Naked Quotes - Page 11

• Every day of my adult life, I have worn at least one piece of jewelry from my maternal grandmother's collection, all of which were manufactured by famed Danish silversmith Georg Jensen. To the naked eye, I am either a Jensen loyalist or a grandmother loyalist. Really I am just a Pretty Things loyalist.

  Sloane Crosley

  Eye, Grandmother, Adults

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• When two kids are being completely berserk, and they're naked and throwing food around, sometimes I just let it go because I can see a future where they're going to be dressed, and they're going to be at school. So I kind of let stuff go sometimes.

  Louis C. K.

  School, Kids, Two

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• There is something vulnerable about showing your tattoos to people, even while it gives you a feeling that you are wearing a sleeve when you are naked.

  Lena Dunham

  Tattoo, People, Giving

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• The moment that you feel that just possibly you are walking down the street naked...that's the moment you may be starting to get it right.

  Neil Gaiman

  May, Moments, Starting

  "Neil Gaiman's Commencement Speech Is The Must-Watch Thing Of The Day" by Caleb Reading, uproxx.com. April 21, 2012.

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• The pinpoints of starlight we see with the naked eye are photons that have been streaming toward us for a few years or a few thousand.

  Brian Greene

  Eye, Years, Streaming

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• If you want to be a rock star or just be famous, then run down the street naked, you'll make the news or something. But if you want music to be your livelihood, then play, play, play and play! And eventually you'll get to where you want to be.

  Eddie Van Halen

  Running, Stars, Rocks

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• I like to undress women - not to dress them. You know, like Manet's 'Olympia' or Helmut Newton's photographs - naked women with shoes. This is what I am trying to do.

  Christian Louboutin

  Shoes, Trying, Dresses

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• We've never played at this place before. This place is big, and I'm kinda nervous, so we're going to make it feel small by pretending we're in a... bedroom. We'll hang off the edge of the bed, take off our shoes and get naked!

  Dave Matthews

  Shoes, Bed, Nervous

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• I did undergo hypnotherapy, and it didn't work! The guy couldn't put me under. I was very disappointed. I was very keen to be suggested, to have somebody tell me to run naked or cluck like a chicken or whatever, but it didn't work for me, I'm afraid.

  James McAvoy

  Running, Guy, Chickens

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• There's nothing unclassy about being naked, if it's appropriate.

  Danica McKellar

  Appropriate, Ifs

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• Everyone knows I'm a lash girl by now. When I don't have my lashes, I feel naked.

  Nicki Minaj

  Girl, Lashes, Feels

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• Cooking is about passion, so it may look slightly temperamental in a way that it's too assertive to the naked eye.

  Gordon Ramsay

  Passion, Eye, Cooking

  "Interview with Gordon Ramsay About Masterchef". Interview with Brett Moore, www.thespruce.com. November 17, 2016.

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• Men's magazines often feature pictures of naked ladies. Women's magazines also often feature pictures of naked ladies. This is because the female body is a beautiful work of art, while the male body is hairy and lumpy and should not be seen by the light of day.

  Richard Roeper

  Beauty, Beautiful, Art

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• I have a few caftans just for lounging purposes. When I want to feel free, it's the closest thing to feeling naked without being naked.

  Jill Scott

  Feelings, Purpose, Want

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• Given the opportunity, under the right conditions, two cells from wildly different sources, a yeast cell, say, and a chicken erythrocyte, will touch, fuse, and the two nuclei will then fuse as well, and the new hybrid cell will now divide into monstrous progeny. Naked cells, lacking self-respect, do not seem to have any sense of self.

  Lewis Thomas

  Opportunity, Two, Self

  Lewis Thomas (1990). “A Long Line of Cells Collected Essays”

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• If I walk outside without lipstick, I feel naked.

  Sofia Vergara

  Red Lipstick, Walks, Feels

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• What had brought me to New York in the autumn of 1972 was a letter of recommendation written by Norman Mailer, the author of 'The Naked and the Dead' and American literature's leading heavyweight contender, to Dan Wolf, the delphic editor of 'The Village Voice.'

  James Wolcott

  New York, Autumn, Editors

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• In Sleep we lie all naked and alone, in Sleep we are united at the heart of night and darkness, and we are strange and beautiful asleep; for we are dying the darkness and we know no death.

  Thomas Wolfe

  Beautiful, Lying, Heart

  Thomas Wolfe, Francis E. Skipp (1989). “The Complete Short Stories Of Thomas Wolfe”, p.65, Simon and Schuster

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• Seeing a woman's child is like seeing a woman naked, in the way it changes how her face looks to you, how her face becomes less the whole story.

  John Crowley

  Children, Looks, Stories

  "Little, Big: or, The Fairies' Parliament". Book by John Crowley. Book 2, Chapter 3, 1981.

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• I could run nearly naked on a hot, windy beach and plunge without care into a running diamond sea; roll on the sand and fling my arms wide to the sun and still be what I was...young.

  Anne Rivers Siddons

  Running, Beach, Sea

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• Doffing the ego's safe glory, he finds his naked reality.

  Dag Hammarskjold

  Reality, Ego, Safe

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• A woman half dressed seemed to have some power, but a man was simply not as handsome as when he was naked, and not as secure as when he was clothed.

  John Irving

  Men, Half, Handsome

  John Irving (1978). “The world according to Garp”, Pocket

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• And thus I clothe my naked villainy With odd old ends stol'n out of holy writ; And seem a saint, when most I play the devil.

  William Shakespeare

  Play, Devil, Saint

  William Shakespeare, Janis Lull (2009). “King Richard III”, p.95, Cambridge University Press

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• We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness. All of the things that Shadow had done in his life of which he was not proud, all the things he wished he had done otherwise or left undone, came at him then in a swirling storm of guilt and regret and shame, and he had nowhere to hide from them. He was as naked and as open as a corpse on a table, and dark Anubis the jackal god was his prosector and his prosecutor and his persecutor.

  Neil Gaiman

  Regret, Lying, Dark

  "American Gods". Book by Neil Gaiman, 2001.

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• …there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.

  John Irving

  Firsts, First Time, Compare

  John Irving (2012). “A Widow For One Year”, p.43, Random House

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