Nasty Quotes - Page 18

• I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.

  Lisa Marie Presley

  Song, Art, Anger

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• The permissive society has been allowed to become a dirty phrase. A better phrase is the civilised society

  Roy Jenkins

  Dirty, Phrases, Civilised Society

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• The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style

  Stella Gibbons

  Style, Poor, Cold Comfort Farm

  1932 Cold Comfort Farm, foreword.

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• I’m convinced that fear is at the root of most bad writing. Dumbo got airborne with the help of a magic feather; you may feel the urge to grasp a passive verb or one of those nasty adverbs for the same reason. Just remember before you do that Dumbo didn’t need the feather; the magic was in him.

  Stephen King

  Writing, Roots, Magic

  Stephen King (2002). “On Writing”, p.121, Simon and Schuster

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• I am deeply distressed by what I only can call in our Christian culture the idolatry of the Scriptures. For many Christians, the Bible is not a pointer to God but God himself... God cannot be confined within the covers of a leather-bound book. I develop a nasty rash around people who speak as if mere scrutiny of its pages will reveal precisely how God thinks and precisely what God wants.

  Brennan Manning

  Christian, Book, Thinking

  Brennan Manning (2011). “The Signature of Jesus”, p.174, Multnomah

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• I am mean; I'm nasty at times. I don't feel like talking to people at times. When I am in a bad mood and have had a really awful day, don't come in my face because I am not tolerant and I am not a goddess; I can't handle it after a point. I am going to get up, and I am going to scream, and I am going to say bad things to you.

  Kajol

  Mean, Talking, People

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• Bad facts make bad law, and people who write bad laws are in my opinion more dangerous than songwriters who celebrate sexuality. Freedom of speech, freedom of religious thought, and the right to due process for composers, performers and retailers are imperiled if the PMRC and the major labels consummate this nasty bargain.

  Frank Zappa

  Religious, Writing, Law

  Frank Zappa, Peter Occhiogrosso (1990). “Real Frank Zappa Book”, p.276, Simon and Schuster

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• It's a nasty divorce when they can't agree on how to divvy up the His and Hers towels.

  Robert Breault

  Marriage, Divorce, Towels

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• But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's nice to just take it out on Kyle, because he's so easy to scream at, you know?

  Fisher Stevens

  Nice, Chicago, Cold

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

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• I always looked forward to being an adult, because I thought the adult world was, well—adult. That adults weren’t cliquey or nasty, that the whole notion of being cool, or in, or popular would case to be the arbiter of all things social, but I was beginning to realize that the adult world was as nonsensically brutal and socially perilous as the kingdom of childhood.

  Peter Cameron

  Childhood, Adults, World

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• When someone is nasty or treats you poorly, don't take it personally. It says nothing about you, but a lot about them.

  Michael Josephson

  Being Yourself, Just Being You, Treats

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• Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Judgmental, Failing, Civility

  Ayelet Waldman (2009). “Bad Mother: A Chronicle of Maternal Crimes, Minor Calamities, and Occasional Moments of Grace”, p.69, Anchor

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• It's ok to be sassy, but I'll never be trashy, it's ok to be nasty, but you got to keep it classy now

  Joss Stone

  Sassy

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• There was a desire to see me being nasty and horrible, and of course that's not really me

  Alan Sugar

  Desire, Horrible, Courses

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• I like to be firm. But it is easier to be nice than to be nasty.

  Wolfgang Puck

  Nice, Easier, Firm

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• People still text me to say that there is something about me in the paper, and what really annoys me is that if it's nasty, I then have to go and have a look, even though actually I don't want to know.

  Zara Phillips

  People, Looks, Paper

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• I don't like the way some actors, when playing a nasty character, will try to grab hold of something good about them.

  Peter Mullan

  Character, Trying, Way

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• Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

  Djuna Barnes

  Funny, Life Is Short, Bad Day

  Djuna Barnes, Phillip F. Herring, Osias Stutman (2005). “Collected Poems: With Notes Toward the Memoirs”, p.285, Univ of Wisconsin Press

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• If a solution fails to appear ... and yet we feel success is just around the corner, try resting for a while. ... Like the early morning frost, this intellectual refreshment withers the parasitic and nasty vegetation that smothers the good seed. Bursting forth at last is the flower of truth.

  Santiago Ramon y Cajal

  Morning, Flower, Intellectual

  Santiago Ramón y Cajal (2004). “Advice for a Young Investigator”, p.35, MIT Press

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• Outing is a nasty word for telling the truth.

  Armistead Maupin

  Gay, Telling The Truth

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• What was the idea behind Hot Pockets? Was there a marketing meeting somewhere, 'Hey I got an idea: How about we take a Pop-Tart and fill it with really nasty meat? You could cook it in a sleeve thing, and you could dunk it in the toilet.'

  Jim Gaffigan

  Funny, Humor, Ideas

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• If they play dirty, then you play dirty.

  Lawrence Taylor

  Sports, Dirty, Naughty

  "Lawrence Taylor: Getting Blitzed" By Jon Robinson, www.ign.com. May 31, 2005.

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• There had been observed in this country certain streams of influence which are causing a marked deterioration in our literature, amusements, and social conduct...a nasty Orientalism which had insidiously affected every channel of expression...The fact that these influences are all traceable to one racial source [Judaism] is something to be reckoned with...Our opposition is only in ideas, false ideas, which are sapping the moral stamina of the people.

  Henry Ford

  Country, Expression, Ideas

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• Whenever someone asks me if I want water with my scotch, I say, I'm thirsty, not dirty.

  Joe E. Lewis

  Drinking, Dirty, Food

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• Science is not, as so many seem to think, something apart, which has to do with telescopes, retorts, and test-tubes, and especially with nasty smells, but it is a way of searching out by observation, trial and classification; whether the phenomena investigated be the outcome of human activities, or of the more direct workings of nature's laws. Its methods admit of nothing untidy or slip-shod; its keynote is accuracy and its goal is truth.

  Archibald Garrod

  Science, Thinking, Law

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