The Body Quotes

Consciousness, much like our feelings, is based on a representation of the body and how it changes when reacting to certain stimuli. Self-image would be unthinkable without this representation.

Fill your plate with the colours of the rainbow. What pleases the eye, pleases the body.

The hand that unnerved Belshazzar derived its most horrifying influence from the want of a body, and death itself is not formidable in what we do know of it, but in what we do not.

You can ignite the senses and directly alter their state of mind and body through this scent, sparking a subliminal key to attraction.

After death we live for some time in the astral world in the astral body used during our life on earth, and the more we learn to control and use it wisely now the better for us after death.

In vain we shall penetrate more and more deeply the secrets of the structure of the human body, we shall not dupe nature; we shall die as usual.

I think the best exercise that I do is singing for an hour-and-a-half out on the stage, because, yes, I use the lung, the biggest muscle in your body.

I'm becoming a frustrated director, I think, in an actor's body.

I don't believe in having body doubles for a film.

The body is held together by sound. The presence of disease indicates that some sounds have gone out of tune.

Oh my god. I just hung around with an unpretty person. Excuse me while I go home to scrub myself with expensive body wash and a pink loofah, to rid myself of the unpretty germs.

Friendship is two souls inhabiting one body.

Impulses of intelligence constantly create the body in new forms every second.

Of all the things a body loves, predictability is one of them.

Your body is like a machine, and if you don't keep it in shape, it holds you back. You don't want anything holding you back, especially yourself.

Jesus is interested in changing cultures, not just putting bodies in chairs.

He that studies only men will get the body of knowledge without the soul; and he that studies only books, the soul without the body.

The universe has a body and soul and evolves through cosmic time. As microcosms of stardust, we do the same.

A body of 500 men chosen at random from amongst the unemployed.

Words are like bodies; meanings are like souls.

Many people are leaders trapped in a follower's body.

We try to place the human body in relation to the image all the time, so it's never a kind of a backdrop, but it's more of ...a much more integrative experience.

Every new body of discovery is mathematical in form, because there is no other guidance we can have.

It is through strength of technique that the body stays in possession of music.

The moment when a feeling enters the body/ is political. This touch is political

The body is at its best between the ages of thirty and thirty-five.

You play with your soul as well as your body.

At the Sharper Image store, I saw a body fat analyzer. Didn't that used to be called a mirror?

Science is a set of methods designed to describe and interpret observed or inferred phenomenon, past or present, and aimed at building a testable body of knowledge open to rejection or confirmation.

If you think your body and mind are two, that is wrong; if you think that they are one, that is also wrong. Our body and mind are both two and one.

A fighter can condition his body to go hard certain rounds, then to coast certain rounds.

It was like a miracle, but before our very eyes, and almost in the drawing of a breath, the whole body crumbled into dust and passed from our sight.

Sleep is simply a chemical change in our brain and body (melatonin) - It?s not a place we go, it is a state of being that we fall into.

For a very small expence the public can facilitate, can encourage, and can even impose upon almost the whole body of the people, the necessity of acquiring those most essential parts of education.

I say the Intelligent Design-evolution debate misses the point. It trivializes God and it trivializes science. The universe is like the hand of God. The world is God's body.

Every cell in your body is seeking fulfillment through joy, beauty, love and appreciation.

What is necessary is to teach each class and profession the importance of the others. All together form one mighty body; labourer, peasant, and professional man.

I have a book of buildings from 25,000 BC. These are huts built out of mammoth bones. These buildings were beautifully made, from the bones of the body into shelter.

A vivid image compels the whole body to follow.

If your body could speak, what would it say?

I am dying by inches, from not having any body to talk to about insects.

Most people aren't in touch with their body and tend to live in their thoughts.

In the zazen posture, your mind and body have, great power to accept things as they are, whether agreeable or disagreeable.

If you can't pronounce it, you probably shouldn't be putting it in your body or in your environment.

This business of having been issued a body is deeply confusing... Bodies are so messy and disappointing.

I know exactly how strong he is... He is like a peacock, spreading his feathers and squawking loudly to distract you from the back that his body is but weak." -Jason to Mahiya

Angelic Sookie, vision of love and beauty, I am prostrate that the wicked evil maenad violated your smooth and voluptuous body, in an attempt to deliver a message to me. -Eric

Every emotion is keyed into some bodily location, and taken all together, they form the emotional body.

Jewelry should not upstage you. I pick one hot point on my body that I'm going to highlight. Let one area do the singing - you don't want to hear three songs at once.

We set down feasts for each other and treated our love with tongues of fire. Our bodies were fields of wonder to us.