Detumescence Quotes & Sayings

After all, aren't housekeepers the bearers of all family secrets — Saleem Haddad

Everything I have to say has already crossed your mind."
"Then possibly my answer has crossed yours. — Arthur Conan Doyle

There are nearly one billion illiterate people on Earth. — Peter Diamandis

You can say that climbers suffer the same as the other riders, but they suffer in a different way. You feel the pain, but you're glad to be there. — Richard Virenque

Molly Notkin often confides on the phone to Joelle van Dyne about the one tormented love of Nokin's life thus far, an erotically circumscribed G.W. Pabst scholar at New York University tortured by the neurotic compulsion that there are only a finite number of erections possible in the world at any one time and that his tumescence means e.g. the detumescence of some perhaps more deserving or tortured Third World sorghum farmer — David Foster Wallace

It is almost impossible to imagine that any one could be so insensible to the high morality of Mr. Mill's character as to suggest to him any course of conduct that was not entirely upright and consistent. — Millicent Fawcett

At detumescence, after all, there is conversation, that is where love begins. — Hanif Kureishi

Also I've got a dozen pencils, all sharpened and laid out in a row. They're brand-new. I just bought them at the stationery store - especially for writing to you (not that I'm trying to make you feel grateful or anything: just-sharpened, brand-new pencils are really nice, don't you think?). — Haruki Murakami

The disasters of the world are due to its inhabitants not being able to grow old simultaneously. There is always a raw and intolerant nation eager to destroy the tolerant and mellow. — Cyril Connolly

Love affairs have always greatly interested me, but I do not greatly care for them in books or moving pictures. In a love affair, I wish to be the hero, with no audience present. — E.W. Howe

I get impatient with people working on a film that have their head in their hands like it's the most complicated thing in the world. — Angelina Jolie

Amazing strength, amazing power - he (Ron Swoboda) can grind the dust out of the bat. He will be great, super even wonderful. Now, if he can only learn to catch a fly ball. — Casey Stengel

Any 'transmitting' device or applied technical method, which gets in the way of the 'transmission'/message/story, etc., is a negative element, garbling that which ought to be clear and instantly understood, and ought to be simply-stated with economy! — Alex Toth