Top 128 Dissect Quotes & Sayings

My mother was a failed actress, but that was our bread and butter - what we loved most to do was to go to the theater and talk about it and dissect it and understand it.

For me, it's very interesting to take one object and really dissect it to as many layers as possible.

I can fall in love in a simple way, but I can dissect it in such an intense fashion when it ends.

Grandma once told me it's easy to overthink love, to dissect it and question it until it is no more.

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

There is a place for analysis, but it is apt to be quite fatal in prayer and meditation. Do not dissect the love of God, but feel it. Do not dissect divine intelligence, but realize it. Do not wonder how God can possibly solve this problem, but just watch Him do it in His own way-and He will if you will give Him a chance. You know that God is Love. So go ahead on that, and do not get theoretical about it.

Just as Leonardo da Vinci studied human anatomy and dissected corpses, so I try to dissect souls.

Style, is like a frog: you can dissect the thing, but it somehow dies in the process.

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.

I will turn human anatomy into roses and stars and sea. I will dissect the beloveds body in metaphor.

I finally feel content with my work. My fruit has started to ripen. I'm able to dissect emotion properly and distill it into a song that reverberates in a truthful place.

If you dissect a bird / to diagram the tongue, / you'll cut the chord / articulating song.

There is a mystery in all great writing and that mystery does not dissect out. It continues and is always valid.

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.

In a film we have limited time and space to say what we have to, hence the visual language and brevity needs to be paramount. In a novel, however, we can dissect each thought and emotion and build on it.

Humor is like a frog. You can dissect it to see how it works, but by then, it's dead.

Man is only man at the surface. Remove the skin, dissect, and immediately you come to machinery.

I don't know why I go to school unless for kicks, oh well might as well do dissect a frog.

Those of us engaged in the practice of science come to feel a certain reverence for it, engendered by its demonstrable power to dissect, clarify, and explain what previously was unexplainable, and thus to improve the human condition.

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

No matter how we name and dissect inequality, we must keep explaining the larger downside of such concentrated extreme wealth.

A lot of the comedians don't even tell the joke. Like only three tell the joke, the rest of them dissect it.

I like to dissect girls. Did you know I'm utterly insane?

I accept what people say. I don't have time to dissect it.

Every subject you think you know, I'll dissect it and show you the truth.

If you ever dissect '205,' take a hard look at it, it's always been a fantastic show. Regardless of what's been going on, the wrestling has been the best not only in the company but on the planet. The only critique, if you really dissect it, is that the crowd isn't into it; the crowd doesn't care.

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.

Like following life through creatures you dissect, You lose it in the moment you detect.

Our meddling intellect Misshapes the beauteous forms of things We murder to dissect

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.

You cannot analyze a kiss any more than you can dissect the fragrance of flowers.

If you actually dissect the lyrics in 'Motley Crue', you'll notice that there's a lot going on beneath the surface.

When you're in the spotlight, people want to dissect you and then put you back together the way they want you.

I can sit and dissect for hours, and then write 50 songs about. I always find that inspiring.

I don't really dissect comedy. Nothing kills off humor more than overanalyzing it.

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?

Sweet is the lore which Nature brings; Our meddling intellect Mis-shapes the beauteous forms of things: We murder to dissect.

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.

I don't really dissect too much when ideas come - they just kind of pop into my head; I just take them and run.

Trying to make sense of love is like trying to dissect a rainbow.

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.

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.

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.

We murder to dissect.

Humor is like a frog; if you dissect it, it dies.

You can dissect a joke just as you can a frog. But it tends to die on you.

I don't really know how music and comedy are similar. I try never to dissect it theoretically or academically.

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.

There's the acting side of it so you work with a coach. Dissect a script. If it's a character, then obviously a character study. Just depends on if there is training needed.

The failure to dissect the cause of war leaves us open for the next installment.

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.

Comedians dissect jokes all the time. Comedians are beautiful structuralists. But ultimately it's an athletic endeavor.

If you wanted to dissect the structure of living cells, genetic analysis was an extremely powerful method, so my interest turned to that.

The sensible part of me wanted to dissect my emotions, overthinking and overcomplicating my reaction to Jev.

The numbers I've shot, the percentages, they obviously are what they are and people are going to dissect everything but, I honestly feel like they're all going to go in when I shoot the ball.

We dissect failure a lot more than we dissect success.

I think I have the special ability to process information quickly and dissect defenses.

If you dissect my career as an actor, and you can pull out more than enough of those type of movies, from The Hurt Locker and The Town and so on and so forth, and that's kind of where our wheelhouse is. We love it.

I am not going to point fingers at anyone and dissect why their shows didn't work.

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.