“I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.”
Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer
“I believe that sex is one of the most beautiful, natural, wholesome things that money can buy.”
Steve Martin (1945) American actor, comedian, musician, author, playwright, and producer
Aron Ra (1962) Aron Ra is an atheist activist and the host of the Ra-Men Podcast
Youtube, Other, Geerup's Terrible Lizard Classification https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qhZeowON8l8 (July 28, 2009)
“I don't mind making jokes, but I don't want to look like one. ”
Marilyn Monroe (1926–1962) American actress, model, and singer
Thomas Pynchon book Gravity's Rainbow
Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
Context: No, as none of these, but instead a point in space, a point hung precise as the point where burning must end, never launched, never to fall. And what is the specific shape whose center of gravity is the Brennschluss Point? Don't jump at an infinite number of possible shapes. There's only one. It is most likely an interface between one order of things and another. There's a Brennschluss point for every firing site. They still hang up there, all of them, a constellation waiting to have a 13th sign of the Zodiac named for it...
“The number one reason most people don't get what they want is that they don't know what they want.”
T. Harv Eker (1954) American writer
Source: Secrets of the Millionaire Mind: Mastering the Inner Game of Wealth
“Hurt is a weapon. Better weapon than most because it doesn't look like one.”
Deb Caletti (1963) American writer
Source: Stay
“Things without meaning are the most beautiful ones.”
Elena Ferrante book The Story of a New Name
Source: The Story of a New Name
Robert Graves (1895–1985) English poet and novelist
Source: Claudius the God (1935), Ch. 6.
Context: Nobody is familiar with his own profile, and it comes as a shock, when one sees it in a portrait, that one really looks like that to people standing beside one. For one's full face, because of the familiarity that mirrors give it, a certain toleration and even affection is felt; but I must say that when I first saw the model of the gold piece that the mint-masters were striking for me I grew angry and asked whether it was intended to be a caricature. My little head with its worried face perched on my long neck, and the Adam's apple standing out almost like a second chin, shocked me. But Messalina said: "No, my dear, that's really what you look like. In fact, it is rather flattering than otherwise."
“Most marriages don't add two people together. They subtract one from the other.”
Ian Fleming book Diamonds Are Forever
Source: Diamonds Are Forever