Voluptuous Quotes - Page 2

• Some of the people that I photographed as sticks became much more voluptuous, much rounder, in some cases dramatically so, and I think they're even more beautiful.

  Jock Sturges

  Beautiful, Artist, Thinking

  "Light & Shadows". Interview with David Steinberg, www.laweekly.com. March 4, 1998.

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• When we hear complaints of the wretchedness or vanity of human life, the proper answer to them would be that there is hardly any one who at some point or other has not been in love. If we consider the high abstraction of this feeling, its depth, its purity, its voluptuous refinement, even in the meanest breast, how sacred and how sweet it is, this alone may reconcile us to the lot of humanity. That drop of balm turns the bitter cup to a delicious nectar.

  William Hazlitt

  Love, Sweet, Vanity

  William Hazlitt (1871). “The Round Table. A collection of Essays ... By W. H. and Leigh Hunt”, p.507

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• Well, in Colombia everybody's very voluptuous, and you're supposed to be. You don't want to be skinny when all of your cousins are mermaids. You grow up thinking that's how beauty is.

  Sofía Vergara

  Cousin, Growing Up, Thinking

  "Sofía Vergara habla de sexo y bikinis en Esquire: ¿Quién es la actriz de televisión más sexy?", www.foxnews.com. 20 de marzo de 2012.

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• Aprende a detestar las cosas que no te permiten ser tú mismo, y abraza las cosas que hacen que ese yo sea más grande, emocionante y voluptuoso.

  Perry Brass

  Being Yourself, Embrace, Thrilling

  Perry Brass (1998). "El amante de mi alma: una búsqueda del éxtasis y la sabiduría", p.27, Perry Brass

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• I found that of the senses, the eye is the most superficial, the ear the most arrogant, smell the most voluptuous, taste the most superstitious and fickle, touch the most profound and the most philosophical.

  Helen Keller

  Philosophical, Eye, Smell

  Helen Keller (2012). “The World I Live In and Optimism: A Collection of Essays”, p.34, Courier Corporation

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• The [nineteenth-century] young men who were Puritans in politics were anti-Puritans in literature. They were willing to die for the independence of Poland or the Manchester Fenians; and they relaxed their tension by voluptuous reading in Swinburne.

  Rebecca West

  Reading, Men, Independence

  Rebecca West (2010). “The Strange Necessity: Essays and Reviews”, p.140, Open Road Media

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• She touched the edge of its voluptuous field, knowing it would be lovely beyond dreams simply to submit to it; that not gravity's pull, laws of ballistics, feral ravening, promised more delight. She tested it, shivering: I am meant to remember. Each clue that comes is supposed to have its own clarity, its fine chances for permanence. But then she wondered if the gemlike "clues" were only some kind of compensation. To make up for her having lost the direct, epileptic Word, the cry that might abolish the night.

  Thomas Pynchon

  Dream, Night, Law

  Thomas Pynchon (2012). “The Crying of Lot 49”, p.55, Penguin

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• Había un sonido de jolgorio por la noche, Y la capital de Bélgica había reunido entonces Su belleza y su caballería, y brillante Las lámparas brillaban sobre las mujeres hermosas y los hombres valientes. Mil corazones latían felices; y cuando la música se alzaba con su voluptuoso oleaje, ojos suaves miraban al amor a ojos que volvían a hablar, Y todo era alegre como una campana de boda. ¡Pero ¡silencio! ¡atención! un sonido profundo golpea como una campanada creciente!

  Lord Byron

  Ojo, Corazón, Hombres

  Lord Byron (2013). "Byron: Selected Poetry and Prose", p.347, Routledge.

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• To lose yourself: a voluptuous surrender, lost in your arms, lost to the world, utterly immersed in what is present so that its surroundings fade away. In Benjamin’s terms, to be lost is to be fully present, and to be fully present is to be capable of being in uncertainty and mystery.

  Rebecca Solnit

  World, Arms, Mystery

  Rebecca Solnit (2010). “A Field Guide To Getting Lost”, p.16, Canongate Books

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• If, in looking at the lives of princes, courtiers, men of rank and fashion, we must perforce depict them as idle, profligate, and criminal, we must make allowances for the rich men's failings, and recollect that we, too, were very likely indolent and voluptuous, had we no motive for work, a mortal's natural taste for pleasure, and the daily temptation of a large income. What could a great peer, with a great castle and park, and a great fortune, do but be splendid and idle?

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Fashion, Men, Temptation

  William Makepeace Thackeray (1869). “Miscellanies: The four Georges. The English humorists. Roundabout papers”, p.38

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• It is easy to understand why the rabble dislike cats. A cat is beautiful; it suggests ideas of luxury, cleanliness, voluptuous pleasures.

  Charles Baudelaire

  Beautiful, Cat, Ideas

  Charles Baudelaire, Christopher Isherwood, W. H. Auden (2006). “Intimate Journals”, p.49, Courier Corporation

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• The smell of roasting meat together with that of burning fruit wood and dried herbs, as voluptuous as incense in a church, is enough to turn anyone into a budding gastronome

  Claudia Roden

  Food, Smell, Church

  Claudia Roden (1984). “Everything tastes better outdoors”, Random House Inc

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• Apenas adolescente, Elizabeth Taylor ya era más bella y voluptuosa que Miss América. Cuando llegó al Hotel Beverly Wilshire para nuestra sesión fotográfica, me quedé boquiabierto. No podía creer que sólo tuviera catorce años. Llenaba un traje de baño mejor que yo. Hicimos las fotos, incluida una en la que le enseño a flotar. Con su superestructura, flotaba muy bien. Lo que no podía hacer era hundirse.

  Esther Williams

  Hermosa, Adolescente, Enseñanza

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• I read a lot. I always have, but in those two years I gorged myself on books with a voluptuous, almost erotic gluttony. I would go to the local library and take out as many as I could, and then lock myself in the bedsit and read solidly for a week. I went for old books, the older the better - Tolstoy, Poe, Jacobean tragedies, a dusty translation of Laclos - so that when I finally resurfaced, blinking and dazzled, it took me days to stop thinking in their cool, polished, crystalline rhythms.

  Tana French

  Libro, Pensamiento, Años

  "In the Woods". Book by Tana French, January 30, 2007.

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• Françoise could not help taking a surreptitious glance at Xavière: she gave a start of amazement. Xavière was no longer watching, her head was lowered. Françoise barely suppressed a scream. The girl was pressing the lighted end against her skin, a bitter smile curling her lips. It was an intimate, solitary smile, like that of a half-wit; the voluptuous, tortured smile of a woman possessed of some secret pleasure.

  Simone de Beauvoir

  Girl, Secret, Skins

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• The one thing I like about 'Playboy' is they don't have the anorexic look. The women are voluptuous. So I didn't really want to diet. I just wanted to tone up.

  Jenny McCarthy

  Looks, Want, Tone

  "Jenny McCarthy's Sexy-at-39 Playboy Cover: Sneak Peek" by Dahvi Shira, people.com. June 25, 2012.

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• No sirve de nada decirnos que algo era "misterioso" o "repugnante" o "sobrecogedor" o "voluptuoso". Mediante la descripción directa, la metáfora y el símil, la evocación secreta de poderosas asociaciones, el ofrecimiento de los estímulos adecuados a nuestros nervios (en el grado y el orden adecuados), y mediante el ritmo y la melodía vocálica, la longitud y la brevedad de tus frases, debes conseguir que nosotros, los lectores, no tú, exclamemos "¡qué misterioso!" o "repugnante" o lo que sea. Déjame probar por mí mismo, y no tendrás necesidad de decirme cómo debo reaccionar.

  C. S. Lewis

  Potente, Oferta, Orden

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• There is a fear of voluptuousness that is itself voluptuous, just as a certain fear of death can itself be deadly.

  Joseph Roth

  Fear Of Death, Certain

  Joseph Roth (2002). “The Radetzky March”, p.149, The Overlook Press

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• Voluptuous and enveloping like layers of precious fabrics

  Elie Saab

  Fabric, Layers

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• Smile O voluptuous coolbreathed earth!
  Earth of the slumbering and liquid trees!
  Earth of departed sunset! Earth of the mountains misty-topt!
  Earth of the vitreous pour of the full moon just tinged with blue!
  Earth of shine and dark mottling the tide of the river!
  Earth of the limpid gray of clouds brighter and clearer for my sake!
  Far-swooping elbowed earth! Rich apple-blossomed earth!
  Smile, for your lover comes!

  Walt Whitman

  Sunset, Dark, Moon

  Walt Whitman (2013). “Walt Whitman's Song of Myself: A Sourcebook and Critical Edition”, p.42, Routledge

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• When the mouth is closed it looks very voluptuous, beautiful. But when it opens its jaws the tongue inside the mouth is more like a spear... also very suggestive... which penetrates the head with greater velocity, snagging bits of brain. From Beauty to the Beast.

  H. R. Giger

  Beautiful, Brain, Looks

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• No he venido a ti sólo para tomar, no he venido a ti con las manos vacías: te traigo poesía tan grande como la tuya pero en otra lengua, te traigo ojos negros y piel dorada y pelo rizado, te traigo Islam y Luxor y Alejandría y laúdes y panderetas y palmeras datileras y alfombras de seda y sol e incienso y maneras voluptuosas.

  Ahdaf Soueif

  Eye, Sunshine, Hair

  Ahdaf Soueif (1999). “In the Eye of the Sun”, p.512, A&C Black

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• Mi primera sesión fue en una azotea, en bañador, con dos modelos de tallas grandes, con curvas, voluptuosas y hermosas, que me enseñaron mucho sobre la belleza en cualquier forma y talla.

  Hayley Hasselhoff

  Precioso, Dos, Bañadores

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• It will be readily admitted that brown tints have never coursed beneath our skin; it will be discovered that yellow shines forth in our flesh, that red blazes, and that green, blue and violet dance upon it with untold charms, voluptuous and caressing.

  Umberto Boccioni

  Blue, Yellow, Shining

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• Down you go, but all the while you feel suspended and buoyed as you somersault in slow motion like a somnolent tumbler pigeon, and sprawl supine on the eiderdown of the air, or lazily turn to embrace your pillow, enjoying every last instant of soft, deep, death-padded life, with the earth's green see-saw now above, now below, and the voluptuous crucifixion, as you stretch yourself in the growing rush, in the nearing swish, and then your loved body's obliteration in the Lap of the Lord.

  Vladimir Nabokov

  Air, Saws, Lap

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