Famous Quotes & Sayings

Amanda Seyfried

I actually grew up thinking that sex was absolutely terrifying and that it would kill you.

Anne Edwards

She represented the distilled essence of the battle between the sexes.

Anne Enright

I am a trembling mess from hip to knee. There is a terrible heat, a looseness in my innards that makes me want to dig my fists between my thighs. It is a confusing feeling - somewhere between diarrhoea and sex - this grief that is almost genital.

Anne Carson

Men know almost nothing about desire, they think it has to do with sexual activity or can be discharged that way. But sex is a substitute, like money or language. Sometimes I just want to stop seeing.

Robert Frost

Freud was way off base in considering sex the fundamental motivation. The ruling passion in men is minding each other's business.

I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.

Rita Hayworth

I never really thought of myself as a sex goddess; I felt I was more a comedian who could dance.

Rita Dove

I was apprehensive. I feared every time I talked about poetry, it would be filtered through the lens of race, sex, and age.

Rita Rudner

All men look at Dr. Ruth and wonder how she has gained all that sexual experience.

Rita Mae Brown

Sex is a pleasurable exercise in plumbing, but be careful or you'll get yeast in your drain tap.

Rita Mae Brown

sex has never been private and it never will be. We perform the act in private but we must be public about the connection. Sex is how we pass down worldly goods. It's how we create the primary unit of our society, the couple. ... This rule applies to gay people as well as straight people. ... The community absolutely must know who is straight, who is gay, who is married, and who is single. Without that information we make painful mistakes and lose time.

Rita Mae Brown

In America sex is an obsession. In Europe it's a fact of life.

Rita Mae Brown

Women who love women are Lesbians. Men, because they can only think of women in sexual terms, define Lesbian as sex between women.

Rick Perlstein

It is a lesson of the sixties: liberals get in the biggest political trouble - whether instituting open housing, civilian compliant review boards, or sex education programs - when they presume that a reform is an inevitable comcomitant of progress. It is then they are most likely to establish their reforms by top-down bureaucratic means. A blindsiding backlash often ensues.

Richard Madeley

WOMEN lie about sex. It doesn't matter how many partners she says she's had before you. She's lying.

Thomas Otway

Dame Fortune, like most others of the female sex, is generally most indulgent to the nimble-mettled blockheads.

Thomas Hood

My brain is dull, my sight is foul, I cannot write a verse, or read-- Then, Pallas, take away thine Owl, And let us have a lark instead.

Thomas Dolby

Smother me in your hot sauce woman until smoke comes from your thighs.

Thomas Sowell

The vision of the anointed is one in which ills as poverty, irresponsible sex, and crime derive primarily from 'society,' rather than from individual choices and behavior. To believe in personal responsibility would be to destroy the whole special role of the anointed, whose vision casts them in the role of rescuers of people treated unfairly by 'society'.

Robert Mitchum

I started out to be a sex fiend, but I couldn't pass the physical.

Robert McKee

The Law of Diminishing Returns is true of everything in life, except sex, which seems endlessly repeatable with effect.

Robert Kazinsky

I had a really weird moment when I was doing ADR, and I was watching a sex scene that I was in. I had this really detached moment where I realized I was looking at my own behind in third person.

Robert Baden-Powell

The first step to this end is to develop peace and goodwill within our borders, by training our youth of both sexes to its practice as their habit of life, so that the jealousies of town against town, class against class and sect against sect no longer exist; and then to extend this good feeling beyond our frontiers towards our neighbours.

Robert Anton Wilson

There is one universal sex law: Sex shall not be unregulated.

Robert Anton Wilson

To me, it doesn't matter if your scapegoats are the Jews, the homosexuals, the male sex, the Masons, the Jesuits, the Welfare Parasites, the Power Elite, the female sex, the vegetarians, or the Communist Party. To the extent that you need a scapegoat, you simply have not got your brain programmed to work as an efficient problem-solving machine.

Robert Anton Wilson

Christianity is alone in thinking that sex is entirely the Devil's business and an offence to God, This is a strange doctrine and almost implies that God and the devil must have collaborated on the creation of humanity, God working above the belly button and the Devil below.

Robert Anton Wilson

Human society as a whole is a vast brainwashing machine whose semantic rules and sex roles create a social robot.

Rob Portman

That isn't how I've always felt. As a congressman, and more recently as a senator, I opposed marriage for same-sex couples. Then something happened that led me to think through my position in a much deeper way.

Rickie Lee Jones

He loved her, free parts and labor. But she broke down and died.

Rickie Lee Jones

Love will wash you clean in the nights disgrace.

Richard Lewis

During sex I fantasize that I'm someone else.

Richard Lewis

I tried phone sex - it gave me an ear infection....

Redd Foxx

I'm a Sagittarian, see, I can't be fenced in. I been living in Las Vegas, greatest city in the world. I look out my window for 100 miles. In Vegas, there's nothing to do but gamble, drink or have sex. I have two of 'em.