Quotes About Venus De Milo

#1. She resembles the Venus de Milo: she is very old, has no teeth, and has white spots on her yellow skin.

Heinrich Heine

#2. When archaeologists discover the missing arms of Venus de Milo, they will find she was wearing boxing gloves.

John Barrymore

#3. [Talking pictures are] like putting lip rouge on the Venus de Milo.

Mary Pickford

#4. Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.

D.H. Lawrence

#5. The song Venus de Milo, the whole subject of it is Love is a drug.

Tom Verlaine

#6. Adding sound to movies would be like putting lipstick on the Venus de Milo.

Mary Pickford

#7. He nurse the illusion that he is one of the lost arms of the Venus de Milo, and hopes that the French Government may be persuaded to buy him.

Saki

#8. So you're saying they don't want to kill us, they want to fuck us?"
"At that level of desire the two acts are interchangeable, sir.

Matt Wallace

#9. Particularly in these high school-set movies, there's something about being in high school that's like a cauldron, a boiling pot of emotion and joy and heartbreak that you feel so intensely. Because you don't have any awareness yet, you don't realize that it's a finite time and feeling.

Mark Waters

#10. Things are different here, sir," said Carrot. "It wasn't until ten years ago they replaced trial by ordeal here with trial by lawyer, and that was only because they found that lawyers were nastier.

Terry Pratchett

#11. I'm still a big 'Grey's Anatomy' fan.

Brooke Elliott

#12. The funny thing about writing is I think a lot of people assume that you're sitting in a garret with a quill pen for hour after hour.

Lincoln Child