Disgusting Quotes

• Criticism really used to hurt me. Most of these critics are usually frustrated artists, and they criticise other people's art because they can't do it themselves. It's a really disgusting job. They must feel horrible inside

  Rosanna Arquette

  Art, Hurt, Jobs

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• Nothing more strongly arouses our disgust than cannibalism, yet we make the same impression on Buddhists and vegetarians, for we feed on babies, though not our own.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Death, Baby, Buddhist

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• The people of the future will say, 'meat-eaters!' in disgust and regard us in the same way that we regard cannibals and cannibalism.

  Dennis Weaver

  Vegetarianism, People, Meat

  "The vegetarians". Book by Rynn Berry, p. 64, 1979.

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• I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body, it would be artistic, tasteful, patriotic and a progressive religious experience.

  Shelley Winters

  Religious, Retirement, Patriotic

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Disgust and resolve are two of the great emotions that lead to change.

  Jim Rohn

  Change, Two, Emotion

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 17, 2017

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• Fear is danger to your body, but disgust is danger to your soul.

  Diane Ackerman

  Soul, Body, Danger

  Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis”, p.267, Vintage

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• The greatest pleasures are only narrowly separated from disgust.

  Marcus Tullius Cicero

  Philosophical, Pleasure, Greatest Pleasures

  Marcus Tullius Cicero, Harris Rackham (1977). “De Oratore: Book III”

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• The time will come when it will disgust you to look in the mirror.

  Rose Kennedy

  Mirrors, Looks, Appearance

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• Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.

  Dave Barry

  Lakes, Sea, Fishing

  Dave Barry (2009). “Dave Barry Is from Mars and Venus”, p.104, Ballantine Books

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• Love turns, with a little indulgence, to indifference or disgust; hatred alone is immortal.

  William Hazlitt

  Hatred, Littles, Indifference

  William Hazlitt (1870). “The Plain Speaker: Opinions on Books, Men, and Things”, p.177

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• The psychologist, Paul Rozin, an expert on disgust, observed that a single cockroach will completely wreck the appeal of a bowl of cherries, but a cherry will do nothing at all for a bowl of cockroaches.

  Daniel Kahneman

  Cockroaches, Experts, Wrecks

  Daniel Kahneman (2011). “Thinking, Fast and Slow”, p.342, Macmillan

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• I stood up as best I could to their disgusting stupidity and brutality, but I did not, of course, manage to beat them at their own game. It was a fight to the bitter end, one in which I was not defending ideals or beliefs but simply my own self.

  George Grosz

  Fighting, Games, Self

  George Grosz (1982). “The autobiography of George Grosz: a small yes and a big no”

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• I think hard drugs are disgusting. But I must say, I think marijuana is pretty lightweight.

  Linda McCartney

  Marijuana, Thinking, Drug

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• Man thrives where angels would die of ecstasy and where pigs would die of disgust.

  Kenneth Rexroth

  Angel, Men, Pigs

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• I never drink water because of the disgusting things that fish do in it.

  W. C. Fields

  Funny, Witty, Hunting

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• People place such importance on the external. It's disgusting.

  Tab Hunter

  People, Importance

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• Our photographs are filthier and our stories are more disgusting. We make no effort to be artistic.

  Al Goldstein

  Effort, Stories, Artistic

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• It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it.

  Victor Garber

  People, Trying, World

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I'm writing a film. With our access to these powerful media, we're going to take over, because it's really disgusting what is put out there now to be consumed.

  Lisa Bonet

  Powerful, Writing, Media

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• My pacifism is an instinctive feeling, a feeling that possesses me because the murder of men is disgusting. My attitude is not derived from any intellectual theory but is based on my deepest antipathy to every kind of cruelty and hatred.

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Spiritual, Attitude

  Albert Einstein (2010). “The Ultimate Quotable Einstein”, p.247, Princeton University Press

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• Being called ugly and fat and disgusting to look at from the time I could barely understand what the words meant has scarred me so deep inside that I have learned to hunt, stalk, claim, own and defend my own loveliness.

  Margaret Cho

  Looks, Ugly, Stalking

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• I was a teen star. That's disgusting enough.

  John Cusack

  Stars, Teenager, Enough

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• There is nothing that disgusts a man like getting beaten at chess by a woman.

  Charles Dudley Warner

  Men, Chess, Beaten

  Charles Dudley Warner “The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner”, Library of Alexandria

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  If I ever loved a woman, the more I loved her, the more I wanted to hurt her. Frida was only the most obvious victim of this disgusting trait.

  Diego Rivera

  Hurt, Happy Friday, Victim

  Diego Rivera (1960). “My Art, My Life: An Autobiography”, p.180, Courier Corporation

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• Quite a lot of our contemporary culture is actually shot through with a resentment of limits and the passage of time, anger at what we can't do, fear or even disgust at growing old.

  Rowan Williams

  Anger, Culture, Growing

  Rowan Williams (2013). “Choose Life: Christmas and Easter Sermons in Canterbury Cathedral”, p.136, Bloomsbury Publishing

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