Quotes About Anatomists

#1. Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of anatomy is usually commenced from, and often confined to, his structure, that a knowledge of the archetype has been so long hidden from anatomists.

Charles Lyell

#2. Anatomists today would be hard put to identify the brain of a visual artist, a writer or a mathematician - but they would recognize the brain of a professional musician without moment's hesitation.

Oliver Sacks

#3. Medieval anatomists called women's external genitals the "pudendum," a word derived from the Latin pudere, meaning "to make ashamed." Our genitalia were thus named "from the shamefacedness that is in women to have them seen."1

Emily Nagoski

#4. Greyfriars, like other cemeteries, employed occasional night watchmen, but guards were easily bribed and it was not unusual to see families, rich and poor, huddled round the graves of recently deceased relatives waiting for their loved ones to decompose enough to be useless to the anatomists.

Jan-Andrew Henderson

#5. Mom was asking me to resume a friendship that had no honest foundation and ended on screamingly awkward terms. How do you do that? You can't.

Jesse Andrews

#6. I use the iPhone and iPad every day, and I no longer touch PCs at all.

Masayoshi Son

#7. If a man is happy in America, it is considered he is doing something wrong.

Clarence Darrow

#8. Ain't nothing too serious. Even death is a joke on the old devil, if we are living for the Lord.

Nancy B. Brewer

#9. Everyone should have a tailor. David Wilkes, the guy who does my stuff, is like, 'Well you're a writer - do you want a special pen compartment or something?' Bespoke: That's the term you want to get out there.

Douglas Coupland

#10. New every morning is the love Our waking and uprising prove, Through sleep and darkness safely brought, Restored to life and power and thought.

John Keble

#11. I am determined to control events, not be controlled by them.

John Adams

#12. The quickest way to become troubled is to be concerned with what people are gonna say about your life and your work.

Ahmad Jamal

#13. Our breath gets shallow and ineffective when we are in a stressed state. I advocate stopping whatever you're doing for a couple of minutes five times a day, closing your eyes and taking deep breaths.

Lindsay Wagner

#14. I've been a reporter for 20 years, and I don't ever get things wrong. That's important in terms of my professional status.

Ron Suskind

#15. I know everything about Ty Cobb except the size of his hat.

Pete Rose

#16. I think everything contributes to your creativity.

Gary Gulman

#17. Accentuaute the positives - medicate the negatives.

Amy Sedaris