Dissecting Quotes

• If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.

  Elizabeth Edwards

  Baby, Children, Thinking

  "Back on trail, Elizabeth Edwards pushes stem-cell funding", www.cnn.com. March 26, 2007.

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• I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.

  Neil Patrick Harris

  Fun, Games, Guy

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• No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

  Honore de Balzac

  Funny, Marriage, Witty

  No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. The Physiology of Marriage Meditation V, Aphorism 28

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• I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.

  Bob Saget

  Thinking, Too Much, Comedy

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

  E. B. White

  Funny, Inspiring, Mind

  E. B. WHITE (1954). “The SECOND TREE from the CORNER”

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• We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.

  Benjamin Lee Whorf

  Nature, Native Language, Lines

  "Science and Linguistics" (1946)

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• As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing

  Glenn Greenwald

  Sex, Political, Energy

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• To know objects only through dissecting and cataloguing them is to miss their full reality. It is to fall asleep amidst the mystery and to become numb to the wonder of this great Earth.

  John Daido Loori

  Fall, Reality, Missing

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• Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. Nobody laughs and the frog dies.

  Barry Cryer

  Funny, Laughter, Laughing

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• My cousin is gay, in school while other kids were dissecting frog, he was opening flies.

  Rodney Dangerfield

  Funny, Cousin, School

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• I don't like slugs and tentacles and calamari or anything. Actually, tentacles made me turn into a vegetarian in high school. I'm not anymore, but in high school, we were dissecting squid.

  Selma Blair

  School, Squids, Slugs

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• The true wisdom of the philosopher ought to insist in enjoying everything. Yet we apply ourselves to dissecting and destroying everything that is good in itself, that has virtue, albeit the virtue there is in mere illusions. Nature gives us this life like a toy to a weak child. We want to see how it all works; we break everything. There remains in our hands, and before our eyes, stupid and opened too late, the sterile wreckage, fragments that will not again make a whole. The good is so simple.

  Eugene Delacroix

  Nature, Children, Stupid

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• To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt to fully understand.

  Henry Theodore Tuckerman

  Beauty, Music, Flower

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• It was understood that they shared the same thresholds--the same inexhaustible appetite for wasting time, for discussing lofty ideas, for dissecting trivial things, for driving to nowhere in particular, for listening to music, for talking about books, for obsessing over pop culture, but mostly for laughing, talking, and simply being together. There was nothing one could say that the other would find too cruel or too kind. And on those rare occasions when they did tire of each other, they needed only go a day without talking before they yearned to reconnect.

  Galt Niederhoffer

  Book, Talking, Ideas

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• He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity.

  Charles Dickens

  Character, Agony, Numbers

  CHARLES DICKENS (1867). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.289

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• I didn't get into Tupac [Shakur] until a little later, once I started understanding rap and people's stories. Eminem was the first rapper that I actually started dissecting the lyrics, and once I got attached to his stories, then I started listening to Dr. Dre, then Snoop 'cause they were all under one camp.

  Tyga

  Rap, People, Understanding

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• Some people see me as dissecting my characters in some kind of heartless, coldblooded, analytical way, when in truth making these movies is a passionate, intensely emotional experience for me. I'm detached from the characters only to the degree that I have to be in order to write honestly about them.

  Todd Solondz

  Writing, Character, Emotional

  Source: www.believermag.com

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• Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.

  Susan Meissner

  Book, Nuts, Way

  Susan Meissner (2010). “The Shape of Mercy: A Novel”, p.43, WaterBrook

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• To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia...in public...You are peeling back layers. You are dissecting yourself...You do not know what they [the audience] is going to do when you reach into yourself and rip out your organs to be displayed

  Amir Sulaiman

  Rip, Writing, Heart

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• Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.

  E. B. White

  Understanding, Done, Frogs

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• I liked all of my science classes from biology to chemistry. I thought dissecting was one of the most interesting parts of it.

  Arnaz Battle

  Class, Interesting, Chemistry

  Source: prod.www.49ers.clubs.nfl.com

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• I was starting to play the ukulele at the same time I was having all these conversations with [the late Ramones guitarist] Johnny Ramone, these intense tutorials staying up late and listening to the music he grew up on, and picking up what's a great song and what makes a great song. He was all about lists and dissecting songs, like what's a better song by Cheap Trick: "No Surrender" or "Dream Police"? Sometimes you'd be surprised by the answer. It was an interesting dichotomy between hanging out with the godfather of punk rock and starting to play the ukulele. They came together.

  Eddie Vedder

  Dream, Song, Ukulele

  Source: www.twofeetthick.com

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• A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived).

  David Edelstein

  Play, Roles, Critics

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• Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog:
  Nobody really enjoys it, and the frog generally dies as a result.

  Mark Twain

  Analyzing, Frogs, Results

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• I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.

  J. Courtney Sullivan

  Dressing Up, Guy, Dinner

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