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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• 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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• 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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• Instead of dissecting Scripture, we need to let Scripture dissect us our thoughts and attitudes, our dreams and desires, our fears and hopes.

  Mark Batterson

  Dream, Attitude, Desire

  Mark Batterson (2013). “All In: You Are One Decision Away From a Totally Different Life”, p.32, Zondervan

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• Beyond natural history Other biological sciences take up the study at other levels of organization: dissecting the individual into organs and tissues and seeing how these work together, as in physiology; reaching down still further to the level of cells, as in cytology; and reaching the final biological level with the study of living molecules and their interactions, as in biochemistry. No one of these levels can be considered as more important than any other.

  Marston Bates

  Science, Cells, Organization

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• Thanks to Granna, Werner and Walter had grown up to be highly functioning, productive citizens - but if you were to ask Walter, Werner had a far easier time of it and lived his life with the sanctified nonchalance of those who will do anything to avoid dissecting their souls.

  Julia Glass

  Soul, Citizens, Nonchalance

  Julia Glass (2006). “The Whole World Over: A Novel”, Pantheon

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• I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.

  Annie Baker

  Mother, Kitchen, Sitting

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• I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.

  Hal Sparks

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• The hard part about getting much attention is that people start dissecting what you do.

  Judd Apatow

  People, Attention, Hard

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

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• Critical (i.e., separating) methods apply only to the world-as-nature. It would be easier to break up a theme of Beethoven with dissecting knife or acid than to break up the soul by methods of abstract thought . Nature-knowledge and man-knowledge have neither ways nor aims in common.

  Oswald Spengler

  Men, Knives, Soul

  Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson (1932). “The Decline of the West”

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• I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a commonwealth. In this little state I can discover all the great geniuses, all the surprising actions and revolutions of the great world in miniature. I have several renowned generals but three feet high, and several deep-projecting politicians in petticoats. I have others catching and dissecting flies, accumulating remarkable pebbles, cockleshells, etc., with as ardent curiosity as any virtuoso in the Royal Society.

  John Adams

  School, Knowledge, Feet

  John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1850). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.9

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• I think that the mourning process of the film involves discussing it, dissecting it, and at some point, you get bored with it. I'm not there yet, but I know I will be there at some point. That's the moment when I know I need to turn the page and move on and recharge my batteries.

  Olivier Assayas

  Moving, Thinking, Bored

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• [My mother] was taking me to Shakespeare In The Park when I was like 6. There was just a lot of theater-going and a lot of movie-going and a lot of discussion about it afterwards, dissecting it and stuff.

  Cynthia Nixon

  Mother, Stuff, Parks

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• There are a bunch of different movies I feel that way about. However, there is a debate because as you may know after MST3K ended there have been things like Cinematic Titanic that are the children and the grandchildren of this way of dissecting movies and making fun of them and in a way celebrating the absurdity of those movies as well. There are certain movies that sort of fit into the MST3K paradigm which is hidden gems, these weird horror/sci-fi/fantasy movies.

  Baron Vaughn

  Children, Fun, Different

  Source: brightestyoungthings.com

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• That is to say, the inspiration, the interpretive richness of the text is what Elie [Wiesel] does publicly, and his interest in history is his private reserve; he knows that he is not an expert in dissecting the text the way Frank [Moore Cross] does.

  Frank Moore Cross

  Inspiration, Experts, Doe

  Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org

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• In an age in which the classic words of the Surrealists— 'As beautiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella'—can become reality and perfectly achievable with an atom bomb, so too has there been a surge of interest in biomechanoids

  H. R. Giger

  Beautiful, Reality, Age

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• It wasn't until I had performed by first autopsy that I realized that even the drabest human exteriors could contain the most beautiful viscera. After that, I would console myself for the plainness of my fellow bus-riders by dissecting them in my imagination.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Beautiful, Imagination, Firsts

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• Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components – that is doubtless a way to curb mourning.

  Julia Kristeva

  Mourning, Suffering, Way

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• Being with him made her feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island country into the vast, extravagant spaces of his. He made her feel as though the world belonged to them- as though it lay before them like an opened frog on a dissecting table, begging to be examined.

  Arundhati Roy

  Country, Islands, Space

  Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.245, Penguin Books India

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• Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

  Mark Twain

  Frogs, Ends, Process

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• We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics" Henry Sturges- vampire

  Seth Grahame-Smith

  Vampire, Library

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• What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.

  Ivan Turgenev

  Body, Tables, Should

  Ivan Turgenev (2016). “Fathers and Sons”, p.84, Ivan Turgenev

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