Tama Janowitz Quotes

Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.

Back when the concept of organ transplants qualified as science fiction, novelist Maurice Renard wrote a thriller called 'Les Mains d'Orlac.' Call it a bastard offspring of 'Frankenstein;' its plot revolved around the old theme of Science Giving Us Stuff We Shouldn't Have - in this particular case, restoring severed body parts.

Given my absolute druthers, I would certainly like to see that every part of my body is used for spare parts for science.

I suppose my bodily proportions are quite flattering. I'm ripped, doing something I wouldn't normally do with my body, or having done to it, involving Watson.

Give me 30 days, I'll change your body. Give me 60 days , I'll change your life

Five hundred thousand Americans die from tobacco poisoning every year, and it's legal. I don't know, it just that's the - you can't stop giving people organs because of bad behavior. If you keep on having bad behavior, then of course they'll deny you a liver, or whatever you need.

I think when you have surgery on any part of your body, it's never going to be the same.

Do not get yourself into the illusion that there is something so unique about the question of organ or body parts ... that the general rules of economics do not apply.

I often ask people if they would like to give their organs when they pass on, and they say "Well, I'm not so sure, I don't know." And I said, "Well, would you accept one if you needed one?" "Well, yeah, sure." And I say "Well, there you go - where do you get them from?".

In China, people are selling their kidney to buy an iPhone 6. What's going to happen when the iPhone 7 comes out?

Recently I have taken to isolating limbs, the torso. Why am I blamed for it? Why is the head allowed and not portions of the body? Every part of the human figure is expressive.

At least a third of a woman's life is marked with aging; about a third of her body is made of fat. Both symbols are being transformed into operable condition

Not wanting to give everyone in your life one of your kidneys is not the same thing as hoping they die of kidney failure.

Your body is malleable; you can sculpt it over time with daily habits of diet and exercise. The law of accommodation reminds us that the body may change slowly, but it will change.

My body is my journal, and my tattoos are my story.

I'm as fond of my body as anyone, but if I can be 200 with a body of silicon, I'll take it.

My body is a temple, and my temple needs redecorating.

Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species.

[On plastic surgery:] When I die, God won't know me. There are no two parts of my body the same age.

Would you rather die, or be unwound?

Pilates is the only exercise program that has changed my body and made me feel great

The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.

No matter how lost a person is, they still draw on their body. So the body would be more like the motor.

Should women be on any pills besides birth control? We should just give them all sugar pills for everything, they're so suggestible.