Quotes with venus

  • Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing.

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  • Stephen Hawking Earth might one day soon resemble the planet Venus.
    Stephen Hawking
    English theoretical physicist, cosmologist, author and Director (1942 - 2018)
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  • David Herbert Lawrence Behold then Septimus Dodge returning to Dodge-town victorious. Not crowned with laurel, it is true, but wreathed in lists of things he has seen and sucked dry. Seen and sucked dry, you know: Venus de Milo, the Rhine or the Coliseum: swallowed like so many clams, and left the shells.
    David Herbert Lawrence
    English writer (1885 - 1930)
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  • Nathaniel Hawthorne Every young sculptor seems to think that he must give the world some specimen of indecorous womanhood, and call it Eve, Venus, a Nymph, or any name that may apologize for a lack of decent clothing.
    Nathaniel Hawthorne
    American short story writer (1804 - 1864)
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  • Ethel Barrymore For an actress to be a success, she must have the face of Venus, the brains of a Minerva, the grace of Terpsichore, the memory of a Macaulay, the figure of Juno, and the hide of a rhinoceros.
    Ethel Barrymore
    American actress (1879 - 1959)
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  • Bjork His wicked sense of humour suggests exciting sex
    His fingers focus on her
    Her touches
    He's Venus as a Boy!
    Songs Venus as a Boy, from the CD single Venus as a Boy
    Bjork
    Icelandic singer, songwriter and actress (1965 - )
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  • Jean Baptiste Racine It's no longer a warmth hidden in my veins: it's Venus entire and whole fastening on her prey.
    Jean Baptiste Racine
    French playwright (1639 - 1699)
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  • Buzz Aldrin Mars is much closer to the characteristics of Earth. It has a fall, winter, summer and spring. North Pole, South Pole, mountains and lots of ice. No one is going to live on Venus; no one is going to live on Jupiter.
    Buzz Aldrin
    American former astronaut, engineer and fighter (1930 - )
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  • Emma Goldman Rather would I have the love songs of romantic ages, rather Don Juan and Madame Venus, rather an elopement by ladder and rope on a moonlight night, followed by the father's curse, mother's moans, and the moral comments of neighbors, than correctness and propriety measured by yardsticks.
    Emma Goldman
    American anarchist (1869 - 1940)
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  • Bayard Taylor So far as female beauty is concerned, the Circassian women have no superiors. They have preserved in their mountain home the purity of the Grecian models, and still display the perfect physical loveliness, whose type has descended to us in the Venus de Medici.
    Bayard Taylor
    American poet, travel author, and diplomat (1825 - 1878)
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  • Bill Nye There is good evidence that Venus once had liquid water and a much thinner atmosphere, similar to Earth billions of years ago. But today the surface of Venus is dry as a bone, hot enough to melt lead, there are clouds of sulfuric acid that reach a hundred miles high and the air is so thick it's like being 900 meters deep in the ocean.
    Bill Nye
    American science communicator, television presenter (1955 - )
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  • Callimachus Two goddesses now must Cyprus adore;
    The Muses are ten, the Graces are four;
    Stella's wit is so charming, so sweet her fair face;
    She shines a new Venus, a Muse, and a Grace.
    Epigrams Epigram 5; translation by Jonathan Swift, cited fr
    Callimachus
    Ancient Greek poet, critic and scholar
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  • Carolyn Wells When Venus said, Spell no for me, N-O, Dan Cupid wrote with glee, And smiled at his success: Ah, child, said Venus, laughing low, We women do not spell it so, We spell it Y-E-S.
    Carolyn Wells
    American writer and poet (1862 - 1942)
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