Sex Quotes

"Bishop Frederick Henry of Calgary is facing at least two official objections to his public statements along with expensive hearings before the Alberta Human Rights Commission for expressing his biblical views on same sex marriage"

Stockwell Day, Politician

"I know a man who gave up smoking, drinking, sex, and rich food. He was healthy right up to the day he killed himself"

Johnny Carson, Comedian

"Managing people's sex lives is something that I don't think is a good role for government"

William Weld, Politician

"A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse"

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, Author

"The true feeling of sex is that of a deep intimacy, but above all of a deep complicity"

James Dickey, Novelist

"A lot of more modern films seem to just be out for violence or sex or what have you, without relating it to what's going within human beings. But every now and then one comes along that does that, and it's a joy"

Kim Hunter, Actress

"It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour"

Keenen Ivory Wayans, Comedian

"As the bull market goes on, people who take great risks achieve great rewards, seemingly without punishment. It's like crime without punishment or sex without sin"

Ron Chernow, Author

"There's a subterranean impetus towards pornography so powerful that half the business world is juiced by the sort of half sex that one finds in advertisements"

Norman Mailer, Novelist

"The romantic love we feel toward the opposite sex is probably one extra help from God to bring you together, but that's it. All the rest of it, the true love, is the test"

Joan Chen, Actress

"We are at a major epoch in human history, which is that we don't need sex to recreate the race. You can have babies without sex. This is the first time in human history that has been true, and it means, for example, we could do some extraordinary things"

David Cronenberg, Director

"It's unfortunate. Title IX is rather simple: don't discriminate on the basis of sex"

Birch Bayh, Politician

"Nah, I've done sex scenes before, you know, like in video"

David Cronenberg, Director

"The '60s are gone, dope will never be as cheap, sex never as free, and the rock and roll never as great"

Abbie Hoffman, Activist

"The truth is, sex doesn't mean that much to me now"

Lana Turner, Actress

"When I sing, I feel like when you're first in love. It's more than sex. It's that point two people can get to they call love, when you really touch someone for the first time, but it's gigantic, multiplied by the whole audience. I feel chills"

Janis Joplin, Musician

"I had a great many sex and love cases where people were absolutely devastated when somebody with whom they were compulsively in love didn't love them back. They were killing themselves with anxiety and depression"

Albert Ellis, Psychologist

"I tend to think that cricket is the greatest thing that God ever created on earth - certainly greater than sex, although sex isn't too bad either"

Harold Pinter, Playwright

"Sex without love is merely healthy exercise"

Robert A. Heinlein, Writer

"Sex is like money; only too much is enough"

John Updike, Novelist

"Sex is on the minds of most people, especially those who shouldn't be having it"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"Don't marry someone you would not be friends with if there was no sex between you"

William Glasser, Psychologist

"For male and female alike, the bodies of the other sex are messages signaling what we must do, they are glowing signifiers of our own necessities"

John Updike, Novelist

"I admit, I have a tremendous sex drive. My boyfriend lives forty miles away"

Phyllis Diller, Comedian

"At a pool party, with everybody around, a guy and I had sex in the pool, but nobody knew it"

Krista Allen, Actress

"You always hear actresses talk about how unromantic it is to act a love scene or a sex scene - which it is. You're doing it with all these lights on and cameras flying around and people on the set"

Sheryl Lee, Actor

"To speak of morals in art is to speak of legislature in sex. Art is the sex of the imagination"

George Jean Nathan, Editor

"Sex is energy"

Beatrice Wood, Artist

"Food, like sex, is one of the principal kinds of human activity that engage people when they wonder about how to account for different kinds of human behaviour"

Marvin Harris, Scientist

"Fast sex, like fast food, is cheap, but it doesn't nourish the body - or the soul"

Suzanne Fields

"You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you"

Olympia Dukakis, Actress

"Two things I do well in books are sex and violence, but I don't want gratuitous sex or violence. The sex and violence are only as graphic as need be. And never included unless it furthers the plot or character development"

Laurell K. Hamilton, Writer

"According to New York publishers, Bill Clinton will get more money for his book than Hillary Clinton got for hers. Well, duh. At least his book has some sex in it"

Jay Leno, Comedian

"I felt guilty throughout the whole time, but I was seduced. The power of these drugs, sex, power, and money, was extremely strong for me"

John Perkins, Economist

"It is not sex that gives the pleasure, but the lover"

Marge Piercy, Writer

"I would argue that we have a generation of young people, particularly minorities, who are no longer putting up with the kinds of things their parents put up with. They're much more self-confident. It's no longer acceptable to make fun of people because of race or sex. But it has always been present in American society"

Donna Shalala, Public Servant

"Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace"

John Desmond Bernal, Scientist

"I trained to be a priest - started to. I went to seminary school when I was 11. I wanted to be a priest, but when they told me I could never have sex, not even on my birthday, I changed my mind"

Johnny Vegas, Comedian

"Fifty percent of life in the N.B.A. is sex. The other fifty percent is money"

Dennis Rodman, Athlete

"But then, even with sex, I'm more in the school of less is more in movies"

Aaron Eckhart, Actor

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