Mating Ritual Quotes

#1. Think of controversy as the necessary mating ritual before various good ideas can give birth to progress.

Lois Kelly

#2. Are they always like that?"

"Yes," Joey says. "Unless they're cursing each other out, but I think that's just part of their mating ritual or foreplay or whatever.

Mercy Brown

#3. Human material culture - the buildings and roads and works that would strike any human as an obvious sign of intelligence - had for years seemed like part of an elaborate mating ritual to the starlings, useless and flamboyant as the peacock's tail.

Joe Pitkin

#4. Just a little touches her and there. He puts his hands on your arms or back, he stands close to you, getting you used to him ... it's a mating ritual. Like March of the Penguins.

Lisa Kleypas

#5. There was one thing he liked about the human's mating ritual, the female accepting the male's name. Callum liked this not because it denoted possession, but because it signified the birth of a single unit, a family.

Kristen Ashley

#6. There is an event once a year that I'm able to sing at, through 'Passions,' in Tennessee. That's always fun. We perform at the Wild Horse Saloon.

Lindsay Hartley

#7. I went with him to the Opera Orchestra, even though the programs were so boring and dragged on so long that I feared I might actually black out and topple into the aisle.

Anonymous

#8. I would have fought in WW2, so I wasn't a pacifist in the broader sense. I prefer to be a pacifist, but I think there are exceptions and times to defend yourself or your country, but that war wasn't one of them.

Joe R. Lansdale

#9. I hated being imprisoned in my own home, my wolf hated it.

A.J. Young

#10. Okay, well, on Borelletrox V, the males are kept completely isolated from all images of the female until Binding Day and the females are, erm, let's just say they've' got a lot of--

Jackson Lanzing

#11. Sex in social mammals is generally carried out in public, before the gazes of other members of the troop.

Jared Diamond

#12. She had arrived in dirty rags and had cooked up a striking outfit for herself, out of relief donations,

Tom Piazza

#13. He watched groups of children in the play yard move their lips, raise and lower their teeth like white drawbridges, dance their tongues in the ritual mating of speech.

Stephen King

#14. big-bang reproduction, or semelparity: a single reproductive effort, followed by preprogrammed death.

Jared Diamond

#15. There are so many spiders, and their rituals, their mating rituals, their courtship ritual, can be very, very different.

Isabella Rossellini

#16. I tried to become a family man. I got married, but it didn't work out. After 22 months we got an annulment. Then I married an Italian girl, which resulted in an immediate annulment. I had two annulments by the time I was 23.

Dominic Chianese