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Dissecting Quotes

On taking things apart, literally and figuratively.

This page pairs literal classroom dissection with the figurative kind: picking apart Shakespeare's prose or separating credible science from junk science.

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.

Quotes by Selma Blair

I'm comfortable reading science and dissecting it and discerning the difference between junk science and real science.

Quotes by Robert Kennedy, Jr.

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...

Quotes by Renee Fleming

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

Quotes by Neil Patrick Harris

Children Quotes

I speak publicly about the things I am speaking privately about, and there is no difference - the things I'm passionate about and dissecting with my friends and family, the things that are valuable to me, are the things that...

Quotes by Liv Hewson

Novelists should be like scientists, dissecting the cadaver.

Quotes by J. G. Ballard

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

Quotes by J. Courtney Sullivan

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...

Quotes by Geoff Mulgan

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

Quotes by Elizabeth Edwards

Civil Servant Quotes

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

Quotes by E. B. White

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...

Quotes by David Josiah Brewer

I don't like to discuss my work in a lot of detail; I'm afraid of dissecting it in a way that is not good for me.

Quotes by Carol Kane

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.

Quotes by Annie Baker

Civic poetry offers us a way to think and talk about issues that so much of public speech ignores, to make them new by dissecting and repurposing public speech, prying its falsehoods from its half-truths. It is fighting for its...

Quotes by Alissa Quart

Frequently Asked Questions

Do these dissecting quotes mean literal dissection?
Sometimes. One recalls dissecting squid in a high school biology class, but most of the others use "dissecting" figuratively, for closely analyzing ideas or writing.
What does the Shakespeare quote say about dissecting?
It describes the pleasure of picking apart Shakespeare's prose almost like solving a puzzle, tying it to a broader love of games and theory.
Is there a quote connecting dissection to becoming vegetarian?
Yes, one speaker traces their shift to vegetarianism partly back to handling tentacles and squid during a high school dissection class, though they say that no longer applies today.
Does any quote talk about dissecting science claims?
Yes, one describes being comfortable reading and dissecting scientific material closely enough to tell credible science apart from junk science.
Is dissecting here always a solitary activity?
No, one quote frames dissecting ideas as something done openly with friends and family, not kept separate from private conversation. See related Like quotes.

It also touches on dissecting ideas openly with friends rather than only in private. See related Like quotes.