Famous Quotes & Sayings

Bernhard Schlink

But then she was not awkward, she was slow-flowing, graceful, seductive - a seductiveness that had nothing to do with breast and hips and legs, but was an invitation to forget the world in the recesses of the body

Bertolt Brecht

Fearful is the seductive power of goodness.

Barbara Tuchman

Words are seductive and dangerous material, to be used with caution.

Alice Munro

The images, the language, of pornography, and romance are alike; monotonous and mechanically seductive, quickly leading to despair.

Donatella Versace

You can be too boring, but you can never be too seductive.

Cassandra Clare

He tried to learn seductive phrases in all languages, but the only Swedish he had ever really needed was, "Do you serve anything aside from pickled fish?" and "If you wrap me in furs, I can pretend to be your little fuzzy bear.

Harry Shearer

I'm not sure that there's anybody else that's as psychologically complex and who's given us this window into his soul that Nixon gave us. That's what I find absolutely addictive and seductive.

Gunter Grass

I have found that words that are loaded with pathos and create a seductive euphoria are apt to promote nonsense.

Jewel

Life is seductive, yet so few allow themselves to be seduced.

Evangeline Lilly

I don't like the idea of playing a one-dimensional character who is just fearless, strong, and killer and has instincts and just thrives in dangerous circumstances - that's really boring to me, and I don't think it represents what most women feel inside.

Regina Brett

Cancer taught me to stop saving things for a special occasion. Every day is special. You don't have to get cancer to start living life to the fullest. My post-cancer philosophy? No wasted time. No ugly clothes. No boring movies.

Rodney Brooks

I see robotic technology getting rid of the dangerous, the dirty, and the just plain boring jobs. Some people say, 'You can't. People won't have anything to do.' But we found things that were a lot easier than backbreaking labor in the sun and the fields. Let people rise to better things.

Patricia Arquette

I liked the premise of this material. I love the marriage relationship. They kind of keep each other honest, and they enjoy each other's sense of humor. Kind of a sexy but boring relationship.

Patrick Rothfuss

The problem with dragons is that everyone uses them. All the time. When that happens, they become commonplace. A lot of people think you can just throw them into a story and suddenly whatever you're writing is 28% cooler. But that doesn't work. All that does is make dragons into some boring cliche.

Mark McKinnon

Who the hell ever dreamed up a tie? It's just such a weird idea, and yet it has been literally hanging around forever as the one constant and boring men's fashion staple.

Edward Lazarus

Most of the cases they work on are boring from a layman's point of view, but important, and ferocious, from an economic point of view.

Steve Duplessie

Microsoft wants the operating system and their tools to have all the value so that users don't need to go outside of the family. It drives Microsoft crazy that people spend a ton of money with EMC and Veritas on boring old storage issues.

Takeshi Natsuno

While you're in that boring meeting, you can see what kind of programming is on tonight, and from your mobile you can control your hard-drive recorder at home.