Famous Quotes & Sayings

Tom Perrotta

The lesson you have to learn as novelist is how to be collaborative, and how to say, "I don't get to dictate this."

Curtis Sittenfeld

Personally, I have never wished I were a male novelist.

Dick Van Dyke

So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.

Cynthia Heimel

Sex is not some sort of pristine, reverent ritual. You want reverent and pristine, go to church.

Adam Carolla

We're all animals, that we all respond to the same stimuli. If you want to motivate somebody not to have premarital sex, or motivate black bears not to go diving into dumpsters, first you have to think about why they do it. Telling them to stop isn't going to help. There has to be some incentive for them to alter their behavior.

Adam Carolla

I don't like those men who claim that their wife is their best friend. . . . I think spouses should tolerate each other and occasionally have sex.

Ani Difranco

Lying in bed, you know, you don't seem so tall.

Ani Difranco

It's the ground that we walk on, it's where we sit, it's the language that we use. It's a difficult undertaking, but I think without healing that and creating more of a balance between the sexes, we will never have balance globally. I feel like I am going deeper and deeper into this space where I came from that I barely understood.

Ani Difranco

At night when you're asleep, self-hatred's going to creep in. And you can blame it on the devil, the one who's bed you sleep in.

Andy Grove

Every generation thinks that they invented sex.

Amy Poehler

Believe me, blond hair can take you really far, especially with the older men. It can really distract from the face. I am convinced I could have had sex with both Tony Bennett and John McCain if we weren't each happily married at the time we all met.