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Quotes About Tickling

Moon balloon, Moon balloon, Tickle the tree. Four balloons, More balloons, Blossom for me.
~ Phoebe Gilman
The tickling narrative, unlike the sexual narrative, has no climax. Is the tickling scene, at its most reassuring, not a unique representation of desire and, at its most unsettling, a paradigm of the perverse contract? Does it not highlight, this delightful game, the impossibility of satisfaction and of reunion, with its continual reenactment of the irresistible attraction and the inevitable repulsion of the object, in which the final satisfaction is frustration?
~ Adam Phillips
Loving yourself is about as likely as tickling yourself.
~ James Richardson
That smooth-fac'd gentleman, tickling Commodity,Commodity, the bias of the world.
~ William Shakespeare
Puck laughed, and it wasn't like that weird high-pitched giggle she'd heard out of children before, the one that begged the question: why would one possibly tickle a child just to elicit that noise?
~ Kresley Cole
If it's the right person tickling you in that adolescent stage of being on the cusp of sexuality, maybe, just maybe, that tickling is going to be followed by something really good, like hand-holding. In contrast, if it's Slobodan Milosovic who is tickling you, maybe, just maybe, it will be followed up by his trying to ethnically cleanse you.
~ Robert M. Sapolsky
It is a pretty odd profession - tickling people - but it can be lucrative.
~ George Miller
Sexual thrills are not all physical, and although Parlabane was an unlikely seducer, even on the intellectual plane, it was clear that his desire was, by this prolonged tickling, to bring me to an orgasm of the mind.
~ Robertson Davies
The Word is alive. We have always known it. But it needs to be uttered, aloud or in the mind of a reader. Without a consciousness to tickle them into life, those books were dead.
~ Marcel Theroux, Strange Bodies
After all, it is a good thing to laugh…and if a straw can tickle a man, it is an instrument of happiness.
~ Ruskin Bond
I wish I could, laughed the vampire. How positively delightful. I should like to pass through all manner of different keyholes and feel the tickle of their peculiar shapes. No. He shook his head. That is, how would you say today . . . bullshit?
~ Anne Rice
There's not a lot of other stuff I admire about his content, but there's something about Howard Stern and his perseverance in a very difficult industry. He does tickle me in certain ways with humor.
~ Ashleigh Banfield
She scrunched herself around the tickling and giggled. It was a heavenly sound. He moved the bunny back, hopped it forward, tickled her again. The giggling was precious, both in its lack of guile and its spontaneity. He was amazed at how easily it had come.
~ Barbara Delinsky
There is such a grateful tickling in the mind of man in being commended that even when we know the praises which are bestowed on us are not our due, we are not angry with the author?s insincerity.
~ Feltham
As he slipped away he heard his own cradled heartbeat, muffled though it was in the tickling wool of exhaustion.
~ Tad Williams
Cooper got up from his desk and followed the butterfly around the room until it came within reach. He cupped his hands around it gently, feeling its wing-tips tickling his fingers for a moment before became still. 'Hey up, Ben's made an arrest,' said Gavin Murfin. 'Do you want the handcuffs, Ben?
~ Stephen Booth
Rays of male vision seem to have a tickling effect upon virgin faces in rural districts;
~ Thomas Hardy
Death has come in the pantry door: stands watching them, iron and patient, with a look that says 'try to tickle me.
~ Thomas Pynchon
Death has come in the pantry door: stands watching them, iron and patient, with a look that says try to tickle me. •
~ Thomas Pynchon
An ass will with his long ears fray The flies that tickle him away; But man delights to have his ears Blown maggots in by flatterers.
~ Butler
You're aunt's just--what is it--down the hall. You know damn well this place isn't soundproofed. You'll just have to be quiet. He gave her ribs a deliberate tickle that made her jump and yelp. Or not. Didn't I bang you already today, twice this morning? Darling Eve, you're a pathetic romantic.
~ J.D. Robb
A faint tickling on the back of his right hand caused Eragon to look down. A huge, wingless cricket clung to his glove. The insect was hideous: black and bulbous, with barbed legs and a massive skull-like head. Its carapace gleamed like oil.
~ Christopher Paolini
I skip for that all-over body tickle.
~ John Olesen, 2008
Play is also a way to be close and, even more important, a way to reconnect after the closeness has been severed. Chimpanzees like to tickle one another's palms, especially after they have had a fight. Thus, the second purpose of play serves our incredible - almost bottomless - need for attachment and affection and closeness.
~ Lawrence J. Cohen