Fetishist Quotes

#1. I write exclusively using computers. Pens and typewriters can fsck right off - I wrote my first half million words in my teens on a manual typewriter (had to trade it for a new one due to keys snapping from metal fatigue) so I am not a pen or typewriter fetishist.

Charles Stross

#2. However, in fetishism the desired object is displaced; and in this context ("The Apparition" by Guy De Maupassant) it is the desiring object, so to speak. In other words, have we ever seen a boot in love with a fetishist?

Philippe Lejeune

#3. It is a central characteristic of the American political system that a wheelbarrow fetishist could be mayor of Omaha.

Charles L. Mee Jr.

#4. I still love the book-ness of books, the smell of books: I am a book fetishist - books to me are the coolest and sexiest and most wonderful things there are.

Neil Gaiman

#5. Mi-yammi! The extraordinary city, with its Judeo-Cubano population, its mix of surgical-appliance and sex-fetishist obsessions, takes the American melting pot past the boil. It represents pretty much everything Patrick J. Buchanan hates.

David Denby

#6. Mine, mine. Fear, idolatry, hoarding. The delight and terror of the fetishist.

Donna Tartt

#7. Anti-Tax fetishist Grover Norquist owns a bust of Ronald Reagan, who raised taxes 11 times.

John Fugelsang

#8. I'm a fetishist. I make films based on what I would like to see.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#9. Repress the natural and it comes back even stronger: not everyone can be a fetishist

Philippe Lejeune

#10. Oh yes, I love to do shoes. I'm not a fetishist but I love to do shoes.

Karl Lagerfeld

#11. I'm not a protocol fetishist. It's more important to me that people feel at ease when I'm with them.

Willem-Alexander, Prince Of Orange

#12. There is no more unfortunate creature under the sun than a fetishist who yearns for a woman's shoe and has to settle for the whole woman.

Karl Kraus

#13. There is no more unhappy being under the sun than a fetishist who pines for a boot and has to content himself with an entire woman.

Karl Kraus

#14. Perhaps we can conceive of the ironist as the fetishist's apprentice, reaching out for all readers, ensnaring them in a tangle of ambiguity, uncertainty and indecision from which there is no escape. Irony, quite possibly, makes fetishists of us all.

Janet Beizer

#15. He pulled the door open and saw a Checker cab sitting out there, an ambassador from the land of sanity.

Stephen King

#16. For the second time since meeting her, Echo looked as if I'd slapped her. Water pooled at the bottom edges of her eyes, her cheeks flushed red and she blinked rapidly. She'd succeeded in making me feel like a d*ck ... again.

Katie McGarry

#17. His voice was hesitant and colourless, as in those who hope for nothing because it's perfectly useless to hope.

Fernando Pessoa

#18. I am a basketball player, and I would like to focus my energy on basketball. The other things, I would rather not do. It is not something I am greatly interested in, but I know it is my responsibility.

Yao Ming

#19. I was a woman, a divorcee, a socialist, an agnostic ... all possible sins together.

Michelle Bachelet

#20. We have the power to do any damn fool thing we want to do, and we seem to do it about every 10 minutes.

J. William Fulbright

#21. [On Paris:] I do not know any city so beautiful and you can be unhappy there and notice your unhappiness less, having the city to look at.

Martha Gellhorn

#22. Ever noticed that people who believe in Creationism look really unevolved?

Bill Hicks

#23. The only person to whom your love belongs is the one to whom your love belongs.

Robert Scheid

#24. I like to be admired from afar, and then complimented up close.

Gena Showalter