Body Quotes

What bothers me is our culture's obsession with nudity. It shouldn't be a big deal, but it is. I think this overemphasis with nudity makes actors nervous. There's the worry about seeing one's body dissected, misrepresented, played and replayed on the Internet.

No matter how old you are, no matter how much you weigh, you can still control the health of your body.

Thinking of disease constantly will intensify it. Feel always 'I am healthily in body and mind'.

At my age, you need to verify that everything is fine. I put a lot of pressure on my body, and I feel sometimes pain in my back and in my knees, so I have to be sure that I can keep on training hard before going on.

The self has the characteristic that it is an object to itself, and that characteristic distinguishes it from other objects and from the body.

I don't need plastic in my body to validate me as a woman.

Black women don't have the same body image problems as white women. They are proud of their bodies.

Envy is like a fly that passes all the body's sounder parts, and dwells upon the sores.

I get enough sleep. I take very good care of myself. Growing up as a dancer, you know your body so well, you know what to do to overcome something.

Well, I was passionately curious about what my body was doing, and when I got the lessons on how to meditate, it seemed really solid to me. It seemed real.

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

One of the great joys this year and the year before has been how all of the people in this body, men and women, Republicans and Democrats, have worked together so well with our chairman and the chairman of the full committee to address the issues of housing for our soldiers.

Games lubricate the body and the mind.

I feel better in my body now than when I was 20. Why not?

Yes, I'm blonde. When I started as an actor, because of the accent and my body and my personality, it was not what the stereotype of the Latina woman in Hollywood is, so they didn't know where to put me. The blond hair wasn't matching. The moment I put my hair dark, it was better for my work.

When my body is strong, I feel stronger inside. I feel more capable of handling emotional situations. Usually I'm more of a inside-out person, but this was a great case of me from the outside in.

The true color of life is the color of the body, the color of the covered red, the implicit and not explicit red of the living heart and the pulses. It is the modest color of the unpublished blood.

Well, actually, I'm a bisexual lesbian in a man's body... but it's more complicated than that.

I know I have the body of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king, and of a king of England too.

I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.

I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.

Buddha means awareness, the awareness of body and mind that prevents evil from arising in either.

This camera works like photosynthesis. It is as if you were Xeroxing your own face. The pictures have such physicality: their surface is like fine leather, stained from chemicals. Each one has a body and is more than an image.

One ever feels his twoness - an American, a Negro; two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.

I've been a model for 15 years, and I've been on 'Top Chef' for eight seasons, and before that I had other cooking shows, so I've learned a thing or two about how to camouflage certain areas and how to draw the eye to a preferable area of the body.

Painting is a very difficult thing. It absorbs the whole man, body and soul, thus have I passed blindly many things which belong to real and political life.

I see my body as an instrument, rather than an ornament.

When you are balanced and when you listen and attend to the needs of your body, mind, and spirit, your natural beauty comes out.

Girls' inner critics are starting to reveal themselves at a younger and younger age. And body image issues are an aspect of their lives which is causing them low self esteem and day-to-day suffering.

The body is meant to be seen, not all covered up.