Extemperaneous Quotes

#1. A skirt is no obstacle to extemperaneous sex, but it is physically impossible to make love to a girl while she is wearing trousers.

Helen Lawrenson

#2. I refer to what I do as 'conceptual portraits,' meaning that I come up with an idea or concept that I would like to explore, and then I find people that fit that idea.

Alix Smith

#3. Mr. Darcy is a construct designed to make woman feel bad about the partners that they're capable of attracting versus the fantasized image he presents.

Caitlin Kittredge

#4. I'm too old-school to tweet.

Julianna Margulies

#5. We were thinking of secrets. Real secrets, and snide. Too many to count. When I try now to sort out who knew what and who knew nothing, who knew everything and who was a fraud, I have to stop and give it up, it makes my head spin.

Sarah Waters

#6. How lonely I was, even when I was with him. How it felt, him not making love to me, being affectionate, making me feel desired or desirable. How much it bothered me that, even though I'd talked to him about all of this, even wrote him other e-mails, it didn't ever seem to penetrate.

Kristen Ashley

#7. What's beautiful about the actual acting class environment is that you can use it to push through everything: push your voice, push your inhibitions, push your fears, push your confidence, push your vulnerability, push your silences.

Dawn Olivieri

#8. If the river brought us here," I ventured tentatively, "then when it reverses course, it'll carry us back.

Vaddey Ratner

#9. If a deep-wreck diver stays in the sport long enough, he will likely either come close to dying, watch another diver die, or die himself. There are times in this sport when it is difficult to say which of the three outcomes is worst.

Robert Kurson

#10. I guess no one stays friends for more than thirty years without broken hearts along the way.

Kristin Hannah

#11. Along a series of lines running from longer to shorter wavelengths the effect of the electric field becomes greater as the serial numbers increase - that is, as the wavelength decreases.

Johannes Stark

#12. She was like Marat only with nobody to kill her.

Vladimir Nabokov

#13. Her eyes take on that suspicious, wounded look girls get when they know they've fallen off the top rung of friendship and someone else has passed them, but they don't know when or how the change took place.

Libba Bray

#14. I do not believe that one can become rich without being a shark; a sensitive man will never amass wealth.

Petrus Borel

#15. Mrs. Roberts, you remember when Mr. Roberts was out of town and you had me over? The thing we did with the pie? Who would have thought I could eat a whole pie, but then again who would have thought you could hold an entire pie down, well, down there?

Alex Morgan