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

  • 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.

    Beauty   Music   Flower  
  • Analysing comedy is like dissecting a frog. Nobody laughs and the frog dies.

  • 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.

  • 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.

    Men   Knives   Soul  
    Oswald Spengler, Charles Francis Atkinson (1932). “The Decline of the West”
  • I was starting to play the ukulele at the same time I was having all these conversations with [the late Ramones guitarist] Johnny Ramone, these intense tutorials staying up late and listening to the music he grew up on, and picking up what's a great song and what makes a great song. He was all about lists and dissecting songs, like what's a better song by Cheap Trick: "No Surrender" or "Dream Police"? Sometimes you'd be surprised by the answer. It was an interesting dichotomy between hanging out with the godfather of punk rock and starting to play the ukulele. They came together.

    Dream   Song   Ukulele  
    Source: www.twofeetthick.com
  • Naming suffering, exalting it, dissecting it into its smallest components – that is doubtless a way to curb mourning.

  • We dissect nature along lines laid down by our native language.

    "Science and Linguistics" (1946)
  • My cousin is gay, in school while other kids were dissecting frog, he was opening flies.

    Funny   Cousin   School  
  • The hard part about getting much attention is that people start dissecting what you do.

    Source: www.washingtonpost.com
  • That is to say, the inspiration, the interpretive richness of the text is what Elie [Wiesel] does publicly, and his interest in history is his private reserve; he knows that he is not an expert in dissecting the text the way Frank [Moore Cross] does.

    Source: www.biblicalarchaeology.org
  • Beyond natural history Other biological sciences take up the study at other levels of organization: dissecting the individual into organs and tissues and seeing how these work together, as in physiology; reaching down still further to the level of cells, as in cytology; and reaching the final biological level with the study of living molecules and their interactions, as in biochemistry. No one of these levels can be considered as more important than any other.

  • I think when you dissect a joke too much, you have ruined whatever there is in comedy.

    "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Humor can be dissected as a frog can, but the thing dies in the process and the innards are discouraging to any but the pure scientific mind.

    Funny   Inspiring   Mind  
    E. B. WHITE (1954). “The SECOND TREE from the CORNER”
  • I'm a games and theory kind of guy. I love puzzles, so it was fun dissecting Shakespeare's prose.

    Fun   Games   Guy  
  • To write poetry, like sincere poetry, it is like performing heart surgery on yourself without anesthesia...in public...You are peeling back layers. You are dissecting yourself...You do not know what they [the audience] is going to do when you reach into yourself and rip out your organs to be displayed

    Rip   Writing   Heart  
  • 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.

    Country   Islands   Space  
    Arundhati Roy (2002). “The God of Small Things”, p.245, Penguin Books India
  • As always, imagine how great the press corps would be if it devoted 1/1000th the energy to dissecting non-sex political wrongdoing

    Sex   Political   Energy  
  • I sometimes, in my sprightly moments, consider myself, in my great chair at school, as some dictator at the head of a commonwealth. In this little state I can discover all the great geniuses, all the surprising actions and revolutions of the great world in miniature. I have several renowned generals but three feet high, and several deep-projecting politicians in petticoats. I have others catching and dissecting flies, accumulating remarkable pebbles, cockleshells, etc., with as ardent curiosity as any virtuoso in the Royal Society.

    School   Knowledge   Feet  
    John Adams, Charles Francis Adams (1850). “The Works of John Adams, Second President of the United States: With a Life of the Author, Notes and Illustrations”, p.9
  • 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.

    Fall   Reality   Missing  
  • 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.

    Drawing   Brain   Tools  
    "A Brain Comes Full Circle" by Neil Strauss, www.nytimes.com. March 29, 2000.
  • Explaining humor is a lot like dissecting a frog, you learn a lot in the process, but in the end you kill it.

    Frogs   Ends   Process  
  • 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.

    School   Squids   Slugs  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • If people think that you're throwing babies out, dissecting children, to do stem-cell research, I'm not for that.

    "Back on trail, Elizabeth Edwards pushes stem-cell funding", www.cnn.com. March 26, 2007.
  • A critic often has to play the role of coroner, dissecting a work to find out why it died (or never lived).

    Play   Roles   Critics  
  • [My mother] was taking me to Shakespeare In The Park when I was like 6. There was just a lot of theater-going and a lot of movie-going and a lot of discussion about it afterwards, dissecting it and stuff.

    Mother   Stuff   Parks  
    Source: www.avclub.com
  • I didn't get into Tupac [Shakur] until a little later, once I started understanding rap and people's stories. Eminem was the first rapper that I actually started dissecting the lyrics, and once I got attached to his stories, then I started listening to Dr. Dre, then Snoop 'cause they were all under one camp.

    Source: www.harpersbazaar.com
  • There are a bunch of different movies I feel that way about. However, there is a debate because as you may know after MST3K ended there have been things like Cinematic Titanic that are the children and the grandchildren of this way of dissecting movies and making fun of them and in a way celebrating the absurdity of those movies as well. There are certain movies that sort of fit into the MST3K paradigm which is hidden gems, these weird horror/sci-fi/fantasy movies.

    Source: brightestyoungthings.com
  • No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman.

    Funny   Marriage   Witty  
    No man should marry until he has studied anatomy and dissected at least one woman. The Physiology of Marriage Meditation V, Aphorism 28
  • 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 (1867). “LITTLE DORRIT”, p.289
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