If I see something sagging, dragging, or bagging, I’m going to go have the stuff tucked or plucked.
—Dolly Parton, 2003Quotes
The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body.
—Anaïs Nin, 1935To know intense joy without a strong bodily frame, one must have an enthusiastic soul.
—George Eliot, 1872Flesh was the reason why oil painting was invented.
—Willem de Kooning, 1949As the saying goes, an old woman is always uneasy when dry bones are mentioned in a proverb.
—Chinua Achebe, 1958And your very flesh shall be a great poem.
—Walt Whitman, 1855Nothing tastes as good as skinny feels.
—Kate Moss, 2009I know I have the body but of a weak and feeble woman, but I have the heart and stomach of a king.
—Elizabeth I, 1588The features of our face are hardly more than gestures which force of habit has made permanent.
—Marcel Proust, 1919The body says what words cannot.
—Martha Graham, 1985The human body is the best picture of the human soul.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein, c. 1947Every man must descend into the flesh to meet mankind.
—G.K. Chesterton, 1910Every tooth in a man’s head is more valuable than a diamond.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1605