Body Quotes
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I have to admit I was completely smitten when the guy who delivers my bottled water said, You have the face of an angel and the body of a goddess.
Karen McDougal
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When sleep leaves the body like smoke and man, sated with secrets, drives the overworked nag of quarrel out of its stall, then the fire-breathing union begins anew . . .
Nelly Sachs
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The ribs are the wings of the body. Open your wings.
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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I don't like talking about which bits I like or don't like about my body. Everybody has something they're not happy with, and my only advice would be, 'Do something about it - exercise or eat less, but don't do nothing!' Find ways to enhance the good bits and camouflage the bad bits.
Lesley Lawson
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I will through and through Cleanse the foul body of th' infected world, If they will patiently receive my medicine.
William Shakespeare
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With a different form of wireless instrument devised by me some years ago it was found practicable to locate a body of metallic ore below the ground, and it seems that a submarine could be similarly detected.
Nikola Tesla
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The body of Our Saviour shat but Our Saviour shat not.
William H. Gass
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The longing to be holy makes us weep, and we trust tears since they are made of water and come from our body, a double blessing.
Deborah Keenan
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It makes me feel like a woman. It makes me feel that all the things about my body are suddenly there for a reason. It makes you feel round and supple, and to have a little life inside you is amazing.
Angelina Jolie
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Cooking is a life skill. We need to eat every day so why not find out about what you're putting into your body?
William Katt
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If an organised body is not in the situation and circumstances best adapted to its sustenance and propagation, then, in conceiving an indefinite variety among the individuals of that species, we must be assured, that, on the one hand, those which depart most from the best adapted constitution, will be most liable to perish, while, on the other hand, those organised bodies, which most approach to the best constitution for the present circumstances, will be best adapted to continue, in preserving themselves and multiplying the individuals of their race.
James Hutton
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Stress is your body's way of saying you haven't worked enough unpaid overtime.
Scott Adams
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Directly above them, framed in the doorway from the Brain Room, stood Albus Dumbledore, his wand aloft, his face white and furious. Harry felt a kind of electric charge surge through every particle of his body - they were saved.
Joanne Rowling
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So a maiden, whilst she remains untouched, so long is she dear to her own; when she has lost her chaste flower with sullied body, she remains neither lovely to boys nor dear to girls.
Catullus
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I'm very happy with my body.
Alicia Keys
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So, if we must give a general formula applicable to all kinds of soul, we must describe it as the first actuality [entelechy] of anatural organized body.
Aristotle
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A yogi never forgets that health must begin with the body. . . .Physical health is not a commodity to be bargained for. Nor can it be swallowed in the form of drugs and pills. . . .
Bellur Krishnamachar Sundararaja Iyengar
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Only when the mind is free has the body a chance to be free. Yes, they must believe, they must believe. Because I know what it means to be a slave. I am a slave.
Ernest Gaines
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Here I am and there is my body dancing on glass In accident time where there are no accidents You have no choice the choice comes after
Sarah Kane
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While the faculty of sensation is dependent upon the body, mind is separable from it.
Aristotle
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If nature had intended our skeletons to be visible it would have put them on the outside of our bodies.
Elmer Rice
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The history of our era is the nauseating and repulsive history of the crucifixion of the procreative body for the glorification ofthe spirit.
D. H. Lawrence
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There are many things akin to highest deity that are still obscure. Some may be too subtle for our powers of comprehension, others imperceptible to us because such exalted majesty conceals itself in the holiest part of its sanctuary, forbidding access to any power save that of the spirit. How many heavenly bodies revolve unseen by human eye!
Seneca the Younger
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If sex and creativity are often seen by dictators as subversive activities, it's because they lead to the knowledge that you own your own body (and with it your own voice), and that's the most revolutionary insight of all.
Erica Jong