“How would you know? Everything’s like sex. It’s the universal metaphor. To pick a lock, let me guess, you have to go slow at first, but then you have to pull off some fancy moves, and you have to stay concentrated, and you have to stick something in something, right?” KnowsFirstsMovingSexPicksUniversalLet MeSticksMetaphorFancyLocks Author:Ned Vizzini
“Dombey and Son had often dealt in hides, but never in hearts. They left that fancy ware to boys and girls, and boarding-schools and books. Mr. Dombey would have reasoned: That a matrimonial alliance with himself must, in the nature of things, be gratifying and honourable to any woman of common sense. That the hope of giving birth to a new partner in such a house, could not fail to awaken a glorious and stirring ambition in the breast of the least ambitious of her sex.” GivingHeartBookSchoolFunnyGirlHouseLeftSexCommonBoysFailingSonBirthAmbitionHumorousPartnersCommon SenseFancyGloriousBreastsAmbitiousAlliancesStirringBoy And GirlGiving Birth Author:Charles Dickens
“The main problem in marriage is that, for a man, sex is a hunger-like eating. If the man is hungry and can't get to a fancy French restaurant, he'll go to a hot dog stand. For a woman, what's important is love and romance.” IfsMenImportantProblemRomanceSexDogHe ManEatingHotHungerHungryFancyRestaurantsHot Dog Author:Joan Fontaine
“What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!” IfsMenGirlSexDifferencesMarriageRichBenefitsFancyCeremonyRespectableRich ManMarryingMarriage CeremonyMarrying Him Book:Mrs. Warren's Profession Source: Mrs. Warren's Profession
“It is generally my thesis then to insist on the importance of imagination in sex, to insist that the practice of sex, as performed among human beings, be accorded the same deliberate and playful application of fancy, imagination and intelligence as any other significant human activity.” HumansSexImaginationHuman BeingsPracticeActivityImportanceSignificantFancyApplicationDeliberateHuman ActivityThesis Author:John Norman