Naked Quotes - Page 40

• A self without a shelf remains cryptic; a home without books naked.

  Leah Price

  Book, Home, Self

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• Jesus is a half-naked guy, hanging, nailed to a cross, and then people wear that around their neck, and then those are the people that are upset about violence in movies.

  Marilyn Manson

  Jesus, People, Guy

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• I distinguish two types of human beings, Love people, who love the sky and the flowers, and Power People, who are essentially sold on naked power.

  Richard Adams

  Flower, Sky, Two

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• Coyness is a rather comically pathetic fault, a miscalculation in which, by trying to veil the ego, we let it appear stark naked.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Ego, Trying, Veils

  Louis Kronenberger (1964). “The cart and the horse”

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• Him & Her are born directly from the ideas behind the Panton Chair. An evolution of the hermaphroditic original, declined into the harmony of the two sexes. They assume sculpted forms like naked models of seduction...but they feel no shame.

  Fabio Novembre

  Sex, Ideas, Two

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• The objects that are of moderate energy, like our sun or most of the stars that we see in the night sky with the naked eye, are objects in which relatively moderate energy processes are taking place.

  Claude Nicollier

  Stars, Eye, Night

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• We believe in a moral code. Communism denies innate right or wrong. As W. Cleon Skousen has said in his timely book, The Naked Communist: The communist 'has convinced himself that nothing is evil which answers the call of expediency.' This is a most damnable doctrine. People who truly accept such a philosophy have neither conscience nor honor. Force, trickery, lies, broken promises are wholly justified.

  Ezra Taft Benson

  Lying, Philosophy, Book

  Ezra Taft Benson (1964). “Title of liberty”

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• If a photographic plate under the center of a lens focused on the heavens is exposed for hours, it comes to reveal stars so far away that even the most powerful telescopes fail to reveal them to the naked eye. In a similar way, time and concentration allow the intellect to perceive a ray of light in the darkness of the most complex problem.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Stars, Powerful, Eye

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal, Neely Swanson, Larry W. Swanson (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.59, MIT Press

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• It's funny that you can murder someone horribly and graphically and disturbingly in a horror film, and it's not an NC-17, but if you put a naked man on screen, everyone freaks out.

  Carey Mulligan

  Men, Freak, Horror

  Source: collider.com

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• When I take on something, I take the whole thing on. It's not even a question of separating, "Oh, am I going to be naked?" If you know you have to do something in life, for me, I go with my whole person.

  Charlotte Rampling

  Persons, Whole, Separating

  Interview with Zoe Wolff, www.interviewmagazine.com. August 31, 2014.

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• It's disheartening that animal people criticize societies that enlist the help of actors or organize creative acts like 'I'd rather go naked than wear fur,' to increase public awareness to our cause. These are great/courageous ideas which time has come! Liberation of animals is REVOLUTION - not elegant performance/ intellectual competition. We should do most anything to advance the animal rights cause. All the bickering may make the one step forward... TWO STEPS BACKWARD???

  Adela Popescu

  Animal, Ideas, Two

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• Naked I seek the camp of those who desire nothing.

  Horace

  Desire, Camps

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• A great artist... must be shaken by the naked truths that will not be comforted. This divine discontent, this disequilibrium, this state of inner tension is the source of artistic energy.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Artist, Suffering, Energy

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1949). “Truth and Fantasy from My Life”

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• If we are to understand the human condition, and if we are to accept ourselves in all the complexity, self-doubt, extravagance of feeling, guilt, joy, the slow freeing of the self to its full capacity for action and creation, both as human being and as artist, we have to know all we can about each other, and we have to be willing to go naked.

  May Sarton

  Artist, Self, Joy

  May Sarton (2014). “Journal of a Solitude”, p.52, Open Road Media

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• Trying to imagine E. M. Forster, who found Ulysses indecorous, at a London performance of Lenny Bruce—to which in fact he was once taken. Trying to imagine the same for a time-transported Nathaniel Hawthorne—who during his first visit to Europe was even shocked by the profusion of naked statues.

  David Markson

  Taken, Europe, Trying

  David Markson (2007). “The Last Novel”, p.57, Counterpoint

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• You know when I decided to become professional - that means to expose yourself naked to the world with the other creative minds - I said, 'I'm going into areas I don't know. I might just fall right down to hell and kill myself.

  Louise Berliawsky Nevelson

  Fall, Mean, Creative

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• One must go through life, be it red or blue, stark naked and accompanied by the music of a subtle fisherman, prepared at all times for a celebration.

  Francis Picabia

  Blue, Red, Celebration

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• Painters paint outdoors, or in rooms full of people; they paint their lovers, alone, naked; they paint and eat; they paint and listen to the radio. It is a soothing way of doing your job.

  Paul Theroux

  Jobs, People, Radio

  Paul Theroux (2006). “The Kingdom by the Sea: A Journey Around the Coast of Great Britain”, p.57, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Look that nothing live in thy working mind, but a naked intent stretching into God.

  Dionysius of Halicarnassus

  Mind, Looks, Concentration

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• I'm at the age where I don't need an acid trip to feel naked... to feel that I don't exist. Now a self-portrait is almost a reminder to me that I do exist.

  Francesco Clemente

  Self, Age, Portraits

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• Modern Americans are so exposed, peered at, inquired about, and spied upon as to be increasingly without privacy--members of a ;naked society and denizens of a goldfish bowl.

  Edward V. Long

  Goldfish, Privacy, Modern

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• Perhaps we might, within the anatomy of our imaginations, think once more of the naked body as a vessel of grace, taste and wonder. In the spotted history of art, stranger things have happened.

  Robert Genn

  Art, Thinking, Imagination

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• The bread you store up belongs to the hungry; the cloak that lies in your chest belongs to the naked; the gold you have hidden in the ground belongs to the poor.

  Saint Basil

  Lying, Gold, Saint

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• The bread which you use is the bread of the hungry; the garment hanging in your wardrobe is the garment of him who is naked; the shoes you do not wear are the shoes of the one who is barefoot; the acts of charity that you do not perform are so many injustices that you commit.

  Saint Basil

  Shoes, Saint, Use

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• She lives a sophisticate's life among worldly people. At the slightest excuse she steps out of civilization, naked and relieved, as I should step out of a soiled chemise.

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings

  Civilization, People, Steps

  Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings (2015). “Cross Creek”, p.308, Booklassic

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