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«Sex is interesting, but it's not totally important. I mean it's not even as important (physically) as excretion. A man can go seventy years without a piece of ass, but he can die in a week without a bowel movement.»
Author: Charles Bukowski
(Novelist, Poet, Writer)
| About:
Sex
| Keywords:
bowel, bowel movement, Die in, even as, excretion, physically, piece of ass, seventy, totally
«The past went that-a-way. When faced with a totally new situation, we tend always to attach ourselves to the objects, to the flavor of the most recent past. We look at the present through a rear view mirror. We march backwards into the future.»
Author: Marshall McLuhan
(Educator, Social Reformer, Writer)
| About:
Past
| Keywords:
attach, backwards, faced, flavor, march, most recent, objects, rear, rearing, rear view, Rear View Mirror, recent, totally
«To hide a passion totally (or even to hide, more simply, its excess) is inconceivable: not because the human subject is too weak, but because passion is in essence made to be seen: the hiding must be seen: I want you to know that I am hiding something from you, that is the active paradox I must resolve: at one and the same time it must be known and not known: I want you to know that I don't want to show my feelings: that is the message I address to the other.»
Author: Roland Barthes
(Critic)
| Keywords:
active, address, excess, hiding, inconceivable, in essence, I Want You, message, one and the same, paradox, resolve, The Message, totally
«Political advertising ought to be stopped. It's the only really dishonest kind of advertising that's left. It's totally dishonest.»
Author: David Ogilvy
| About:
Advertising,
Politics
| Keywords:
advertising, dishonest, political, stopped, totally
«Success is almost totally dependent upon drive and persistence. The extra energy required to make another effort or try another approach is the secret of winning.»
«The first time I shot the hook, I was in fourth grade, and I was about five feet eight inches tall. I put the ball up and felt totally at ease with the shot. I was completely confident it would go in and I've been shooting it ever since.»
«The idea that addiction is somehow a psychological illness is, I think, totally ridiculous. It's as psychological as malaria. It's a matter of exposure. People, generally speaking, will take any intoxicant or any drug that gives them a pleasant effect if it is available to them.»
Author: William S. Burroughs
| Keywords:
addiction, addictions, available, drug, drug addiction, effect, exposure, illness, intoxicant, intoxicants, psychological, ridiculous, somehow, speaking, totally
«The only kind of seafood I trust is the fish stick, a totally featureless fish that doesn't have eyeballs or fins.»
Author: Dave Barry
(Humorist, Writer)
| About:
Food
| Keywords:
eyeball, eyeballs, featureless, fin, fins, fish stick, seafood, the fish, totally
«Secondly, the tactics of our - as you know, we don't have relationships with Iran. I mean, that's - ever since the late '70s, we have no contacts with them, and we've totally sanctioned them. In other words, there's no sanctions - you can't - we're out of sanctions.»
Author: George W. Bush
(President)
| Keywords:
in other words, Iran, sanctioned, sanctions, secondly, tactic, tactics, totally
«The question of sexual dominance can exist only in the nightmare of that soul which has armed itself, totally, against the possibility of the changing motion of conquest and surrender, which is love.»
Author: James Arthur Baldwin
(Essayist, Novelist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
armed, conquest, dominance, motion, nightmare, sexual, sexual love, totally
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