Body Quotes · Page 110

In writing, punctuation plays the role of body language. It helps readers hear you the way you want to be heard.

— Russell Baker

“ Ocean , n. A body of water occupying about two-thirds of a world made for man — who has no gills.”

— Ambrose Bierce

Consciousness is what makes the mind-body problem really intractable.

— Thomas Nagel

Hrithik Roshan has a great body. He is able to mould his physique to suit the role he is playing.

— Gurmeet Choudhary

That's just me and my own body issues - I think I'm fat and bald and old and ugly.

— Jeffrey Tambor

I had an exciting style, I was very aggressive, a body puncher, and I attacked all the time.

— Ricky Hatton

It wasn't until I moved to America that I started to really embrace my body and my skin color and who I…

— Liz Cambage

Boredom is your mind and body's way of telling you you're not living up to your potential.

— Hal Sparks

We are not just these three-dimensional bodies walking around. Our unconscious communicates and other people pick it up and they come to…

— Agapi Stassinopoulos

Every man casts a shadow; not his body only, but his imperfectly mingled spirit. This is his grief. Let him turn which…

— Henry David Thoreau

When you're pregnant or living with an infant, there's a kind of sacredness around your body that affects everything you do.

— Dolores O'Riordan

Texas has a pressing need for a single governmental body to provide overall flood control management for the watersheds affecting major population…

— George P. Bush

When we were scared about 9/11, we federalized the airport security, we spent millions for body armor for dogs in Ohio. All…

— John Stossel

The Gods occupy the loftiest regions, men the lowest, the demons the middle region...They have immortality of body, but passions of the…

— Saint Augustine

I don't see anybody in any sort of squad that has a normal body. It's kind of this false image of what…

— Demi Lovato

The evils of the body are murder, theft, and adultery; of the tongue, lying, slander, abuse and idle talk; of the mind,…

— Gautama Buddha

I believe in playing with your heart, with every fiber in your body-fairly, squarely, by the rules-to win. And I believe that…

— Bela Karolyi

Indians are the Italians of Asia and vice versa. Every man in both countries is a singer when he is happy, and…

— Gregory David Roberts

I think of mythology as a function of biology; the energies of the body are the energies that move the imagination. These…

— Joseph Campbell

Extracting the meat from a whole crab is a time-consuming job - picking all the meat out of the legs, claws and…

— Monica Galetti

I stood looking down out of the window. The street seemed miles down. Suddenly I felt as if I'd flung myself out…

— Doris Lessing

Juanita found herself at Old Jeemy's radio station in a room she could have sworn was a laboratory where creatures with antennas…

— Dan Jenkins

When the short days of winter came, dusk fell before we had well eaten our dinners. When we met in the street…

— James Joyce

The 20th century mind is nostalgic for the paradise that once existed on the mushroom dotted plains of Africa where the plant-human…

— Terence McKenna

I think to win in straight sets every match is important for the body, for the legs, for the physical conditions.

— Juan Martin del Potro

The mind commands the body and it obeys. The mind orders itself and meets resistance.

— Frank Herbert

Don't let your mind bully your body into believing it must carry the burden of its worries.

— Anonymous

My body size and everything was perfect for being a heavyweight wrestler rather than being a linebacker.

— Cain Velasquez

Worlds and particles, bodies and beings, time and space: All are transient expressions of the Tao.

— Laozi

As long as the body feels OK, I'm enjoying playing, helping the team improve and taking wickets, I'll keep going.

— James Anderson

Any unchecked impulse does, within the human body and psyche, lead to the destruction of the organism.

— William S. Burroughs

...it is certain that I am really distinct from my body, and can exist without it.

— Rene Descartes

I'm interested in nutrition and fascinated by the changes you can make to your body through diet and exercise.

— Chloe Madeley

Yoga has helped me become more in tune and respectful of not just my body but my soul.

— Zoe McLellan

I am dead. I have no desire for you. My body no longer wants the one who doesn’t love.

— Marguerite Duras

American poets celebrate their bodies, very specifically, as Whitman did.

— Diane Wakoski

When we ignore the body, we are more easily victimized by it.

— Milan Kundera

When I look down at my pale, skinny body, I wonder why any woman would want to sleep next to it, let…

— Neil Strauss

Juggling is a conversation with the stick, the body, the brain.

— Michael Moschen

Muscle has memory: the body knows things the mind will not admit.

— Louise Doughty