Henry Gray Quotes

There are 800 some muscles, 200 some bones. Your body works in three planes of motion: arms, legs - pentadactyl limbs. That's what we're working with.

The legs and arms can be a revelation of the back, the spine's extensions.

The hand has the richest articulation of space.

If there's one thing I don't have, it's an insular bone.

The painter who is familiar with the nature of the sinews, muscles, and tendons, will know very well, in giving movement to a limb, how many and which sinews cause it; and which muscle, by swelling, causes the contraction of that sinew; and which sinews, expanded into the thinnest cartilage, surround and support the said muscle.

My sister is a chiropractor and she says I have an unusually flexible lower back, but I don't do yoga, and I don't feel like I'm very bendy.

What we're dealt with hopefully is two arms, two eyes, two legs, a head, a heart. The variations, the extensions, the possibilities of the human body, what that can do.

Even if you don't have time for a big workout, stretching in the morning and night really changes your body.

Ballet teaches you how to hold yourself.

You've got to break through this idea of being light as a ballerina. The heavier you'll feel, the lighter you'll look.

But I found out that bones with flesh are more interesting than bones without.

The belly carries the legs, and not the legs the belly.

From the moment I open my eyes, I'm trying to free my body. I'm trying to get looser, more flexible, to gain control. Movement is medicine to me.

I think overall body awareness and knowing exactly where I need to be makes a big difference. Knowing how much weight to put on each foot or where I need to put my hands are things I'm very good at. Obviously with the wrestling background those are things that come naturally.

I can put both legs over my head.

It's true that I went to dance classes as a young boy, and it did improve my feet, but I don't believe that it was solely dancing that helped my footwork.

In the dissection of the muscles, attention should be directed to the exact origin, insertion, and actions of each, and to its more important relations with surrounding parts.

Yes, I do know Gymnastics, etc. I also do Yoga.

Everyone needs to move - if you're a pro athlete, a contortionist, a computer programmer, or just somebody who wants to play with their kids.

The general framework of the body is built up mainly of a series of bones, supplemented, however, in certain regions by pieces of cartilage; the bony part of the framework constitutes the skeleton.

I see myself as a pretty mobile big man.

My body's weird and bent in different ways, but it's handy for the tango!

That's one of my focuses, is to increase my flexibility and strength and have greater range of motion.

My mom tried to get me on ballet. 'Walter Payton did it! Walter Payton did it!' I'm just not messing with ballet.

I found a book in my elementary school library when I was ten called 'All about You' which was a book on the human body. I was hooked.