Isak Dinesen Quotes

Man, an ingenious assembly of portable plumbing.

Human beings are sloshing sacks of chemicals on the move.

You're dealing with the body, and you're dealing with bodily functions. We romanticize everything about people in movies.

Man himself is a mysterious object, and the tools to probe his physiologic nature and function have developed only slowly through the millennia.

The human body is essentially something other than an animal organism.

The physiologist who succeeds in penetrating deeper and deeper into the digestive canal becomes convinced that it consists of a number of chemical laboratories equipped with various mechanical devices.

Living organisms are created by chemistry. We are huge packages of chemicals.

You ask why I'm fascinated by the human figure? As a human animal, I am interested in some of my fellow animals: in their minds and bodies.

Man, as a physical being, is like other bodies governed by invariable laws.

I'm a big fan of the digestive system.

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

I have always had a fascination about what's inside a human being.

The body's immune system is like any other system of the body. Each of them have their vital function for the human host.

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.

The body is an amazing system.

It's such an insult that foul gas comes out of a hole in our butt with a sound to announce itself. It's the ultimate bad thing about being a person.

I find it quite fascinating to see how the body works.

I am literally just a human. I have the same brain as you; there's a skeleton under my skin just like yours.

Our body is part of nature. Our creations, they're not natural. We build things that aren't natural, but our bodies, they're part of that system.

Ultimately, life is a chemical interaction.

Our skin is the largest organ and one of the ways we eliminate waste.

Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.

The idea kind of started with me just thinking about what would be fun to see in animation, you know - what have I not seen? For some reason, I got thinking about the human body and realizing, well, I've seen, like, traveling through the bloodstream and into the, you know, stomach and things.

I'm not claiming to be sober. I think that that would be misleading. I drink alcohol. My father has a vineyard, and the wine is really delicious, by the way.

All the forces that are working in this body have been produced out of food; we see that every day.