Skip to content

Compare Quote by John Irving

“…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.” quote by John Irving — Download Open image

“…there is no nakedness that compares to being naked in front of someone for the first time.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.4 out of 5 (6 ratings)

Compare First time Firsts Naked Time

More by John Irving

Your memory is a monster; you forget - it doesn't. It simply files things away. It keeps things for you, or hides things from…

Image

Our memory is a monster; you forget it - it does not.

Image

… and so he tried to accept the ache in his heart as what Dr. Larch would call the common symptoms of normal life.

Image

Watch out for people who call themselves religious; make sure you know what they mean––make sure they know what they mean!

Image

The desire to never leave your side, the desire to never see you again. The desire to see your face asleep on the pillow…

Image

I had been a student in Vienna, and one of the neat little things I had found out was about that zoo. It was…

Image

“God, I think I just hit a high E-flat - and I really held it!" Esmeralda said, after one of her more prolonged orgasms,…

Image

“Nostalgia!" Miss Frost cried. "You´re nostalgic!" She repeated. "Just how old are you, William?" She asked. "Seventeen, " I told her. "Seventeen!" Miss Frost…

Image

“JUST BECAUSE A BUNCH OF ATHEISTS ARE BETTER WRITERS THAN THE GUYS WHO WROTE THE BIBLE DOESN'T NECESSARILY MAKE THEM RIGHT!" [Owen Meany] said…

Image

It is much easier to be flexible about where a story begins than it ever was for me to change my mind about where…

Image

“Only the chicken-lover will understand me. He will give me a kindly look, maybe mildly desirous. His eyes will tell me: You might look…

Image

You're nice,' Cushie told him, squeezing his hand. 'And you're my oldest friend.' But they both must have known that you can know someone…

Image

Explore all 641 John Irving quotes

More Compare quotes

I have touched with a sense of art some people-they felt the love and the life. Can you offer me anything to compare to…

Image

Its extremely dangerous to compare anyone else to Shakespeare.

Image

I think, however, that Astaire's coordination is better than Kelly's... his sense of rhythm is uncanny. Kelly, on the other hand, is the stronger…

Image

To fashion stars out of dog dung, that is the Great Work. To take a negative experience and, by comparing it to something worse,…

Alexandra David-Neel

Image

Rien ne se peut comparer a' Paris. Nothing can compare to Paris.

Eustache Deschamps

Image

Some twins feel like they need to compare themselves to each other, but we're not that way. That's because of my parents, though, and…

Image

One of my favorite poets, Neruda, writes close to the bone. Though I know only a little Spanish, I like to compare the Spanish…

Image

Nothing will kill what you've been called to do more than comparing yourself to someone else.

Image

Once an activity has been socialized, it is impossible to point out, by concrete example, how men in a free market could better conduct…

Image

Don't compare your career to anyone else's. It's tough when you're in a business that's competitive. I was having a difficult time with that…

Danielle Brooks

Image

The terrorists-those nineteen people, with hundreds or maybe thousands behind them-did the worst thing you can possibly imagine. But tens of millions people did…

Image

Nobody can really compare a relationship in which the victim is 15 years old to one where she's 6. While both criminal, they're very different circumstances.

Image

Browse all 1,490 Compare quotes