but since it was only the hands that interested him at the moment, would either of his colleagues choose to go snacks?

Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best.

She'd dissected Margaret's body without interference, preserving her with formalin, zinc salts, salicylic acid and glycerin. Her organs had been removed and packed in salt for conservation. The family mausoleum had been the perfect resting chamber, as the stone made it easier to keep the body at optimal cold temperature.

Why should I let anything stand in the way of life, liberty, and the pursuit of vivisection? I

I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study.

There was a time when events that define the human condition were subject to very limited and time-delayed analysis. In the 21st Century and beyond, however, the human condition is subject to real-time, overwhelming analysis and dissection.

No man should marry before he has studied anatomy and dissected the body of a woman.

a "story" hangs together, is treated whole. But once you tell your story into the law, it becomes the object of a precise semantic dissection. The whole of the story is of no interest; instead, patient surgeons of language wait and watch, snip and assay, looking for certain phrases, certain words. Particular locutions trip particular legal switches, and set a heavy machine in motion.

If you cut a thing up, of course it will smell. Hence, nothing raises such an infernal stink, at last, as human psychology.

Every man likes to think there's a part of his nature that remains untamed and unsubdued." "You know all about men, do you?" he asked with an edge of mockery. "Mr. Ransom, the male sex has ceased to be a mystery ever since my first course in practical anatomy, which included the dissection of a cadaver.

You take the words in the sense which is most damaging to the argument.

One major goal of this book is to present as thorough a dissection of Leftism as has been written.

Not only does virtual dissection save animals, it also saves schools money and helps the environment by sparing the use of toxic chemicals typically used to embalm animals.

I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room

The pig was soon dissected and its blood filled the bucket in the bottom of which a patch of sky was reflected darkly. It had surrendered to the vortex of life and his breathing.

I like deconstructing things. I like cutting the legs out from under something that feels secret.

Patta would have fallen upon these details as a beast upon prey and torn into them in an attempt to find nourishment.

A statistical analysis, properly conducted, is a delicate dissection of uncertainties, a surgery of suppositions.

Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. Nobody laughs and the frog dies.

Analysing humour is like dissecting a frog few people are interested, and the frog dies.

What have you to do with hearts, except for dissection?