Sensuality Quotes

The Company of Wolves is about how society teaches young women to look at themselves, and what to be afraid of. It`s about a girl learning that the world of sensuality and the unknown is not to be feared, that it`s worth getting your teeth into.

My belly dancing represents me - it`s a trademark. I`ve tried to incorporate it in original ways in modern songs. But sometimes it bugs me a bit that people resort to (saying) that I`m shaking my ass with a huge sexual charge, instead of recognizing it as a move that, yeah, it`s loaded with sensuality, but it`s also part of an artistic expression.

(on Warren Beatty) He has the kind of magnetic sensuality you could light torches with.

I had a line in one of my movies - `Everyone knows the same truth.` Our lives consist of how we choose to distort it. One person will distort it with a kind of wishful thinking like religion, someone else will distort it by thinking political solutions are going to do something, someone else will think a life of sensuality is going to do it, someone else will think art transcends. Art for me has always been the Catholicism of the intellectuals. There is no afterlife for the Catholics really, and there`s no afterlife for the arts. `Your painting lived on after you` - well, that doesn`t really do it. That`s not what you want. Even if your painting does have some longevity, eventually that`s going to go. There won`t be any works of William Shakespeare or Ludwig van Beethoven, or any theatre to see them in, or air or light. I`ve always felt you`ve got to live your life within the context of this worst-case scenario. Which is true; the worst-case scenario is here.

I think it`s good that men are being objectified because since forever women have been objectified. We`re flipping the coin because things have been lopsided on TV and film for so long. Another good point to the show is that it portrays men`s sensuality. They`re not just all about sex and only sex.

Despite this discussion of things spiritual - I still think of myself as a very `human` being. I have the full complement of weaknesses, fears, problems, ego, and sensuality. But I think this is why we`re here - to work our way through all this, and, hopefully, come out a bit wiser and better for having gone through it all.

There are now different subjects coming up for us older women that certainly didn`t before. Of course, sexuality and sensuality have always been forms that film is obsessed with, but it used to be a form for younger women because, well, they were much prettier, but now directors and audiences are using it to explore older women - it may not be quite so pretty but my God that won`t stop me from investigating it.

An oil massage, a hot bath, a good night?s sleep, soft smells and music and clothes with soft textures denote sensuality to me.

My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.

Intellectual passion dries out sensuality.

To have no heroes is to have no aspiration, to live on the momentum of the past, to be thrown back upon routine, sensuality, and the narrow self.

To be thirsty and to drink water is the perfection of sensuality rarely achieved. Sometimes you drink water; other times you are thirsty.

Sensuality without love is a sin; love without sensuality is worse than a sin.

Cover-ups play a very important role. They`re not big like they used to be before; they have a certain sensuality. Long and short, but a lot of long for drama.

Sensuality often makes love grow too quickly, so that the root remains weak and is easy to pull out

The spiritualization of sensuality is called love: it is a great triumph over Christianity.