Anatomy Quotes · Page 5

There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a…

— Taylor Hanson

She had no mercy. He looked at her neck and thought how he would like to jab it with the knife he…

— W. Somerset Maugham

You should always have a pencil skirt. I think knees are the ugliest part of anybody's anatomy, so I'd look for ones…

— Annabel Tollman

Nature may be as selfishly studied as trade. Astronomy to the selfish becomes astrology; psychology, mesmerism (with intent to show where aour…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On…

— Benjamin Carson

One of the problems with sex education... is that it also strips kids - especially girls - of their modesty to have…

— James Dobson

Fashion is every woman's language, and every woman's tool. Fashion is anatomy for me, creating your second skin is one of the…

— Isabel Toledo

I took anatomy classes. I went to medical libraries and talked to doctors and nutritionists. I did the whole thing before using…

— Marilu Henner

Whenever we think of the body as a vessel for artistic ideas, we somehow always focus on the surface of the body.…

— Valie Export

The geometry of landscape and situation seems to create its own systems of time, the sense of a dynamic element which is…

— J. G. Ballard

“Every secret of the body was rendered up--bone risen through flesh, sacrilegious glimpses of an intestine or an optic nerve. From this…

— Ian McEwan

“Ossa autem alia quae sunt infra basilare non bene ad sensum apparent nisi ossa illa decoquantur, sed propter peccatum dimitiere consuevi. [The…

— Mondino de' Liuzzi Mondino dei Luzzi Mundinus de Leuciis

Medical training taught me the art of breaking down the complex maze of stories, symbols and rituals into clear systems. You could…

— Devdutt Pattanaik

But let there be no misunderstanding: it is not that a real man, the object of knowledge, philosophical reflection or technological intervention,…

— Michel Foucault

This is all very fine, but it won't do-Anatomy-botany-Nonsense! Sir, I know an old woman in Covent Garden, who understands botany better,…

— Thomas Sydenham

I cannot draw a human figure if I don't know the order of his bones, muscles or tendons. Same is that I…

— Irving Stone

I've organised for the last years, since I got the Nobel Prize actually, Anatomy of Hate Conferences all over the world, what…

— Elie Wiesel

The old man laughed loud and joyously, shook up the details of his anatomy from head to foot, and ended by saying…

— Mark Twain

It has never been in my power to study anything, mathematics, ethics, metaphysics, gravitation, thermodynamics, optics, chemistry, comparative anatomy, astronomy, psychology, phonetics,…

— Charles Sanders Peirce

Mountains are to the rest of the body of the earth, what violent muscular action is to the body of man. The…

— John Ruskin

The summer stretched out the daylight as if on a rack. Each moment was drawn out until its anatomy collapsed. Time broke…

— China Mieville

Grammar is to a writer what anatomy is to a sculptor, or the scales to a musician. You may loathe it, it…

— B. J. Chute

Perhaps we might, within the anatomy of our imaginations, think once more of the naked body as a vessel of grace, taste…

— Robert Genn

Don't worry, it's very clear that the painting was done by a human, most likely a human with one eye removed and…

— Ryan North

So in my sophomore year, I took a senior anatomy class. I thought anatomy - being the thing that I should be…

— James Earl Jones

There's a book that's critical to understanding anxiety, a 17th-century book, 'The Anatomy of Melancholy,' by Robert Burton. I wanted to write…

— Scott Stossel

The gulfing whale was like a dot in the spell. Yet look upon it, and 'twould size and swell To its huge…

— William Blake

To unwind after training, I love to have a long hot soak in the bath, then veg out on the sofa with…

— Jessica Ennis

It wasn't the 'miracle of engineering' that is the human body that was filling me with a mad desire to live my…

— Caterina Scorsone

In my experience of these things, parties which shout about dirty tricks and the like tend to do so because they fear…

— Peter Mandelson

A breast cancer might turn out to have a close resemblance to a gastric cancer. And this kind of reorganization of cancer…

— Siddhartha Mukherjee

This whole new emerging science of sex differences is so interesting to me. We are such different creatures. Our anatomy is different.…

— Sheila Kelley

Man is a shrewd inventor, and is ever taking the hint of a new machine from his own structure, adapting some secret…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

The sculptor, and the painter also, should be trained in these liberal arts: grammar, geometry, philosophy, medicine, astronomy, perspective, history, anatomy, theory…

— Lorenzo Ghiberti

Descriptive Anatomy comprises a detailed account of the numerous organs of which the body is formed, especially with reference to their outward…

— Henry Gray

“Very often conditions are recorded as observable "under thy fingers" [...] Among such observations it is important to notice that the pulsations…

— James Henry Breasted

In my second year, after moving to the Medical School, I began the courses of Anatomy and Physiology. I had begun to…

— Sydney Brenner

Descriptive anatomy is to physiology what geography is to history, and just as it is not enough to know the typography of…

— Claude Bernard

Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the…

— Rachael Taylor

But there, in that remarkable room, surrounded by a laughing, rollicking, unseeing collection of London's brightest and wickedest, Pippa's knowledge of anatomy…

— Sarah MacLean