Aphrodisiac Quotes - Page 2

• One of the things that everybody knows about space travel but never mentions is its aphrodisiac quality.

  Alfred Bester

  Space, Quality, Knows

  Alfred Bester (1997). “Virtual unrealities: the short fiction of Alfred Bester”

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• Free cable is the ultimate aphrodisiac.

  Jim Carrey

  Cables, Ultimate

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• Violence was almost an aphrodisiac for me.

  Woody Harrelson

  Violence

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• A number of rare or newly experienced foods have been claimed to be aphrodisiacs. At one time this quality was even ascribed to the tomato. Reflect on that when you are next preparing the family salad.

  Jane Grigson

  Food, Numbers, Cooking

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• A man becomes as attractive as an attractive woman when he becomes successful and is publicly noted. Power`s an aphrodisiac.

  Curtis Jackson

  Successful, Men, Attractive

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• For those of you who like to scarf your popcorn in the sack, the good news is that Newman's Own contains an aphrodisiac.

  Paul Newman

  Popcorn, Scarves, News

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• He's really sort of the devil. He's completely emotionally detached. He has no empathy. You find that in psychopaths. It's about power with Voldemort. It's an aphrodisiac for him. Power makes him feel alive.

  Ralph Fiennes

  Empathy, Devil, Alive

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• Grief is nature’s most powerful aphrodisiac.

  Will Ferrell

  Powerful, Grief, Wedding Crasher

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• I want to be an artist, not... a celluloid aphrodisiac.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Artist, Want, Celluloid

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• One of my books is a hallucinogen, an aphrodisiac, a mood elevator, an intellectual garage door opener, and a metaphysical trash compactor. They'll do everything except rotate your tires.

  Tom Robbins

  Book, Doors, Intellectual

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• Rock n' roll is the most disgusting form of expression, it's brutal, malefic, a pestilential aphrodisiac, the preferred music of the delinquents of the earth.

  Frank Sinatra

  Rocks, Expression, Earth

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• Cynicism is intelectual dandyism, but graciousness in speech is an aphrodisiac. (Andy Spade)

  Kate Spade

  Speech, Cynicism, Graciousness

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• The coolest thing is when you don’t care about being cool anymore. Indifference is the greatest aphrodisiac - that’s what really sums up style for me.

  Rick Owens

  Style, Care, Indifference

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• Knowing someone desires you is the greatest aphrodisiac

  Patricia Briggs

  Knowing, Desire, Knowing Someone

  Patricia Briggs (2009). “Bone Crossed”, p.13, Penguin

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• POWER: The ability to make our fellow humans squirm, sweat and stammer on command. Often regarded as an aphrodisiac; actually a potent laxative that, whenever ingested by people in high places, causes everyone below to run for cover.

  Rick Bayan

  Running, Sweat, People

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• Marx was wrong. Religion is not the opiate of the people. Opium suggests something soporific, numbing, dulling. Too often religion has been an aphrodisiac for horror, a Benzedrine for bestiality. At its best it has lifted spirits and raised spires. At its worst it has turned entire civilizations into cemeteries.

  Phillip Adams

  Civilization, People, Atheism

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• I want to be an artist, not an erotic freak. I don’t want to be sold to the public as a celluloid aphrodisiac.

  Marilyn Monroe

  Artist, Erotic, Want

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• Power is what they like - it is the greatest of all aphrodisiacs.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Attributed in Constant Louis Wairy, Memoires de Constant, Premier Valet de l'Empereur (1830 - 1831) See Graham Greene 6; Kissinger 3

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• Three miles long and two streets wide, the town curls around the bay ... a gaudy run with Mediterranean splashes of color, crowded steep-pitched roofs, fishing piers and fishing boats whose stench of mackerel and gasoline is as aphrodisiac to the sensuous nose as the clean bar-whisky smell of a nightclub where call girls congregate.

  Norman Mailer

  Girl, Running, Fishing

  Norman Mailer (1992). “Advertisements for Myself”, p.519, Harvard University Press

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• To be desired by those who are themselves highly desirable is in itself an aphrodisiac.

  Tobsha Learner

  Desirable

  Tobsha Learner (1996). “Quiver: a book of erotic tales”

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• Genius is a strong aphrodisiac.

  Erica Jong

  Strong, Genius

  Erica Jong (2007). “Seducing the Demon: Writing for My Life”, p.41, Penguin

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• Shame is one of the greatest aphrodisiacs in the world, anyway, built into religion.

  Dylan Moran

  World, Shame, Built

  Source: www.huffingtonpost.com

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• Not only was he not mad, but he was a musician, and my favorite men had always been musicians or writers or anything that involved the creative process and behaving like tortured artists. ... I found financial insecurity a great aphrodisiac.

  Marian Keyes

  Music, Artist, Men

  Marian Keyes (2017). “Lucy Sullivan is Getting Married”, p.135, Penguin UK

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• What is cheaper than lust or of less value than alchemy or aphrodisiacs?

  Avram Davidson

  Lust, Alchemy, Cheaper

  Avram Davidson (2011). “The Avram Davidson Treasury: A Tribute Collection”, p.560, Macmillan

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• There is no neediness in desire ... there is no caretaking in desire. Caretaking is mightily loving, [but] it's a powerful anti-aphrodisiac.

  Esther Perel

  Motivation, Powerful, Inspiration

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