Mentryville Quotes & Sayings

Guy believed everything in sex should be done slowly so as not to scare the wildlife and to ensure his own natural grace and poise. — Edmund White

I'm looking for a market for wisdom. — Leo Szilard

Better a fallen rocket than never a burst of light. — Tom Stoppard

I was taught that the way of progress was neither swift nor easy. — Marie Curie

Parents who tell their offspring that sex is an act performed only for procreation do everyone a serious disservice. — Maya Angelou

I enjoy finding a low subject and bringing it up high. I think with strong technique, you can glamorize certain things. You can make the imagery sharper, rounder, and basically better looking. — Peter Saul

Innocence is the highest gift one gives to the man with whom she will spend her life....her husband, and no other, is entitled to that gift. — Cheryl Ann Smith

He noticed that something was going on. His finger shot upward. "What the hell's that?" he — Douglas Adams

My concern is not the fact that other people don't understand where I am coming from, even though Christians are supposed to be doing what I am doing — Sunday Adelaja

I wrote "Bootylicious" because, at the time, I'd gained some weight and the pressure that people put you under, the pressure to be thin, is unbelievable. I was just 18 and you shouldn't be thinking about that.You should be thinking about building up your character and having fun, and the song was just telling everyone to forget what people are saying, you're bootylicious. That's all. It's a celebration of curves and a celebration of women's bodies. — Beyonce Knowles

Everything depends on inner change; when this has taken place, then, and only then does the world change. — Martin Buber

There, in the desert, there's hunger, thirst, prostrations - and God. Here there's food, wine, women - and God. Everywhere God. So, why go look for him in the desert? — Nikos Kazantzakis

How contrary an animal is man, who most treasures what he refuses or abandons! The soldier who has chosen war for his profession in the midst of battle longs for peace, and in the security of peace hungers for the clash of sword and the chaos of the bloody field; the slave who sets himself against his unchosen servitude and by his industry purchases his freedom, then binds himself to a patron more cruel and demanding than his master was; the lover who abandons his mistress lives thereafter in his dream of her imagined perfection. — John Edward Williams