A thorough understanding of the typical mating continuations makes the most complicated sacrificial combinations leading up to them not only not difficult, but almost a matter of course
I had a patient once who dreamed she kept her husband in the deep freeze except for mating. Lots of men feel that way.
Why do we shave? It doesn't seem like a natural activity. There are no examples of shaving in nature. The only creature that comes close is the male South Pacific Groping Beetle, which sometimes, just before mating, will slap on a little Aqua Velva. But we think this resulted from atomic testing.
It is remarkable indeed how we human beings are capable of delighting in the mating call of a flower while we are surrounded by the charred carcasses of our fellow animals.
So the hotel tells us that it is not safe to go in the water because its shark mating time. I know how I'd feel if someone interrupted me.
. . . just a little touches her and there. He puts his hands on your arms or back, he stands close to you, getting you used to him. . . it's a mating ritual. Like March of the Penguins.
We could mate. In a year our nestlings would be large enough to mob anyone we like. . . Should I begin to court you? Do you like grubs or ants better?. . . I will be here. In case you change your mind about mating.
And that unusual squawking sound is actually the mating call of the the rare. . . oh, it's just an oboe player.
Wine is a precarious aphrodisiac, and its fumes have blighted many a mating.
We live in a time of twin credulities: the hunger for the miraculous combined with a servile awe of science. The mating of the two gives us superstition plus scientism -- a Mongoloid metaphysic.
I'm even stunned at some of the majors you can get in college these days. Like you can major in the mating habits of the Australian rabbit bat, major in leisure studies. . . Okay, get a journalism major. Okay, education major, journalism major. Right. Philosophy major, right. Archeology major. I don't know, whatever it is. Major in ballroom dance, of course. It doesn't replace work. How about a major in film studies? How about a major in black studies? How about a major in women studies? How about a major in home ec? Oops, sorry! No such thing.
In general, men are wired to notice obvious signs that convey interest in mating - a warm smile, for example - and ignore other subtleties, like if your lipstick is faded.
One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.
Learning is a deep human need, like mating and eating, and like all such needs it is meant to be deeply pleasurable to human beings.
Passion in a dromedary doesn't go so deep; a camel when it's mating never sobs itself to sleep.
I couldn't be more chuffed if I were a badger at the start of the mating season!
his snores sounded like ducks mating.
the sex even in serious pornography has less singularity than the mating of squirrels.
The thing you fail to grasp is that people are not basically good. We are basically selfish. We shove and clamour and cry for adoration, and beat down everyone else to get it. Life is a competition of prattling peacocks enraptured in inane mating rituals. But for all our effacing and self-importance, we are all slaves to what we fear most. You have so very much to learn. Here. Let me teach you.
Stieglitz conceived, though he never carried out, a series of photographs of the heads of stallions and mares, of bulls and cows, in the act of mating, hoping to catch in the brute an essential quality that would symbolize the probably unattainable photograph of a passionate human mating.
