Best 5497 quotes in «body quotes» category

I communicate much better with cats, usually. I know them and their body language - as my own cats know mine very well. Cats are adept at reading subtle signals.

I come from a place where we're not that shy about our bodies.

I concentrate on exercises from the waist down, since that is the laziest part of a woman's body.

I consider it almost antifeminist to say that there is a feminine nature which expresses itself differently, that a woman speaks her body more than a man, because after all, men also speak their bodies when they write. Everything is implicated in the work of a writer.

I contemplate the body, dead and diseased as well as alive and healthy.

I considered myself most unfortunate because God had made me inhabit a female body in this world

I consider any gun that can chamber a round and send a projectile down its barrel at a high rate of speed into my body - causing me injury or death - to be an assault weapon.

I could never have a threesome. This is not a threesome body. This is a turn off the lights body, leave your shirt on body - this is a tell nobody.

I could never focus on my upper body as a skater, so I'm enjoying having symmetrical upper and lower body muscle.

I could live a better life if I had a better mind and a better body

I couldn't figure out what to wear under my clothes. The body shapers were too thick at the time.

I could say his body was perfect and every part of it beautiful, because it was. Not because he had no flaws, but because I wanted him so desperately I couldn’t see any.

I cried when I found out I was a finalist, I kind of went limp when they called my name. I felt like my spirit jumped out of my body, and I was just flesh - it was just amazing.

I could tell you all the medical terminology,' She says. 'But what finally happened is his heart got to big for his body'

I daydream just like everybody else. I just do it with my body facing the field, so everybody thinks I'm paying attention.

Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death

I’d designed my avatar’s face and body to look, more or less, like my own. My avatar had a slightly smaller nose than me, and he was taller. And thinner. And more muscular. And he didn’t have any teenage acne. But aside from these minor details, we looked more or less identical.

I definitely don't feel like I'm 71. I feel like I did when I was - between 30 and 40. The body ages. The mind doesn't.

I did as much research as I could and I took ownership of this illness, because if you don't take care of your body, where are you going to live?

I did not know whether I would ever speak to her or not or, if I spoke to her, how I could tell her of my confused adoration. But my body was like a harp and her words and gestures were like fingers running upon the wires.

I did not enjoy the violence of boxing so much as the science of it. I was intrigued by how one moved one's body to protect oneself, how one used a strategy both to attack and retreat, how one paced oneself over a match.

I didn't anticipate the primal quality of my pleasure, the raw physicality of it, the way my whole body leaps forward when I see my grandsons after a few days' absence.

I didn't feel like I was in my own body; my body was just a lonely, temporary container I happened to be borrowing.

I didn't react visually. This girl came up and knelt over the body and let out a God-awful scream that made me click the camera. (On photographing Mary Vecchio with slain student Jeffery Miller during the shootings of students at Kent State, April, 1970.)

I disagree with the widely held view that it is metaphysical necessity, not nomological, that matters in the mind/body problem.

I'd like to be remembered not only for my body of work but also for specific novels. Ideally, I want to be remembered in the same way as Stephen King, who defined and exemplified excellence in the horror genre in the late 20th and early 21st century.

Idleness is the stupidity of the body, and stupidity is the idleness of the mind.

Idleness begets ennui, ennui the hypochondriac, and that a diseased body. No laborious person was ever yet hysterical.

I'd like to talk to Arnold Schwarzenegger, 'cause I live in California and I just want to see that canned, chemical filled body in my office.

I'd like to reach out to more women and different body types.

I do have designers that I love to wear, like Philip Lim and Marc Jacobs whose stuff I know will look good on my body. But still, I always like to express myself by changing things up.

I do believe that we all are, fundamentally, divided creatures. Emotions split from intellect, spirit from flesh and far too often sexuality is disconnected from what we feel, and are, as total human beings. But how, for example, can anyone have an understanding of the virgin if they don't also have an understanding of the prostitute, the saint and sinner in one body?

I do isometrics in church so while I'm doing my soul some good, I'm doing my body some good, too.

I do love shoes that make my legs longer. I have the upper body of someone who's 5ft 8in, so high heels help me even out the discrepancy.

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

I do not have a genetically "gifted" body. I have to work hard everyday and I am always working on maintaining a positive self image.

I don't believe in dieting, I don't believe in having certain moments in your life where you're healthy and then moments when you're like, "I'm going to eat whatever I want." It's just finding what works for your body and always eating healthy.

I don't believe there's an afterlife - but I don't believe there's an end to life. Consciousness goes beyond the bounds of your body.

I don't eat breakfast. I know it's the most important meal of the day but my body doesn't respond to it well.

I don't criticize myself; I criticize my body.

I don't disagree with seeing a Rubens of a nude body, but I don't believe in a nude body in action. With Rubens, thank goodness, they aren't in action.

I don't have a problem with my body. I'm not just going to strip off all my clothing, but if the part calls for it and I don't think there's any way round, I'm absolutely fine.

I don't have any sexual hang-ups, but I'm sure there are bodybuilders who have trouble with sex, and obviously the body building hasn't helped.

I don't have a hateful bone in my body. I don't believe anyone should be bullied or made to feel bad about who they are.

I don't have a big hang-up about my body.

I don't have any stigma attached to my body. When I'm in my own private space, I have very little on.

I don't have a problem with being a woman. Women's bodies are so beautiful.

I don't hear your words: your voice reverberates against my body like another kind of caress, another kind of penetration. I have no power over your voice. It comes straight from you into me. I could stuff my ears and it would find its way into my blood and make it rise.

I don't have a sprinter's body.

I don't have parts of my body that I hate or would like to trade for somebody else's or wish I could surgically adjust into some fantasy version of what they are.