Perky Quotes

• She has great breasts," the Colonel said without looking up from the whale. "DO NOT OBJECTIFY WOMEN'S BODIES!" Alaska shouted. Now he looked up. "Sorry. Perky breasts." "That's not any better!

  John Green

  Sorry, Alaska, Whales

  John Green (2015). “Looking For Alaska Special 10th Anniversary Edition”, p.51, Penguin

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• Power comes from leading a controlled life, a happy life, a perky life.

  Frederick Lenz

  Happy Life, Personal Power, Controlled

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• If I hear the word 'perky' again, I'll puke.

  Katie Couric

  Literature, Ifs, Puke

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• They always pencil in my boobs. I was only angry when they were really droopy. For King Arthur, for a poster, they gave me these really strange droopy tits. I thought, well if you’re going to make me fantasy breasts, at least make perky breasts.

  Keira Knightley

  Kings, Strange, Fantasy

  "Topless Keira Knightley: I'm Not Anorexic" by Evann Gastaldo, www.newser.com. November 13, 2012.

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• I'm not pert and perky anymore - when you're over 60, it's 'feisty.

  Sandy Duncan

  Feisty

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• Love is a perky elf dancing a merry little jig and then suddenly he turns on you with a miniature machine gun.

  Matt Groening

  Love, Dance, Dream

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• There's more pressure on women to be chirpy and perky.

  Barbara Ehrenreich

  Pressure

  Interview with Ben Dickinson, www.elle.com. September 9, 2009.

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• Last night you said you wanted to know what to expect so you could better select your attire. I told you we were going to visit a vampire in a Goth-den tonight. Why, then, Ms. Lane, do you look like a perky rainbow?

  Karen Marie Moning

  Night, Rainbow, Vampire

  FaceBook post by Karen Marie Moning from Jul 07, 2014

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• I don't know, Y'know, I always wanted to be one of those cheerleader girls and I never was that, and I was never sort of cute and perky, and I always thought it was fun to be cute and perky, and those, I don't know what those girls are doing now.

  Katey Sagal

  Cute, Girl, Cheerleading

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• In the early part of my life I carried the flame for fiery women: perky women who were not dumb.

  Debra Winger

  Flames, Dumb, Fiery

  Interview with Rachel Cooke, www.theguardian.com. December 27, 2008.

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• Occasionally the state of the planet can knock me off my perky perch.

  Graham Norton

  States, Planets

  Interview With Rosanna Greenstreet, www.theguardian.com. February 17, 2007.

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• She tried to act as though it were nothing to go to the library alone. But her happiness betrayed her. Her smile could not be restrained, and it spread from her tightly pressed mouth, to her round cheeks, almost to the hair ribbons tied in perky bows over her ears.

  Maud Hart Lovelace

  Hair, Library, Ears

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• And while my mind is telling me I'm flirting with her just to prove a point, my body wants to play "you show me your perky privates and I'll show you mine.

  Simone Elkeles

  Flirting, Play, Mind

  Simone Elkeles (2010). “Rules of Attraction”, p.136, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• I can't personally drink or fight too much nowadays because I have to be perky in the morning in order to write.

  Bonnie Jo Campbell

  Morning, Writing, Fighting

  Source: therumpus.net

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• When you're older, no matter how good your humor is you don't always feel perky and peppy. But if you sit home all day and brood about it, it gets worse.

  Iris Apfel

  Home, Matter, Feels

  Source: www.harpersbazaar.com

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• I get all these screenplays that start 'Tawnya is in the shower. The water streams down her naked, perky breasts'. I don't think this is happening to Natalie Portman.

  Jessica Alba

  Thinking, Water, Hollywood

  "Fantasy figure" by Allison Glock, www.theguardian.com. July 17, 2005.

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• It was that summer, too, that I began the cutting, and was almost as devoted to it as my newfound loveliness. I adored tending to myself, wiping a shallow red pool of my blood away with a damp washcloth to magically reveal, just above my naval: queasy. Applying alcohol with dabs of a cottonball, wispy shreds sticking to the bloody lines of: perky. I had a dirty streak my senior year, which I later rectified.

  Gillian Flynn

  Summer, Senior, Dirty

  Gillian Flynn (2006). “Sharp Objects: A Novel”, p.62, Broadway Books

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• I ordered a coffee and a little something to eat and savored the warmth and dryness. Somewhere in the background Nat King Cole sang a perky tune. I watched the rain beat down on the road outside and told myself that one day this would be twenty years ago.

  Bill Bryson

  Kings, Rain, Coffee

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• I called Clay from the SUV. "How'd it go at the paper?" he asked. "She called me perky." "Ouch.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Clay, Ouch, Paper

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Frostbitten”, p.60, Bantam

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• I don't want to sound like an old grandmother but actually it's quite nice when you get up early and then, by the time it gets to 10am, you're quite perky and already quite switched on.

  Sophie Ellis Bextor

  Nice, Grandmother, Up Early

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