(155 quotes found)
“For women the best aphrodisiacs are words. The G-spot is in the ears. He who looks for it below there is wasting his time.”
Isabel Allende
“They're ironic statements on the absurdity of our fears.”
Paola Antonelli
“Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, helpless death.”
Karen Armstrong
“Every fundamentalist movement I've studied in Judaism, Christianity and Islam is convinced at some gut, visceral level that secular liberal society wants to wipe out religion.”
“Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to strength to strength.”
“There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.”
“At the beginning of the twentieth century, every single leading Muslim intellectual was in love with the west, and wanted their countries to look just like Britain and France.”
“Compassion is not a popular virtue.”
“This is an unusual and dangerous situation. We really want to stress that to people. It's not going to take much to bring a wall of water sweeping down one of those mountains.”
Robert Ballard
“The profit is what we give back to the community, and that's what we all do this for.”
Dan Barber