Backsides Quotes

• What I fear and desire most in this world is passion. I fear it because it promises to be spontaneous, out of my control, unnamed, beyond my reasonable self. I desire it because passion has color, like the landscape before me. It is not pale. It is not neutral. It reveals the backside of the heart.

  Terry Tempest Williams

  Passion, Heart, Self

  Terry Tempest Williams (2008). “Red: Passion and Patience in the Desert”, p.195, Vintage

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• Well, if you're talking about perfection, I'll show you the image of my backside.

  Onew

  Talking, Perfection, Shows

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• Faces can lie. Backsides can't.

  Yoko Ono

  Liars, Lying, Faces

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• If you turned the fabric of our lives over, I imagined the design on the backside would be woven in the bleak grays of doubt and fear.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Fear, Design, Doubt

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• My history of lending money from banks is that they want to know the ins and outs of the backside of a duck.

  Alan Sugar

  Ducks, Want, Lending

  Interview with Gordon Brown, The Sun, December 11, 2009.

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• Stick a lighted candle up your backside to give yourself that inner glow.

  Frank Delaney

  Giving, Sticks, Candle

  Frank Delaney (2011). “The Matchmaker of Kenmare: A Novel of Ireland”, p.41, Random House

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• Gossip is the foul smell from the Devil's backside.

  Laurie Halse Anderson

  Smell, Gossip, Devil

  Laurie Halse Anderson (2011). “Chains”, p.81, Simon and Schuster

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• Every man has his moral backside which he refrains from showing unless he has to and keeps covered as long as possible with the trousers of decorum.

  Georg C. Lichtenberg

  Men, Long, Morality

  "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 12, 1799.

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• They've kicked our backsides, we've got to lick our wounds...

  Steve Bruce

  Soccer, Football, Chairman

  "Quotes of the year" by Peter Bainbridge, www.telegraph.co.uk. December 25, 2008.

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• My backside and my privates. I’m stuck so full of prickers, it makes me smart just to think on it.

  Robert Newton Peck

  Smart, Thinking, Stuck

  Robert Newton Peck (2010). “A Day No Pigs Would Die”, p.15, Laurel Leaf

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• Right now I'm trying to figure out what I'm gonna do, 'cause I don't want to sit around on my backside all day. If I'm gonna do that I'll be a newspaper reporter.

  Joe Paterno

  Trying, Want, Causes

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• You never look at the backside of a mirror because when you do, it'll affect your future because you're looking at yourself backwards. No, you're looking at your inner self and you don't recognize it because you've never seen it before.

  Gus Van Sant

  Mirrors, Self, Looks

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• I think that if politics is just about getting your backside on important seats, then it's a pretty worthless endeavor.

  Chris Patten

  Thinking, Important, Endeavor

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• I think these days a lot of the younger generation feels that the world owes them something. But you've got to get off your backside and you've got to do all the crap stuff, too.

  Jay Kay

  Thinking, Young Generation, World

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• A perfectionist is someone who finishes the backside of a drawer, which I consider completely unnecessary.

  Helmut Krone

  Unnecessary, Perfectionist, Drawers

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• I am really enjoying the new Martin Luther King Jr stamp - just think about all those white bigots, licking the backside of a black man.

  Dick Gregory

  Kings, Men, Thinking

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• There is my father whispering in my ear, Be still still still. And yet you change everything. What was the marsh like, waiting for the storm before you came and kneeled in the water? It was nothing. Watch after you leave the water, now cold and regretful, miles from home, certain of the belt on your backside, the cold shoulder, the extra chores; watch. Watch the water heal itself of your presence--not to repair injury but to offer itself again should you care to risk another strapping [...].

  Paul Harding

  Father, Home, Heal Itself

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• Rossini would have been a great composer if his teacher had spanked him enough on his backside.

  Ludwig van Beethoven

  Teacher, Teaching, Musical

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• Both my parents came from Russia and suddenly they wound up in Boston, Massachusetts, Brookline, Massachusetts and they felt the sun rose and set on Franklin Delano Roosevelt's backside because he meant so much to them. This was freedom. This was something totally different from the Russia they had left.

  Mike Wallace

  Boston, Russia, Rose

  "Larry King Interviews Mike Wallace". "Larry King Live", edition.cnn.com. March 22, 2006.

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• If this bloke's a Test match bowler, then my backside is a fire engine

  David Lloyd

  Fire, Tests, Bowlers

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• Here I am not the one to throw out. No one steals my warmth and shoes because I am small. No one handles my backside. No one whinnies like sheep or goat because I drop in fear and weakness. No one screams at the sight of me. No one watches my body for how it is unseemly. With you my body is pleasure is safe is belonging. I can never not have you have me.

  Toni Morrison

  Sheep, Sight, Here I Am

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• Cute? You think he's cute? What's cute about him? ... Well, yes. He's got that smile, that really bad boy smile, and a great backside. On page eighty of the relationship manual, it clearly states, you cannot look at another man's backside, especially if you think it's great.

  Christine Feehan

  Cute, Boys, Men

  Christine Feehan (2004). “Mind Game”, p.245, Penguin

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• Celebritys a pain in the backside - youre always on display.

  Rupert Graves

  Pain, Display

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• This [my backside] is still very, very big.

  Renee Zellweger

  Bigs, Stills

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• As I have found out, recognition has its upside, its downside and – you may say – its backside.

  Pippa Middleton

  May, Recognition, Found

  "The 'backside' of fame: Pippa warns about the perils of recognition after THAT bridesmaid's dress." by Anna Edwards, www.dailymail.co.uk. February 26, 2014.

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