Arousal Quotes

• You can't fake creativity, competence, or sexual arousal.

  Douglas Coupland

  Fake People, Creativity, Competence

  Douglas Coupland (2008). “JPod”, p.12, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• There are a number of mechanical devices which increase sexual arousal, particularly in women. Chief among these is the Mercedes-Benz 380SL convertible.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Hilarious, Single

  P. J. O'Rourke (1983). “Modern manners”, Dell Books

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• The body is a multilingual being. It speaks through its color and its temperature, the flush of recognition, the glow of love, the ash of pain, the heat of arousal, the coldness of nonconviction. . . . It speaks through the leaping of the heart, the falling of the spirits, the pit at the center, and rising hope.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Life, Pain, Fall

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• We tend to think of the erotic as an easy, tantalizing sexual arousal. I speak of the erotic as the deepest life force, a force which moves us toward living in a fundamental way.

  Audre Lorde

  Moving, Thinking, Erotic

  Audre Lorde, Joan Wylie Hall (2004). “Conversations with Audre Lorde”, p.99, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• The female covers her breasts, and then proceeds to redefine their shape with a brassiere. This sexual signaling device may be padded or inflatable, so that it not only reinstates the concealed shape, but also enlarges it, imitating in this way the breast swelling that occurs during sexual arousal.

  Desmond Morris

  Female, Shapes, May

  Desmond Morris (1986). “The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal”, Crown Pub

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• We must give as much weight to the arousal of the emotions and to the expression of moral and esthetic values as we now give to science, to invention, to practical organization. One without the other is impotent.

  Lewis Mumford

  Expression, Organization, Giving

  "Values for Survival". Essay by Lewis Mumford, 1946.

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• Arousal leaves us mind-blind.

  Malcolm Gladwell

  Mind, Blind

  Malcolm Gladwell (2007). “Blink: The Power of Thinking Without Thinking”, p.122, Hachette UK

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• You can't fake competence, creativity, or sexual arousal.

  Douglas Coupland

  Creativity, Fake, Competence

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• Sexual arousal results from the repetition and impact of image.

  William S. Burroughs

  Impact, Results, Repetition

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• Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum.

  Alan Lightman

  Depression, Sadness, Acid

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.20, Vintage

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• God made every one of us a sexual being, and that is good. Attraction and arousal are the natural, spontaneous, God-given responses to physical beauty, while lust is a deliberate act of the will.

  Rick Warren

  Lust, Spontaneous, Natural

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• You need a good fantasy to boost arousal enough to climax... thinking about what you should make for dinner tomorrow during sex is not going to do it.

  Gail Saltz

  Sex, Thinking, Needs

  "Dissatisfied, ladies? Tips to reach the Big O". www.today.com. October 14, 2016.

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• Mercedes Benz : A mechanical device that increases sexual arousal in women.

  P. J. O'Rourke

  Funny, Clever, Smart

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• If you live in rock and roll, as I do, you see the reality of sex, of male lust and women being aroused by male lust. It attracts women. It doesn't repel them.

  Camille Paglia

  Sex, Women, Reality

  Camille Paglia (2011). “Sex, Art, and American Culture: Essays”, p.59, Vintage

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• I'm fascinated by the whole issue of arousal addiction, which seems to be mostly a problem for young men.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Men, Issues, Addiction

  Source: the-talks.com

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• Yes, Elizabeth.” Dash kept his voice low, but let it rumble with his arousal. “I lived for you and Cassie. But while I fought to live I dreamed, and it was this I dreamed of.

  Lora Leigh

  Voice, Rumble, Lows

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• Abuse manipulates and twists a child's natural sense of trust and love. Her innocent feelings are belittled or mocked and she learns to ignore her feelings. She can't afford to feel the full range of feelings in her body while she's being abused-pain, outrage, hate, vengeance, confusion, arousal. So she short-circuits them and goes numb. For many children, any expression of feelings, even a single tear, is cause for more severe abuse. Again, the only recourse is to shut down. Feelings go underground.

  Laura Davies

  Children, Pain, Hate

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• Thoughts are no more than electrical surges in the brain. Sexual arousal is no more than a flow of chemicals to certain nerve endings. Sadness is no more than a bit of acid transfixed in the cerebellum. In short, the body is a machine, subject to the same laws of electricity and mechanics as an electron or clock.

  Alan Lightman

  Sadness, Law, Brain

  Alan Lightman (2011). “Einstein's Dreams”, p.20, Vintage

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• I do think a lot of sexual violence stems from experiences in childhood or at puberty. Some people become sadistic after suffering early abuse at the hands of parents, relatives or friends. But for others, the seed is planted in the formative years by the conflation of images of violence with those of sexual arousal. Magazines, TV shows and, especially, slasher movies are masters at doing this.

  Park Dietz

  Thinking, Years, Tv Shows

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Just go to an auto show, and you'll see all the signs of sexual arousal in the men: shiny eyes, tremors, sex flush. An acute example of the need for professional sex research.

  Volkmar Sigusch

  Sex, Eye, Men

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• I think if you were to sever the connection between arousal and shame, you might actually come up with something liberating and socially useful. It might be healthier for us, and lead to a situation such as they enjoy in Holland, Denmark, or Spain, where they have pornography all over the place - quite hardcore pornography - but they do not have anywhere the incidence of sex crimes.

  Alan Moore

  Sex, Thinking, Connections

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• Is there a secret? Yes. Anaïs Nin and Pauline Réage and Anne Rampling and Erica Jong all knew it. E. L. James knows it. It is the secret behind all of our writing. And our reading. Arousal starts in the mind. And grows in the mind. The brain is the most erogenous zone in a woman’s body. That is our secret. And it is what we share.

  M.J. Rose

  Reading, Writing, Secret

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• Arousal-control has been an issue for me since the beginning of my career.

  Bode Miller

  Careers, Issues, Has Beens

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• Given a sufficient level of perceived self-efficacy to take on threatening tasks, phobics perform them with varying amounts of fear arousal depending on the strength of their perceived self-efficacy

  Albert Bandura

  Self, Tasks, Levels

  Albert Bandura (1986). “Social foundations of thought and action: a social cognitive theory”, Prentice Hall

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• Ever since viewing screens entered the home, many observers have worried that they put our brains into a stupor. An early strain of research claimed that when we watch television, our brains mostly exhibit slow alpha waves - indicating a low level of arousal, similar to when we are daydreaming.

  Hanna Rosin

  Home, Brain, Watches

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