My dad used to call me ‘the human pretzel’ because I was able to bend my body, and because my legs are very long.

Humanity abhors, above all things, a vacuum in itself, and your class will be cut off from humanity as the surgeon cuts the cancer and alien growth from the body.

Be strong in body, clean in mind, lofty in ideals.

The key to the Hercules Method is to focus your mind, body and spirit towards one goal. By bringing all three into alignment, the physical enthusiast can bring all of them under conscious control. Such...

The mind is satisfied with phrased, but not the body, the body is more fastidious, it wants muscles. A body always tells the truth, that’s why it’s usually depressing and disgusting to look at.

Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay.

I’m not dieting anymore. I want to eat what my body is asking of me. Just listen to your body in general – it’s all self-awareness.

In the process of evolution, the body lasts for some time and then will take other body and take other body and take other body until the final redemption from diversity is transcended.

The ideas and practices of Franz Anton Mesmer, an 18th-century Australian healer, had spread to the United States and, by the 1840s, held the country in thrall. Mesmer proposed that everything in the universe, including...

exists for him chiefly as a body in a sequence of hotel rooms.

But the body had its own cultural forms. It had its own art. Executions wereits tragedies, pornography was its romance.

The body’s a funny thing. It’s so full of surprises that it makes conventional wisdom seem silly.

Wandering is the activity of the child, the passion of the genius; it is the discovery of the self, the discovery of the outside world, and the learning of how the self is both “at...

It’s really a story that makes as much fun of the body politic as any particular politicians. It makes fun of how we got to this place where there’s a lot of politics in entertainment...

My body aches,” implying the body belongs to us and that therefore we are not that. (87)

Get to like your own body.

It is injurious to the mind as well as to the body to be always in one place and always surrounded by the same circumstances.

When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred.

The body is the garden of the soul.

I know how to move my body. He made a little bit of a mistake, and I took advantage of it. He gave me a little time to take it, and I took it.