As an actor, you're kind of aware of everything, or you try to be, so you take in certain habits or find… — Cedric Yarbrough Copy Share Image
Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
Many of us reject all of the inferior meanings and connotations that others project onto femininity - that it is weak, artificial,… — Julia Serano Copy Share Image
“Women receive messages from childhood that they may be rewarded and protected for maintaining a childlike comportment such as being demure, obedient,… — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
The knight is a man of blood and iron, a man familiar with the sight of smashed faces and the ragged stumps… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Dagmar knew there were worse things in this world than pretending to be a caring, demure woman. For instance, actually being a… — G.A. Aiken Copy Share Image
I appreciate and love women for many reasons, tall and small, plump and skinny, and crazy and demure. I see beauty in… — Gerard Butler Copy Share Image
Come, pensive nun, devout and pure, sober steadfast, and demure, all in a robe of darkest grain, flowing with majestic train. — John Milton Copy Share Image
Persian pussy from over the sea demure and lazy and smug and fat none of your ribbons and bells for me ours… — Don Marquis Copy Share Image
Precision marching is less important for the bridal party than maintaining the proper facial expresssions: The bridegroom must look awed; the bridesmaids,… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Many in Hollywood viewed the public persona of the young Debbie Reynolds as demure and vulnerable to be a complete facade. Pianist… — Elizabeth Taylor Copy Share Image
I know that, physically, I'm a very demure-looking person. But I certainly have as much aggression or anger as the next person,… — Annie E. Clark Copy Share Image
The little black dress must be luxurious, rich, sensual, diaphanous, exotic, severe, lush, demure, demanding, frivolous, amusing, and it must linger in… — Carolina Herrera Copy Share Image
Oregon is demure and lovely, and it ought to play a little hard to get. And I think you'll be just as… — Tom McCall Copy Share Image
Girls are supposed to be feminine and demure. Comedy isn't about that, so you just have to unlearn it. Certain women are… — Jennifer Coolidge Copy Share Image
When you're a trans woman, you are made to walk this very fine line, where if you act feminine you are accused… — Julia Serano Copy Share Image
It's funny that we think of libraries as quiet demure places where we are shushed by dusty, bun-balancing, bespectacled women. The truth… — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
The truth is libraries are raucous clubhouses for free speech, controversy and community. — Paula Poundstone Copy Share Image
One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls… — Abba Louisa Goold Woolson Copy Share Image
