Body Quotes

A dress is a piece of ephemeral architecture, designed to enhance the proportions of the female body.

~ Christian Dior

Concrete you can mold, you can press it into - after all, you haven't any straight lines in your body. Why should we have straight lines in our architecture? You'd be surprised when you go into a room that has no straight line - how marvelous it is that you can feel the walls talking back to you, as it were.

~ Philip Johnson

Instead of using the machine as a metaphor for architecture, as Le Corbusier did, I use the human body. I want the public to know that it's them I'm designing for.

~ Michael Graves

Architecture is a discourse; everything is a discourse. Fashion discourse is actually a micro-discourse, because it's centered around the body. It is the most rapidly developing form of discourse.

~ Nate Lowman

The only part of the conduct of any one, for which he is amenable to society, is that which concerns others. In the part which merely concerns himself, his independence is, of right, absolute. Over himself, over his own body and mind, the individual is sovereign.

~ John Stuart Mill

I started practicing yoga. I started learning some hands-on healing stuff. And I found really good chiropractors, really good massage therapists, and what I found is I've been able to actually peel off layers of trauma on my body and actually move better now than I did.

~ Ricky Williams

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.

~ Ayrton Senna

It's like learning a language; you can't speak a language fluently until you find out who you are in that language, and that has as much to do with your body as it does with vocabulary and grammar.

~ Fred Frith

When I was a kid, I had trouble at school because of my learning disabilities. Carving is my body compensating for the lack of other skills.

~ Willard Wigan

I was diagnosed with a severe temporal spatial deficit, a learning disability that means I have zero spatial relations skills. It was official: I was a genius trapped in an idiot's body.

~ Sloane Crosley

Food for the body is not enough. There must be food for the soul.

~ Dorothy Day

Your liver is your vital detoxification organ, and if it becomes overloaded with toxins from the food, drink, or medications you're consuming, you'll have more toxins circulating throughout your body, damaging your organs and glands. Detoxing your liver will help it work more efficiently - and help you slim your waistline.

~ Suzanne Somers

Never order food in excess of your body weight.

~ Erma Bombeck

Cultivation to the mind is as necessary as food to the body.

~ Marcus Tullius Cicero

Facts are to the mind what food is to the body.

~ Edmund Burke

The experience of being cared for is profound, and it nourishes the soul as much as the food does the body.

~ Mariska Hargitay

I am naturally slim, actually thin. So, for years I have been trying to get some curves. I tried eating food that would increase my weight, but I only ended up putting fat around my stomach. So, now I have made peace with my body.

~ Kangana Ranaut

Food is your body's fuel. Without fuel, your body wants to shut down.

~ Ken Hill

In general, the more food we eat in its natural state - without additives - and the less it is refined, the healthier it will be for us. Food can affect the mind, and deficiencies of certain elements in the body can promote mental depression.

~ Ezra Taft Benson

Thin people release the fork, and they chew the food with the fork on the table. They chew their food slowly. They look around at each other or the wall or a picture. They listen to the music. They sit back and take a breath. They do something other than concentrate on shoving the food into their body.

~ Jean Nidetch

Neighborhoods and communities are complex organisms that will be resilient only if they are healthy along a number of interrelated dimensions, much as a human body cannot be healthy without adequate air, water, rest, and food.

~ Ben Bernanke

The food that enters the mind must be watched as closely as the food that enters the body.

~ Pat Buchanan

Religion is organized to satisfy and guide the soul - politics does the same thing for the body.

~ Joyce Cary

Women must be the spokesmen for a new humanity arising out of the reconciliation of spirit and body.

~ Carol P. Christ

I look at Jessica Alba and think she's got a great body. I think that's what women are supposed to look like.

~ Ashley Tisdale

The human body is the best picture of the human soul.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

The best cure for the body is a quiet mind.

~ Napoléon Bonaparte

A well regulated militia, composed of the body of the people, trained in arms, is the best most natural defense of a free country.

~ James Madison

Sleeping is like meditation: it's good to rest the body but also to shut the mind down for a bit.

~ Anthony Joshua

But the real secret to lifelong good health is actually the opposite: Let your body take care of you.

~ Deepak Chopra

A small body of determined spirits fired by an unquenchable faith in their mission can alter the course of history.

~ Mahatma Gandhi

I truly loved being pregnant and feeling what was going on inside my body and watching it change. It's difficult to recoup, but still amazing nonetheless. I would have another one.

~ Jill Scott

I used to do ballet all the time, and I do this ballet workout: it is an amazing thing called Barrecore. It is like pulsing. It turns your legs into, like, jelly, and you feel like a Bambi; you lose so much control over your body because you're pulsing so much.

~ Rita Ora

It's amazing people get so detached from what they eat and what they wear. No one has any contact with how things are made that are put in their body and put in their mouths and I just find it alarming that no one questions it.

~ Emma Watson

After every bath, I make sure to moisturize my entire body. I'm obsessed with Diptyque: people love their candles, but their body products are also amazing.

~ Priyanka Chopra

The body is an amazing system.

~ Amitabh Bachchan

The body can do amazing things in a situation when it is really called for.

~ Suzanne Farrell

I suffer from an amazing amount of insecurities, and I'm grateful that my body image, it's normally not something I pay attention to.

~ Callie Thorne

Unless you burst into movies as a sex goddess, you're likely to play wives and mothers. I came into movies as a teenager in 'They Shoot Horses, Don't They' (1969) playing a pregnant waif from the Ozarks. I didn't get a chance to burst into movies in 'Body Heat.' My career isn't based on having a 23-inch waist and a big bust, though I do.

~ Bonnie Bedelia

I've always believed that the facts about dancing are more interesting than the myths, and this was a great chance for me to explore how the human body does such incredible things.

~ Deborah Bull