Source: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
“Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.”
Sophia Loren (1934) Italian actress
As quoted in Halliwell’s Filmgoer’s Companion (1984) Leslie Halliwell
Variant: Sex appeal is fifty percent what you've got and fifty percent what people think you've got.
“Love is essential. Sex, a mere accident.”
Fernando Pessoa (1888–1935) Portuguese poet, writer, literary critic, translator, publisher and philosopher
O amor é que é essencial.
O sexo é só um acidente.
Poem (5 April 1935), reported in Poesias inéditas (1930-1935), p. 192
“Remember that the worst accidents occur in the middle of the road.”
Eugene McCarthy (1916–2005) American politician
From “Ten Commandments for New Hill Members,” in The Washington Post (4 January 1981), as cited in The Official Rules https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0486482103: 5,427 Laws, Principles and Axioms to Help You Cope With Crises, Deadlines, Bad Luck, Rude Behavior, Red Tape and Attacks by Inanimate Objects, Paul Dickson, Courier Corporation (2013), p. 223
“Sex-appeal is the keynote of our whole civilization.”
Henri Bergson book The Two Sources of Morality and Religion
Toute notre civilisation est aphrodisiaque
Source: The Two Sources of Morality and Religion (1932), Chapter IV
““It’s ok to embrace your sex appeal
And still be an intellectual woman””
Mayra Veronica (1980) model
Source: https://www.cosmopolitan.com/entertainment/news/a25583/mayra-veronica-latinas-should-be-sexy/
“Somebody got lucky, but it was an accident.”
Bob Dylan (1941) American singer-songwriter, musician, author, and artist
Song lyrics, Blonde on Blonde (1966), Pledging My Time
“I have so little sex appeal that my gynecologist calls me "sir."”
Joan Rivers (1933–2014) American comedian, actress, and television host
As quoted in R. Byrne, Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1987)
Louis Brownlow (1879–1963) American mayor
Louis Brownlow: "The Art and Science of Public Administration." in: Puerto Rico and Its Public Administration Program. Proceedings of the Public Administration Conference, October-November 1945, p. 191.
