Famous Quotes & Sayings

Antonio Machado

The truly erotic sensibility, in evoking the image of woman, never omits to clothe it. The robing and disrobing: that is the true traffic of love.

Audre Lorde

pornography is a direct denial of the power of the erotic, for it represents the suppression of true feeling. Pornography emphasizes sensation without feeling.

Audre Lorde

Part of the lesbian consciousness is an absolute recognition of the erotic within our lives and, taking that a step further, dealing with the erotic not only in sexual terms.

Bill Brandt

A good nude photograph can be erotic, but certainly not sentimental or pornographic.

Alex Comfort

A meal can be an erotic experience in itself.

Claes Oldenburg

There's always been a potential erotic possibility with objects.

Don DeLillo

Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.

Donna Summer

I am sensual and very physical. I'm very erotic. But my sexuality exists on a sort of a fantasy level.

Alison Bechdel

I suppose that a lifetime spent hiding one's erotic truth could have a cumulative renunciatory effect. Sexual shame is in itself a kind of death.

Juvenal

A third heir seldom profits by ill-gotten wealth.

Juvenal

A third heir seldom enjoys what has been dishonestly acquired.

Betty Shabazz

Malcolm was a firm believer in the value and importance of our heritage. He believed that we have valuable and distinct cultural traditions which need to be institutionalized so that they can be passed on to our heirs.

Benjamin Franklin

Onions can make even Heirs and Widows weep.

William Shakespeare

Preferment goes by letter and affection, And not by old gradation, where each second Stood heir to th's first.

Jean de la Bruyere

The spendthrift robs his heirs the miser robs himself.

Princess Margaret

I'm the heir apparent to the heir presumptive.

Oliver Goldsmith

Creation's heir, the world, the world is mine!

George Herbert

I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heire. [I gave the mouse a hole, and she is become my heir.]

Carlos Fuentes

By its very nature, the novel indicates that we are becoming. There is no final solution. There is no last word.

C. S. Lewis

Here at last is the thing I was made for.

C. S. Lewis

Ah, poor Pole. It's been to much for her, this last bit. Turned her head, I shouldn't wonder. She's beginning to see things.

Agnetha Faltskog

Abba's last tour was a success but awful for me.

Alan Rudolph

It's always been my formula to get the next picture set up before anyone's seen the last one.

Charles Dickens

Remember, to the last, that while there is life there is hope.

Charles Simmons

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

Brian Eno

Make an exhaustive list of everything you might do & do the last thing on the list.

Diane von Furstenberg

Don't talk about your diet. It's just boring, and the last thing you need when dieting is to be considered boring.