Quotes on Sex

I'm going to be a great film star. That is, if booze and sex don't get me first.

Author: Jay Allen

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

Author: Krista Allen

I couldn't care less about sex unless I meet someone who I think is wonderful.

Author: Kirstie Alley

When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away.

Author: Jeff Ament

I just sort of wish people would dance differently. It reminds me of teenage sex.

Author: Laurie Anderson

Join me in Olympic Heros for Abstinence. The best sex is no sex.

Author: Kurt Angle

I don't know what it means to be a sex symbol. When I look myself on a magazine cover I don't see it as me, but as someone painted, fluffed, puffed and done up.

Author: Jennifer Aniston

I was asked to be in Vogue but I said no. I didn't want to advertise make-up. I didn't want to be seen as a sex symbol.

Author: Francesca Annis

People's attitudes about sex aren't healthy anywhere, except maybe in those tribes where they go around naked.

Author: Asia Argento

He who will be just, must be forc'd to acknowledge, that neither Sex are always in the right.

Author: Mary Astell

The male sex still constitute in many ways the most obstinate vested interest one can find.

Author: Francis Aungier

Remember, sex is like a Chinese dinner. It ain't over 'til you both get your cookie.

Author: Alec Baldwin

Kissing - and I mean like, yummy, smacking kissing - is the most delicious, most beautiful and passionate thing that two people can do, bar none. Better than sex, hands down.

Author: Drew Barrymore

I think any girl who comes to Hollywood with sex symbol or bombshell hanging over her has a rough road.

Author: Kim Basinger

Seduction is always more singular and sublime than sex and it commands the higher price.

Author: Jean Baudrillard

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

Author: Birch Bayh

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

Author: Simone Beauvoir

What laughter is to childhood, sex is to adolescence.

Author: Martha Beck

If it was about lying under oath - we actually know that Clinton certainly was deceptive, as most people would be about their sex lives - but, in fact, he did not lie.

Author: Paul Begala

I'd like to know what law is it that says that a woman is a better parent, simply by virtue of her sex.

Author: Robert Benton

In Holland and Spain and France, where so many of us come from, people aren't interested in the sex lives of their players. We don't hear these stories - even in Italy where the media is right on top of football.

Author: Dennis Bergkamp

Sex appeal is the keynote of our civilization.

Author: Henri Bergson

The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved.

Author: John Bernal

The trouble with talking about acting is that it's like sex. It's enormously fun to do but just dreadfully embarrassing when you have to talk about it.

Author: Paul Bettany

Something about being projected on a 70 foot screen makes you more attractive and appealing to the opposite sex, which is pretty scary.

Author: Jason Biggs

I know of my sex appeal. I know about sexuality, and I know how to use it - tastefully, of course.

Author: Rachel Bilson

Spock was the sex symbol. A lot of people think it was Kirk. But, no, it was really Spock.

Author: Jolene Blalock

Maybe our generation is more about sex, but it feels like romance is dying out.

Author: Orlando Bloom

Interview with a Vampire was lots of sex, so I'm not sure.

Author: Uwe Boll

To his doctrines I owe my great and glorious ambition for the sex to which I proudly belong and whose independence I shall defend until my dying day.

Author: Rosa Bonheur

Reading is like the sex act - done privately, and often in bed.

Author: Daniel Boorstin

I've been a woman for a little over 50 years and have gotten over my initial astonishment. As for conducting an orchestra, that's a job where I don't think sex plays much part.

Author: Nadia Boulanger

I think Mick Jagger would be astounded and amazed if he realized that to many people he is not a sex symbol, but a mother image.

Author: David Bowie

I remember doing the sex scene in Red Rock West. I had to kiss Nic Cage and then look like I was going down on him. And he couldn't do anything - he just had to lie there.

Author: Lara Boyle

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

Author: William Brennan, Jr.

Familiarity with your lover is what initially makes sex really good.

Author: Susie Bright

This is the point being missed by readers who lament Liquor's lack of hot sex scenes, probably because they aren't old enough to understand that a passionate relationship could be about anything other than sex.

Author: Poppy Brite

I don't really remember a whole lot of sex, drugs and rock n' roll, really.

Author: Bill Bruford

I believe that sex is good and so is the body.

Author: Pat Buckley

It's hard for me to get used to these changing times. I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

Author: George Burns

I can remember when the air was clean and sex was dirty.

Author: George Burns

Television sounded really different than the Ramones sounded really different than us sounded really different than Blondie sounded really different than the Sex Pistols.

Author: David Byrne

People generally have sex fairly young, and probably younger than they should be having it.

Author: Steve Carell

I don't use sex to sell records, obviously, but I'd be lying if I said that I don't feel like I have to make an effort to look good when I go out onstage, to wear something pretty.

Author: Vanessa Carlton

But if our sex would but well consider and rationally ponder, they will perceive and find that it is neither words nor place that can advance them, but worth and merit.

Author: Margaret Cavendish

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.

Author: Ron Chernow

My boyfriend and I live together, which means we don't have sex - ever. Now that the milk is free, we've both become lactose intolerant.

Author: Margaret Cho

What do I know about sex? I'm a married man.

Author: Tom Clancy

I don't think that my parents even imagined that I would be exposed to drugs. In those days, for some reason, it was not talked about, just like sex was not talked about.

Author: Natalie Cole

There are only two guidelines in good sex, Don't do anything you don't really enjoy and find out what are your partner needs and dont balk them if you can help it.

Author: Alex Comfort

I know a little more about Kinsey than I know about sex because that is his subject not mine.

Author: Bill Condon

It's not an anti-sex trip. Like, we're taking sex, which is probably another half of American entertainment, sex and violence, and we're projecting it, and we're saying this is the way everything is right now.

Author: Alice Cooper

Sex is the last refuge of the miserable.

Author: Quentin Crisp

For flavor, instant sex will never supersede the stuff you have to peel and cook.

Author: Quentin Crisp

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

Author: David Cronenberg

Well I don't think sex and violence have ever stopped a movie from being mainstream.

Author: David Cronenberg

The only burning passion I'm sure I have, is the passion for sex.

Author: Robert Crumb

Nope, no sex scandals yet. But I am open to offers!

Author: John Cusack

It's amazing to me that people have any interest in such a low-level sex scandal. If I were sleeping with a congressman, maybe, but I'm a nobody and the people I'm writing about are nobodies.

Author: Jessica Cutler

Normal people have sex lives of their own to worry about.

Author: Jessica Cutler

They'll totally hire me if I say I got fired from my job on the Hill because of a sex scandal.

Author: Jessica Cutler

With me, nothing goes right. My psychiatrist said my wife and I should have sex every night. Now, we'll never see each other!

Author: Rodney Dangerfield

None of my characters seem to have had sex yet - I haven't written about that. And I wouldn't want to deal with what's happening in Oregon - the school shootings.

Author: Paula Danziger

I often think that a slightly exposed shoulder emerging from a long satin nightgown packs more sex than two naked bodies in bed.

Author: Bette Davis

Sex can still be great, even without an orgasm.

Author: Kristin Davis

People in Hollywood don't have that much sex, or at least I don't.

Author: Rosario Dawson

You've got to have a sense of humour about sex. When you look at it, it's all pretty ridiculous, isn't it?

Author: Cat Deeley

Sex is a big question mark. It is something people will talk about forever.

Author: Catherine Deneuve

Glorifying violence is terrible. Simulating sex is nothing - it's something so impersonal really.

Author: Bo Derek

It's very witty and it's great to see teenage characters have control that way. And you can actually hear about sex and pot and it's okay, it's not completely bad and you can't say that to teenagers.

Author: Caroline Dhavernas

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

Author: James Dickey

In America, sex is an obsession, in other parts of the world it's a fact.

Author: Marlene Dietrich

Sex. In America an obsession. In other parts of the world a fact.

Author: Marlene Dietrich

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

Author: Phyllis Diller

It's very hard for a man to ask questions about sex. The smart ones do.

Author: Betty Dodson

I was actually a bit disappointed about the amount of sex in the show. I think Backus should get out a bit more, get a relationship, perhaps make her a lesbian.

Author: Lexa Doig

There really is something raw about sexuality that's real and good and we must continue to learn to not be ashamed of it. But - we have to honor the reality of practicing safer sex.

Author: Kyan Douglas

Sex is great until you die, but it's never as great as it was when you were a kid, when it was a mystery.

Author: David Duchovny

I know if I were in your generation I would be really tired of seeing Sophia Loren as a sex object.

Author: Katherine Dunn

Sex and drugs and rock and roll.

Author: Ian Dury

So I think we're kind of an alternate choice for people who have had it with sex and violence.

Author: Dick Dyke

Though the sex to which I belong is considered weak you will nevertheless find me a rock that bends to no wind.

Author: Elizabeth Elizabeth I

It is a natural virtue incident to our sex to be pitiful of those that are afflicted.

Author: Elizabeth Elizabeth I

I don't want to be known as a sex symbol. There's a great stigma that goes with that tag. I want to be a Sam Elliott.

Author: Sam Elliott

What will happen to sex after liberation? Frankly, I don't know. It is a great mystery to all of us.

Author: Nora Ephron

In my sex fantasy, nobody ever loves me for my mind.

Author: Nora Ephron

I think Henry Miller has had huge influence not because he wrote about sex, but because the memoir or the nonfiction novel has become such a monumental force in American publishing, if not in literature.

Author: Leslie Fiedler

Some things are better than sex, and some are worse, but there's nothing exactly like it.

Author: W. Fields

He allowed us to choreograph the sex scenes.

Author: Linda Fiorentino

I'm convinced my mother only had sex eight times.

Author: Linda Fiorentino

I'm a sexually liberated woman that earned that liberation. I am very proud of the fact that I feel comfortable in certain forums discussing sex.

Author: Gennifer Flowers

These days... it's all vanilla sex for me.

Author: Larry Flynt

Why the hell can't people just write nice happy stories about people having happy sex? That's what I want, and I bet a whole bunch of other people want it too.

Author: Phil Foglio

I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders.

Author: Mark Foley

You know, 20 years... the films of television when it started, the literature, radio in communist countries, they're clean as a whistle; there was no violence, no sex, no drugs, nothing.

Author: Milos Forman

The question of sex will take care of itself.

Author: Helen Frankenthaler

For lack of a better term, they've labeled me a sex symbol. It's flattering and it should happen to every bald, overweight guy.

Author: Dennis Franz

What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.

Author: Erich Fromm

I know nothing about sex, because I was always married.

Author: Zsa Gabor

In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex.

Author: Marguerite Gardiner

For the speedy reader paragraphs become a country the eye flies over looking for landmarks, reference points, airports, restrooms, passages of sex.

Author: William Gass

If I practised sex, out of moral conviction, that was one thing; but to enjoy it... seemed a defeat.

Author: Martha Gellhorn

I started going to Madame Louise's, the lesbian club where all the punk bands used to go - the Sex Pistols, the Clash. I remember seeing Billy Idol walk in there; he was gorgeous.

Author: Boy George

I would rather have a cup of tea than sex.

Author: Boy George

Really, sex and laughter do go very well together, and I wondered - and I still do - which is more important.

Author: Hermione Gingold

The English scene got more media attention with their emphasis on fashion, with the safety pins and all. There were some really good bands over there. The Sex Pistols were great.

Author: Greg Ginn

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

Author: William Glasser

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

Author: William Glasser

The higher mental development of woman, the less possible it is for her to meet a congenial male who will see in her, not only sex, but also the human being, the friend, the comrade and strong individuality, who cannot and ought not lose a single trait of her character.

Author: Emma Goldman

It is essential that we realize once and for all that man is much more of a sex creature than a moral creature. The former is inherent, the other is grafted on.

Author: Emma Goldman

Our stock in trade is raw, flailing sex.

Author: Al Goldstein

Commercials on television are similar to sex and taxes; the more talk there is about them, the less likely they are to be curbed.

Author: Jack Gould

Skiing is better than sex actually, because for me a good round of sex might be seven minutes. Skiing you can do for seven hours.

Author: Spalding Gray

There has always been a certain proportion of people who leave the Church on issues of authority and sex. That hasn't changed since we started doing research on it back in the early 1960s.

Author: Andrew Greeley

Today, many people are engaging in same sex relationships and saying they are not gay.

Author: Pam Grier

When the authorities warn you of the dangers of having sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.

Author: Matt Groening

When authorities warn you of the sinfulness of sex, there is an important lesson to be learned. Do not have sex with the authorities.

Author: Matt Groening

No, we didn't shoot... in the ones that I did there were hardly any sex... there were suggestions of sex scenes but we never actually shot a sex scene as such.

Author: Val Guest

I deliberately wrote a poem in my last book where I was suggesting that there are other passions as great as or more important than the passion of sex.

Author: Thom Gunn

I don't think of sex as a self-destructive impulse.

Author: Thom Gunn

I think sex is very interesting for most people, but I'm interested in sex as a way of communication, I'm not that interested in the fantasy version of a sex scene.

Author: Maggie Gyllenhaal

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.

Author: Laurell Hamilton

When sex is necessary for the plot of a book, or a character development, then I don't shy away from it. Why should I?

Author: Laurell Hamilton

To be womanly is one thing, and one only; it is to be sensitive to man, to be highly endowed with the sex instinct; to be manly is to be sensitive to woman.

Author: Jane Harrison

Writers can write outside their ethnicity or sex depending how open and vulnerable they wish to be.

Author: Jim Harrison

We English have sex on the brain. Not the best place for it, actually.

Author: Laurence Harvey

I feel like I'm too old to just have sex. I mean, I want to have sex, but with somebody who really loves me.

Author: Teri Hatcher

Like all citizens, Ms. McNeill has the right to be free from unlawful employment practices such as sex discrimination and retaliation.

Author: John Hawkins

People's sex habits are as well known in Hollywood as their political opinions, and much less criticized.

Author: Ben Hecht

Well, I thought the Sex Pistols were the cream of the crop. They came in and topped everybody, for sure. They took all the existing strands and made a perfect package out of them.

Author: Richard Hell

There is more to sex appeal than just measurements. I don't need a bedroom to prove my womanliness. I can convey just as much sex appeal, picking apples off a tree or standing in the rain.

Author: Audrey Hepburn

Darling: the popular form of address used in speaking to a member of the opposite sex whose name you cannot at the moment remember.

Author: Oliver Herford

To me, sex is sex and I don't think it is or should be a problem. Maybe my presenting it that way will unscrew up a few heads out there, including my own.

Author: Jaime Hernandez

In Ski Party we are reading up on how to have fun without sex. That was the theme of every AIP picture!

Author: Dwayne Hickman

Because I was extremely uncomfortable talking about sex with him at all and particularly in such a graphic way, I told him that I did not want to talk about these subjects.

Author: Anita Hill

I have been celibate for about six or seven months, I think. I would rather just make out and kiss someone instead of sex. I'm single. I said I would be single for a year and I am.

Author: Paris Hilton

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

Author: Abbie Hoffman

Landscape is to American painting what sex and psychoanalysis are to the American novel.

Author: Robert Hughes

Sex is the most beautiful thing that can take place between a happily married man and his secretary.

Author: Barry Humphries

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.

Author: Kim Hunter

Sex is a discovery.

Author: Fannie Hurst

The three major administrative problems on a campus are sex for the students, athletics for the alumni, and parking for the faculty.

Author: Robert Hutchins

An intellectual is a person who's found one thing that's more interesting than sex.

Author: Aldous Huxley

A woman never forgets her sex. She would rather talk with a man than an angel, any day.

Author: Washington Irving

Hitting is better than sex.

Author: Reggie Jackson

After I saw Kiss on stage, I wanted my show to look like the fourth of July. The persona of Rick James was wild and crazy, sex, drugs and rock and roll.

Author: Rick James

You can't have rock and roll without drugs, you can't have rock and roll without sex.

Author: Rick James

Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.

Author: Famke Janssen

Understand that sexuality is as wide as the sea. Understand that your morality is not law. Understand that we are you. Understand that if we decide to have sex whether safe, safer, or unsafe, it is our decision and you have no rights in our lovemaking.

Author: Derek Jarman

I always think the Sex Pistols and the Ramones as very, very important because they stripped things down.

Author: Jim Jarmusch