Famous Quotes & Sayings

Rebecca Romijn

I've always said that sexy is having a really strong sense of yourself and never taking yourself too seriously.

Havelock Ellis

I regard sex as the central problem of life. And now that the problem of religion has practically been settled, and that the problem of labor has at least been placed on a practical foundation, the question of sex—with the racial questions that rest on it—stands before the coming generations as the chief problem for solution. Sex lies at the root of life, and we can never learn to reverence life until we know how to understand sex.

Dick Cheney

I support the President's plan to amend the Constitution, banning same-sex marriage.

Warren Farrell

He and she become selective at different points; she can be selective when he wants his primary fantasy - sex; he can be selective when she wants her primary fantasy - commitment.

Dear Abbey

If you are looking for a kindly, well-to-do older gentleman who is no longer interested in sex, take out an ad in The Wall Street Journal.

Banksy

If you feel dirty, insignificant or unloved, then rats are a good role model. They exist without permission, they have no respect for the hierarchy of society, and they have sex 50 times a day.

Banksy

There are four basic human needs; food, sleep, sex and revenge.

Jay Leno

Riding a Ducati is like having sex with an aerobics instructor - you know, I'm exhausted and panting and it's going: 'Are you done, already?'

Kat Graham

I run away from super-bandage-style Herve Leger dresses. I think it's sexier for a woman to be in something sheer and loose.

Bella Abzug

Working women wore hats. It was the only way they would take you seriously.

Bobbi Brown

So much of what I do is about inspiring and empowering women.

Ralph Lauren

I don't think women should look like costumes. I don't think they should look like fashion victims. I think these (clothes) are for women that want to look sexy. They want to look smart.

Tamara Mellon

It's important for women to work. They need to keep their independence, to keep earning and being challenged.

Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

I find that women... deal with immigration differently. And I'm interested in that.

Nicola Sturgeon

Do I look like one of the most dangerous women in Britain? Come on!

Lawrence Durrell

The appalling thing is the degree of charity women are capable of. You see it all the time... love lavished on absolute fools. Love's a charity ward, you know.

Nancy Pelosi

After over 200 years, not even a fifth of Congress is women.

Nina Easton

We like to think of women as peacemakers, not purveyors of violence.

Samuel Butler

When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.

Samuel Butler

The only living works are those which have drained much of the author's own life into them.

Liam Gallagher

Not everyone can say, 'I'm going to write a classic today.' If that was the case, we'd all be doing it.

Mark Haddon

Most of my work consisted of crossing out. Crossing out was the secret of all good writing.

Dick Cheney

I learned early on that if you don't want your memos to get you in trouble someday, just don't write any.

John Nersesian

Although I didn't write myself off as a complete failure, all illusion and romance was gone. I was no longer able to inflate myself; I had disappointed my own expectations and was genuinely worried about dying in the streets.

Christopher Nolan

I realized that if you're trying to reach an audience, being as subjective as possible and really trying to write from something genuine is the way to go. Really it's mostly from my own process, my own experience.

James Keller

A young man, just beginning the study of musical composition, once went to Mozart and asked him the formula for developing the theme of a symphony. Mozart suggested that a symphony was rather an ambitious project for a beginner: perhaps the young man might better try his hand at something simpler first. "But you were writing symphonies when you were my age." the student protested. "Yes, but I didn't have to ask how."

Brenda Ueland

So remember these two things: you are talented and you are original. Be sure of that. I say this because self-trust is one of the very most important things in writing ...