Roman Jakobson Quotes

Ever since then, all descendant vertebrates have had the forward end of the digestive system and the forward end of the respiratory system very much involved with each other. This manifests itself in the human body with a crossing of the two systems in the throat.

Air goes in and out of my nose, throat, lungs, blood, heart brain - and so I am

The digestive canal represents a tube passing through the entire organism and communicating with the external world, i.e. as it were the external surface of the body, but turned inwards and thus hidden in the organism.

Edible substances evoke the secretion of thick, concentrated saliva. Why? The answer, obviously, is that this enables the mass of food to pass smoothly through the tube leading from the mouth into the stomach.

One knows that after violent exercise one breathes heavily for some time: the more violent the exercise, the longer one's respiration is laboured.

In the human lung, there are millions of air foils, just like aeroplane wings, which facilitate normal breathing.

My wife has a slight impediment in her speech. Every now and then she stops to breathe.

Breath does, in fact, connect us all in a very literal way. Take a breath now. And as you breathe, think about what is in your breath. There perhaps is the CO2 from the person sitting next-door to you.

As people, no matter what we are doing, your whole body is living and breathing.

The body is an amazing system.

There is no doubt that breath control is the means for mind control because the mind, like breath, is a part of air; because the nature of mobility is common to both; because the place of origin is the same for both; and because when one of them is controlled, the other gets controlled.

I know that when I'm fitter, I breathe better. If I breathe better, I can eat more.

Make sure I'm chewing, swallowing, and breathing, my whole body is working together. I can just find a rhythm and keep going and going and going. It's my love of food.

Trees are our closest relatives. What trees exhale, we inhale; what we exhale, they inhale. They are half our respiratory system.

I'd like to have a neck. Everyone else has a neck, but I never got one; I don't know what happened. I'm not asking for much: just some sort of separation between my head and my body would be great.

If you're throwing punches or exerting energy but you're not breathing, you're holding your breath. That actually saps your strength, it saps your stamina.

When you drink water and stay hydrated all the time, it's good for all the organs in your body.

What is man, when you come to think upon him, but a minutely set, ingenious machine for turning with infinite artfulness, the red wine of Shiraz into urine?

Lazy breathing converts the lungs, literally and figuratively speaking, into a cemetery for the deposition of diseased, dying and dead germs as well as supplying an ideal haven for the multiplication of other harmful germs.

We are human and our nature is to air...

I love to breathe. Oxygen is sexy!

Breathing is a fascinating thing to watch in a woman.

Humans were built to look back; that's why we have that swivel joint in our necks

All the body's systems and processes - your nerves, your emotions - take instruction from what is going on with your breath.

Emotional and physical states can be altered by changing the breathing pattern.