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Body Quotes


"My face has always been my fortune anyway, not my body."


"Thing, body, matter, are nothing apart from the combinations of the elements, - the colours, sounds, and so forth - nothing apart from their so-called attributes."


"Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat."


"Martyrs do not underrate the body, they allow it to be elevated on the cross. In this they are at one with their antagonists."


"The right of conscience and private judgment is unalienable, and it is truly the interest of all mankind to unite themselves into one body for the liberty, free exercise, and unmolested enjoyment of this right."


"You need to listen to your body because your body is listening to you."


"I am a typed director. If I made Cinderella, the audience would immediately be looking for a body in the coach."


"I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman."


"The sexiest part of the body is the eyes. That's what I believe."


"Obviously, the difference between a game and actual training is you're using your whole body, so in that sense, maybe not, although maybe something to do with reaction, the speed of reaction, maybe that was of use during the training."


"When my body is strong, I feel stronger inside. I feel more capable of handling emotional situations. Usually I'm more of a inside-out person, but this was a great case of me from the outside in."
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"All parts of the human body get tired eventually - except the tongue."


"There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke."


"I remember back when I was a kid there was a comic strip called Plastic Man. His body was elastic and he could make his extremities as long as he wanted. As a youngster I didn't fully appreciate. But I'm now thinking Plastic Man was probably pretty popular with the ladies."


"I am Armenian, so of course I am obsessed with laser hair removal! Arms, bikini, legs, underarms... my entire body is hairless."


"What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means this is myself."


"I made a commitment to completely cut out drinking and anything that might hamper me from getting my mind and body together. And the floodgates of goodness have opened upon me - spiritually and financially."


"The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body."


"Television broadcasts have, in the main, been more suggestive, less specific, more distant in their images than the print press: often you knew that lump was a dead body only because a chattering reporter told you it was."


"I wasn't really into body piercings until I found that about half my female students had them."


"The nineteenth century lynching mob cuts off ears, toes, and fingers, strips off flesh, and distributes portions of the body as souvenirs among the crowd."


"Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands."


"It's only when gravity starts to take over you begin to think about your body."


"When you see a fish you don't think of its scales, do you? You think of its speed, its floating, flashing body seen through the water... If I made fins and eyes and scales, I would arrest its movement, give a pattern or shape of reality. I want just the flash of its spirit."


"Model. Two mobile eyes in a mobile head, itself on a mobile body."


"As far as wrestling goes, as long as my body is able to withstand the physical beating, I will keep wrestling."
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