Famous Quotes & Sayings

God knows best; he hasn't arranged your anatomy so as to make it easy for you to pat yourself on the back.

City on a Hill and Embattled Fortress: An Anatomy of American Nationalism.

It's got high stakes and a great urgency. It's sort of like a regular Grey's Anatomy on testosterone and on speed.

It's working on a big cat. The anatomy is virtually identical. By the time they brought him in they already had him tranquilized.

It's going to be very much a companion piece to the Super Bowl. It's got a little more testosterone than Grey's Anatomy usually has.

Tim White

They ... represent the probable immediate ancestors of anatomically modern humans. Their anatomy and antiquity constitute strong evidence of modern-human emergence in Africa,

Cynthia Ozick

People often ask how I can reject the phrase 'woman writer' and not reject the phrase 'Jewish writer' - a preposterous question. 'Jewish' is a category of civilization, culture, and intellect, and 'woman' is a category of anatomy and physiology.

Louis Leakey

I put a bullet into the back of the crocodile's neck just behind the head, thus killing it. If a crocodile is hit in any other part of its anatomy it disappears into the water and is irrecoverable.

Walter Reed

specimens of morbid anatomy ... together with projectiles and foreign bodies removed.

David Small

Things like anatomy and drawing and design and color had pretty much been drop-kicked out of the curriculum in the '70s, when I was studying art, in favor of abstraction and minimalism.

Oleg Cassini

My philosophy is this: Do not tamper with the anatomy of a woman's body; do not camouflage it.

Elsevier is proud of this recognition of a truly remarkable work, which is the result of the effort and dedication of dozens of individuals. We felt from the beginning - eight years ago - that this was a worthy and worthwhile project and one that will make a real difference in the study of anatomy for medical students all over the world.

What strikes me, the more I cook, is that the best recipes are ones where the basic anatomy is so sound it will survive multiple adjustments. When a recipe has good bones, you can change the seasoning, double the garlic, swap lime for lemon, and it still turns out delicious.

Those early sketches looked too cartoony; I really wanted to do detailed drawings - I was taking anatomy classes - but unfortunately I wasn't able to do it because of the time element.

Michael Shermer

We know evolution happened not because of transitional fossils such as A. natans but because of the convergence of evidence from such diverse fields as geology, paleontology, biogeography, comparative anatomy and physiology, molecular biology, genetics, and many more.

So little of the anatomy is preserved that these fossils do not teach us much new about chimpanzee anatomical evolution. There is no logical necessity why chimps had to remain in the forest.

Ron Clarke

But what we do already know is that it will reveal a very great deal about the anatomy and evolution of an early ape- man.

Some of the internal nasal anatomy is still there, ... The maxillary sinuses -- which is the hollow part of your facial bone -- are open; and the right eye appears to be gone.

Our fishy ancestors had the anatomy for it.

Brooke Smith

They got rid of bottled water. We got thermoses that say 'Grey's Anatomy Season 4' with our names on it. Cool.

The great American food writer M. F. K. Fisher once wrote an essay called 'The Anatomy of a Recipe.' To have a good anatomy, in her view, a recipe should have a sense of logical progression. She despaired of recipes with 'anatomical faults,' where the reader is told to make a cake batter and only then to grease the loaf pans.

Taylor Hanson

There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.

Ben Carson

One of the reasons surgeons have so much trouble separating Siamese twins is that nobody gets to do many of them. On the table, the anatomy is so different from normal, that you're constantly trying to figure out, 'Can I cut this? Does this wire lead to what?' It's like trying to defuse a bomb.

Scott Stossel

There's a book that's critical to understanding anxiety, a 17th-century book, 'The Anatomy of Melancholy,' by Robert Burton. I wanted to write something like that.

Richard MacDonald

I use zero photography. I have a photographic memory and a complete knowledge of anatomy and physiology, and an interest in grasping the moment of what is happening, not just the outside, but the inside out.

Dominique Moceanu

Some coaches are not educated at the elite level in health and nutrition. They're not educated in how the body works from anatomy and physiology perspectives.