The college graduate is presented with a sheepskin to cover his intellectual nakedness. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
Some spirit to stand simply forth, Heroic in its nakedness, Against the uttermost of earth… — Robert Frost Copy Share Image
“One way of looking at speech is to say that it is a constant stratagem to cover nakedness.” — Harold Pinter Copy Share Image
…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time. — John Irving Copy Share Image
The taboo against nakedness is an obstacle to a decent attitude on the subject of sex. — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
“Your nakedness is the work of God the Creator. Let men admire it--and grow religious between your sheets.” — Elspeth Marr Copy Share Image
“What interested these painters was evidently the fact that my clothes were torn off, which allowed them to paint a naked woman… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“He stretched himself. He rose. He stood upright in complete nakedness before us, and while the trumpets pealed Truth! Truth! Truth! we… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
You always feel very vulnerable when you put your work out there. You feel a kind of nakedness. And you expose something… — Lisa Yuskavage Copy Share Image
“Cioran once said that “one touch of clearsightedness reduces us to our primary state: nakedness.” — Rabih Alameddine Copy Share Image
There was sex, of course. Nakedness. Wall to wall, in and out of my thoughts. But when it was over it was… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
Full nakedness! All my joys are due to thee, as souls unbodied, bodies unclothed must be, to taste whole joys. — John Donne Copy Share Image
“What had always attracted me in the opposite sex was what they tried to hide, what provoked all the metaphorical equivalents of… — John Fowles The Magus Copy Share Image
It was the Almighty who decreed that men and women must cover their nakedness by wearing proper and modest clothing. No amount… — Mark E. Petersen Copy Share Image
The Beduin of the desert, born and grown up in it, had embraced with all his sour this nakedness too harsh for… — T. E. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“I find it hard to describe what it is like to look fully into eyes that one has known that well--known better… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
“Truth’s nakedness is not concerned with whom it strikes - painfully, or with pleasure; responding appropriately to its ingenuous temperament, however, rewards… — T.F. Hodge Copy Share Image
Behind my carefully buttoned collar is my nakedness, the struggle to find clean clothes, food, meaning, and money. Behind sex is rage,… — Dorothy Allison Copy Share Image
Identity would seem to be the garment with which one covers the nakedness of the self, in which case, it is best… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have done nothing more beautiful in my life than in solemn silence pass the night slowly running the back of my… — AB Copy Share Image
“To be naked is to be oneself. To be nude is to be seen naked by others and yet not recognized for… — John Berger Copy Share Image
“He strips me to my last nakedness, that underskin of mauve, pearlized satin, like a skinned rabbit; then dresses me again in… — Angela Carter Copy Share Image
In the short summer night she learned so much. She would have thought a woman would have died of shame... She felt,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Sweet, sane, still Nakedness in Nature! — ah if poor, sick, prurient humanity in cities might really know you once more! Is… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
Nakedness means freedom, and although dancing on a sun-kissed hillside with shorts on seems pretty similar to dancing with shorts off, there… — Philip Carr-Gomm Copy Share Image
I marvel again at the nakedness of men's lives: the showers right out in the open, the body exposed for inspection and… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Nakedness is very common in the tribe. It is not a shameful thing; it is an expression of one's relationship with the… — Malidoma Patrice Some Copy Share Image
“My nakedness is strange to me already. My body seems outdated. Did I really wear bathing suits, at the beach? I did,… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
Without thinking, I knelt in the grass, like someone meaning to pray. When I tried to stand again, I couldn't move, my… — Louise Glück Copy Share Image
“Never, not in her wildest dreams, had she dared to imagine that she'd be that important to someone. As if she was… — Nalini Singh Copy Share Image
“Her belly clenched with a painful mixture of shame and reluctant excitement. She met his eyes, then heartily wished she hadn't. The… — Anna Campbell Copy Share Image
“While he was cautiously preambling, I tried to form a picture of all he did each day to earn his calories, all… — Louis-Ferdinand Céline Copy Share Image
No doubt about it, Lawrence Decker was the reason God had invented nakedness. — Suzanne Brockmann Copy Share Image
