Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lucian Freud

The paintings that really excite me have an erotic element or side to them irrespective of subject matter

Jock Sturges

I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth.

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.

Sappho

Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.

Johnny Ball

If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!

Steve Wilson

It's a very sensual dance. It's all about the attitude.

Paul Taylor

My sound is very smooth. Not to be to cliche, but really sensual and sultry.

Lord Byron

I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.

Jock Sturges

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.

Arthur Eddington

The mathematics is not there till we put it there.

Marcus Tullius Cicero

A sensual and intemperate youth translates into an old worn-out body.

e. e. cummings

The sensual mysticism of entire vertical being.

Richard Cohen

I suspect the fraudster obviously had my name, my date of birth and maybe my mother's maiden name. People do not actually think about what they throw into the rubbish.

Richard Roberts

It causes an increased risk of birth defects and mental retardation.

Alan Henderson

Her memory is about two years behind, ... She doesn't remember giving birth to Alania.

Tony Gomez

He said he loved his son, that he'd just had a one-year birthday, so we started working that angle, and that seemed to be working. ... The only thing he wanted was to see his child. He told Kelly he wanted to say goodbye. Obviously we were not going to do that.

Charles E. Wilson

It is futile to talk too much about the past . . . like trying to make birth control retroactive.

Swami Vivekananda

IT is good to love God for hope of reward, but it is better to love God for loves sake; and the prayer goes: O Lord, I do not want wealth nor children nor learning. If it be Thy will, I shall go from birth to birth. But grant me this, that I may love thee without the hope of reward - love unselfishly for loves sake.

Marie Osmond

I think a lot of women do hide it out of shame. It is supposed to be the happiest time in your life after giving birth to a child, you know.

C. S. Lewis

It is hard to have patience with people who say ''There is no death'' or ''Death doesn't matter.'' There is death. And whatever is matters. And whatever happens has consequences, and it and they are irrevocable and irreversible. You might as well say that birth doesn't matter.

Sachin Tendulkar

I was just relaxing and spending time with the family. Everyone was together and that?s how a birthday should be.