Famous Quotes & Sayings

Paul Feig

I always hated high-school shows and high-school movies, because they were always about the cool kids. It was always about dating and sex, and all the popular kids, and the good-looking kids. And the nerds were super-nerdy cartoons, with tape on their glasses. I never saw 'my people' portrayed accurately.

Paul Begala

If it was about lying under oath - we actually know that Clinton certainly was deceptive, as most people would be about their sex lives - but, in fact, he did not lie.

Paul Bowles

Although I knew enough Freud to believe that the sex urge was an important mainspring of life, it still seemed to me that any conscious manifestation of sex was necessarily ludicrous. Defecation and copulation were two activities which made a human being totally ridiculous. At least the former could be conducted in private, but the latter by definition demanded a partner. I discovered, though, that whenever I ventured this opinion, people took it as a joke.

Paul Bettany

The trouble with talking about acting is that it's like sex. It's enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about it.

Matt Groening

The French are funny, sex is funny, and comedies are funny, yet no French sex comedies are funny.

Marya Mannes

flirtation ... is a graceful salute to sex, a small impermanent spark between one human being and another, between a man and a woman not in need of fire.

Marya Mannes

All wars derive from lack of empathy: the incapacity of one to understand and accept the likeness or difference of another. Whether in nations or the encounters of race and sex, competition then replaces compassion, subjection excludes mutuality.

Mary Wortley Montagu

The use of knowledge in our sex (beside the amusement of solitude) is to moderate the passions and learn to be contented with a small expense, which are the certain effects of a studious life and, it may be, preferable even to that fame which men have engrossed to themselves and will not suffer us to share.

Mary Wortley Montagu

I have never had any great esteem for the generality of the fair sex, and my only consolation for being of that gender has been the assurance it gave me of never being married to any one among them.

Mary Wollstonecraft

As a sex, women are habitually indolent; and every thing tends to make them so.

Mary Wollstonecraft

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse

Mary Wollstonecraft

The two sexes mutually corrupt and improve each other.

Mary Wollstonecraft

My own sex, I hope, will excuse me, if I treat them like rational creatures, instead of flattering their fascinating graces, and viewing them as if they were in a state of perpetual childhood, unable to stand alone.

Mary Wollstonecraft

Women are systematically degraded by receiving the trivial attentions which men think it manly to pay to the sex, when, in fact, men are insultingly supporting their own superiority.

Marya Hornbacher

That nothing - not booze, not love, not sex, not work, not moving from state to state - will make the past disappear.

Mary Harron

She [Bettie Page] was a traumatized person, but she did have an active sex life.

Martha Gellhorn

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

Martha Beck

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

Marshall McLuhan

Physiologically, man in the normal use of technology (or his variously extended body) is perpetually modified by it and in turn finds ever new ways of modifying his technology. Man becomes, as it were, the sex organs of the machine world, as the bee of the plant world, enabling it to fecundate and to evolve ever new forms. The machine world reciprocates man's love by expediting his wishes and desires, namely, in providing him with wealth.

Marshall McLuhan

For the satiated, both sex and speed are pretty boring until the element of danger and even death is introduced.

Marisa Miller

Leather is always sexy, and you have to wear leather when you ride a bike. It's more for protection, but it also gets you some style points, I think.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

We were discussing civilization and the fact that young men among the Greeks at that time were idiots and uneducated, so the men had emotional and friendly relationships with members of their own sex

Margery Allingham

Once sex rears its ugly 'ead it's time to steer clear.

Margery Allingham

It's pitch, sex is. Once you touch it, it clings to you.

Margery Allingham

Only the united beat of sex and heart can create ecstasy.

Paul Goodman

My own view, for what it's worth, is that sexuality is lovely, there cannot be too much of it, it is self-limiting if it is satisfactory, and satisfaction diminishes tension and clears the mind for attention and learning.

Patrick J. Kennedy

I see the policy of opposing same-sex marriages or unions, whatever you call it, as bigotry or discrimination.

Patrick Leahy

At first glance, there's a lot of sex on the Internet. Or not at first glance: nobody can find anything on the Internet at first glance.

Juno Temple

Men and women just look at sex in very, very different ways.

Julia Ormond

Sex, love and death are universal and timeless dramatic themes.

Julia Sawalha

I'd hate to be a sex symbol. Because you're always having to live up to an image. I haven't got time to sit around doing my nails.

Kristin Davis

I'm not really much of a shopper. I have to say that I'd definitely prefer good sex. What makes good sex? Oh my god. I think you need to feel free and you have to really trust the other person. And you have to have that strange, mysterious chemical connection.

Kristin Scott Thomas

There's something incredibly sexy about sand and sweat and dunes photographed like women's backs.