Body Quotes

The purpose of technology is not to confuse the brain but to serve the body.

~ William S. Burroughs

Skin has become inadequate in interfacing with reality. Technology has become the body's new membrane of existence.

~ Nam June Paik

I see technology as being an extension of the human body.

~ David Cronenberg

My body really, really wanted to reproduce when I was 15. It took a lot of civilization, socialization, willpower and some emulsion polymerization technology for me not to reproduce at 15.

~ Penn Jillette

I'm probably the least harsh on myself, and I try not to scrutinize everything about my body. As a new mom, it is what it is, and we just have to do our best.

~ Kourtney Kardashian

I cannot consent that my mortal body shall be laid in a repository prepared for an Emperor or a King my republican feelings and principles forbid it the simplicity of our system of government forbids it.

~ Andrew Jackson

The earliest example known to me of replaced body parts is exemplified by a Mayan skull dating back to 1400 BC. In this skull, false teeth made of stone had been implanted.

~ John Gurdon

There is more wisdom in your body than in your deepest philosophy.

~ Friedrich Nietzsche

Let my skin and sinews and bones dry up, together with all the flesh and blood of my body! I welcome it! But I will not move from this spot until I have attained the supreme and final wisdom.

~ Buddha

Our own physical body possesses a wisdom which we who inhabit the body lack. We give it orders which make no sense.

~ Henry Miller

'Focusing' is no conventional repackaging of self-help wisdom. It is at once a manual and a philosophy. It talks about the body's wisdom, the steps of the focusing technique, how to discover the richness in others by learning to listen.

~ Marilyn Ferguson

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

~ George Macdonald

My favorite part of any playdate comes later when I get to carry my exhausted and sleeping daughter to the car. Is there anything more trusting than a sleeping child completely and utterly leaning into your body?

~ Nia Vardalos

It's absurd that you know more about your car than you know about your body.

~ Kevin Plank

The reason we have cancer and heart disease is the same reason you can't get rid of the wear and tear on your tires on your car: as soon as you use them, you are wearing them away. You can't make eternal tires, and it's the same with the human body.

~ S. Jay Olshansky

My approach is to start from the straightforward principle that our body is a machine. A very complicated machine, but none the less a machine, and it can be subjected to maintenance and repair in the same way as a simple machine, like a car.

~ Aubrey De Grey

Imagine the peace symbol. The peace symbol has three pieces in it. One piece is emotion, that's your body. Another piece has spirit in it, that's your fuel. Another piece has intellect in it and that's your steering wheel. You can never overdo the fuel that goes into the body, which is the emotions and the steering wheel to drive it.

~ Gary Busey

Of one thing I am certain, the body is not the measure of healing, peace is the measure.

~ Phyllis Mcginley

A person will sometimes devote all his life to the development of one part of his body - the wishbone.

~ Robert Frost

I think a smile can make your whole body. Models, they look fabulous, but they don't smile, and they look so mad.

~ Serena Williams

The NBA Schedule was made up by one man, Eddie Gottlieb, who had owned the Philadelphia Warriors. Eddie had a Buddha-like body and a crinkly smile, and because he had also been an owner in baseball's old Negro leagues, he was known as the Mogul.

~ Frank Deford

I love the romance in Kimberly Derting's 'The Body Finder.' 'Cold Kiss' by Amy Garvey is unbelievably touching - and about so much more than just romantic love.

~ Claudia Gray

My relationship with my body has changed. I used to consider it as a servant who should obey, function, give pleasure. In sickness, you realise that you are not the boss. It is the other way around.

~ Federico Fellini

Spiritual relationship is far more precious than physical. Physical relationship divorced from spiritual is body without soul.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

The cinema began with a passionate, physical relationship between celluloid and the artists and craftsmen and technicians who handled it, manipulated it, and came to know it the way a lover comes to know every inch of the body of the beloved. No matter where the cinema goes, we cannot afford to lose sight of its beginnings.

~ Martin Scorsese

I can encourage my daughter to love her body, but what really matters are the observations she makes about my relationship with my own body.

~ Brené Brown

Just as you go to the gym regularly to keep your body fit, regular couples counseling can keep your relationship fit as well.

~ Laura Wasser

I have had a love-hate relationship with my body.

~ Demi Moore

When my body is covered and disappears, it's not about the relationship between me and the wall, but the relationship between me as an individual and those slogans which are used to fool the public.

~ Liu Bolin

Our limitations and success will be based, most often, on your own expectations for ourselves. What the mind dwells upon, the body acts upon.

~ Denis Waitley

If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.

~ M. H. Abrams

Take care of your body. It's the only place you have to live.

~ Jim Rohn

Physical fitness is not only one of the most important keys to a healthy body, it is the basis of dynamic and creative intellectual activity.

~ John F. Kennedy

A feeble body weakens the mind.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I like exercise. I like a healthy body.

~ Erin Gray

You can't get rid of it with exercise alone. You can do the most vigorous exercise and only burn up 300 calories in an hour. If you've got fat on your body, the exercise firms and tones the muscles. But when you use that tape measure, what makes it bigger? It's the fat!

~ Jack Lalanne

You can be in excellent physical shape, with low cholesterol, a healthy body weight and good overall physical fitness - but that doesn't necessarily mean you're healthy.

~ Michael Greger

I'm quite into fitness, and I have a fantastic personal trainer who knows me, knows my body, knows when to push me, and knows when not to push me. She doesn't make me do 20 burpees in a row and instead focuses on strengthening my core, telling me we need to focus on making me into 'a tall giraffe'!

~ Poppy Delevingne

I recommend that people try new stuff or take new fitness classes all the time. It's important to mix up your routine, not only for your body, but also for your mental state.

~ Alison Sweeney

I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I've been doing Pilates and yoga, trying to lean out my body so I won't be bulky.

~ Serena Williams