Famous Quotes & Sayings

Audre Lorde

pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling.

Audre Lorde

Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms.

Antonio Machado

The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of love.

Don DeLillo

Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.

Alison Bechdel

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

Anthony Burgess

I've always felt that English women had to be approached in a sisterly manner, rather than an erotic manner.

Randy Harrison

I've done sexual stuff before - onstage, which is even more emotionally difficult. With a TV crew around, you are stopping and starting; it becomes really technical. It's not erotic at all.

Stephanie Mills

Wonder is our erotic affiliation with all of life. If we develop this, enjoy it, and follow its promptings, our wants will be fewer and our needs plainer.

Steven Morrissey

I can get incredibly erotic about blotting paper.

Tommy Bowden

He's as talented a tight end as we've had here in a while, but doesn't understand the tempo.

Truman Capote

Talent is a valued tormentor.

Robert Rauschenberg

I've not been cursed with talent, which could be a great inhibitor.

Samuel Foote

Woman, I tell you, is a microcosm; and rightly to rule her, requires as great talents as to govern a state.

Zig Ziglar

All resources are not obvious; great managers find and develop available talent.

Milan Kundera

Disgust at having to talk about oneself is what distinguishes novelistic talent from lyric talent,

Barbara Corcoran

Don't teach talent that isn't there.

Joshua Reynolds

If you have great talents, industry will improve them: if you have but moderate abilities, industry will supply their deficiency.

Logan Pearsall Smith

A best-seller is the gilded tomb of a mediocre talent