Buttocks Quotes

• Beauty for some provides escape, who gain a happiness in eyeing the gorgeous buttocks of the ape or Autumn sunsets exquisitely dying.

  Langston Hughes

  Beauty, Nature, Fall

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• The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional. Although they conceal an essential orifice, these pointless globes are as near as the human form can ever come to abstract art.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Art, Essentials, Body

  "Tynan Right and Left : Plays, Films, People, Places and Events" by Kenneth Tynan, (p. 432), 1967.

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• Like a barber's chair that fits all buttocks.

  William Shakespeare

  Shaving, Fit, Chairs

  'All's Well that Ends Well' (1603-4) act 2, sc. 2, l. [18]

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• The majority of persons choose their wives with as little prudence as they eat. They see a troll with nothing else to recommend her but a pair of thighs and choice hunkers, and so smart to void their seed that they marry her at once. They imagine they can live in marvelous contentment with handsome feet and ambrosial buttocks. Most men are accredited fools shortly after they leave the womb.

  Edward Dahlberg

  Marriage, Smart, Men

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• One popular new plastic surgery technique is called lip grafting, or 'fat recycling,' wherein fat cells are removed from one part of your body that is too large, such as your buttocks, and injected into your lips. People will then be literally kissing ass.

  Dave Barry

  Kissing, Cells, People

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• Some strong-willed children absolutely demand to be spanked, and their wishes should be granted. Two or three stinging strokes on the legs or buttocks with a switch are usually sufficient to emphasize the point, 'You must obey me.'

  James Dobson

  Strong, Children, Wish

  "The Strong-Willed Child". Book by James Dobson, 1978.

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• A woman’s beauty lies, not in any exaggeration of the specialized zones, nor in any general harmony that could be worked out by means of the sectio aurea or a similar aesthetic superstition; but in the arabesque of the spine. The curve by which the back modulates into the buttocks. It is here that grace sits and rides a woman’s body.

  John Updike

  Lying, Mean, Curves

  Laurie G. Kirszner, John Updike (1998). “A and P”, Heinle & Heinle Pub

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• The buttocks are the most aesthetically pleasing part of the body because they are non-functional.

  Kenneth Tynan

  Body, Parts Of The Body, Abstract Art

  "Tynan Right and Left : Plays, Films, People, Places and Events" by Kenneth Tynan, (p. 432), 1967.

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• A painter who has the feel of breasts and buttocks is saved.

  Pierre-Auguste Renoir

  Painter, Breasts, Feels

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• I paint a woman's big rounded buttocks so that I want to reach out and stroke the dimpled flesh.

  Peter Paul Rubens

  Beauty, Flesh, Want

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• She Knows three things: (a) that men are less treacherous than women; (b) that they never notice what a woman is wearing because they're always mentally undressing her, (c) that as long as you've got breasts,thighs,buttocks and belly in good trim, you can conquer the world.

  Paulo Coelho

  Men, Conquer The World, Long

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “The Winner Stands Alone”, p.41, HarperCollins UK

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• The most popular image of the female despite the exigencies of the clothing trade is all boobs and buttocks, a hallucinating sequence of parabolae and bulges.

  Germaine Greer

  Women, Female, Trade

  Germaine Greer (2009). “The Female Eunuch”, p.32, Harper Collins

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• Ah well... wand still in your jeans? Both buttocks still on? Okay, let’s go.

  J. K. Rowling

  Jeans, Wands, Okay

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• It's true that you need much time to get rid of the fat girl you once were, but you know I am sincerely grateful for my buttocks.

  Kate Winslet

  Girl, Grateful, Needs

  "Kate Winslet Tells Vanity Fair 'i Am Sincerely Grateful For My Buttocks'" by Elizabeth Snead, www.hollywoodreporter.com. May 30, 2012.

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• If I admire my arms, my face,
  my shoulders, flanks, buttocks
  against the yellow drawn shades,--
  
  Who shall say I am not
  the happy genius of my household?

  William Carlos Williams

  Happiness, Self, Yellow

  William Carlos Williams (1991). “The Collected Poems of William Carlos Williams”, p.87, New Directions Publishing

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• You are not your buttocks.

  Kaz Cooke

  Body Image

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• I should like to know which is worse: to be ravished a hundred times by pirates, and have a buttock cut off, and run the gauntlet of the Bulgarians, and be flogged and hanged in an auto-da-fe, and be dissected, and have to row in a galley -- in short, to undergo all the miseries we have each of us suffered -- or simply to sit here and do nothing?' That is a hard question,' said Candide.

  Voltaire

  Running, Cutting, Pirate

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• Don’t put your wand there, boy! ... Better wizards than you have lost buttocks, you know!

  J. K. Rowling

  Funny, Boys, Wizards

  J.K. Rowling (2015). “Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix”, p.49, Pottermore

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• You're as white as a nun's buttock. Are you all right?

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  White, Nun

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2005). “The Shadow of the Wind”, p.92, Penguin

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• To spend your days in the company of naked men - that was the life for me. 'Turn a bit to the left, Jean-Claude. I long to capture the playful quality of your buttocks.

  David Sedaris

  Men, Long, Quality

  David Sedaris (2000). “Me talk pretty one day”

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• Being natural and matter-of-fact about nudity prevents your children from developing an attitude of shame or disgust about the human body. If parents are very secretive about their bodies and go to great lengths to prevent their children from ever seeing a buttock or breast, children will wonder what is so unusual, and even alarming, about human nudity.

  Lee Salk

  Attitude, Children, Parent

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• They explained that if men want to put a large phone into their jeans, it has to be able to fit their buttocks. This is a company ranked worldwide number 1, number 2 in displays, and their marketing says this.

  Terry Gou

  Technology, Men, Phones

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• Usually state laws refer to touching intimate parts, it can be breasts or buttocks.

  Megyn Kelly

  Law, Touching, Intimate

  Source: www.realclearpolitics.com

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• Read non-fiction. History, biology, entomology, mineralogy, paleontology. Get a bodyguard and do fieldwork. Find your inner fish. Don't publish too soon. Not before you have read Thomas Mann in any case. Learn by copying, sentence by sentence some of the masters. Copy Coetzee's or Sebald's sentences and see what happens to your story. Consider creative non-fiction if you want to stay in South Africa. It might be the way to go. Never neglect back and hamstring exercises, otherwise you won't be able to write your novel. One needs one's buttocks to think.

  Marlene van Niekerk

  Writing, Exercise, Thinking

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• There are people who think that we cannot rule ourselves because the few times we tried, we failed, as if all the others who rule themselves today got it right the first time. It is like telling a crawling baby who tries to walk, and then falls back on his buttocks, to stay there. As if the adults walking past him did not crawl, once

  Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

  Baby, Fall, Past

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