Entendres Quotes & Sayings

Energy is something you can control, in everything you do, you're going to face people more talented than you. I set myself apart by bringing more energy than they do. — Blake Griffin

A hero is someone who, for the general good, takes the initiative to solve an ambiguous problem. — James Marcus Bach

[R]egard your thoughts and feelings as passing, ephemeral "mental events" rather than as accurate reflections of reality. — Jeffrey M. Schwartz

Adoption should be an empowering option for young women in crisis, knowing that the people around them - family, friends, church - will respect their choice. — Nina Easton

At that shameful stage in the development of our criticism, literary abuse would overstep all limits of decorum; literature itself was a totally extraneous matter in critical articles: they were pure invective, a vulgar battle of vulgar jokes, double-entendres, the most vicious calumnies and offensive constructions. It goes without saying, that in this inglorious battle, the only winners were those who had nothing to lose as far as their good name was concerned. My friends and I were totally deluded. We imagined ourselves engaged in the subtle philosophical disputes of the portico or the academy, or at least the drawing room. In actual fact we were slumming it. — Vladimir Odoevsky

I am always surprised when people read double entendres into my innocuous babble. — Nigella Lawson

I don't just like sexual double entendres I love them, I stroke them, I milk them, I spank them when they're naughty. — Craig Ferguson

The first time I lived in L.A. I was too young. I really wanted to be back home in Vancouver. — Sarah Chalke

He nodded to my fiddle case. "Why didn't you come play with me?" Immediately he rolled his eyes at himself. "That's not what I meant."
I didn't point out that if he was constantly hearing double entendres in his own words, he had a dirtier mind than he wanted to let on. Sam having a dirty mind was okay with me. It was adorable, actually, as long as his mind was on me. — Jennifer Echols

See in the mind's eye
wind blowing chaff on ancient threshing floors
when men with fans toss up the trodden sheaves,
and yellow-haired Demeter, puff by puff,
divides the chaff and grain: how all day long
in bleaching sun strawpiles grow white: so white
grew those Akhaian figures in the dustcloud
churned to the brazen sky by horses' hooves
as chariots intermingled, as the drivers
turned and turned - carrying their hands high
and forward gallantly despite fatigue. — Homer

I say 'as it were' or 'so to speak' too often because puns and double entendres keep insinuating themselves into my consciousness as I'm talking. — Guy Gavriel Kay

He, as he told his tale, did not look her in the face, but sat with his eyes fixed upon her muff. — Anthony Trollope

At the turn of the century, parishioners attacked vaudeville as a sinful venture. Organized boycotts adversely affected ticket sales. Benjamin Franklin Keith's wife was deeply religious and prodded her husband to follow church directives. Comedian Fred Allen said, 'Mrs. Keith instigated the chaste policy, for she would tolerate no profanity, no suggestive allusions, double-entendres or off-color monkey business. — Kliph Nesteroff

Holy guacamole. Was that a double entendre? I swear that was a double entendre. Someone hold my panties on for me because Mason Lowe was freaking flirting with me, using double entendres. — Linda Kage

The two biggest hits (by Machito) ... were about that enduring Cuban song topic-food: 'Sopa de pichn' [pigeon soup] and 'Paella'. If you think that all songs about food are double entendres for sex ... Well, maybe all songs about food can be double entendres, but in many periods of Cuban history, for many people, food has been harder to get, and the subject of more fantasies, than sex. — Ned Sublette

If you want to relate me to the newer cats, let's go. Let's go line for line and bar for bar. If it's all about spitting and metaphors and MCing and lyrics and entendres, I will eat 99 percent of you dudes up. — Lupe Fiasco

I'd love to go visit the 'Lord Of The Rings' set! That's something that we always want to do, but we don't ever have the time. — Mikey Way

I understand your new play is full of single entendres. — George S. Kaufman

I wrote a song about dental floss but did anyone's teeth get cleaner? — Frank Zappa

The knowledge of ourselves, therefore, is not only an incitement to seek after God, but likewise a considerable assistance towards finding him. — John Calvin