Engorged Quotes

#1. In the Garden of Eden, Eve wore a fig leaf, not to cover her moist parts, but to draw Adam's gaze to what lay hidden in the undergrowth. Extending the metaphor, the snake symbolizes Adam's tongue, the apple the rosy, blood-engorged bundle of nerve endings pulsing within Eve's clitoris.

Chloe Thurlow

#2. Popular culture has become engorged, broadening and thickening until it's the only culture anyone notices.

P. J. O'Rourke

#3. Jim Morrison was a well-built boy, larger than average, and young enough to maintain the engorged silent connection right through the residue of chemicals.

Grace Slick

#4. There were, in his opinion, drugs that diminished ego and drugs that engorged ego, which is to say, revelatory drugs and delusory drugs; and on a psychic level, at least, he favored awe over swagger.

Tom Robbins

#5. All journeys eventually end in the same place, home.

Chris Geiger

#6. my worst held-back secrets: everything has to do with loving and not loving. This night will pass. Then we have work to do.

Jalaluddin Rumi

#7. Mothers sound so stupid when they praise their daughters to the skies.

Colette

#8. I didn't have to play rugby that well, and I didn't have to play cricket that well, because I had this voice.

Tom Jones

#9. To create a community where faith matters not just in theory but in reality, faith has to be a public value, not just a private one.

Donna Freitas

#10. I started to listen to music and began collecting records around 1948. And it was fairly soon after that that hi-fi came about, so that it was possible to have really good sound - LPs and tapes and speaker systems. The whole thing came more or less at once.

Phill Niblock

#11. Damaged people were survivors, and they survived because they always put themselves first. Self-preservation demanded it.

Penelope Douglas

#12. I just worry about the girls who look up to me. I don't want them to think I starve myself or don't eat, and that to be like me that's what they have to do.

Ellen Pompeo

#13. I think we were promoting New Moon just as I was finishing The Runaways, and I remember going to Comic-Con with a Minor Threat T-shirt on. I was really happy and excited to be there, but I was so defensive and crazy.

Kristen Stewart

#14. In 1933, the Nazis came to power and the more systematic persecution of the Jews followed quickly. Laws were enacted which excluded Jewish children from higher education in public schools.

Jack Steinberger

#15. Being successful makes you more vulnerable to mistakes

Thabiso Monkoe

#16. Oh, he thinks, if I were a better person. If I were a more generous person. If I were a less self-involved person. If I were a braver person.

Hanya Yanagihara

#17. What if, tomorrow is your last day on earth? Think!

Lailah Gifty Akita

#18. Looking into Napoleon's eyes, Prince Andrei thought about the insignificance of grandeur, about the insignificance of life, the meaning of which no one could understand, and about the still greater insignificance of death, the meaning of which no one among the living could understand or explain.

Leo Tolstoy

#19. I'm more interested in what I discover than what I invent.

Paul Simon