Famous Quotes & Sayings

Henry Adams

The Woman had once been supreme; in France she still seemed potent, not merely as a sentiment but as a force; why was she unknownin America? for evidently America was ashamed of her, and she was ashamed of herself, otherwise they would not have strewn fig-leaves so profusely all over her. When she was a true force, she was ignorant of fig-leaves, but the monthly-magazine-made American female had not a feature that would have been recognized by Adam. The trait was notorious, and often humorous, but anyone brought up among Puritans knew that sex was sin. In any previous age, sex was strength.

Henry A. Kissinger

Power is the great aphrodisiac.

Helen Frankenthaler

The question of sex will take care of itself.

Helen Frankenthaler

What has made it work, or what makes certain paintings successful or not, has to do with my being a painter and a thinking, feeling person, more than my sex, color, height, origin.

Helen Gurley Brown

Never expect anybody - except possibly your analyst - to be as thrilled about your sex life as you are.

Helen Gurley Brown

If you’re not a sex object, you’re in trouble.

Helen Gurley Brown

If I had to choose between sex and food, I would choose food, but I'd choose sex over nearly everything else.

Helen Gurley Brown

Sex is one of the three best things out there, and I don't even know what the other two are.

Helen Fisher

What our grandmothers told us about playing hard to get is true. The whole point of the game is to impress and capture. It's not about honesty. Many men and women, when they're playing the courtship game, deceive so they can win. Novelty, excitement and danger drive up dopamine in the brain. And both sexes brag.

Helen Fisher

Men want to think women don't cheat, and women want men to think they don't cheat, and therefore the sexes have been playing a little psychological game with each other.

Helen Fisher

There's magic to love... Millions of years ago we evolved three basic drives: the sex love, romantic love, and attachment to a long-term partner. These circuits are deeply embedded in the human brian. They're going to survive as long as our species survive on what Shakespeare called, this "mortal coil."

Henry George

one sex of voice in public matters, and that we could in no way so increase the attention , the intelligence and the devotion which may be brought to the solution of social problems as by enfranchising our women .

Henry Cavill

I'll never accept that I'm a sex symbol. That will mean that someone is a bit too fond of himself. If it happens, I think it's certainly going to be odd. People shouldn't see me as a sex symbol. I'm really just Henry. I'm just telling a story. I could be playing an incredibly unpleasant character who's not sexually attractive at all in my next movie. So I've no expectations at all.

Hedi Slimane

Sex is not a subject in my photographs, or would only be if it had to do with romance, sometimes vulnerability. The photographs are quite clearly about happiness, or search for happiness.

Hedy Lamarr

I have never liked bargains when it came to sex.

Manny Pacquiao

To the gay community I apologize if I did something, but all I said was I was against same-sex marriage. But I am not condemning you. My favorite expression is, 'Love one another ... as you love yourself, love thy neighbor'

Manny Pacquiao

I'm not against gay people... I have a relative who is also gay. We can't help it if they were born that way. What I'm critical off are actions that violate the word of God. I only gave out my opinion that same sex marriage is against the law of God,

Mallory Ortberg

I agree that biphobia is real, but I think it's absolutely worth considering that someone who "despises" having sex with her husband - and men in general - may not be interested in men sexually.

Mallory Ortberg

Reciprocating oral sex is, in general, a very good idea!

Mallory Ortberg

Many fathers go their entire lives without announcing how sexy their son's old girlfriends are.

Mallory Ortberg

I don't think it's a requirement that a happy, fulfilling relationship also provide the best sex of all time.

Mandy Moore

I've had the opportunity to play the drug dealer who gets gang-raped, and I'm like, "For what reason? Doing it just to do it? To just show people that I can be sexy or dark?" I don't want to do something just to make that point. It needs to happen organically, and I'm really confident it will. I'm a pretty patient person, and I'll wait until we find the right stuff.

Mandy Moore

A smile is so sexy, yet so warm. When someone genuinely smiles at you, it's the greatest feeling in the world.

Malcolm Mclaren

I never intended for the Sex Pistols to be immeasurably successful.

Malin Akerman

I love a good Slash guitar riff. It's sexy!

Malcolm Turnbull

Do the bishops seriously imagine that legalising gay marriage will result in thousands of parties to heterosexual marriages suddenly deciding to get divorced so they can marry a person of the same sex?

Malcolm Muggeridge

Sex on the brain is the wrong place to have it.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.

Malcolm Muggeridge

Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word... [it has] its own mysteries - this is my birth [control] pill; swallow it in remembrance of me!

Malcolm Muggeridge

Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

Malcolm Muggeridge

When the devil makes his offer (always open incidentally) of the kingdoms of the earth, it is the bordellos which glow so alluringly to most of us, not the banks and the counting-houses and the snow-swept corridors of power . . . Sex is the mysticism of a materialistic society - in the beginning was the Flesh, and the Flesh became Word; with its own mysteries - this is my birth pill; swallow it in remembrance of me! - and its own sacred texts and scriptures - the erotica which fall like black atomic rain on the just and unjust alike, drenching us, stupefying us. To be carnally minded is life!

Malcolm Muggeridge

Sex is the mysticism of materialism.

Malcolm Muggeridge

It has to be admitted that we English have sex on the brain, which is a very unsatisfactory place to have it.