Famous Quotes & Sayings

Lynn Johnston

If I was in love with someone, I would get their picture out of the school yearbook and do portraits. If I was curious about sex, I would draw pictures of it. There were no books for me to look at. Then I would go find my father's matches to burn the paper

Louis Sachar

The media tends to portray the teenage world as one where drinking and sex is taken for granted. In fact, I think most teenagers don't drink, are unsure of themselves, and feel awkward around members of the opposite sex.

Jim Wallis

When evangelical leaders can persuade the president to be concerned about what's happening in Sudan, or sex trafficking around the world, or HIV-AIDS, that's a very good thing. I am completely supportive of that.

Luther Allison

Jonny Lang has the power to move the music into the next millennium by reaching the ears of a new generation. The great musicians have the power to break all of the 'isms'-race, age, sex, et cetera. Jonny Lang is one of those musicians.

John Cheever

How can we describe the most exalted experience of our physical lives [sex], as if-jack, wrench, hubcap, and nuts-we were describing the changing of a flat tire?

John Boorman

What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.

John Armstrong

Ye generous maids, revenge your sex's wrong; Let not the mean destroyer e'er approach Your sacred charms. Now muster all your pride, Contempt and scorn, that, shot from Beauty's eye, Confounds the mighty impudent, and smites The front unknown to shame.

Enid Bagnold

Sex -- the great inequality, the great miscalculator, the great Irritator.

Emo Philips

The battle of the sexes will never be won as long as we keep sleeping with the enemy.

Emo Philips

I learned about sex the hard way... from books.

Emo Philips

Recently, I've ventured into the mammal family - so that's good for my sex life.

Emo Philips

My ex-girlfriend was very sexy. She reminded me of the Sphinx because she was very mysterious and eternal and solid...and her nose was shot off by French soldiers.

Emo Philips

Sex is logically impossible after marriage. You have to overcome the paradox of Not this again, and Hey, where did you learn that?

Emmy Rossum

Men only need two things - grilled cheese and sex,

James Cook

Other than sex, two things bring people together; economic transactions and booze.

Napoleon Hill

Sex energy is the creative energy of all geniuses. There never has been, and never will be a great leader, builder or artist lacking in the driving force of sex.

Napoleon Hill

Sex energy is the creative energy of all creative geniuses.

When a lady's erotic life is vexed God knows what God is coming next.

I have an idea that the phrase weaker sex was coined by some woman to disarm some man she was preparing to overwhelm.

Norman Mailer

There is a no man's land between sex and love, and it alters in the night.

Norman Mailer

Great sex is apocalyptic. There is no such thing as great sex unless you have an apocalyptic moment.

Norman Mailer

There is nothing safe about sex. There never will be.

Norman Mailer

One thing I've learned in all these years is not to make love when you really don't feel it; there's probably nothing worse you can do to yourself than that.

Norman Mailer

There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements.

Norman MacCaig

If I wrote a play with four characters every single one of them would talk like me regardless of age or sex.

Norman Lindsay

Sex is not only the basis of life, it is the reason for life.

Norman Lear

The trafficking of sex and violence is comes after the demand for ratings.

Orson Welles

I think we're a kind of desperation. We're sort of a maddening luxury. The basic and essential human is the woman, and all that we're doing is trying to brighten up the place. That's why all the birds who belong to our sex have prettier feathers - because males have got to try and justify their existence.

Orson Welles

I hate it when people pray on the screen. It's not because I hate praying, but whenever I see an actor fold his hands and look up in the spotlight, I'm lost. There's only one other thing in the movies I hate as much, and that's sex. You just can't get in bed or pray to God and convince me on the screen.

Ornette Coleman

I would like to play for audiences who are not using my music to stimulate their sex organs.

Oriana Fallaci

We do not understand these Americans who, like adolescents, always speak of sex, and who, like adolescents, all of a sudden have discovered that sex is good not only for procreating children.

Olympia Dukakis

You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.

Oliver Wendell Holmes

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.