Body Quote by Michael F. Jacobson

That country [Carthage] was rapidly sinking into the state of barbarism from whence it had been raised by the Phoenician colonies and Roman laws;…

— Edward Gibbon

All prejudices may be traced back to the intestines. A sedentary life is the real sin against the Holy Ghost.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Just as bones, tissues, intestines, and blood vessels are enclosed in a skin that makes it possible to bear the sight of a human…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

He gave me his word. That means something to a man like Donovan Caine. Yeah, it means you'll realize he's an exceptionally good liar…

— Jennifer Estep

It's an appreciation for life generally, every bit of life, the smallest creature that lives in the intestines of termites that make termite life…

— Sylvia Earle

They want you to bring out your intestines.

— Marlene Dietrich

“When Equus leaves - if he leaves at all - it will be with your intestines in his teeth.”

— Peter Shaffer

It's gross. We use real brains. I think they're lamb or cow or something. Intestines smell. Brains don't really smell, but what's amazing about…

— Ellen Pompeo

The three branches of government number considerably more than three and are not, in any sense, 'branches' since that would imply that there is…

— P. J. O'Rourke

Intestine war no more our passions wage, And giddy factions bear away their rage.

— Alexander Pope

What is it that you contain? The Dead. Time. Light patterns of millennia. The expanding universe opening in your gut. Are your twenty-three feet…

— Jeanette Winterson

One only wishes Wayne LaPierre and his NRA board of directors could be drafted to some of these scenes, where they would be required…

— Stephen King

“As I enter the small intestine I get squeezed by muscles. Its dark and the walls look like slimey crushed velvet theres pancreas juice…

— Lynda Barry

*Appendix usually means "small outgrowth from large intestine," but in this case it means "additional information accompanying main text." Or are those really the…

— Pseudonymous Bosch

[On journalists:] They are as disruptive a menace to the public body: as grating turds in the intestines are to the private body.

— Caitlin Thomas