Body Quotes
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When I was in college, I was a semiotics major, which is this hopelessly pretentious body of French literary theory.
Ira Glass -
Sometimes when I'm at my desk, I'll realize that I have contorted myself completely, and I haven't moved for hours, and that my legs have fallen asleep. I am elsewhere, not in my body, not in the room, not in my house.
Dani Shapiro
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But freedom, liberty, is an attribute of the soul and it may exist even when the body is in bondage.
Ralph Adams Cram -
You may burn my body to ashes, and scatter them to the winds of heaven; you may drag my soul down to the regions of darkness and despair to be tormented forever; but you will never get me to support a measure which I believe to be wrong, although by doing so I may accomplish that which I believe to be right.
Abraham Lincoln -
I have done a lot of things outside of Science Fiction, but there has been an almost disproportionate amount of that genre in my body of work. I don't know what to make of it.
Daniel Dae Kim -
For faithful Catholics, communion is not just a nice ritual: It is the body and blood of Jesus Christ, and the ultimate sign of our willingness to be incorporated into the church.
Maggie Gallagher -
I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
Barbara Hepworth -
Back when the concept of organ transplants qualified as science fiction, novelist Maurice Renard wrote a thriller called 'Les Mains d'Orlac.' Call it a bastard offspring of 'Frankenstein;' its plot revolved around the old theme of Science Giving Us Stuff We Shouldn't Have - in this particular case, restoring severed body parts.
Kage Baker
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Anyone who thinks Peter Jackson would fall for market forces around him rather than artistic integrity doesn't know the guy or the body of his work.
Ian Mckellen -
I think you can feel good about yourself at any size and any shape. Nobody should be made to feel inferior because they have a certain body type.
Zach Anner -
Nothing happens in any legislative body that's not purposeful.
Dan Webster -
The spirit, like the body, can be strengthened and developed by frequent exercise. Just as the body, if neglected, grows weaker and finally impotent, so the spirit perishes if untended.
Wassily Kandinsky -
I have a strong upper body; I'm an arms swimmer, and I always have been.
Natalie du Toit -
An eating disorder epidemic suggests that love and disgust are being jointly marketed, as it were; that wherever the proposition might first have come from, the unacceptability of the female body has been disseminated culturally.
Rachel Cusk
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You know your body. You know when something is wrong. Trust yourself.
Kate Beaton -
I love my shape because I work really hard at it. I honor my body by working out and seeing what it can do.
Kate Hudson -
I love boxing, MMA, and hiking with my dog. I work out 3 times a week, and on my off days, I do yoga to keep my body relaxed and to stretch.
Natalie Martinez -
I like to dress for my body type and for my coloring.
Victoria Justice -
Only when you are aware of the uniqueness of everyone's individual body will you begin to have a sense of your own self-worth.
Ma Jian -
I feel like a 16-year-old trapped inside a dead woman's body.
Tamsin Greig
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Weight used to be an issue. I was always fat as a child. And everyone used to tell me, 'You've got such a pretty face; why don't you lose some weight?' Over the years I've realised that my body is a certain type, and I have learned to accept it.
Vidya Balan -
I wouldn't want to donate my body for scientific study.
Patricia Cornwell -
One thing that happens when you're pregnant is that as your stomach starts to stretch. It itches! So I have to keep my belly really lubricated. Every morning, there's a buttering ceremony after I get out of the shower. It's really like basting a turkey with body butter.
Padma Lakshmi -
Your body is away from me, but there is a window open from my heart to yours.
Rumi