Bodily Functions Quotes

• Bodily decay is gloomy in prospect, but of all human contemplations the most abhorrent is body without mind.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Perspective, Mind, Endurance

  Letter to John Adams, 1 August (1816)

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• I am inclined to think that eating is a private thing and should be done alone, like other bodily functions.

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner

  Thinking, Done, Eating

  Sylvia Ashton-Warner (1967). “Myself”, Harvill Secker

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• No other natural bodily function is painful and childbirth should not be an exception

  Grantly Dick-Read

  Pregnancy, Birth, Painful

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• We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

  Saint Augustine

  Pain, Animal, Class

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• Maybe that's the whole teen oeuvre, you know covering people in disgusting bodily fluids and whatnot.

  Rider Strong

  People, Covering, Fluid

  Interview with Spence D., www.ign.com. September 11, 2003.

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• When you cast doubt on some bodily function- you don't know how sensitive the body is to that kind of idea.

  Ina May Gaskin

  Ideas, Doubt, Body

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• You're dealing with the body, and you're dealing with bodily functions. We romanticize everything about people in movies.

  Charlie Kaufman

  People, Body, Function

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• Comedy today is not what it was years ago. It's always changing, in particular to female comics. No longer are certain subjects considered to be a male preserve. Women can talk about sexuality and their bodily functions and it can be very, very entertaining. It's changed the impact of comedy acting.

  Patrick Stewart

  Impact, Years, Acting

  Source: www.etonline.com

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• Sometimes you have to rely on sex and bodily functions.

  Larry David

  Sex, Sometimes, Rely

  "Larry David: The Man Behind Seinfeld". The Laugh Factory Magazine Interview, www.laughfactory.com. June 28, 2016.

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• I think there are things that aren't represented in movies that are a big part of everyone's life. We romanticize everything about people in movies. One of the things I don't like in movies is that people feel alone with their bodily functions in the real world, as if people in the movies don't do these things.

  Charlie Kaufman

  Real, Thinking, People

  "'Synecdoche, New York' Director Charlie Kaufman". Interview with Howard Feinstein, www.indiewire.com. October 24, 2008.

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• Centuries of secularism have failed to transform eating into something strictly utilitarian. Food is still treated with reverence...To eat is still something more than to maintain bodily functions. People may not understand what that 'something more' is, but they nonetheless desire to celebrate it. They are still hungry and thirsty for sacramental life.

  Alexander Schmemann

  People, Desire, May

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• There are certain bodily functions of mine which I will not allow to be supervised. One of these is eating. Nobody's going to license me to do this. Another one is bodily disposals. I will defecate and urinate when I damn well please and as the spirit -and the physical necessity -moves me. And my sex life is peculiarly my own. I will engage in sexual activity with a consenting male any time and any place I damn well please.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Sex, Moving, Males

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• You can't suppress Bodily Functions

  Cheech Marin

  Truth, Function

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• I've always been battling against my sense of dignity and refinement. I was embarrassed by any bodily functions when I was younger. I could never even blow my nose.

  Helen Mirren

  Blow, Noses, Dignity

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• There is something reassuring about the toilets. Bodily functions at least remain democratic. Everybody shits.

  Margaret Atwood

  Toilets, Reassuring, Democratic

  "The Handmaid's Tale". Book by Margaret Atwood, 1985.

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• If I had bodily functions, I think I would have peed my pants.

  Gena Showalter

  Thinking, Pants, Ifs

  Gena Showalter (2016). “The Darkest Night”, p.212, HQN Books

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• At birth, the child leaves a person - his mother's womb - and this makes him independent of her bodily functions. The baby is next endowed with an urge, or need, to face the out world and to absorb it. We might say that he is born with 'the psychology of world conquest.' By absorbing what he finds about him, he forms his own personality.

  Maria Montessori

  Mother, Baby, Children

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• You love the person for who they are, flaws and all. You can't help who you love, either. It comes from a different side of your brain than the logic part that tells you that this person is horrible for you - "You should walk away!" While you're walking away, the other part of your brain is trying to gain control of your bodily functions. "Turn around! She's the one!"

  Jim Carrey

  Walking Away, Brain, Trying

  "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind". Interview with Carlo Cavagna, www.aboutfilm.com.

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• A sociosphere of contact, control, persuasion and dissuasion, of exhibitions of inhibitions in massive or homeopathic doses...: this is obscenity. All structures turned inside out and exhibited, all operations rendered visible. In America this goes all the way from the bewildering network of aerial telephone and electric wiresto the concrete multiplication of all the bodily functions in the home, the litany of ingredients on the tiniest can of food, the exhibition of income or IQ.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Home, America, Exhibitions

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• I don't like jokes about sex or bodily functions or drug use or the difference between New York and L.A. I never do any of that.

  David Letterman

  Sex, New York, Drug Use

  "David Letterman's 1984 Playboy Interview. A Candid Conversation with the Comedy Genius In His Youth". Playboy Interview, playboysfw.kinja.com. April 3, 2014.

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• If anybody wants to engage in any kind of sexual activity with any consenting partner, that is their business. Anybody can do anything they damn well please, as long as the relationship isn't exploitive. And I don't feel that legality should have anything to do with it. There are certain bodily functions of mine which I will not allow to be supervised.

  Madalyn Murray O'Hair

  Should Have, Long, Want

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• It is the sign of a dull mind to dwell upon the cares of the body, to prolong exercise, eating and drinking and other bodily functions. These things are best done by the way; all your attention must be given to the mind.

  Epictetus

  Drinking, Food, Exercise

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• When a pastor continually makes light of the character of our Lord by speaking in scatological tones about the Son of Man's bodily functions in incarnation or wearing T-Shirts that rather mock the King of Righteousness rather than glorify Him, then something is terribly awry.

  Steve Camp

  Kings, Character, Son

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• All the particular moral judgments we intuitively make are likely to derive from discarded religious systems, from warped views of sex and bodily functions, or from customs necessary for the survival of the group in social and economic circumstances that now lie in the distant past.

  Peter Singer

  Religious, Sex, Lying

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• Be as though you don't exist. Let the bodily functions unfold, let thoughts come and go but don't follow them. Be only the awareness. Something is unplugged, but you are still fully here. Senses are functioning normally. This was never the trouble. The mind rises up as resistances and doubts but they are mere thoughts. Mind in its psychological aspect can come full power, but you are not to be a traffic policeman inside your own head.

  Mooji

  Spiritual, Wisdom, Mind

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