Body Quotes

I had the classic 40 meltdown. I did. It's embarrassing. It was pretty funny. But then I recovered. To me, it was like a second adolescence. Hormonally, my body was changing, my mind was changing, and so my relationship to myself and the world around me came to this assault of finiteness.

Dancing is bigger than the physical body. Think bigger than that. When you extend your arm, it doesn't stop at the end of your fingers, because you're dancing bigger than that. You're dancing spirit.

I ask myself why I do it. Maybe it's to prove I'm still around. It takes a lot out of my body. I'm not an NBA player anymore. At my age, very few people can handle it.

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

Nature is something outside our body, but the mind is within us.

At one point I had to shove as much food in my body as possible to pack on calories. My trainer wanted me to do six meals a day and not go two hours without eating. If I would cheat on eating one day, I could tell - I'd drop a few pounds.

I'm not a genetically superior person. I built my body.

Everyone confesses that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us; but most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.

The civilizing process has increased the distance between behavior and the impulse life of the animal body.

Yoga teaches you how to listen to your body.

As long as your body is healthy and under control and death is distant, try to save your soul; when death is immanent what can you do?

We are truly indefatigable in providing for the needs of the body, but we starve the soul.

In terms of the black female audience, usually if you're true to that character but more so in your body of work if you've proven that you love your sisters and you proven you will come back home like in 42.4% they'll give you a pass when you jump ship. I hear it all the time.

Rock Hudson was not an educated man, but that very beautiful body of his was putty in my hands.

It's a war zone, my body, and one which has been through a great deal.

I was performing in this burlesque group, and we would go to dance rehearsals every day. You'd use every part of your body. Even though some of it is slow, it takes a lot of muscle to be able to dip down and come back up.

The mind must be cured as well as the body, as the mind so is the body.

My body gets weak without truth.

You don't get better as you get older in your career. It's not natural to have your best years late in your career. So I'm trying to do whatever I can to keep my body feeling good for as long as I can.

First, to be able to love, then to learn that body and spirit are one.

I do not want to go into its physical reasons: the construction of the human body is different from that of carnivorous animals. But man's intelligence is such that it can be utilised to defend any-thing he does, whether right or wrong.

A house is no home unless it contain food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.

A body of work such as Pasteur's is inconceivable in our time: no man would be given a chance to create a whole science. Nowadays a path is scarcely opened up when the crowd begins to pour in.

If consciousness can function independently of the body during one's lifetime, it could be able to do the same after death.

These groups within a society can he distinguished according as to whether, like an army or an orchestra, they function as a single body; or whether they are united merely to defend their common interests and otherwise function as separate individuals.

What basically happens is your hormones get out of whack. Because of the stress in your life your body says, 'I need more hormones.' So, your hormones are trying to produce and produce and produce, and it's even more stressful and it is this wicked cycle.

The thing I like about my body is that it's strong. I can move furniture around my apartment. I can ride my horse... I can play basketball. It's a well functioning machine.

I go out there and get my eyes gouged, my nose busted, my body slammed. I love the pain of the game.

The Olympics are great for notoriety right off the bat, but your body of work is what people remember you for.

A junkie is someone who uses their body to tell society that something is wrong.