The difference between pornography and erotica is lighting.
– Gloria Leonard
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/120974-the-difference-between-pornography-and-erotica-is-lighting
Apr 082013
Apr 072013
If there is anything the nonconformist hates worse than a conformist, it’s another nonconformist who doesn’t conform to the prevailing standard of nonconformity.
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/96060-if-there-is-anything-the-nonconformist-hates-worse-than-a
Apr 062013
The fundamental basis of this nation’s laws was given to Moses on the Mount…If we don’t have a proper fundamental moral background, we will finally end up with a totalitarian government which does not believe in rights for anybody except the State.
– Harry S. Truman
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/191995-the-fundamental-basis-of-this-nation-s-laws-was-given-to
Apr 052013
We require from buildings, as from men, two kinds of goodness: first,
the doing their practical duty well: then that they be graceful and
pleasing in doing it; which last is itself another form of duty.
— John Ruskin, The Stones of Venice, Volume 3
View the quote in Google Books, Chapter 2 of The Stones of Venice, Volume 3
Apr 042013
Redheads are said to be children of the moon, thwarted by the sun and addicted to sex and sugar.
– Tim Robbins, Still Life with Woodpecker
http://queensjournal.ca/story/2008-10-02/postscript/seeing-red-heads/
Apr 032013
They slipped briskly into an intimacy from which they never recovered.
– F. Scott Fitzgerald, This Side of Paradise
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/137109-they-slipped-briskly-into-an-intimacy-from-which-they-never
Apr 022013
Body and spirit, I surrendered whole,
To harsh Instructors- and received a soul.
http://www.goodreads.com/quotes/530192-body-and-spirit-i-surrendered-whole-to-harsh-instructors–and