„I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.“

„.

"Most times, when I'm having sex, I'd rather be reading."
This was, I admit, a strange thing to say on a second date.
I guess I was just giving you a warning.
"Most times when I'm reading," you said, "I'd rather be having sex".“

—  David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

Zdroj: The Lover's Dictionary

„I have always placed my highest and most permanent hopes upon the eternity of the Communal situation.“

—  F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead British politician 1872 - 1930

Letter to Lord Reading (March 1925) on India, as quoted in Lord Reading (1967) by H. Montgomery Hyde, p. 387.

„… a lot of kids do get married at 15. I would have had my family ten years younger. Instead of starting the Revolution at 50, I would have been 40. And man, did I have a lot of sex drive at 40! Whew! I was out on the road chasing women most of the time!“

—  David Berg Children of God founder 1919 - 1994

Child Brides!

„What most people in our culture mean by being lovable is essentially a mixture between being popular and having sex appeal.“

—  Erich Fromm, kniha Umění milovat

Zdroj: The Art of Loving (1956), Ch. 1

„I know you need to go,
But before you do I want you to know, that I
Wish you the best.
And I wish you nothing less
Than every thing you've ever dreamed of.
And I hope that you find love along the way.
But most of all,
I wish you'd stay.“

—  Brad Paisley American country music singer 1972

I Wish You'd Stay, written by Brad Paisley and Chris DuBois.
Song lyrics, Part II (2001)

„At this point, most people would have thrown themselves down on the ground and given up hope. And by most people, I mean me.“

—  Rick Riordan, kniha The Hammer of Thor

Zdroj: The Hammer of Thor

„Public Administration, in my opinion, is one of the most important things in the world; but it has little sex appeal.“

—  Louis Brownlow American mayor 1879 - 1963

Louis Brownlow: "The Art and Science of Public Administration." in: Puerto Rico and Its Public Administration Program. Proceedings of the Public Administration Conference, October-November 1945, p. 191.

„You're the last Olympian,' I said. 'And the most important.'
And why is that, Percy Jackson?'
Because Hope survives best at the hearth,' I said.“

—  Rick Riordan American writer 1964

„I have so little sex appeal that my gynecologist calls me "sir."“

—  Joan Rivers American comedian, actress, and television host 1933 - 2014

As quoted in R. Byrne, Third and Possibly the Best 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1987)

„The boys in my grade talked about sex a lot. Some of them even told me that they had sex with their girlfriends. This was the most devastating and traumatizing thing I’ve ever heard in my life. Boys having sex at my age of Fourteen? I couldn’t fathom it. How is it that they were able to have such intimate and pleasurable experiences with girls while I could only fantasize about it? I frequently started asking myself. This was an all-boys school… How in the hell were those boys even able to meet girls to have sex with? I wondered. I hoped they were lying. I hoped against all hope. […] and one of my obnoxious classmates named Jesse was bragging about having sex with his girlfriend. I defiantly told him that I didn’t believe him, so he played a voice recording of what sounded like him and his girlfriend having sex. I could hear a girl saying his name over and over again while she panted franticly. He grinned at me smugly. I felt so inferior to him, and I hated him.“

—  Elliot Rodger American spree killer 1991 - 2014

My Twisted World (2014), Thoughts at 14

„I’m a showman. I believe that you’re a character every time you put on clothes. Tomorrow I may be another in hoops and tight jeans and a bomber. Clothes, to me, or wardrobe express characters.“

—  Erika Jayne American singer, actress and television personality 1969

Erika Jayne interview to Vogue https://www.vogue.com/article/erika-girardi-jayne-real-housewives-of-beverly-hills-bella-gigi-hadid-tom-ford-celebrity-style (2017)

„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, Richard III.

Zdroj: Richard III

„I have often thought of it as one of the most barbarous customs in the world, considering us as a civilized and a Christian country, that we deny the advantages of learning to women. We reproach the sex every day with folly and impertinence; while I am confident, had they the advantages of education equal to us, they would be guilty of less than ourselves.“

—  Daniel Defoe English trader, writer and journalist 1660 - 1731

The Education of Women (1719)

„All my life I have felt most strongly against social distinction of any kind. I have at all time tried to paint to the best of my ability and would only hope that any remembrance of me when I'm am gone will be base on my work.“

—  L. S. Lowry British visual artist 1887 - 1976

Letter of 1967 and 1970 to Prime Ministers Wilson and Heath declining knighthood.L. S. Lowry - A Biography by Shelley Rhode Lowry Press 1999 ISBN 9781902970011.
Other

„I hope life treats you kind
And I hope you have all you've dreamed of.
And I wish to you, joy and happiness.
But above all this, I wish you love.“

—  Dolly Parton American singer-songwriter and actress 1946

I Will Always Love You from the album Jolene
Song lyrics

„I'm afraid to hope but I can't help it, and the idea of hoping in this most hopeless of all places makes me want to cry.“

—  Beatrice Sparks American writer 1917 - 2012

Zdroj: Go Ask Alice

„I despise my own nation most. Because I know it best. Because I still love it, suffering from Hope. For me, that's patrotism.“

—  Edward Abbey American author and essayist 1927 - 1989

Zdroj: The Serpents of Paradise: A Reader

„Never grieve for me if it is my good fortune to die with my boots on. That's what I most hope for.“

—  Maynard Owen Williams American journalist 1888 - 1963

in a letter to Gilbert Grosvenor, editor of the National Geographic (1948)

„!-- This is my most misunderstood book, and I have devoted some attention to trying to understand why. … --> I have been accused of having believed when I wrote Sex and Temperament that there are no sex differences … This, many readers felt, was too much. It was too pretty. I must have found what I was looking for. But this misconception comes from a lack of understanding of what anthropology means, of the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder, that which one would not have been able to guess.“

—  Margaret Mead American anthropologist 1901 - 1978

Preface of 1950 edition of Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies (1935), p. xxvi <!-- ; 1977 editon, p. ix -->
[Anthropology demands] the open-mindedness with which one must look and listen, record in astonishment and wonder that which one would not have been able to guess.
As quoted in Gaither's Dictionary of Scientific Quotations (2012) by Carl C. Gaither and Alma E. Cavazos-Gaither<!-- cited in Coming of Age in Second Life : An Anthropologist Explores the Virtually Human (2010) by Tom Boellstorff, p. 71 -->
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