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We have much to learn by studying nature and taking the time to tease out its secrets. -- David Suzuki
The still must tease with the promise of a story the viewer of it itches to be told. -- Cindy Sherman
As an actress people always tease me like: if there's anything you can do to make yourself unattractive you will do it. -- Amy Adams
I'm kind of a good girl - and I'm not. I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. I know that I have sex appeal in my deck of cards. But I like to get people thinking. That's what the stories in my music do. -- Katy Perry
Personally, I just tease people a lot. -- Alex Meraz
Never tease an old dog; he might have one bite left. -- Robert A. Heinlein
You have to tease your family. You tease the ones that you're closest to. -- Parvesh Cheena
Hate to sound sleazy, but tease me, I don't want it if it's that easy -- Tupac Shakur
You have to tease enough misinformation and lack of information to hopefully make people want more. -- Cary Fukunaga
The trumpet does not more stun you by its loudness, than a whisper teases you by its provoking inaudibility. -- Charles Lamb
My daughter teases me once in a while saying, Remember when you used to be my mother and you had black hair? -- Loni Anderson
I often tease young people about their concern for how they look; more important is inner beauty - compassion, affection and respect. -- Dalai Lama
Speak roughly to your little boy and beat him when he sneezes! he only does it to annoy, because he knows it teases! -- Lewis Carroll
With Aerobic Strip Tease, you can do it at home - it makes it easier for women that don't want to go to the gym. -- Carmen Electra
It's not a good idea to take a forecast from someone wearing a tie. If possible, tease people who take themselves and their knowledge too seriously. -- Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Everything starts with a dream, a particle of our imagination that teases us of what the future could be like, as long as we fight for it... -- Gurbaksh Chahal
Prowling about the rooms, sitting down, getting up, stirring the fire, looking out the window, teasing my hair, sitting down to write, writing nothing, writing something and tearing it up... -- Charles Dickens
All fashions are charming, or rather relatively charming, each one being a new striving, more or less well conceived, after beauty, an approximate statement of an ideal, the desire for which constantly teases the unsatisfied human mind. -- Charles Baudelaire
I am going to notice the lights of the earth, the sun and the moon and the stars, the lights of our candles as we march, the lights with which spring teases us, the light that is already present. -- Anne Lamott
to read is to surrender oneself to an endless displacement of curiosity and desire from one sentence to another, from one action to another, from one level of a text to another. The text unveils itself before us, but never allows itself to be possessed; and instead of trying to possess it we should take pleasure in its teasing -- David Lodge
Kids have little computer bodies with disks that store information. They remember who had to do the dishes the last time you had spaghetti, who lost the knob off the TV set six years ago, who got punished for teasing the dog when he wasn't teasing the dog and who had to wear girls boots the last time it snowed. -- Erma Bombeck
My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting. That's just a phase I've been in lately. I don't think this should be how i proceed in life. It's important to be self-aware about these things because you don't want to end up with that guy. -- Taylor Swift
The diversion of baiting an author has the sanction of all ages and nations, and is more lawful than the sport of teasing other animals, because, for the most part, he comes voluntarily to the stake, furnished, as he imagines, by the patron powers of literature, with resistless weapons, and impenetrable armour, with the mail of the boar of Erymanth, and the paws of the lion of Nemea. -- Samuel Johnson
You know how easily and suddenly these things happen, beginning in playful teasing and ending in something a little warmer than friendship. You squeeze the slender arm which is passed through yours, you venture to take the little gloved hand, you say good night at absurd length in the shadow of the door. It is innocent and very interesting, love trying his wings in a first little flutter. -- Arthur Conan Doyle
Tease hair, not homos! -- James St. James
You had lots of visitors, but they were all quiet.Oh real funny. Tease the blind man. ~Trella to Logan, pg. 114-115 -- Maria V. Snyder
You had lots of visitors, but they were all quiet." "Oh real funny. Tease the blind man." ~Trella to Logan, pg. 114-115 -- Maria V. Snyder
No," Shane said. "I'm not leaving you two here alone. We stick together." "I'm still not kissing you," Michael said. "Tease. -- Rachel Caine
I love to tease men with my legs. -- Eartha Kitt
Listen, you only tease the ones you love. -- John Boehner
Kids will tease you for just about anything. -- James Badge Dale
It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect. -- Dorothy Allison
I'm childish and silly. Most people tease me because I'm a bit daft. -- Harriet Walter
The 'Billionaire' song is what my kids tease me with. They sing it to me. It's funny. -- Bill Gates
It's good to fight with your brothers, and it's good to tease them to give them advice. -- Malala Yousafzai
I guess you can tease me about being a drama queen, because that did heighten the drama. -- Greg Louganis
My friends love to tease me about the fact that I won't be able to drive until I'm a sophomore in college. -- Noah Gray-Cabey
I'm a good girl because I really believe in love, integrity, and respect. I'm a bad girl because I like to tease. -- Katy Perry
My friends tease me about the fact that if someone seems bad or shady or like they have a secret, I find them incredibly interesting. -- Taylor Swift
There may be problems we still need to tease out, but we will leave no stone unturned in our bid to make London the host city. -- Sebastian Coe
I used to tease Joe Louis by reminding him that I was the greatest of all time. But Joe Louis was the greatest heavyweight fighter ever. -- Muhammad Ali
People always think that if you eat anything as a model, it's amazing. I used to tease them and say, you know I'm going to throw up afterwards. -- Christy Turlington
The trick, when you're flirting, is figuring how to keep a balance between being engaging enough to retain someone's attention and not seeming overly available. So you tease a person a little. -- Neil Strauss
On Halloween, don't you know back when you were little, your mom tells you don't eat any candy until she checks it? I used to be so tempted to eat my candy on the way to other people's houses. That used to be such a tease. -- Derrick Rose
They used to tease me at the 'Oprah' show, 'Are you really going to do another white Shaker kitchen, with white subway tile and stainless steel appliances?' And my answer is, 'I can vary it a bit, but I'm never going to err from classic materials.' -- Nate Berkus
I love to cook and really enjoy cleaning my house. People always tease me about getting a maid. My girlfriend tells me that they are only $40 and will do everything. But that is my time to unwind, put my hair in a ponytail, throw on sweats, and be myself. -- Amy Weber
He was just trying to tease me - I knew that later - but he said he'd have to leave because it wasn't fair to have anyone in the room who was going to make fun of what he had to say. He had a good sense of humor, really. -- Fay Wray
Children tease each other because you're short or you're tall or you're a redhead or because you're ugly or because you're smart or because you're dumb or all kinds of differences and as parents we have to deal with that and strengthen our children to be comfortable with themselves and also to show empathy and acceptance towards others. -- Heather Wilson
I have always believed that if you need to take your clothes off to get your man, you've begun to lose the battle. If you pull it off right, you can do it in a very classy way... Being sexy is about suggestion; it's about the tease. It's not about being obvious and forcing yourself out in the open. That takes all the fun out of being a woman. -- Bipasha Basu
Fate likes to tease paranoids.' -- Mark Kurlansky
Historians are gossips who tease the dead -- Voltaire
I love to have a laugh. I like to tease people. -- Anthony Hopkins
Never tease anything that wants to eat you." Reign of Blood -- Alexia Purdy
Thou, silent form, dost tease us out of thought As doth eternity... -- John Keats
My girlfriend said she wanted me to tease her, so I said "Alright, fatty." -- Jimmy Carr
When I was younger, they used to tease me. And now they're quite protective. -- Emma Watson
I notice that most of the men who tease me about my hair, don't have any. -- Holland Taylor
A song just doesn't come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. -- Dorothy Fields
I'm such a tease and you're such a flirt Routines and schedules A drug that'll kill you -- Thom Yorke
My friends tease me because I don't like clutter. I'm not someone who gets attached to things. -- Leslie Bibb
On Teasing : Teach your teen-age daughters not to tease boys into physical desire. You might save their lives. -- Marlene Dietrich
And some cease feeling Even themselves or for themselves. Dullness best solves The tease and doubt of shelling -- Wilfred Owen
What brothers say to tease their sisters has nothing to do with what they really think of them. -- Esther M. Friesner
If I had to watch the rest of the Jesse Walker strip tease, I would moan the alphabet. -- Nicole Williams
I'm a bit of a tease. I'd make out with a lot of people but not go beyond that. -- Pete Wentz
Teasing was big in my family, and there is a wonderful way to tease and make people feel more loved. -- David Walton
Surrounding yourself with good people makes you feel better about yourself, making them strip tease makes you feel even better. -- Alex Gaskarth
I wrote six versions of a 30-second tease for an NBA game. You never get it right on the first try. -- Mike Tirico
People tease me about knowing somehow that Obama would put Clinton into the cabinet, and everybody would talk about a team of rivals. -- Doris Kearns Goodwin
When people see you're happy doing what you're doing, it sort of takes the power away from them to tease you about it. -- Wendy Mass
You can cease to be influenced by people who tease you... Just neglect their helps and elevate your steps... You can do it! -- Israelmore Ayivor
Dear, damned, distracting town, farewell! Thy fools no more I'll tease: This year in peace, ye critics, dwell, Ye harlots, sleep at ease! -- Alexander Pope
People use to say that time can change everything but as far as I know the nothing can change the tease inside your heart . -- Nutan Bajracharya
I have friends that tease me about 'Without a Trace;' they say, 'You're really good at saying, 'Have you seen this person?' -- Eric Close
Me? I'm being ridiculous? You're the one flirting for your thesis. What the hell kind of degree is that anyway? A doctorate of dick tease? -- Erin McCarthy
She'd play around and tease me with her carefree devil eyes. She'd hold me close and kiss me, but her heart was full of lies. -- Ricky Nelson
I take pleasure as a reader in books that tease with a kind of urgency of the real, even if it's only a manufactured effect. -- Garth Greenwell
Don't be discouraged by people who tease you out of your dreams. What you have in your heart is bigger than what they have on their lips! -- Israelmore Ayivor
The way I feel about it is: Beat me or feed me, but don't tease me. It's toy food; who needs it? Serve it to toy people. -- Jeff Smith
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All critics have the responsibility to tease out the social ideas and social problems in a movie. I don't feel an obligation to do that because I'm black. -- Wesley Morris
I grew up in Harlem, and the kids used to tease me. You know that song 'Bingo'? Well, they used to sing, 'V-i-n-g-o, and Vingo was his name-o.' -- Ving Rhames
You can't come back to TV for two months. It's too short. You can't start anything. It's too much of a tease and there's really nowhere you can go. -- Chris Jericho
It's inevitable that you will die, so the only question is when. The great thrillers are the moments that play and tease with the question, "When will it be?" -- David Hare
Polls are frequently taken to try to tease out or determine likely directions and trends, but once taken, they belong to the past, requiring that new polls be taken. -- Alan Dundes
People always tease me. They say, look at you, you went for so much psychoanalysis and you're so neurotic, you wind up marrying a girl so much younger than you. -- Woody Allen
Television has borrowed from the carnival midway the barker's tease: "Coming Up Next: a Perfect 10" (Sex? Bo Derek? No, the weatherman comes on to say that tomorrow will be nice). -- Edwin Diamond
It's funny how a flame can only burn your hand if you move too slow, you can tease it all you want and it never gets you, if your quick enough. -- Neal Shusterman
They tease me now, telling me it was only a dream. But does it matter whether it was a dream or reality, if the dream made known to me the truth? -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
A song doesn't just come on. I've always had to tease it out, squeeze it out. 'No thesaurus can give you those words, no rhyming dictionary. They must happen out of you. -- Dorothy Fields
You think I led him on? For what? Kicks? I don't have enough exictement in my life, so maybe I'll tease a nice guy, get his hopes up, then laugh and skip away? -- Kelley Armstrong
You can hear how hard I work, I think, from these stories I'm telling. I'm incredibly dedicated and I'm sort of known as that to a point that people tease me about it. -- Patrick Heusinger
You're so easy to tease. And yes, your friend is just fine. Well, except that he keeps putting all my things away and trying to clean up. Now I can't find anything. He's compulsive. -- Cassandra Clare
There live a great man named Joe / who was belittled by a loudmouth foe / While his rival would taunt and tease / Joe silently bore the stings / And then fought like gladiator in the ring -- Muhammad Ali
What is the easiest, the most comfortable thing for a writer to do? To congratulate the society in which he lives: to admire its biceps, applaud its progress, tease it endearingly about its follies. -- Julian Barnes
Eureka' moments are very, very rare in my experience. It normally takes several weeks of experiments to tease out the truth, even when you have a really pretty good idea of what is going on. -- Tim Hunt
That's the trouble with playing a cutting-edge narcotics detective - you've got to wear what's topical at the moment. My kids tease me about outfits I was wearing last week, let alone in the eighties. -- Clark Johnson

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