Sensual famous quotes
07-15-2025
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This chanting of the Hare Krishna mantra is enacted from the spiritual platform and thus this sound vibration surpasses all lower strata of consciouness - namely sensual, mental and intellectual.
-- A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupada -
It is impossible to remain indifferent to Japanese culture. It is a different civilisation where all you have learnt must be forgotten. It is a great intellectual challenge and a gorgeous sensual experience.
-- Alain Ducasse -
Fashion is instinctive and sensual. Learn to love what you wear. It should feel like eating chocolates...wi thout the calories
-- Alber Elbaz -
It's nice to finally be thought of as sexy. I'm very disconnected from the sensual side of me, I know it's in me, but it doesn't really reveal itself very often in my personal life, which I do find problematic.
-- Amanda Seyfried -
I never liked the language of Henry Miller. I don't think ***** has added to our sensual life.
-- Anais Nin -
Sexual intercourse... a joyous, joyous, joyous, joyous impaling of woman on man's sensual mast.
-- Anais Nin -
The body is an instrument which only gives off music when it is used as a body. Always an orchestra, and just as music traverses walls, so sensuality traverses the body and reaches up to ecstasy.
-- Anais Nin -
Bathtubs, pools, water - to me, it's a very essential part of being grounded and sensual and feeling yourself.
-- Andre Balazs -
I'm trying to make music a sensual expression, not an academic experiment.
-- Andrew Hill -
I do think I have an ability to record sensual and emotional facts and factoids, to construct a convincing surface of what life feels like, both physical life and emotional life.
-- Anne Carson -
Squander your riches far from this unfeeling body to which no season, either spiritual or sensual, makes any difference.
-- Antonin Artaud -
The mathematics is not there till we put it there.
-- Arthur Eddington -
I think with vampires, you can't really go wrong. For generations, vampires have been a hit because they're unobtainable, mysterious, sensual, dangerous, kind of sexy.
-- Ashley Greene -
I never thought of Kim Basinger in terms of age. For me she embodies woman with her subtleties and intricacies. She's sensual and intellectually engaging, elegant with a very strong personal style.
-- Camilla Belle -
I have never known a man who was sensual in his youth, who was high-minded when old.
-- Charles Sumner -
Rhyannon Byrd has a gift for beautiful, sensual storytelling.
-- Cheyenne McCray -
Much is to be gained by eBooks: ease, convenience, portability. But something is definitely lost: tradition, a sensual experience, the comfort of thingy-ness - a little bit of humanity.
-- Chip Kidd -
Sex is just another form of talk, where you act the words instead of saying them.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
The profoundest of all sensualities is the sense of truth and the next deepest sensual experience is the sense of justice.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
Rippling, rippling, rippling, like a flapping overlapping of soft flames, soft as feathers, running to points of brilliance, exquisite, exquisite and melting her all molten inside.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
She let him come further, his lips came and surging, surging, soft, oh soft, yet on, like the powerful surge of water, irresistible, till with a little blind cry, she broke away.
-- D. H. Lawrence -
Worldly pleasures, such as flow from greatness, riches, honours, and sensual gratifications, are infinitely worse than none
-- David Brainerd -
You know, music is sex. It's a sensual driving mode that affects people if it's played a certain way.
-- Dick Dale -
Women's bodies are curvy, sensual, it's about being happy to be a woman - and sexy is always good
-- Donatella Versace -
For me, starting each collection is always about what I really want, what I really need, and I was personally dying for sensual comfort. I think when you think of Donna Karan, you think of sensuality, but it's a different kind of sensuality. A kind of comfort sensuality that is one with your body and the way clothes feel on.
-- Donna Karan -
I am sensual and very physical. I'm very erotic. But my sexuality exists on a sort of a fantasy level.
-- Donna Summer -
Honor to the idealists, whether philosophers or poets. They have improved us by mingling with our daily pursuits great and transcendent conceptions. They have thrown around our sensual life the grandeur of a better, and drawn us up from contacts with the temporal and the selfish to communion with beauty and truth and goodness.
-- Edwin Hubbel Chapin -
To delight the ear and the eye is a mere sensual indulgence;—true poetry strikes at the soul.
-- Egerton Brydges -
Acting has a strong sensual quality that I get such a... you say 'kick' in America? It's a fantastic profession in that way.
-- Erland Josephson -
The act of conducting in itself, of waving my arms in the air and being in charge, I didn't miss. I missed the sensual pleasure of being in contact with music.
-- Esa-Pekka Salonen -
When I was young, all we ever heard about was functionalism, functionalism, functionalism. It’s not enough. Design should also be sensual and exciting.
-- Ettore Sottsass -
I stole every nickel and blew it on fine threads, luxurious lodgings, fantastic foxes, and other sensual goodies. I partied in every capital in Europe and basked on all the world's most famous beaches.
-- Frank Abagnale -
And, moreover, it is art in its most general and comprehensive form that is here discussed, for the dialogue embraces everything connected with it, from its greatest object, the state, to its least, the embellishment of sensuous existence.
-- Friedrich Schleiermacher -
O love, what strange and wonderful fits: one sole thing, one beauty alone, can give me life and deprive me of wits.
-- Gaspara Stampa -
The raging fire which urged us on was scorching us; it would have burned us had we failed to restrain it.
-- Giacomo Casanova -
Paint is a very sensual material. It's lovely to work with and lovely to look at.
-- Glenn Ligon -
Almost every sin is committed for the sake of sensual pleasure; and sensual pleasure is overcome by hardship and distress arising either voluntarily from repentance, or else involuntarily as a result of some salutary and providential reversal. 'For if we would judge ourselves, we should not be judged; but when we are judged, we are chastened by the Lord, so that we should not be condemned with the world.' (1 Cor. 11:31-32).
-- Gregory of Nazianzus -
Clothes should never be decoration....whe n someone feels at peace with the clothes, they feel more seductive, more desirable, more sensual, more everything.
-- Haider Ackermann -
His kiss was like white lightning, a flash that spread, and spread again, and stayed.
-- Henry James -
Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.
-- Howard Nemerov -
The listener must be gripped and whether he likes it or not, drawn into the flight path of the sounds without special training being necessary. The sensual shock must be just as forceful as when one hears a clap of thunder or looks into a bottomless abyss
-- Iannis Xenakis -
You were once wild here. Don't let them tame you.
-- Isadora Duncan -
We were so fundamental that almost everything had been stripped away from the place of worship. Think of the role words can play, when all other enticements and sensual attractions are gone.
-- James D. Houston -
Scepticism commonly takes up the room left by defect of imagination, and is the very quality of mind most likely to seek for sensual proof of supersensual things. If one came from the dead it could not believe; and yet it longs for such a witness, and will put up with a very dubious one.
-- James Russell Lowell -
When the cup of any sensual pleasure is drained to the bottom, there is always poison in the dregs.
-- Jane Porter -
Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.
-- Jean Piaget -
He smiled, so sensual and beautiful, it was another form of bliss just looking at him.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
Or for the gorgeously bare vampire to give her a sensual massage while feeding her peeled grapes.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth.
-- Jock Sturges -
But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another.
-- Jock Sturges -
The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.
-- Jock Sturges -
There's one more thing I want to say. It's a touchy subject. Black beauty. Black sensuality. We live in a culture where the beauty of black people isn't always as celebrated as other types. I'd like to help change that if I can!
-- Jody Watley -
Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.
-- Johann Georg Hamann -
I cannot exist without you - I am forgetful of every thing but seeing you again - my Life seems to stop there - I see no further. You have absorb'd me. I have a sensation at the present moment as though I was dissolving...
-- John Keats -
...a sensual life is a ghostly existence where you live on the surface and your soul passes through everything, touching nothing ...
-- John M. Geddes -
If mathematics is to be understood widely, we need to emphasise its elegance and its applications. Sometimes it seems that universities want to emphasise how difficult it is!
-- Johnny Ball -
To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.
-- Jose Bergamin -
Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.
-- Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel -
People tend to think of fairy tales as archetypal. They are also extremely sensual, something which translates well over the ages.
-- Kate Bernheimer -
You must put the odor of the human body into images describe for me the implacable, the egoistic, the sensual, the cruel there are nothing but disgusting people in this world.
-- Kenji Mizoguchi -
I sort of have a love affair with my work. Many of us work far too hard and we don't put enough value in the epicurean, sensual part of life.
-- Kim Cattrall -
What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?
-- Lara St. John -
I want to tap into different styles. Something definitely mature, sultry, sensual, easy listening that everyone can enjoy. Every one of every race and everyone that likes different styles.
-- LaToya London -
My writing style is very sensual, as in sensory detail
-- Laurell K. Hamilton -
I love the camera; there's something very special and sensual about it, and I have a tendency to call it a he, like it was a man. But, unlike a man, a camera is accepting of everything I do.
-- Lena Olin -
I am acquainted with no immaterial sensuality so delightful as good acting.
-- Lord Byron -
Music is mediator between spiritual and sensual life.
-- Ludwig van Beethoven -
Man is not, like the animals, an obsequious puppet of instincts and sensual impulses. Man has the power to suppress instinctive desires, he has a will of his own, he chooses between incompatible ends.
-- Ludwig von Mises -
For me photography is not an intellectual process. It is a visual one.... Whether we like it or not, we are involved in a sensual business.
-- Marc Riboud -
A sensual and intemperate youth hands over a worn-out body to old age. [Lat., Libidinosa etenim et intemperans adolescentiam effoetum corpus tradit senectuti.]
-- Marcus Tullius Cicero -
Nothing but the cross of Christ can so startle the spiritual nature from its torpor, as to make it an effectual counterpoise to the debasing and sensual tendencies of the race. Favored by temperament and education, individuals may measurably escape; but if the race is to triumph in the conflict between the flesh and the spirit, between the lower propensities and the higher nature, they must, as Constantine is said to have done, see the cross, and on it the motto, "In hoc signo vinces." By this sign we conquer.
-- Mark Hopkins -
Eating is so intimate. It's very sensual. When you invite someone to sit at your table and you want to cook for them, you're inviting a person into your life.
-- Maya Angelou -
I am proud to be a woman. I am sensual, nurturing and compassionate woman. I am a woman of my word and I love who I am.
-- Miranda Kerr -
American eroticism has always been of a different provenance and complexion than the European variety, an enjoyment both furtive and bland that is closer to a blushing cartoon than a sensual celebration.
-- Molly Haskell -
If one wants another only for some self-satisfaction, usually in the form of sensual pleasure, that wrong desire takes the form of lust rather than love.
-- Mortimer Adler -
...his lips were pure temptation, soft, bitable, sensual in a way only a man's mouth could be.
-- Nalini Singh -
No scent is more sensual or more memorable to me than musk.
-- Narciso Rodriguez -
While wine may be only a drink, it is also one of the most complex sensory pleasures we enjoy. It is as cerebral as it is sensual, and it requires a lifetime to appreciate it.
-- Natalie MacLean -
A singular fact, that, when man is a brute, he is the most sensual and loathsome of all brutes.
-- Nathaniel Hawthorne -
The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It's about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it's worth getting your teeth into.
-- Neil Jordan -
We must always emphasize research and development of science and mathematics, and I can think of no better way to achieve this than through our future in space.
-- Nick Lampson -
To be a poet is to place pleasure, beauty and sensual delights front and centre, it means having a predilection for debauchery.
-- Nicole Brossard -
I love it when a woman is wearing Red Lipstick, and her hair is combed back, so sensual and confident.
-- Oribe -
What attracts me are free and sensual curves. The curves we find in mountains, in the waves of the sea, in the body of the woman we love.
-- Oscar Niemeyer -
I was attracted by the curve — the liberated, sensual curve suggested by the possibilities of new technology yet so often recalled in venerable old baroque churches.
-- Oscar Niemeyer -
I tend to sleep in the nude... I'm a sensual-leaning woman. You have to use the word 'leaning' or it sounds like I'm boasting.
-- Padma Lakshmi -
Smell is incredibly important and sensual; it communicates who you are.
-- Puff Daddy -
You must lance an ulcer to heal it. You must tear down parts of an old building to restore it, and so it is with a sensual life that has no spirit in it.
-- Rumi -
If men are discharged of reverence for ancient usage, they will treat this world, almost certainly, as if it were their private property, to be consumed for their sensual gratification; and thus they will destroy in their lust for enjoyment the property of future generations, of their own contemporaries, and indeed their very own capital.
-- Russell Kirk -
The taste of chocolate is a sensual pleasure in itself, existing in the same world as sex... For myself, I can enjoy the wicked pleasure of chocolate... entirely by myself. Furtiveness makes it better.
-- Ruth Westheimer -
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed... And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is.
-- Saint Augustine -
My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
-- Sally Kirkland -
Music is the only sensual pleasure without vice.
-- Samuel Johnson -
Love - bittersweet, irrepressible - loosens my limbs and I tremble.
-- Sappho -
You must be mistaken," Isabel said, unconcerned by the insult that the words carried. "I assure you i am not. Voluptas is nearly always portrayed wrapped in roses. If that were not enough, her faces confirms her identity." "You cannot tell a goddess from a face carved in marble," she scoffed. "You can tell Voluptas by her face." "I've never even heard of this goddess, and you know what she looks like?" "She is the goddess of sensual pleasure." Isabel's mouth fell open at the words. She could not think of a single thing to say in response. "Oh
-- Sarah MacLean -
Love was something different. Love was pure delight, a fountain of emotions, sensual delights, and enjoying spending time together.
-- Sergei Lukyanenko -
Sensual is everything that refers to the delight of the senses. And that's what artists do, is stimulate the senses in any possible way.
-- Shakira
