Famous Quotes & Sayings

Nicholson Baker

Updike was the first to take the penile sensorium under the wing of elaborate metaphorical prose.

Nora Volkow

I could have gone for gambling or sex addiction,...But I went for obesity because of the tremendous impact it has.

Nora Ephron

Washington is a city of locker-room boys, and all the old, outmoded notions apply: men and women are ushered to separate rooms after dinner, sex is dirty, and they are still serving onion-soup dip.

Nora Ephron

What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.

Nora Ephron

No man can be friends with a woman he finds attractive. He always wants to have sex with her. Sex is always out there. Friendship is ultimately doomed and that is the end of the story.

Nora Ephron

Working as a journalist is exactly like being the wallflower at an orgy. I always seem to find myself at a perfectly wonderful event where everyone else is having a marvelous time, laughing merrily, eating, drinking, having sex in the back room, and I am standing on the side taking notes on it all.

Nora Roberts

Sex might satisfy, food might fuel, love might sustain, but without coffee, what is the point?

Nora Roberts

Eve talking to someone on her computer and having trouble with the language translator....."I have two like crimes. Your data and your input on Leclerk would be very helpful"Marie pursed her lips and humor danced in her eyes."It says you would like to have sex with me. I don't think that is correct""Oh, for Christ sake" Eve slammed a fist against the machine.....

Nora Roberts

If sex is dignified it's not being done right.

Nora Roberts

Love is very funny business. And sex - well, let's face it, sex is hysterical.

Nora Roberts

My fondest wish, I suppose, would be to die at the keyboard right after finishing a book, perhaps with a little time off to have some really good sex. It's not, 'Oh, thank God, this is book No. 250. I can die now.'

Nikolai Berdyaev

The physical union of the sexes ... only intensifies man's sense of solitude.

Nikolai Berdyaev

In sex we have the source of man's true connection with the cosmos and of his servile dependence. The categories of sex, male and female, are cosmic categories, not merely anthropological categories.

Nicole Appleton

I find intelligence sexy. I find a sense of humor sexy. I find sensitivity sexy.

Nadezhda Tolokonnikova

If I am a sex symbol, it's certainly not in the classic sense. I'm opposed to the traditional image of a woman's role.

Myrna Loy

Most of the sex I've seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex.

Myrna Loy

I admire some of the people on the screen today, but most of them look like everybody else. In our day we had individuality. Pictures were more sophisticated. All this nudity is too excessive and it is getting very boring. It will be a shame if it upsets people so much that it brings on the need for censorship. I hate censorship. In the cinema there's no mystery. No privacy. And no sex, either. Most of the sex I've seen on the screen looks like an expression of hostility towards sex.

N. T. Wright

Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of judgment. Unless, of course, they are about sex.

Monica Lewinsky

The jokes that take my last name and equate them to a sex act ... is a really cruel thing to do.

Miranda Kerr

I really love over-the-knee boots. I think they're super sexy and they're fun. And they're also very strong and empowering.

Miranda Kerr

The more sex I have, the more defined my arms and stomach get.

Miranda Kerr

Of course I'm going to be labeled as a sex symbol. I made my bed, and I'm sleeping in it.

Miranda Kerr

When I get home, I'm not the boss like I am at work - I slip into a more feminine role. I take everything off and put on my Stella McCartney silk robe. I'll put on a red lip or red nails, and it lifts my mood. Sexy underwear also gives you a spark.

Miranda July

I wrestle my fears with every big decision I make. Ultimately, maybe all that wrestling does is make you sick of your own thoughts, and so with nothing resolved you just go ahead and have unprotected sex. The moment I became pregnant, everything became out of gait. None of those fears seem relevant in the same way, and that's so like life, that once you do the daring move you're in a totally different landscape. Now it's a new story.

Miranda July

People tend to stick to their own size group because it's easier on the neck. Unless they are romantically involved, in which case the size difference is sexy. It means: I am willing to go the distance for you.

Millicent Fawcett

I can never feel that setting fire to houses and churches and litter boxes and destroying valuable pictures really helps to convince people that women ought to be enfranchised.

Miles Teller

We were doing this close-up of my character on a cell phone, and the director's just like "Cut! Can we get somebody else's hand in there?" I do bite my fingernails, and you don't want to see a fat, bitten thumbnail on a 30-foot movie screen, so I get somebody with really nice, sexy hands and put 'em in there.

Mignon McLaughlin

Vanity, revenge, loneliness, boredom, all apply: lust is one of the least of the reasons for promiscuity.

Mignon McLaughlin

Good food, good sex, good digestion, good sleep: to these basic animal pleasures, man has added nothing but the good cigarette.

Mignon McLaughlin

Nymphomaniac: a woman as obsessed with sex as an average man.

Mignon McLaughlin

Desire is in men a hunger, in women only an appetite.

John Ruskin

We are foolish, and without excuse foolish, in speaking of the superiority of one sex to the other, as if they could be compared in similar things! Each has what the other has not; each completes the other; they are in nothing alike and the happiness and perfection of both depend on each asking and receiving from the other what the other only can give.

Mark Twain

Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like himself: strange, interesting, astonishing, grotesque. I give you my word, it has not a single feature in it that he actually values.