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light:
Slangish term for an eye ; more often in the plural. He was blinking a blue light at me .See Also: ablaze, amaurophilia, apple of one's eye, baby blue, back-alley, bastinado, beat of one's heart, beloved, berker, bi, birching, biting, black meat, blue fart, blue flame, blue handkerchief, blue moon, bondage and torture, buff-light, Bumper Kiss, C-light, cafe au lait, candle, chat down, chat up, cream in one's coffee, cunt light, dark blue handkerchief, dark meat, daylights, dogging, gaiety girl, glimmers, glims, go down the line, hanky code, heart's desire, heartthrob, hepatitis B, hooker, hypomenorrhea, hysteroscopy, lady birds, light, light blue handkerchief, light of one's eyes, light of one's life, light off, light up, light-o'-love, light-of-love, local, love of one's life, the, loved one, lovee, masturbator, melted butter, object of one's affection, one and only, one's everything, one's own, one's weakness, onliest, photophobia, poon light, red lighterie, red-light, red-light house, romp, romping, Snaky-Lick Trick, soft spot, sweetheart, tickling, time waster, truelove, turn on, vacation, W/M, white meat, wood, yang
Quotes Containing light:
Verne (Clark Gable) promising Julie (Joan Crawford) to escape prison just to see her, in Strange Cargo (1940): ''Keep a light in the window and a couple more in your eyes .''
Stella (Marilyn Sokol) showing Gloria (Goldie Hawn) her alarm wistle, Mace, and brass knuckles in Foul Play (1978): ''Without them you''re a walking light bulb waiting to be screwed. ''
Stella (Marilyn Sokol) showing Gloria (Goldie Hawn) her alarm wistle, Mace, and brass knuckles in Foul Play (1978): ''Without them you''re a walking light bulb waiting to be screwed. ''
Michael (Peter O''Toole) in What''s New Pussycat? (1965): ''I know you''ll think this is crazy, but, when the light hits me in a certain direction, I''m handsome .''
Verne (Clark Gable) to Julie (Joan Crawford) promising her to escape prison that night just to see her, in Strange Cargo (1940):''Keep a light in the window and a couple more in your eyes .''
Verne (Clark Gable) to Julie (Joan Crawford) promising to escape prison that night to see her, in Strange Cargo (1940): ''Keep a light in the window and a couple more in your eyes .''
Charlie Bales (Steve Martin) in the balcony scene with Roxanne Kowalski (Daryl Hannah) in Roxanne (1987): - Charlie : 'There's a tiny word. It's not a noun, it's not a verb, it's not an adjective. I don't know what it is, but if you said it to me tonight all the blackness would go away and you and I would be connected by a tunnel of light .' - Roxanne: 'What's the word, Chris?' - Charlie : 'Yes.'
Gilda Mundson (Rita Hayworth) and Uncle Pio (Steven Geray) in Gilda (1946): - Gilda: ''Got a light?'' - Pio:''Yes, Mrs. Mundson. It''s so crowded and yet so lonely, isn''t it?'' - Gilda: ''How did you know?'' - Pio:''You smoke too much. I noticed. Only frustrated people smoke too much and only lonely people are frustrated.''
Rita Cavallini (Greta Garbo) to her friend Cornelius Van Tayl (Lewis Stone) in Romance (1930): 'What is love? It's made of kisses in the dark , of hot breath on the face , of hearts that beat with terribly strong blows. Love is just a beast that you feed all through the night and when the morning comes, love dies. ' And later: 'To me love is only a little warmth in all this cold , just a little light in all this darkness, one little minute to lie still in the beloved's arms, one little minute to forget and that's all.'
Sam Wheat's (Patrick Swayze) farewell words to Molly Jensen (Demi Moore) before ascending into the light in Ghost (1990): 'It's amazing, Molly! The love inside, you take-it with you.'
Sung by Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell in Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953): 'When love goes wrong, nothing goes right. Bees won't buzz , fish won't bite , clock won't strike, a match won't light .'
Drag queens Noxema/Zima Jackson/Auntie Noxy (Wesley Snipes) and Chichi Rodriquez (John Leguizamo) in To Wong Foo. Thanks for Everything. Julie Newmar (1995): - Noxema: ''Darling, if you''re going to become a drag-queen , you''re gonna have to learn these things. '' - Chichi: ''What do you mean ''a drag queen''? I am a drag queen!'' - Noxema: ''Oh, child, no , no , no . You''re simply a boy in a dress. When a straight man puts a dress and gets his sexual kick he is a transvestite ; when a man is a woman trapped in a man''s body and has the little operation he is a transsexual ; (...) when a gay man has way too much fashion sense for one gender he is a drag-queen . (...) And when a light little Latin boy puts on a dress he is simply a boy in a dress.'' In the end , they agree to give Chichi the temporary title of ''drag princess .''
Lawrence Paros. The Erotic Tongue (1984): ''Unfortunately, the only question he [the male] has in mind is: Is she easy (since 17th C), loose (since 15th C), fast (18th C), swift (late 19-20th C), speedy (c. 1923), light (14th C), or convenient (19thC)? Does she go all the way(mid-20th C), the whole route (19-20th C), or the limit (c. 1916)? Once we have the answer to that question, we have established what is called a reputation (since 18th C).''
Lawrence Paros. The Erotic Tongue (1984): ''Unfortunately, the only question he [the male] has in mind is: Is she easy (since 17th C), loose (since 15th C), fast (18th C), swift (late 19-20th C), speedy (c. 1923), light (14th C), or convenient (19thC)? Does she go all the way(mid-20th C), the whole route (19-20th C), or the limit (c. 1916)? Once we have the answer to that question, we have established what is called a reputation (since 18th C).''
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