Naked Quotations | Page 5

It's only in uncertainty that we're naked and alive.

I have to see myself naked! That’s all that counts. If I’m not happy with my naked body, who will be?

I personally don't have a problem with naked bodies on television.

The naked female body is treated so weirdly in society. It's like people are constantly begging to see it, but once they do, someone's a hoe.

I would never do a role where I'm naked in bed with a chick having sex.

You are not naked when you take off your clothes. You still wear your religious assumptions, your prejudices, your fears, your illusions, your delusions. When you shed the cultural operating system, then essentially you stand naked before the inspection of your own psyche.

Both in verse and in prose [Karl] Shapiro loves, partly out of indignation and partly out of sheer mischievousness, to tell the naked truths or half-truths or quarter-truths that will make anybody's hair stand on end; he is always crying: "But he hasn't any clothes on!" about an emperor who is half the time surprisingly well-dressed.

Poetry is a naked woman, a naked man, and the distance between them.

Young girls need to learn that sexiness isn’t about being naked,

If you want to turn on your boyfriend, get naked and strap on an accordion.

If God wanted us to be naked, why did he invent sexy lingerie?

I've never seen anythin' sexier in my life, and she's not even naked yet.

My way probably wont work for most people but the more I got naked the more comfortable I felt.

It was just me, naked as underneath my clothes right now, as all of you are.

She had been looking all along for a friend, and it took her a while to discover that a lover was not a comrade and could never be - for a woman. And that no one would ever be that version of herself which she sought to reach out to and touch with an ungloved hand. There was only her own mood and whim, and if that was all there was, she decided to turn the naked hand toward it, discover it and let others become as intimate with their own selves as she was.

I'm so used to it, I think I'd feel very naked on stage without a piano.

Courage is walking naked through a cannibal village

I think it's very hard to be naked in a scene and not be upstaged by your nipples.

We just lost our electricity. You want to tell me what’s so funny about that?” “It’s not exactly funny. It’s more of a good news/bad news situation.” “In that case, hit me with the good news first.” “They’re both sort of rolled up into one.” “Stop stalling.” “All right. Now don’t get mad, but . . .” Smothered laughter drifted toward him. “Cal . . . I’m naked.

Naked lions are just as dangerous as elegantly dressed ones

A woman wearing a revealing dress will always be sexier than a naked woman.

I can't bear being seen naked. I'm not exactly a tiny woman. When Sophia Loren is naked, this is a lot of nakedness.

I had to get over my fear of running through the world naked and learn to say 'take me or leave me.'

I had to be naked [in Vinyl], but I was almost more nervous about having to be drunk. The director wasn't going to yell, "Too big!," during the nude scene. For the drunk scene, you can be bad drunk or good drunk. We'll see. My wife was not happy, hearing about it.

I like ruins because what remains is not the total design, but the clarity of thought, the naked structure, the spirit of the thing.

When I come home I actually take off all my clothes, and I wear no clothes until I leave. I eat naked. I do everything completely naked.

I do everything completely naked

My real life’s not like the fantasy Tom Ford world – with naked girls pouring perfume everywhere. It’s more staying in and watching Friends on television.

You can't help noticing an amazing ass. Pretty naked ladies will always get my attention. Revealingly dressed good-looking women will always get my attention, at least for a moment.

They're a little strange, but I'm pretty sure neither of them is going to try to make me uncomfortable by stripping naked.

Fear doesn't go away but you walk toward fear naked and the gate opens.

Despite my best efforts I’ve seen you naked before – doesn’t do much for me so no worries.

Does it bother you, me being half naked all the time?

And I never felt that good in my life. But I also felt bad because I saw her naked without her permission.

I've been naked physically in movies - but it's a whole other thing to be naked emotionally in a way that's not just a distraction or a character.

I extol those who, with loving care and compassionate concern, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, and house the homeless. He who notes the sparrow's fall will not be unmindful of such service.

Look, I'm standing naked before you; Don't you want more than my sex? I can scream as loud as your last one, But I can't claim innocence.

I'm standing naked before you. Don't you want more than sex?

The Italian landscape has always harmonized the vulgar and the Vitruvian: the contorni around the duomo, the portiere'S laundry across the padrone's portone, Supercortemaggiore against the Romanesque apse. Naked children have never played in our fountains, and I. M. Pei will never be happy on Route 66.

He was almost naked too, but I hadn't quite gotten to his boxers yet. (They were silk because, honestly what else would Adrian wear?)

Hey Mason, wipe the drool off your face. If you're going to think about me naked, do it on your own time." [...] "This is my time, Hathaway. I'm leading today's session." "Oh yeah?" I retorted. "Huh. Well, I guess this is a good time to think about me naked, then." "It's always a good a time to think about you naked," added someone nearby, breaking the tension further.

Even though I was painted, even though I had on seven layers of paint - to the point that I got a tan, it was as thick as a fabric - I think I felt the most naked because I couldn't cover myself at all. I didn't have to, so I had to be much more open and relaxed.

Skinny girls look good in clothes, but fit chicks look good naked

Get down, get naked, get savage.

When the immense drugged universe explodes In a cascade of unendurable colour And leaves us gasping naked, This is no more than the ectasy of chaos: Hold fast, with both hands, to that royal love Which alone, as we know certainly, restores Fragmentation into true being. Ecstasy of Chaos

Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power.

I never understood the nudity thing. I’m so envious of people who can walk around naked.

I read some gossip thing saying, because I looked really uncomfortable in a paparazzi photo or something, they're like, 'He should get used to it. That's the price to pay if you're getting $12m a movie'. If I'm getting paid $12m a movie I'd walk around naked. That's all nonsense. I don't know who makes that stuff up. Even the price for the first one was nonsense.

I stand naked when I draw. God holds my hand and we sing together.

I'm not photographing anything naked these days. I haven't been concentrating on bodies recently.

Any but the most brutish of men must be touched with a certain awe or wonder at the baring of a woman's naked soul.

The motorcycle was the thing I really didn't want to do... 'You're going to be raped, be naked...' but as soon as he was like, 'You're going to have to ride a motorcycle,' I was like, 'Oh, really?'

Fasion is about eventually becoming naked.

In the Chauvet Cave, there is a painting of a bison embracing the lower part of a naked female body. Why does Pablo Picasso, who had no knowledge of the Chauvet Cave, use exactly the same motif in his series of drawings of the Minotaur and the woman? Very, very strange.

I used to like watching Helen Mirren's early films, because she was always naked. It's titillating.

No mask like open truth to cover lies, As to go naked is the best disguise.

I will tell you what man is. He is a freak, an ejected foetus robbed of his natural development, thrown out into the world with a naked covering of parchment, with too little room for his teeth and a soft bulging skull like a bubble. But nature stirs a pudding there...

Children are the boldest philosophers. They enter life naked, not covered by the smallest fig leaf of dogma, absolutes, creeds. This is why every question they ask is so absurdly naïve and so frighteningly complex.

Bizarre and engrossingly disturbing, Naked Lunch, finds truth in madness.

The bread you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor.

Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor, and the contrary opinion is wishful thinking at its worst. Breeds that forget this basic truth have always paid for it with their lives and freedoms.

I have my wizards rock along. Could I interest you? Naked?

Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who'll get one.

Love has the faculty of making two lovers seem naked, not in each other's sight, but in their own.

When you walk with naked feet, how can you ever forget the Earth?

I felt ashamed." "But of what? Psyche, they hadn't stripped you naked or anything?" "No, no, Maia. Ashamed of looking like a mortal -- of being a mortal." "But how could you help that?" "Don't you think the things people are most ashamed of are things they can't help?

The only things in which we can be said to have any property are our actions. Our thoughts may be bad, yet produce no poison; they may be good, yet produce no fruit. Our riches may be taken away by misfortune, our reputation by malice, our spirits by calamity, our health by disease, our friends by death. But our actions must follow us beyond the grave; with respect to them alone, we cannot say that we shall carry nothing with us when we die, neither that we shall go naked out of the world.

To expect people to be good, to be just, to be temperate, etc., without showing them how they should become so, seems like the ineffectual charity mentioned by the apostle, which consisted in saying to the hungry, the cold and the naked, be ye fed, be ye warmed, be ye clothed, without showing them how they should get food, fire or clothing.

A woman is closest to being naked when she is well-dressed.

Sing your praise of progress and the doom machine, the naked truth is still taboo whenever it can be seen.

Through the mad mystic hammering of the wild ripping hail The sky cracked its poems in naked wonder

A poem is a naked person.

The naked truth is still taboo.

A poem is a naked person... Some people say that I am a poet.

But even the President of the United States sometimes must have to stand naked.

We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.

She knew that even pain can be confessed, but to confess happiness is to stand naked, delivered to the witness...

An artist reveals his naked soul in his work.

Well could I curse away a winter's night,Though standing naked on a mountain top,Where biting cold would never let grass grow,And think it but a minute spent in sport.

We must learn the difficult lesson that the future of Mankind will only be tolerable when our course, in world affairs as in others, is based upon justice and law rather than the threat of naked power.

Jokes have to be quite naked to be understood. They have to be quite simple.

We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins

The naked every day he clad, / When he put on his clothes.

I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.

If God had meant us to walk around naked, he would never have invented the wicker chair.

If a turtle doesn't have a shell, is he homeless or naked?

Stay naked as much as possible, but do not impose your orgiastic will on others. Don't have sex in the lobby - it's usually awkward.

To understand the present with its full, rich significance, the mind must free itself from the habit of self-protecting acquisition; when it is utterly naked, then there is immortality.

A kind and gentle heart he had, To comfort friends and foes; The naked every day he clad When he put on his clothes.

You cannot make an omelet without breaking some balls

If God had meant for us to be naked, we'd have been born that way.

Adam and Eve entered the world naked and unashamed - naked and pure-minded. And no descendant of theirs has ever entered it otherwise. All have entered it naked, unashamed, and clean in mind. They entered it modest. They had to acquire immodesty in the soiled mind, there was no other way to get it. ... The convention mis-called "modesty" has no standard, and cannot have one, because it is opposed to nature and reason and is therefore an artificiality and subject to anyone's whim - anyone's diseased caprice.

Brutality was imprisoned in a lumious glare revealing the naked truth to the whole world

I remember thinking cocaine was subtle until I noticed I'd been awake for three weeks and didn't know any of the naked people passed out around me.

In naked beauty more adorn'd, More lovely than Pandora.

In naked beauty most adorned.

Charisma- the divine force that manifests itself in men and women. The supernatural power we don't need to show to anyone because everyone can see it, even usually insensitive people. But it only happens when we're naked, when we die to the world and are reborn to ourselves.

Be wary when a naked person offers you his shirt

No sophistry, no jugglery in figures can explain away the evidence that the skeletons in many villages present to the naked eye.

What of the old serpent who cannot shed his skin, and calls all others naked and shameless?