Quotes of: Opposite-sex Keyword

I don't know what falling in love for me is. The concept of romantic love arose in the Middle Ages. Now remember, the Arabs don't even have a word for love—that is, a word for love apart from physical attraction or sex. And this separation of love ...

With William Burroughs: A Report From The Bunker

I had a dream about you. I was trying to dissect love like it was a frog, and you were trying to dissect a frog like it was love. I said we should team up and have sex, and you said, “Sure, I’ll have sex with you—for twenty bucks.” Geez! For ...

Dreaming is for lovers

Make sure that when you touch the other person, all your five senses are working, because sex has a life of its own. The moment you begin, you’re no longer in control; it takes control of you. And whatever you bring to it, your fears, your desires,...

Paulo Coelho

There are times when I am so unlike myself that I might be taken for someone else of an entirely opposite character.

Confessions

Our culture is intent on taking the lines out of people's faces - surgically, with costly creams, and with fear and trembling - when, in fact, the opposite should be the case. As artists know, if there is anything behind a face, that face improves wi...

Karen DeCrow

I am becoming more radical with age. I have noticed that writers, when they are old, become milder. But for me it is the opposite. Age makes me more angry.

Nawal El Saadawi

He who is of calm and happy nature will hardly feel the pressure of age, but to him who is of an opposite disposition youth and age are equally a burden.

Plato

There are a lot of female artists my age around at the moment, but they're all American and blonde and blue-eyed and smiley. I'm totally the opposite of that. I want to show a bit more attitude and I have an opinion.

Samantha Mumba

To find gratitude and generosity when you could reasonably find hurt and resentment will surprise you. It will be so surprising because you will see so much of the opposite: people who have much more than others yet who react with anger when one adva...

Henry B. Eyring

Of course the illusion of art is to make one believe that great literature is very close to life, but exactly the opposite is true. Life is amorphous, literature is formal.

Francoise Sagan

When you put the subjectivity of the art together with the context of the science, you have this very powerful conjunction of opposites and together they are greater than either one could ever be.

James Balog

I didn't want to be the kind of man that my father was. So I've tried, my entire life, to be the complete and utter opposite of that. And it has served not only the art well, but I think the audience well.

Tyler Perry

It is important to realize that we so often define ourselves by what is in opposition to ourselves.

#Human: Learning To Live In Modern Times

The most total opposite of pleasure is not pain but boredom, for we are willing to risk pain to make a boring life interesting.

Jesus-Shock

I am a fan of overdoing something, but not running it into the ground. They are complete opposites with only a fine line separating them.

Killosophy

A wise man once said that the opposite of being alive is being boring, so for God’s sake, don’t be boring !

Rumpelstein

The history of men's opposition to women's emancipation is more interesting perhaps than the story of that emancipation itself.

A Room of One's Own

Just my luck, if I believed in luck. I only believe in the opposite of luck, whatever that is.

A Lion Among Men

You can want one thing and have a secret wish for its opposite.

The Six Rules of Maybe

Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.

Sense and Sensibility

Christianity got over the difficulty of combining furious opposites, by keeping them both, and keeping them both furious.

Orthodoxy