Quotes About Dissecting

#1. I grew up in a hospital and as a child I played in the dissecting room

Gustave Flaubert

#2. Are you seriously dissecting Twilight right now?

Elle Kennedy

#3. I read once that explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog," Mark said. "You find out how it works, but the frog dies in the process.

Cassandra Clare

#4. The process that we go through in recording with Tool is very organic, but at the same time it is very thought out. There is a very left-brain process of dissecting what we're doing and drawing from source material; it's very research oriented and esoteric.

Maynard James Keenan

#5. Dissecting my linguistic metamorphosis, I realize that I'm trying to get away from something, to free myself. I've been writing in Italian for almost two years, and I feel that I've been transformed, almost reborn.

Jhumpa Lahiri

#6. Critical (i.e., separating) methods apply only to the world-as-nature. It would be easier to break up a theme of Beethoven with dissecting knife or acid than to break up the soul by methods of abstract thought . Nature-knowledge and man-knowledge have neither ways nor aims in common.

Oswald Spengler

#7. Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

Mark Twain

#8. Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog. You understand it better but the frog dies in the process.

E.B. White

#9. Yes, Lise. You see, your question whether we do not despise that unhappy man by dissecting his soul was the question of a person who has suffered a lot. I'm afraid I don't know how to put it properly, but a person to whom such questions occur is himself capable of suffering.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#10. She was never going to get used to how much the Faeries seem to stare at her, as if dissecting her and examining the little pieces inside her like a science project.~Ever Fire: A Dark Faerie Tale #2

Alexia Purdy

#11. I was raised by a single psychologist mother and we spent every evening sitting at the kitchen table and dissecting our emotions and speculating about the inner life of everyone we knew.

Annie Baker

#12. Dividing the swing into its parts is like dissecting a cat. You'll have blood and guts and bones all over the place. But you won't have a cat.

Ernest Jones

#13. Don't imagine she trembles over the dissecting table either, Smith. She has nerves of ice. Real Good can be as ruthless as Evil when it wants to accomplish something, let me tell you.

Kage Baker

#14. Dissecting a book was the same as making sense of life. You have to find a way to interpret life, or you'll go nuts.

Susan Meissner

#15. Alas! It seems to me that when one is as good as this at dissecting children who are to born, one can't stiffen up enough to create them.

Gustave Flaubert

#16. As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing

Glenn Greenwald

#17. What a magnificent body, how I should like to see it on the dissecting table.

Ivan Turgenev

#18. Understanding humor is like dissecting a live frog. It can be done, but the frog tends to die in the process.

E.B. White

#19. In traveling, there is nothing like dissecting people's statements, which are usually colored by their estimate of the powers or likings of the person spoken to, making all reasonable inquiries, and then pertinaciously but quietly carrying out one's own plans.

Isabella L. Bird

#20. Being with him made her feel as though her soul had escaped from the narrow confines of her island country into the vast, extravagant spaces of his. He made her feel as though the world belonged to them- as though it lay before them like an opened frog on a dissecting table, begging to be examined.

Arundhati Roy

#21. Do you mind if I contribute my thoughts to this one? If you could just stop nitpicking and dissecting every little thing, if you could learn to keep one eye closed and one eye open, and quit worrying about everything, you might discover life is pretty fucking beautiful. Am I right?

Ge Fei

#22. If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.

Elizabeth Edwards

#23. Some of my first teachers were incredibly tough. You could never sing more than three words without being stopped and having to do it over 20 times. I loved that - that sort of process of dissecting and trying to figure out and master this incredibly mysterious instrument.

Renee Fleming

#24. I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.

Neil Patrick Harris

#25. Thanks to Granna, Werner and Walter had grown up to be highly functioning, productive citizens
but if you were to ask Walter, Werner had a far easier time of it and lived his life with the sanctified nonchalance of those who will do anything to avoid dissecting their souls.

Julia Glass

#26. Religious sects, established and marginal, and some newly invented for the purpose, were dissecting the theological implications of the Message. Some thought it was from God, and some from the Devil. Astonishingly, some were even unsure.

Carl Sagan

#27. 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

#28. We pore through libraries, dissecting the classics Henry Sturges- vampire

Seth Grahame-Smith

#29. To analyze the charms of flowers is like dissecting music; it is one of those things which it is far better to enjoy, than to attempt to fully understand.

Henry Theodore Tuckerman

#30. There is little more I can add short of dissecting the man, or going into intimate details such as the modest proportions and slight southeasterly curvature of his manhood.

Felix J. Palma

#31. As a civil servant in charge of the government's Strategy Unit, I brought in many people from outside government, including academia and science, to work in the unit, dissecting and solving complex problems from GM crops to alcohol, nuclear proliferation to schools reform.

Geoff Mulgan

#32. Analysing humour is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies.

Alan Ford

#33. He was uncannily skilled at dissecting hidden meaning behind every interaction.

Kathleen Tessaro

#34. I liked all of my science classes from biology to chemistry. I thought dissecting was one of the most interesting parts of it.

Arnaz Battle

#35. Beating the dead animals in the dissecting room with a stick." "Beating them with a stick!" "Yes, to see whether bruises could be made after death. I saw him at it with my own eyes." "But he is not a medical student?" "No. I have no idea what he wants to do with his studies. But here

Arthur Conan Doyle

#36. A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived).

David Edelstein

#37. In an age in which the classic words of the Surrealists - 'As beautiful as the unexpected meeting, on a dissecting table, of a sewing machine and an umbrella' - can become reality and perfectly achievable with an atom bomb, so too has there been a surge of interest in biomechanoids

H.R. Giger

#38. To know objects only through dissecting and cataloguing them is to miss their full reality. It is to fall asleep amidst the mystery and to become numb to the wonder of this great Earth.

John Daido Loori

#39. He had a sense of his dignity, which was of the most exquisite nature. He could detect a design upon it when nobody else had any perception of the fact. His life was made an agony by the number of fine scalpels that he felt to be incessantly engaged in dissecting his dignity.

Charles Dickens

#40. It wasn't until I had performed by first autopsy that I realized that even the drabest human exteriors could contain the most beautiful viscera. After that, I would console myself for the plainness of my fellow bus-riders by dissecting them in my imagination.

John B. S. Haldane

#41. My cousin is gay, in school while other kids were dissecting frog, he was opening flies.

Rodney Dangerfield

#42. I like dressing up for dates and dissecting a dinner conversation with a new guy to determine if he might be The One.

J. Courtney Sullivan

#43. Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.

J.G. Ballard

#44. Criticism is like dissecting a dead frog," Caleb said when the book was published. "They're examining all the guts and shit and organs, when the thing that really matters, whatever it was that animated the body, has long since left. It does nothing for the art.

Kevin Wilson

#45. The second officer had turned fully to look down at Vincent's saws. "Those are for dissecting dwarves and children," The Saw Man said, gravely.

Jackie Trippier Holt

#46. I don't like slugs and tentacles and calamari or anything. Actually, tentacles made me turn into a vegetarian in high school. I'm not anymore, but in high school, we were dissecting squid.

Selma Blair

#47. Analyzing humor is like dissecting a frog. Few people are interested and the frog dies of it.

E.B. White

#48. Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. Nobody laughs and the frog dies.

Barry Cryer

#49. I'm a writer, so I like dissecting things.

Hal Sparks

#50. No, Carolyn, you can't petition PETA to get a waiver from dissecting the frog. The frog's already dead. It donated itself to science. Don't let its sacrifice be in vain. -Brandon

Abigail Roux

#51. The hard part about getting much attention is that people start dissecting what you do.

Judd Apatow

#52. People whose lives were determined for them by a group of politicians whose severing, dissecting and reattaching of their lands has turned their world into a monster that not even its creator can control.

Aysha Taryam

#53. The phonograph and kinetoscope may some day seize and perpetuate all save the magnetic touch, but that weird, illusive, indefinable yet wonderfully real power by which the orator subdues may never be caught by science or preserved for the cruel dissecting knife of the critic.

David Josiah Brewer