Bawdy House Quotes

#1. The Empire was on the point of turning Paris into the bawdy house of Europe. The gang of fortune-seekers who had succeeded in stealing a throne required a reign of adventures, shady transactions, sold consciences, bought women, and rampant drunkenness.

Emile Zola

#2. The opera ... is to music what a bawdy house is to a cathedral.

H.L. Mencken

#3. If I hadn't been President of the United States, I probably would have ended up a piano player in a bawdy house.

Harry S. Truman

#4. I'm defending fiction as a human capacity more than as a popular or dying literary genre.

Ben Lerner

#5. Besides, Southerners are hospitable. They'll probably offer me lemonade."
Excuse me? You're going to sit on a porch and drink lemonade while I plow a swamp with a goat's horn?"
Yes, ma'am. And I aim to wear my seamless shirt while you do it.

Nancy Werlin

#6. I have this great fear of people - not when I'm on the runway, but backstage. In a room full of people, I really suffer. I sort of go into a tunnel and I feel very removed. I get so tense, I can't swallow, and my heartbeat goes way up. It still happens now, although I'm better at controlling it.

Linda Evangelista

#7. God is not a celestial prison warden jangling the keys on a bunch of lifers
he's a shepherd seeking for sheep, a woman searching for coins, a father waiting for his son.

Clarence Jordan

#8. The cold November sun sent weak rays onto the floor of the old house. The floor beneath snickered, trying hard to hold back snaps of bawdy laughter. The temperature dropped with ease.

J. Thorn

#9. I mean, what if they're us from the future?"
"And it's like The Terminator, right?" I said, rolling my eyes.
"They've come to stop the uprising of the machines. Or maybe they are the machines. Maybe it's Skynet.

Rick Yancey

#10. In its attempt to crush the Black Panthers, the FBI engineered frequent arrests on the flimsiest of pretexts.

Alexander Cockburn

#11. Leo had lashed himself to the console with a bungee cord harness. That might have seemed like a good idea when he rigged it up, but every time a wave hit he was washed away, then smacked back into his control board like a human paddleball.

Rick Riordan

#12. Death can really absorb a person. Lik most people, I would find it pleasant not to have to go, but you just accept that it's more or less inevitable.

Graham Chapman

#13. people have their limitations. A leader should not expect more from them than what they are capable of. If you stretch them beyond their capacity, they will break.

Amish Tripathi