Academics love to make theories about a body of work, but each book consumes the writer and is the sum of his or her world.
Jeanette Winterson

Belief like any other moving body follows the path of least resistance.
Samuel Butler

Because I take care of my body, it doesn't look like the body of a woman of my years.
Gloria Swanson

Your body is the direct result of what you eat as well as what you don't eat.
Gloria Swanson

When the belly is empty, the body becomes spirit; and when it is full, the spirit becomes body.
Saadi

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.
Mariska Hargitay

Shall I give you my recipe for happiness? I find everything useful and nothing indispensable. I find everything wonderful and nothing miraculous. I reverence the body. I avoid first causes like the plague.
Norman Douglas

The body has a mind of its own.
Mason Cooley

My hands, my feet, I throw my whole body to say all that is within me.
Mahalia Jackson

Beauty is only skin deep. I think what's really important is finding a balance of mind, body and spirit.
Jennifer Lopez

Fighting terrorism is not unlike fighting a deadly cancer. It can't be treated just where it's visible - every diseased cell in the body must be destroyed.
David Hackworth

Whatever you may say, the body depends on the soul.
Nikolai Gogol

You gotta have a body.
Jayne Mansfield

Animals are in possession of themselves; their soul is in possession of their body. But they have no right to their life, because they do not will it.
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

You start chasing a ball and your brain immediately commands your body to 'Run forward, bend, scoop up the ball, peg it to the infield,' then your body says, 'Who me?'
Joe DiMaggio

Mapplethorpe presented the body as a sexual object, separating it from the humanity of the person. He added nothing to photography as a medium. I hold his work in low regard.
Jerzy Kosinski

I'm very happy with my body.
Alicia Keys

When we make the cerebral state the beginning of an action, and in no sense the condition of a perception, we place the perceived images of things outside the image of our body, and thus replace perception within the things themselves.
Henri Bergson

There are a lot of myths about my injuries. They say I have broken every bone in my body. Not true. But I have broken 35 bones. I had surgery 14 times to pin and plate. I shattered my pelvis. I forget all of the things that have broke.
Evel Knievel

I see plainly how external images influence the image that I call my body: they transmit movement to it.
Henri Bergson