Best adults & males Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“The intricate and different life cycles of both male and female root-heads, and the great behavioral sophistication shown by the female in reconfiguring a host crab as a support system, all underscore the myopia of our conventional wisdom in regarding rhizocephalans as degenerate parasites because the adult anatomy of internal roots and external sac seem so simple.”

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

“The extraordinary gentleness of the adult male with his young dispels all the King Kong mythology.”

Young Kings Adults Extraordinary Males Mythology Gentleness Wildlife King Kong

Book:Gorillas in the Mist

Source: Gorillas in the Mist

“You can draw a penguin on a toilet reading The New York Times and it's adorable, but try doing it with an adult male character, and it's disgusting.”

Trying Character Reading New York Draws Adults Males Disgusting Toilets New York Times Adorable Penguins

Author:Bill Watterson

“PANTALOONS, n. A nether habiliment of the adult civilized male. The garment is tubular and unprovided with hinges at the points of flexion. Supposed to have been invented by a humorist. Called trousers by the enlightened and pants by the unworthy.”

Has Beens Adults Males Enlightened Civilized Pants Garments Unworthy Humorists Hinges Trousers

Book:The Devil's Dictionary

Source: The Devil's Dictionary

“Rearing a family is probably the most difficult job in the world. It resembles two business firms merging their respective resources to make a single product. All the potential headaches of that operation are present when an adult male and an adult female join to steer a child from infancy to adulthood.”

World Children Two Jobs Difficult Products Adults Resources Female Males Firm Operations Adulthood Steers Infancy Headache Merging

Book:The new peoplemaking

Source: The new peoplemaking

“Did you ever look into the personalities of male cooks, Army, logging camp, etc.? They're all supposed to be crazy, incomprehensible, contemptible. And angry. The act of feeding adult males seems to have strange personality effects.”

Looks Seems Crazy Effects Strange Personality Adults Army Angry Males Supposed To Be Cooks Etc Camps Feeding Being Crazy Logging

Author:James Tiptree Jr.

“In personal conversations between director and actor, the male directors that I've worked with are just as emotional. Maybe it's because I had to start having very intimate conversations with adult men at a very young age in order to get the work, but I'm really comfortable with dudes. I mean, we push boundaries in this business in terms of getting to know people.”

People Knows Men Mean Age Young Order Actors Term Emotional Directors Conversation Comfortable Adults Males Boundaries Intimate Young Age Intimate Conversation

Author:Kristen Stewart

“The 'militia' was the entire adult male citizenry, who were not simply allowed to keep their own arms, but affirmatively required to do so.”

Arms Adults Males Militia Citizenry

Author:Don Kates

“That is the really great thing about being an adult male, once you get married and have children the whole decision-making process is taken out of your hands, and I for one am extremely grateful.”

Children Whole Hands Process Decision Taken Married Adults Grateful Males Great Things Decision Making Really Great Decision Making Process

Author:P. J. O'Rourke

“Nudity in photography, whether involving adults or children, is a subject sinking under a freight of political and moral disapproval it could never hope to support, and this is not the place for me to get out the bilge pump. I will only say that critics who tremble so fiercely at the thought of the voyeuristic male gaze miss the point that distance generates mystery and enchantment, and expresses the awe with which the male imagination regards all women.”

Children Political Imagination Moral Support Mystery Subjects Missing Photography Adults Regard Distance Critics Males Awe Involving Sinking Nudity Pumps Enchantment Disapproval

Author:J. G. Ballard

“I did go through this period where girls would be mean and I had a lot of guy friends. But I've found as an adult the importance of having female and male friends.”

Mean Would Be Guy Girl Found Periods Adults Female Importance Males Guy Friend Females And Males

Author:Zooey Deschanel

“I grew up in a house full of women: my mother, grandmother, three sisters, and two female cats. And I still have the buzz of their conversations in my head. As an adult, I have more female friends than male ones: I just love the way that women talk.”

Way Stills Two Mother Three House Grew Conversation Grew Up Adults Female Cat Males Grandmother Buzz Mother Grandmother Female Friends Three Sisters

Author:James Patterson

“Dad was the only adult male I ever trusted.”

Father Dad Adults Males My Dad Trusted Boyfriend

Book:On the outside looking in

Source: On the outside looking in

“A healthy male adult bore consumes each year one and a half times his own weight in other people's patience.”

People Inspirational Years Half Healthy Adults Dignity Weight Patience Males Boredom Bores Year One Half Time

Author:John Updike

“Here is the secret to surviving one of these [airplane] crashes: Be male. In a 1970 Civil Aeromedical institute study of three crashes involving emergency evacuations, the most prominent factor influencing survival was gender (followed closely by proximity to exit). Adult males were by far the most likely to get out alive. Why? Presumably because they pushed everyone else out of the way.”

Source: Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers

“Even though probably the majority of homosexuals are not oriented towards young people, there is a significant number that are, especially the men...male homosexuality has historically been not adult to adult it has been adult to teenager”

People Men Has Beens Young Numbers He Man Gay Adults Majority Males Significant Teenager Homosexuality Homosexual Significant Numbers

Author:Scott Lively

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