Top 98 Dissect Quotes
#1. Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.
Mark Twain
#2. I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.
Bob Saget
#3. I do not want to kill and dissect myself any longer,
Hermann Hesse
#4. If we analyze or dissect a flower, looking for the flower among its parts, we shall not find it ... And yet, we cannot deny the existence of flowers and of their sweet scent.
Dalai Lama XIV
#5. That's all true, but there was something else going on for me as a kid, something about my gender identity that I haven't figured out yet. And that's one of the things I'm hoping to dissect and investigate in this memoir project.
Alison Bechdel
#6. Flowers knew how to preach divinity before men knew how to dissect and botanize them.
Henry Norman Hudson
#8. I don't know any writer of fiction who enjoys trying to point out or dissect whatever they produced with strangers and let them go through it and pick apart what's real and what isn't.
Noah Baumbach
#9. I can actually trace the moment I decided I couldn't be a doctor. It was in biology, they brought in these African crickets and we were supposed to dissect them - but there's no way I was touching those bugs.
Meg Rosoff
#10. Dissect your motives deeper! You will find that no one has ever done anything wholly for others. All actions are self-directed, all service is self-serving, all love self-loving.
Irvin D. Yalom
#11. It seems to me, alas, that if you can so thoroughly dissect your children who are still to be born, you don't get horny enough to actually to father them.
Gustave Flaubert
#12. Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect
William Wordsworth
#13. I know a lot of actors who get a part and then they dissect it and they want to change it and they want to add stuff. I'm always amazed and so impressed by actors who do that.
Naomie Harris
#14. Like following life through creatures you dissect,
You lose it in the moment you detect.
Alexander Pope
#15. I'm a wise Latina woman. Whatever, man. Thank God I'm not in politics, because the fact that you have to explain everything - I'd kill myself. I can't take all those little things they dissect. I'm like, 'Oh my God, get a life.' I don't have time for this.
Justina Machado
#16. For me, it's very interesting to take one object and really dissect it to as many layers as possible.
Christian Cota
#17. If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.
Nikki Sixx
#18. How could I suddenly go from a person who had struggled to dissect an already dead mouse, to someone who was willing to murder a human being? There was no logic to it!
Adele Rose
#19. First you inspect me Then you dissect me Then you reject me I wait for the day That you'll resurrect me Animate
Gayle Forman
#20. Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor.
Stephen Colbert
#21. I often forget that other people's stories aren't simply introductions to my own more engaging, more dramatic, more relevant, and better-told tales, but rather ends in themselves, tales I can learn from or repeat or dissect or savor.
Will Schwalbe
#22. One wonders who knows more about the coyote, the zoologist who is able to study its external habit and dissect its cadaver or the Indian medicine man who identifies himself with the "spirit" of the coyote?
Seyyed Hossein Nasr
#23. To dissect a poem as if it were a system is a crime, even a sacrilege.
Emil M. Cioran
#24. When you're in the spotlight, people want to dissect you and then put you back together the way they want you.
Tracy Morgan
#25. A lot of the comedians don't even tell the joke. Like only three tell the joke, the rest of them dissect it.
Bob Saget
#26. The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.
Chris Hedges
#27. American culture has always known success, not suffering, so we've never known what to do with this part of the Bible. The more we succeed, the more we're seduced into thinking we can control everything. We dissect Revelation to get a sense of control over the future.
Bill Vaughan
#28. We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.
Benjamin Whorf
#29. 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
#30. If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.
Sylvia Plath
#31. Listen, if you don't talk big game, you never get anywhere. If you don't think big, you don't get big. Some people call it egotistical, some people call it high hopes, some people call it confidence. It's all in how you want to dissect it.
Vanilla Ice
#32. The sensible part of me wanted to dissect my emotions, overthinking and overcomplicating my reaction to Jev.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#33. God, why do I give interviews to 'the Guardian'? They always try to dissect you, and I don't really think about stuff in the way that you're asking me these questions.
Jamie Oliver
#34. The school was very supportive. The only class that I had to attend every day was biology when we were doing dissections. I would take an 8 a.m. bio class, dissect my animal, and then run to work.
Mila Kunis
#35. Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.
Edvard Munch
#36. And I'm sort of deconstructing the process of what marks came first, what came later. Every aspect of the image is interesting to me to dissect and understand.
Robert Longo
#37. As a white male in America, I have privilege. As a white male who happens to be an artist with a fan base, I have a platform to spread awareness about that privilege. However, songs about race and privilege are very difficult to A) write and B) dissect as a listener. They're heavy.
Macklemore
#39. I don't really know how music and comedy are similar. I try never to dissect it theoretically or academically.
Eric Andre
#40. Grandma once told me it's easy to overthink love, to dissect it and question it until it is no more.
Ellen Hopkins
#41. I love commercial music! I can dissect it and criticize it with any critic in the business. But without any thought, I just enjoy it. It's folk music. That's what I'm doing, folk music. I'm not intellectualizing it ... and making it into a phoney art form. I'm just doing the music I enjoy.
John Lennon
#42. Yet there are some people - Steve Allen would dissect comedy forever; he's a really funny guy, but he would love talking about comedy. I'm doing it right now and you all seem bored.
Bob Saget
#43. When you could dissect something and find all the answers, you could find all the wrong ones
Nora Roberts
#44. Every life has a beginning, a middle, and an end; dissect history and you'll see the word that defines it as a tale, a narrative.
Jodi Picoult
#45. You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.
E.B. White
#46. Try to understand the ego. Analyze it, dissect it, watch it, observe it, from as many angles as possible. And don't be in a hurry to sacrifice it, otherwise the greatest egoist is born: the person who thinks he is humble, the person who thinks that he has no ego.
Rajneesh
#47. I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.
David Steinberg
#48. You can't dissect a dream without killing it.
Marty Rubin
#49. You can get really left of centre influences in mainstream pop. Michael Jackson and Prince are some of the most progressive artists ever if you actually dissect their songs there's some crazy stuff going on.
Kimbra
#50. They would break his body. Crush his will. Dissect his mind down to the last synapse.
The undoing of Evan Walker had begun
Rick Yancey
#51. Psychologists, for reasons of clinical necessity or vagaries of temperament, have chosen to dissect and catalog the morbid emotions - depression, anger, anxiety - and to leave largely unexamined the more vital, positive ones.
Kay Redfield Jamison
#52. I don't want to go to the government," the Schwa says.
"Yeah," I said. "They'd dissect him and put him in a formaldehyde fish tank in Area 51."
Howie shook his head. "Area 51 is for aliens," he says. "They'd probably put him in Area 52.
Neal Shusterman
#53. You can't dissect a joy without killing it.
Marty Rubin
#54. I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.
Siri Hustvedt
#55. Critics and academics often employ theories and philosophers in order to help them understand and dissect movies and books.
Douglas Lain
#56. I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.
S.E. Hinton
#57. I thoroughly believe in crying, yelling, pulling my hair out, and experiencing heartache, BUT once I'm done I dissect the pain and learn lessons from it.
Lilly Singh
#58. I can fall in love in a simple way, but I can dissect it in such an intense fashion when it ends.
Ellie Goulding
#59. Books are living things with blood and bones, and it breaks our heart when people dissect them.
Rebecca Wells
#60. For this, Love is enraged with me;
Yet kills not. If I must example be
To future rebels, if the unborn
Must learn by my being cut up and torn,
Kill and dissect me, Love; for this
Torture against thine own end is:
Racked carcasses make ill anatomies
John Donne
#61. This is the greatest damn thing about the universe. That we can know so much, recognize so much, dissect, do everything, and we can't grasp it.
Henry Miller
#62. No longer, I want to begin my thoughts and my life with Atman and
with the suffering of the world. I do not want to kill and dissect myself
any longer, to find a secret behind the ruins.
Hermann Hesse
#63. I am sentimental,' she said. 'I could dissect a koala but not its baby. I like the words damozel, eglantine, elegant. I love when you kiss my elongated white hand.
Vladimir Nabokov
#64. Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.
Arthur Quinn
#65. In theater, you go in-depth with your character, so coming to the States, it was inevitable to dig into the pilots I liked. I knew what characters I was going to be reading for, so I would dissect them and really get involved with them.
Adan Canto
#66. Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.
Paul Valery
#67. My first summer in college I worked in a fruit fly lab where I had two jobs: dissect the fruit fly larvae brains and incinerate the old tubes of flies.
Emily Oster
#68. There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.
Ernest Hemingway,
#69. Listening to music for me is like homework. Music will give me enjoyment, but as soon as it's giving me that enjoyment, I want to analyse it, and then it becomes work. Why does it sound like that? How? ... then I dissect it.
Steve Winwood
#70. In order to discover truth it is necessary to coldly dissect and examine all of our prejudices and inherent biases to ensure we receive unbiased answers. This takes effort. It is always easier to simply accept the ideas presented to us than to question the status quo.
Stephen McAndrew
#72. If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.
Joshua Lederberg
#73. In order to detain the fleeting apparition, he must enchain it in the fetters of rule, dissect its fair proportions into abstract notions, and preserve its living spirit in a fleshless skeleton of words.
Friedrich Schiller
#74. The poet has an obligation to dissect his own corpse and reveal the symptoms of its illness to the world.
Soseki Natsume
#75. Fat Kid Proverb #52: Never miss an opportunity to dissect a compliment.
K.L. Going
#76. My first reaction at the very idea of this interview was to refuse to talk about photography. Why dissect and comment a process that is essentially a spontaneous reaction to a surprise?
Marc Riboud
#77. How is it that men create such lovely silhouettes, such shadows of the corporeal, capturing things in their most wraith-like moment and yet they are not content with honing such divine talent? Instead, they opt to dissect the cadaver of that which cast the shadow.
F. Voutsakis
#78. Was I a science experiment? Did he want to pin me down and dissect me?
Suzanne Young
#79. My challenge when I came back was to face the young talent, dissect their games, and show them maybe that they needed to learn more about the game than just the money aspect.
Michael Jordan
#80. But have you ever overheard two women discussing men? Men are crude liars, comparing their drabs, but women - I'd rather have [an] anatomist dissect me alive than to listen to the things the ladies say about us when they think they are alone.
Lois McMaster Bujold
#81. I come from a theater background, so I always like to dissect the scene and try to get some hint about what the author was trying to get at. I still look up the meaning of the name of the character to see if there are any clues in that.
Adina Porter
#82. If you really dissect hip-hop you will find a whole lot of Charles Mingus, Ron Carter, Ahmad Jamal, a lot of classic jazz samples in there.
Robert Glasper
#83. Leave me in peace to converse with my friends? Whom I promise not to kill and dissect.
Terry Pratchett
#84. I watch so much television. My DVR is full. I love putting my kids to bed, so I can sit on the couch with my wife and we can dissect The Affair, The Americans, House of Cards, or whatever it is. I'm so lucky.
Scott Foley
#85. Even though I loved to write, I never liked English lit. class very much. I think it ruins books when you dissect them too much. I liked my art classes best.
Meg Cabot
#86. There are a lot of actors who don't like reality stars 'cause they feel these people aren't accomplished. They haven't done this or that, but they are savvy. They have found a way to make it work. I could dissect your career all day long, but I'm focused on my own career.
Niecy Nash
#87. What are you doing, Poirot?"
"I dissect rucksacks. It is very interesting.
Agatha Christie
#88. No matter what you write, no matter how meticulous and painstaking the creation process, someone is going to laugh, scorn, and dissect your work with criticism while another quietly falls in love with it.
Richelle E. Goodrich
#89. You cannot analyze a kiss any more than you can dissect the fragrance of flowers.
Josh Billings
#90. It's a poem, for crying out loud! The beauty of poetry is that it can mean different things to different people at different times. But you know they're expecting one specific, so-called correct answer, and any other thoughtful response will be counted off. It's wrong to dissect poetry like this!
Wendy Higgins
#91. I love watching foreign films on my projector at home along with my closely knit group of friends and family. I also love to dissect movies and discuss them with my friends who are movie buffs.
Terence Lewis
#92. You cannot understand what makes things live when you must first rob their life. And so when man learned to categorize, number and dissect nature, he lost its living quality and no longer felt a part of it.
Jane Roberts
#93. Dissect him how I may, then, I but go skin deep; I know him not, and never will.
Herman Melville
#94. Humor is like a frog. You can dissect it to see how it works, but by then, it's dead.
E.B. White
#95. You can't dissect love, you can't explain it, because once you do you prevent yourself from being able to experience it. You pull yourself out of the enjoyment of it, the excitement of it, the meaning, no ... the importance of it.
Eric Luper
#96. Frequently we do not leave the past behind. We clasp on to it. We dissect it, and let fears for the future, tempered by the past, unconsciously prevent us from taking up the task eternal.
Ray Simpson
#97. Trying to make sense of love is like trying to dissect a rainbow.
Suzanne Selfors
#98. It's funny, I can see the science in how music is made with other artists, but it's hard for me to dissect my own thing.
Questlove
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