Famous Quotes & Sayings

Meg Wolitzer

I've been waiting for someone to sign the permission slip for me to write about sex. In the meantime, I've written about sex in all my books anyway.

Maxine Hong Kingston

My aunt could not have been the lone romantic who gave up everything for sex. Women in the old China did not choose. Some man had commanded her to lie with him and be his secret evil.

Maxine Hong Kingston

When alone I am not aware of my race or my sex, both in need of social contexts for definition.

Maurice Gibb

I was always the sexy bass player in the background while Robin stood centre. Barry and I played it up a bit, gave 'em a bit of thigh.

Matthew Morrison

I’m not comfortable with the idea of my sex appeal, but I know in my job I have to use it. I wish I could say I got to this point in my career based on my talent, but I don’t think that’s true.

Matthew McConaughey

When I see grace in a woman, that's very sexy. You can tell by how someone moves or their rhythm.

Matthew McConaughey

I like the 'Alive' part. Now I've made it. Wait until you see the roles I could take after this. You're going to see my gut hanging over, plus 22lbs. It'll be a whole new kind of sexy!

Marilyn vos Savant

I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.

Mary Whitehouse

I never had any hang-ups about sex. As for being sexually repressed, nothing could be further from the truth. There are more hang-ups now than ever there were when I was growing up.

Patricia Clarkson

Talent is a very potent aphrodisiac. When someone is incredibly gifted, I find them incredibly sexy.

Patricia Ireland

Whatever Congress decides to do, in all fairness the only ones who should vote on this issue are members who themselves have never had sex outside of marriage and never lied about their sex lives either denying or exaggerating!

Patricia Highsmith

I think people often try to find through sex things that are much easier to find in other ways.

Patricia Briggs

The main thing to remember is that making love is at onces the silliest and the most sacred act humans can perform.

Patricia Briggs

The warmth of his body shouldn’t have felt good. He was angry and every muscle was tense. It was like being leaned on by a very heavy, warm brick. A sexy brick.

Patricia Briggs

Now, I'm not very vain. If I'd ever been, making my living covered in various grease and dirt mixtures would have cured me quickly. Still, I wasn't up to facing two sexy men when I had one eye swollen mostly shut and half of my face black and blue.

Patricia Briggs

Love is not necessary for sex.

Patricia Briggs

Women are the bloodthirsty sex," said Ric sadly. "We get the reputation, but it is only because the women stand behind us, and say, Kill it. Squish it.

Pat Paulsen

In opposition to sex education: Let the kids today learn it where we did - in the gutter.

Pat Paulsen

Sex doesn't have to be taught. It's something most of us are born with.

Pablo Neruda

I crave your mouth, your voice, your hair....

P. J. O'Rourke

Men generally pay for all expenses on a date ... either sex, however, may bring a little gift, its value to be determined by the bizarrness of the sexual request to be made later that evening.

P. J. O'Rourke

Feminism is the result of a few ignorant and literal-minded women letting the cat out of the bag about which is the superior sex. Once women made it public that they could do things better than men, they were, of course, forced to do them.

Plato

Love is a severe mental disorder.

Plato

If we are to keep our flock at the highest pitch of excellence, there should be as many unions of the best of both sexes, and as few of the inferior as possible, and that only the offspring of the better unions should be kept.

Philip Smith

The feeling of being alive and at One with everything is available through the path of Tantra. When your heart is open and you are making love, there is no separation between you, your partner and God. This is healing sex. This is connecting with the Divine. And the important thing to develop is the sense that this sacred experience is available in all instants. It is not limited to sex.

Philip Zimbardo

Our sense of identity is in large measure conferred on us by others in the ways they treat or mistreat us, recognize or ignore us, praise us or punish us. Some people make us timid and shy; others elicit our sex appeal and dominance. In some groups we are made leaders, while in others we are reduced to being followers. We come to live up to or down to the expectations others have of us.

Philip Larkin

Sex means nothing--just the moment of ecstasy, that flares and dies in minutes.

Philip Larkin

SEX is designed for people who like overcoming obstacles.

Martin Seligman

The drive to resist compulsion is more important in wild animals than sex, food, or water... The drive for competence or to resist compulsion is a drive to avoid helplessness.

Lauryn Hill

For a while, the genre seemed to be just about sex and crime. Rappers are storytellers; the stories don't need to be true!

Laura Kightlinger

I have a rule, and that is to never look at somebody's face while we're having sex; because, number one, what if I know the guy?

Laura Linney

I've always thought that I'm sexy in my own right, but not in a way that people thought was bankable.

Lana Turner

The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now.