| There are 39051 quotations | |
You can also search for a word.
| Or search for author: |
|
|
| Modern bodybuilding is ritual, religion, sport, art, and science, awash in Western chemistry and mathematics. Defying nature, it surpasses it. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| In the theory of gender I began from zero. There is no masculine power or privilege I did not covet. But slowly, step by step, decade by decade, I was forced to acknowledge that even a woman of abnormal will cannot escape her hormonal identity. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| Jesus was a brilliant Jewish stand-up comedian, a phenomenal improviser. His parables are great one-liners. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| When anything goes, it's women who lose. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| Men know they are sexual exiles. They wander the earth seeking satisfaction, craving and despising, never content. There is nothing in that anguished motion for women to envy. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| A woman simply is, but a man must become. Masculinity is risky and elusive. It is achieved by a revolt from woman, and it is confirmed only by other men. Manhood coerced into sensitivity is no manhood at all. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| Every man must define his identity against his mother. If he does not, he just falls back into her and is swallowed up. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| Despite crime's omnipresence, things work in society, because biology compels it. Order eventually restores itself, by psychic equilibrium. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| Pornography is human imagination in tense theatrical action; its violations are a protest against the violations of our freedom by nature. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| The prostitute is not, as feminists claim, the victim of men but rather their conqueror, an outlaw who controls the sexual channel between nature and culture. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
|
| Pursuit and seduction are the essence of sexuality. It's part of the sizzle. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| We should teach general ethics to both men and women, but sexual relationships themselves must not be policed. Sex, like the city streets, would be risk-free only in totalitarian regimes. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| You have to accept the fact that part of the sizzle of sex comes from the danger of sex. You can be overpowered. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| Out with stereotypes, feminism proclaims. But stereotypes are the west's stunning sexual personae, the vehicles of art's assault against nature. The moment there is imagination, there is myth. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| Television is actually closer to reality than anything in books. The madness of TV is the madness of human life. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| My generation of the Sixties, with all our great ideals, destroyed liberalism, because of our excesses. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| The 1990s, after the reign of terror of academic vandalism, will be a decade of restoration: restoration of meaning, value, beauty, pleasure, and emotion to art and restoration of art to its audience. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| Woman is the dominant sex. Men have to do all sorts of stuff to prove that they are worthy of woman's attention. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| If civilization had been left in female hands we would still be living in grass huts. | Camille Paglia | 1947-, American Author, Critic, Educator |
| The man who trusts men will make fewer mistakes that he who distrusts them. | Camillo Benso Conte Di Cavour | 1810-1861, Piedmontese Statesman, Premier |
|
| But now our fate from unmomentous things, may rise like rivers out of little springs. | Campbell | |
| To live in hearts we leave behind is not to die. | Campbell | |
| I may not be a great actress but I've become the greatest at screen orgasms. Ten seconds of heavy breathing, roll your head from side to side, simulate a slight asthma attack and die a little. | Candice Bergen | 1946-, American Actress |
| Always keep that happy attitude. Pretend that you are holding a beautiful fragrant bouquet. | Candice M. Pope | |
| Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. Murphy's First Corollary If you tell the boss you were late for work because you had a flat tire, the next morning you will have a flat tire. | Cannon's Law | |
| Every one comes between men's souls and God, either as a brick wall or as a bridge. Either you are leading men to God or you are driving them away. | Canon Lindsay Dewar | |
| I must claim the quoter's privilege of giving only as much of the text as will suit my purpose, said Tan-Chun. If I told you how it went on, I should end up by contradicting myself! | Cao Xueqin | 1715-1763, Chinese Writer |
| Old men should have more care to end life well than to live long. | Captain J. Brown | |
| During the crusades all were religious mad, and now all are mad for want of it. | Captain J. G. Stedman | 1744-1797, British Soldier, Author, Artist |
| I ever will profess myself the greatest friend to those whose actions best correspond with their doctrine; which, I am sorry to say, is too seldom the case amongst those nations who pretend most to civilization. | Captain J. G. Stedman | 1744-1797, British Soldier, Author, Artist |
|
| Old England liberty -- to be robbed by the Ministry, and insulted by the populace without redress. | Captain J. G. Stedman | 1744-1797, British Soldier, Author, Artist |
| Poetry is an art, the easiest to dabble in, but the hardest to reach true excellence. | Captain J. G. Stedman | 1744-1797, British Soldier, Author, Artist |
| They say that the best defense is offense, and I intend to start offending right now. | Captain James | |
| Weak souls always set to work at the wrong time. | Cardinal De Rets | |
| Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it. | Cardinal De Richelieu | 1585-1642, French Statesman |
| To know how to disguise is the knowledge of kings. | Cardinal De Richelieu | 1585-1642, French Statesman |
| If you give me six lines written by the hand of the most honest of men, I will find something in them which will hang him. | Cardinal De Richelieu | 1585-1642, French Statesman |
| Give me six lines written by the most honourable person alive, and I shall find enough in them to condemn them to the gallows. | Cardinal De Richelieu | 1585-1642, French Statesman |
| Secrecy is the first essential in affairs of the State. | Cardinal De Richelieu | 1585-1642, French Statesman |
| It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing. | Cardinal J. Newman | 1801-1890, British Preacher |
|
| It is almost the definition of a gentleman to say that he is one who never inflicts pain. | Cardinal J. Newman | 1801-1890, British Preacher |
| From the age of fifteen, dogma has been the fundamental principle of my religion: I know no other religion; I cannot enter into the idea of any other sort of religion; religion, as a mere sentiment, is to me a dream and a mockery. | Cardinal J. Newman | 1801-1890, British Preacher |
| Virtue is its own reward, and brings with it the truest and highest pleasure; but if we cultivate it only for pleasure's sake, we are selfish, not religious, and will never gain the pleasure, because we can never have the virtue. | Cardinal J. Newman | 1801-1890, British Preacher |
| Let us act on what we have, since we have not what we wish. | Cardinal J. Newman | 1801-1890, British Preacher |
| She knew how to trust people... a rare quality, revealing a character far above average. | Cardinal Jean Francois de Retz | 1613-1679, French Statesman, Prelate |
| Standards of conduct appropriate to civil society or the workings of a democracy cannot be purely and simply applied to the Church. | Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger | |
| Times change. The farmer's daughter now tells jokes about the travelling salesman. | Carey Williams | |
| Youth is that period when a young boy knows everything but how to make a living. | Carey Williams | |
| Though no one can go back and make a brand new start, anyone can start from now and make a brand new ending. | Carl Bard | |
| The lowest form of popular culture -- lack of information, misinformation, misinformation, and a contempt for the truth or the reality of most people's lives -- has overrun real journalism. Today, ordinary Americans are being stuffed with garbage. | Carl Bernstein | 1944-, American Journalist, writer |
Quotes pages: 7801 ~ 7850
|
