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“She once watched a documentary and learned that the brain was 2 percent of a human’s body weight, and it was a testament to…

— Tracy Ewens

“I believe that much of a man's character will be found betokened in his backbone. I would rather feel your spine than your skull,…

— Herman Melville

“He shifted his weight, and she saw he was leaning on a cane. It was hard to reconcile this infirmity with the muscled brute…

— Eloisa James

“Surprisin’ a li’l ol’ five foot tumble would kill a healthy feller like Charley,” opined Barstow. “Well, Jim Ed, we have to remember that…

— D. V. Pyle

“Graham and the undertaker's assistants strapped the body to a wide board with a rope that crossed under his right shoulder and again over…

— Ron Hansen

I was fat-shamed the other day on a British newspaper. The headline was 'Four Bellies and a Turkey Neck.' They weren't wrong. I looked…

— Hugh Grant

“Tiger Woods dropped out of the TPC because of a “bulge” in his neck. Wasn’t a bulge what got him in trouble in the…

— Lawrence Dorfman

“he lied about his height to keep from having a body mass index that would label him as obese),”

— Michael Wolff

“He was a large, fleshy man, weighing at least two hundred pounds, and he quickly became a faithful representation of a quivering jelly mountain…

— Jack London

Your humble critic confesses that he has been wrestling with 'weight issues' since leaving college lo these, uh, several years ago, so it's hard…

— Tom Shales

“Nothing resembles a person as much as the way he dies, and no death could resemble the man he was thinking about less than…

— Gabriel García Márquez

He had not an ounce of superfluous flesh on his bones, and leanness goes a great way towards gentility.

— Elizabeth Gaskell