Simone de Beauvoir Quotes

Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

Simone de Beauvoir

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• The perfect normal person is rare in our civilization.

  

  Karen Horney
  • Perfect
  • Civilization
  • Rare

• I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.

  

  Magnus Larsson
  • Great
  • Support
  • Wall

• We expect President Bush to implement his own vision of a two-state solution, the birth of the Palestinian State and the ending of the occupation that started in 1967.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Vision
  • Solution
  • Ending

• I learned a lot doing 'Wolverine,' and I was also very fortunate, in the sense that I got to do a huge number of visual effects shots.

  

  Gavin Hood
  • Doing
  • Shots
  • Visual

• I'm very aware that after you've played Cleopatra, there's not a lot that can top that in this sphere, so it means that I want to almost change the sphere I work in rather completely because I will always be comparing it to Cleopatra.

  

  Harriet Walter
  • Work
  • Want
  • Change

• When we're back home, I feel pretty domesticated.

  

  Washed Out
  • Home
  • Pretty
  • Feel

• I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

  

  Carlisle Floyd
  • Music
  • Me
  • Kind

• There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.

  

  Carl Sandburg
  • Wants
  • Mud
  • Soar

• I think pink is one of the saddest colors in the world, and many American humans are taught not to take anything pink seriously, which is weird.

  

  Kate Bernheimer
  • World
  • American
  • Weird

• I realized that it's all really one, that John Lennon was correct. We utilize the music to bring down the walls of Berlin, to bring up the force of compassion and forgiveness and kindness between Palestines, Hebrews. Bring down the walls here in San Diego, Tijuana, Cuba.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Up
  • Music
  • Compassion

• I went to L'Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, Maryland, and I think French cooking is the basis for a lot of classical cuisine, a foundation of a lot of other cuisines. That said, it's not the only way to approach a cooking career.

  

  Carla Hall
  • Think
  • Career
  • Cooking

• You have to follow and honor that inner voice. I always encouraged the girls to do the same.

  

  Camila Cabello Fifth Harmony
  • Voice
  • Honor
  • Same

• I don't think tennis is a glamour game, not at all.

  

  Mahesh Bhupathi
  • Think
  • Game
  • Tennis

• On Monday I come in and get in a full body workout, and then I come back in on Wednesday and do a quick six, which consists of bench press, biceps and triceps curls, pull downs, something for the back and the neck. And then you come back and hit it again on Friday with a 16-machine workout.

  

  LaMarr Woodley
  • Body
  • Workout
  • Friday

• I wanted to be a skinny little ballerina but I was a voluptuous little Italian girl whose dad had meatballs on the table every night.

  

  Lady Gaga
  • Night
  • Girl
  • Dad

• You, too, will be driven away from your native land and ancient domains as leaves are driven before the wintry storms. Sleep not longer, O Choctaws and Chickasaws, in false security and delusive hopes. Our broad domains are fast escaping from our grasp.

  

  Tecumseh
  • You
  • Sleep
  • Security

• I enjoy 'Supermarket Sweep' because of its adlib demands in following the fast action.

  

  Randy West
  • Action
  • Enjoy
  • Fast

• I'd love to have kids, but not at the moment.

  

  Zara Phillips
  • Kids
  • Moment
  • Have

• Popular as Keynesian fiscal policy may be, many economists are skeptical that it works. They argue that fine-tuning the economy is a virtually impossible task, and that fiscal-stimulus programs are usually too small, and arrive too late, to make a difference.

  

  James Surowiecki
  • May
  • Small
  • Popular

• The difference between a score in the 90s and a century is often reflected as the difference between failure and success. It may be illogical, but in cricket, a century has its own magic.

  

  Geoffrey Boycott
  • May
  • Success
  • Failure

• We have to teach our boys the rules of equality and respect, so that as they grow up gender equality becomes a natural way of life. And we have to teach our girls that they can reach as high as humanly possible.

  

  Beyonce Destiny's Child
  • Life
  • Up
  • High

• I say to you today, my friends, so even though we face the difficulties of today and tomorrow, I still have a dream.

  

  Martin Luther King, Jr.
  • Friends
  • Dream
  • Difficulties

• I'm very romantic and of course I want to be in love.

  

  Emma Watson
  • Romantic

• Sex pleasure in woman is a kind of magic spell; it demands complete abandon; if words or movements oppose the magic of caresses, the spell is broken.

  

  Simone de Beauvoir
  • Sex
  • Magic
  • Spell