Naked Quotes - Page 31

• If in the sex scene you happen to be naked in front of a lot of other people you've just got to put that aside, in the same way that you have to put that aside in a fully-clothed intense dialogue scene because you're entering into that particular imaginative state of play.

  Geoffrey Rush

  Sex, Play, People

  Source: collider.com

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• The eternal destiny of human beings will be measured by how much or how little solidarity we have displayed with the hungry, the thirsty, the naked, and the oppressed. In the end we will be judged in terms of love.

  Leonardo Boff

  Destiny, Littles, Hungry

  Leonardo Boff (1980). “The Way of the Cross: Way of Justice”

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• I have exposed myself and am not ashamed to stand there naked. "Shame" is what we call the monster that attached itself to men when they aspired beyond the animals.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Animal, Men, Monsters

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• If people were really naked and everyone knew what each other was thinking, everyone would probably just laugh... or they'd lock each other up.

  Robyn Hitchcock

  Thinking, People, Laughing

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• The moment in the account of Adam and Eve in the book of Genesis is when they realize they're naked and try and cover themselves with fig leaves. That seemed to me a perfect allegory of what happened in the 20th century with regard to literary modernism. Literary modernism grew out of a sense that, “Oh my god! I'm telling a story! Oh, that can't be the case, because I'm a clever person. I'm a literary person! What am I going to do to distinguish myself?...a lot of modernism does seem to come out of a fear of being thought an ordinary storyteller.

  Philip Pullman

  Clever, Book, Perfect

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• What happens when you're naked is that people get that you're really just a human being. There are parts of it that are pretty appalling, and there are parts that are okay. That's what it looks like. If you can embrace and accept what people look like in the altogether, it's not so difficult to accept them with their clothes on.

  James Cromwell

  Clothes, People, Looks

  "James Cromwell Talks STILL MINE, Playing a Lead Role, Questioning Authority, AMERICAN HORROR STORY: ASYLUM, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 16, 2013.

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• My grandma has never been impressed with the TV show [Desperate Housewives]. She was so angry because I was on television kissing a boy naked; she's very traditional. She said: "If I ever see you kissing that boy again...".

  Eva Longoria

  Grandma, Kissing, Boys

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• In middle age, going naked contributes little to public enjoyment.

  Mason Cooley

  Age, Gone, Littles

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• Whether he sleeps or wakes,--whether he runs or walks,--whether he uses a microscope or a telescope, or his naked eye,--a man never discovers anything, never overtakes anything, or leaves anything behind, but himself. Whatever he says or does, he merely reports himself. If he is in love, he loves; if he is in heaven, he enjoys; if he is in hell, he suffers. It is his condition that determines his locality.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Running, Sleep, Eye

  Henry David Thoreau (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Henry David Thoreau (Illustrated)”, p.1871, Delphi Classics

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• Are we going buck-naked, or are we wearing like a bathing suit?

  Scott Disick

  Bucks, Suits, Bathing

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• Loving me with my shoes off
  means loving my long brown legs,
  sweet dears, as good as spoons;
  and my feet, those two children
  let out to play naked.

  Anne Sexton

  Sweet, Children, Mean

  Anne Sexton (1999). “Love Poems”, p.35, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I always feel as if I stood naked for the fire of Almighty God to go through me--and it's rather an awful feeling. One has to be so terribly religious to be an artist.

  D. H. Lawrence

  God, Religious, Art

  D. H. Lawrence, James T. Boulton (2002). “The Letters of D. H. Lawrence”, p.519, Cambridge University Press

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• But why I cry out against Rubens is because he painted undressed people instead of naked ones.

  E. M. Forster

  Art, People, Cry

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• Some have said that it is not the business of private men to meddle with government--a bold and dishonest saying, which is fit to come from no mouth but that of a tyrant or a slave. To say that private men have nothing to do with government is to say that private men have nothing to do with their own happiness or misery; that people ought not to concern themselves whether they be naked or clothed, fed or starved, deceived or instructed, protected or destroyed.

  Cato the Younger

  Men, Tyrants, People

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• The first law that ever God gave to man was a law of pure obedience; it was a commandment naked and simple, wherein man had nothing to inquire after, or to dispute, forasmuch as to obey is the proper office of a rational soul, acknowledging a heavenly superior and benefactor. From obedience and submission spring all other virtues, as all sin does from self-opinion.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Spring, Simple, Men

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.511, 谷月社

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• O naked flower of my lips, you lie! I await a thing unknown or perhaps, unaware of the mystery and your cries you give, O lips, the supreme tortured moans of a childhood groping among its reveries to sort out finally its cold precious stones.

  Stephane Mallarme

  Lying, Flower, Precious Stones

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• The east is not for me--the sensuous spiritual voluptuousness, the curious sensitiveness of the naked people, their black, bottomless, hopeless eyes.

  D. H. Lawrence

  Spiritual, Eye, People

  D.H Lawrence (1995). “The Sayings of D. H. Lawrence”, p.43, Gerald Duckworth & Co

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• Without the great arts which speak to the sense of beauty, a man seems to me a poor, naked, shivering creature. These are his becoming draperies, which warm and adorn him.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Beauty, Art, Men

  Ralph Waldo Emerson (1870). “Culture, Behavior, Beauty: Books, Art Eloquence. Power, Wealth, Illusions”

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• Naked power has its limitations, since power is a generator of corruption and corruption in its turn tends to dilute the effectiveness of power.

  Robert Payne

  Effectiveness, Corruption, Turns

  Robert Payne (1975). “The Corrupt Society: From Ancient Greece to Present-Day America”, Praeger Publishers

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• In dreams we see ourselves naked and acting out our real characters, even more clearly than we see others awake.

  Henry David Thoreau

  Dream, Real, Character

  Henry David Thoreau (2004). “Walden and Other Writings”, p.79, Bantam Classics

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• Especially on Broadway, composers and lyricists fretted over their creations, obsessed over every rhyme, every critical chord or interval. The stakes were so high. On Broadway, people were watching and judging, especially newspaper critics who knew a thousand ways to slice and dice a songwriter for the entertainment of hundreds of thousands of faithful readers. There was no anonymity for the Broadway songwriter. Even the best could find themselves stripped naked the morning after by the tastemakers and their readers.

  Michael Kosser

  Morning, Writing, People

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• My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls thy hand, and without His behest, thou canst not strike a stroke. My God is sinless, eternal, all-wise, and in Him is my trust, and though stripped and crushed by thee, -though naked, desolate, void of resource- I do not despair:where the lance of Guthrum now wet with my blood, I should not despair. I watch, I toil, I hope, I pray: Jehovah, in His own time, will aid.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Wise, Son, Night

  Charlotte Bronte (2016). “The Professor”, p.117, Charlotte Bronte

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• Men as yet need some help to their imagination. There remains still room for a little illusion. It is better for men, it is better for women, that each somewhat idealize the other. Much is lost when life has lost its atmosphere, and is reduced to naked fact.

  Mary Abigail Dodge

  Men, Imagination, Atmosphere

  Mary Abigail Dodge (1872). “Woman's Worth and Worthlessness: The Complement to "A New Atmosphere"”, p.281

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• I'm tired of the naked, raped, beaten black woman body. I want to see an image of black femaleness that alters our universe in some way.

  Bell Hooks

  Leadership, Wisdom, Tired

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• About Archimedes one remembers that he did strange things: he ran around naked shouting 'Heureka!', plunged crowns into water, drew geometric figures as he was about to be killed, and so on. One ends up forgetting he was a scientist of whom we still have many writings.

  Lucio Russo

  Writing, Water, Crowns

  "The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn". Book by Lucio Russo, 2004.

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