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""Would you like to see the menu?" he said. "Or would you like to meet the Dish of the Day?" [...] "Good evening," it lowed and sat back heavily on its haunches, "I am the main Dish of the Day. May I interest you in parts of my body?""
"You are no more in your body than Beethoven is inside your radio."
"If the face appears, the picture is inevitably a portrait and the expression of the face will dictate the viewer's response to the body."
"You see, when you're excited, your body has trouble telling the difference between pain and pleasure."
"If you want to be right-sized in body, you've got to get rid of the supersize way of life."
"A less 'brainy-culture' would learn to synchronise its body rhythms rather than its clocks."
"Idealism is the death of the body and the imagination. All but freedom, utter freedom, is death"
"My body and my will are one."
"No person knows your body better than you. The world's most sophisticated and sensitive diagnostic apparatus is your own body's feelings."
"You a low down dog is what’s wrong. It’s time to leave you and enter into the creation. And your dead body just the welcome mat I need."
"I'm a short woman with a pretty good body and large breasts — that's not what I think of as sexy."
"Death was in every sell of his body. He gave off a faint, greenish steam of decay. Lee imagined he would glow in the dark."
"ROSENCRANTZ My lord, you must tell us where the body is, and go with us to the king. HAMLET The body is with the king, but the king is not with the body. The king is a thing - GUILDENSTERN A thing my lord? HAMLET Of nothing. Bring me to him. Hide fox, and all after!"
"From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed."
"I have not only found good health, but perfect health; I have found a new state of being, a potentiality of life; a sense of lightness and cleanness and joyfulness, such as I did not know could exist in the human body."
"Every city is a living body."
"Christ has no body now on earth but yours."
"Even virtue is fairer in a fair body."
"When the body escaped mutilation, seldom did the heart go to the grave unscarred."
"I have no interest in putting stuff in my body that's made in a lab."
