Far from poisoning the mind, pornography shows the deepest…

“The point of my books is to give voice to otherwise voiceless females from history and myth, to unlock what has been secreted away…

— Karen Essex

There is no dignity when the human dimension is eliminated from the person. In short, the problem with pornography is not that it shows…

— Pope John Paul II

I put myself on the line with my truth and my sexuality. That is my choice. My choice

— Anne Heche

Capitalism, in the realm of sexuality, I figure, thinks that we behave in specific ways, like a breast is always going to produce a…

— Rick Moody

I think there is this steely strength beneath this beautiful veneer that a lot of women possess. I can't fathom or understand it.

— Bryan Batt

...no matter how complex or affluent, human societies are nothing but subsystems of the biosphere, the Earth's thin veneer of life, which is ultimately…

— Vaclav Smil

People are sad. People are broke. People are worried about money, people are worried that they're not enough and not amounting to anything and…

— Eve Ensler

Quiet book-learning in monasteries and ethereal music, sonnets and courtly lovethat stuff is all fantasyand veneer? You couldn't afford to let the beauty of…

— Janice Galloway

People who think of themselves as tough-minded and realistic, among them influential political leaders and businessmen as well as go-getters and hustlers of smaller…

— S. I. Hayakawa

But you know, eventually that does kind of veneer, chemical veneers that you apply, they sink in. For better or for worse, so it's…

— Surya Das

Since the days of Peter the Great, Russians have been maybe Europeans who didn't share in the enlightenment and the reformation, or are they…

— Brent Scowcroft

“Some people’s elegance was only skin-deep, scrape off a little bit of the veneer and you got the real wood—common”

— D.E. Stevenson

It's the spirit within, not the veneer without, that makes a man.

— Baden Powell de Aquino

The scary truth is, you have to scratch some veneer off to gauge where the moral fiber really is in certain pockets of society.…

— Ani DiFranco

Drop the veneer periodically and be like "OK, I'm an imperfect human. Let's try to get through this."

— Dennis Miller