Naked Quotes - Page 21

• I was there to see beautiful naked women. So was everybody else. It's a common failing.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Beautiful, Common, Failing

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• The Pantechnicon stored and distributed a good deal of furniture as well. The very idea of a lady of good breeding visiting such a place. There would be tables lying about, on their sides, naked! Not to mention flaccid dirigibles! Alexia shuddered at the very idea.

  Gail Carriger

  Lying, Ideas, Would Be

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• Even from far away, I could see people being chased by hellhounds, burned at the stake, forced to run naked through cactus patches or listen to opera music.

  Rick Riordan

  Running, People, Cactus

  Rick Riordan (2006). “The lightning thief”

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• To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognised for oneself.

  John Berger

  Beauty, Oneself

  "John Berger obituary" by Michael McNay, www.theguardian.com. January 2, 2017.

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• Personally I think that grammar is a way to attain Beauty. When you speak, or read, or write, you can tell if you've spoken or read or written a fine sentence. You can recognise a well-tuned phrase or an elegant style. But when you are applying the rules of grammar skilfully, you ascend to another level of the beauty of language. When you use grammar you peel back the layers, to see how it is all put together, to see it quite naked, in a way.

  Muriel Barbery

  Writing, Thinking, Style

  "The Elegance of the Hedgehog". Book by Muriel Barbery, www.e-reading.club. 2006.

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• It's not that I want you to be a certain way--don't you want a boyfriend?" "Why bother with that? Let's find incubi." "Incubi?" "Demons. Plural. Like octopi. And we're much more likely to find them"--her voice dropped conspiratorially--"while swimming naked in the Atlantic a week before Halloween than practically anywhere else I can think of.

  Holly Black

  Halloween, Swimming, Thinking

  Holly Black (2012). “Tithe”, p.12, Simon and Schuster

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• Last time you called me late at night you were naked and chained to your shower curtain rod. I hope this isn't going to be disappointing.

  Janet Evanovich

  Night, Lasts, Disappointing

  Janet Evanovich (2007). “More Plums in One: Four to Score, High Five, and Hot Six”, p.380, Macmillan

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• What are your thoughts?' 'My thoughts?' I replied, before I even realized what I was saying. 'My thoughts created my world.' Mac sat up in his seat. He scrunched his curls with his hands, perplexed. 'Who said that?' I told him the truth. 'Oh, just someone I used to know,' I said, stroking the naked skin on my middle finger.

  Megan McCafferty

  Hands, Skins, Curls

  Megan McCafferty (2006). “Charmed Thirds: A Jessica Darling Novel”, p.319, Broadway Books

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• My definition of freedom is knowing who you are, and then being it. No matter what anyone else is doing. And naked parties of course.

  Pink

  Party, Knowing, Definitions

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• Even if you’ve taken off every stitch of clothing, you still have your secrets, your history, your true name. It’s hard to be really naked. You have to work hard at it. Just getting into a bath isn’t being naked, not really. It’s just showing skin.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Life, Taken, Hard Work

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• This land, although not my native land, Will be remembered forever. And the sea's lightly iced, Unsalty water. The sand on the bottom is whiter than chalk, The air is heady, like wine, And the rosy body of the pines Is naked in the sunset hour. And the sunset itself on such waves of ether That I just can't comprehend Whether it is the end of the day, the end of the world, Or the mystery of mysteries in me again.

  Anna Akhmatova

  Wine, Sunset, Air

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• I'm not body-shy -- it's hard to grow up in the Summerlands, where clothes are solidly optional, and stay body-shy -- but that doesn't mean I enjoy nudity. Naked people are, by definition, unarmed.​

  Mira Grant

  Growing Up, Mean, Clothes

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• Not exactly. You see, Portia and I think that the coal miner thing's very overdone. No one will remember you in that. And we both see it has our job to make District 12 tributes unforgettable,' says Cinna. I'll be naked for sure, I think. 'So rather than focus on the coal mining itself, we're going to focus on the coal,' says Cinna. Naked and covered in black dust, i think. 'And what do we do with coal? We burn it,' says Cinna. 'You're not afraid of fire, are you, Katniss?' He sees my expression and grins.

  Suzanne Collins

  Jobs, Thinking, Fire

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• It's just that most really good-looking people are stupid, so I exceed expectations.' 'Right, it's primarily his hotness,' I said. 'It can be sort of blinding,' he said. 'It actually did blind our friend Isaac,' I said. 'Terrible tragedy, that. But can I help my own deadly beauty?' 'You cannot.' 'It is my burden, this beautiful face.' 'Not to mention your body.' 'Seriously, don't even get me started on my hot bod. You don't want to see me naked, Dave. Seeing me naked actually took Hazel Grace's breath away,' he said, nodding toward the oxygen tank.

  John Green

  Beautiful, Stupid, Oxygen

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• I hate it when men go to strip bars. It lowers the rest of us that know if a man has to pay to see a woman naked, he is a loser and probably should get weeded out.

  Henry Rollins

  Hate, Men, Bars

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• Water can be a symbol of purification, to stand naked before someone a sign of truth, of nothing to hide. - Nick Flynn

  Nick Flynn

  Water, Purification, Symbols

  Nick Flynn (2016). “Another Bullshit Night in Suck City”, p.129, Faber & Faber

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• He had threatened my parents. I had to remember that. Still, it was really hard to stay mad at a wounded naked man.

  Darynda Jones

  Men, Mad, Parent

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.128, Macmillan

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• If all of the steps of surrender are present, then a great Rembrandt or Monet will evoke love because the artist is simply there in all his naked humanity.

  Deepak Chopra

  Spiritual, Artist, Humanity

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• Some things are too terrible to grasp at once. Other things - naked, sputtering, indelible in their horror - are too terrible to really grasp ever at all.It is only later, in solitude, in memory that the realization dawns: when the ashes are cold; when the mourners have departed; when one looks around and finds oneself - quite to one's surprise - in an entirely different world.

  Donna Tartt

  Memories, Solitude, Departed

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• Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.

  Aberjhani

  Angel, Grace, Sorrow

  Aberjhani (2010). “The River of Winged Dreams (Hardcover Gift Edition)”, p.63, Lulu.com

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• Everyone on earth would never starve and forever find love and happiness, since we won, but if we’d lost, they would have gouged out our eyes and thrown us naked onto hot coals and poisonous snakes for all the cheering and hugging at the end, strangers hugging like the end of The Omega Virus when Steve Sturmine finds the antidote.

  Daniel Handler

  Cheer, Eye, Snakes

  Daniel Handler (2012). “Why We Broke Up”, p.68, Egmont UK

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• Oh, my god!" I said, throwing my hands over my eyes and hurtling my body against the counter. "What?" "You're naked." "I'm not naked." "I'm blind." "You're not blind. I'm wearing pants." "Oh." That was embarrassing.

  Darynda Jones

  Eye, Hands, Body

  Darynda Jones (2012). “Third Grave Dead Ahead”, p.17, Macmillan

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• I turned around slowly, and looked up at him. He stiffened and sucked in a shallow breath. After a moment, he touched my cheek. "Such naked pain," he whispered. I turned my face into his palm and closed my eyes. His fingers threaded into my hair, cupped my head, and brushed the brand. It heated at his touch. His hand tightened at the base of my skull and squeezed, and he raised me slowly to my tiptoes. I opened my eyes and it was my turn to inhale sharply. Not human. Oh, no, not this man. "Never show it to me again." His face was cold, hard, his voice colder.

  Karen Marie Moning

  Pain, Eye, Men

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• Well enough. I won't ask you if your love is true or any of that rot—it's not my place to judge. After all, I'm a naked woman chained to a wall; I've no business questioning the lifestyles of wine-makers or anyone else.

  Catherynne M. Valente

  Wall, Wine, Love Is

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• My mouth is a fire escape. The words coming out don’t care that they are naked. There is something burning in there.

  Andrea Gibson

  Fire, Burning, Mouths

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