Nasty Quotes - Page 21

• I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op.

  William Baldwin

  Dirty, Hands, Responsible

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

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• Just because you put higher-octane gasoline in your car doesn't mean you can break the speed limit. The speed limit's still 65.

  Neil Sheehan

  Mean, Car, Literature

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• Only thirteen, and she knows how to nasty.

  Frank Zappa

  Reality, Thirteen, Know How

  Song: Brown Shoes Don't Make It

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• It would be nice if everybody who had something interesting to say about my work could say it politely and civilly, but it doesn't work that way... Sometimes people are just really nasty.

  Paul Bloom

  Nice, People, Interesting

  "Paul Bloom: The Trouble With Empathy". Interview with Allyson Kirkpatrick, www.guernicamag.com. February 1, 2016.

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• I think certain people may make it to sexual; and then others will offset that with the depth of R & B and all of its substance it has to have, in order to be called R & B or, known for an looked at to be called R & B and I kind of straddle the fence on that one because in my earlier years I was the 'Nasty Man,'.

  Ginuwine

  Men, Thinking, Order

  Source: www.parlemag.com

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• There's nothing easy about running for president, I can tell you. It's tough, it's nasty, it's mean, it's vicious, it's beautiful. When you win, it's beautiful. And we are going to start - we are going to start winning for our country.

  Donald Trump

  Beautiful, Running, Country

  "Donald Trump and Marco Rubio react to South Carolina primary results". "Fox News Sunday" with Chris Wallace, www.foxnews.com. February 21, 2016.

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• Donald [Trump] is a charming person. He can be fun. He can make you laugh. But he can turn on you. And get nasty and personal and vicious.

  Ted Cruz

  Fun, Laughing, Charming

  "Face the Nation" with John Dickerson, www.cbsnews.com. February 28, 2016.

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• The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.

  Carl Sagan

  Christian, Ideas, Perfect

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Cosmos”, p.212, Ballantine Books

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• If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

  Edna Ferber

  Dirty, Literature, American Politics

  Edna Ferber (1930). “Cimarron”, Doubleday

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• It's often said that the Democrats fight 'for the little guy.' That's true: liberals fight to make sure the little guy stays little! Think about it. What if all the little guys were to prosper and become big guys? Then what? Who would liberals pretend to fight for? If the bamboozlers fight for anything, it's to ensure that the little guy stays angry at those nasty conservatives who are holding him down.

  Angela McGlowan

  Fighting, Thinking, Guy

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• It keeps you fit - the alcohol, nasty women, sweat on stage, bad food - it's all very good for you.

  Bon Scott

  Sweat, Alcohol, Fit

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• Life is not a beauty contest, some [ugly people] are great. What I hate is nasty, ugly people... the worst is ugly, short men. Women can be short, but for men it is impossible. It is something that they will not forgive in life... they are mean and they want to kill you.

  Karl Lagerfeld

  Hate, Mean, Men

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• The mind can be our best friend and advocate in getting what we want in life, or it can pull the brakes on and be a nasty little foe – the choice is yours – choose your attitude.

  Rachael Bermingham

  Attitude, Choices, Mind

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• We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

  Edmund Husserl

  Would Be, Kind, Position

  Edmund Husserl, Peter McCormick, Frederick Elliston (1981). “Husserl, shorter works”, Univ of Notre Dame Pr

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• You a slave to a page in my rhyme book.

  Nas

  Book, Pages, Slave

  Song: I Made You Look, 2002

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• America is all about speed. Hot, nasty, bad-ass speed.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Bad Ass, America, Hot

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• Feminism seeks to turn the biggest, bloodiest carnivore in the world - passion - into a right-on cud-chewing vegan. It can never work. Sex was never meant to be that way. Sex, on the whole, was meant to be short, nasty and brutish. If what you want is cuddling, you should buy a puppy.

  Julie Burchill

  Sex, Passion, Cuddling

  Julie Burchill (1992). “Sex & Sensibility”

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• I've never seen class warfare as nasty as it is today, as a result of tax debate.

  Bernard Goldberg

  Class, Warfare, Today

  "Bernie Goldberg Explains Why We Should Be Thanking Rich Americans". "The O'Reilly Factor", www.foxnews.com. December 13, 2010.

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• I'd support life extension by whatever means, from cryonic suspension to cyborgism to coding ourselves into our computers or whatever. There is nothing noble or beautiful or dignified about dying. Like poverty, it is ugly, nasty, brutal and primitive.

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Beautiful, Mean, Support

  Source: theanarchistlibrary.org

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• Shower on him every blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing else to do but sleep, eat cakes, and busy himself with the continuation of the species, and even then, out of sheer ingratitude, sheer spite, man would play you some nasty trick.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Sleep, Men, Blessing

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• You like orchids?... Nasty things. Their flesh is too much like the flesh of men, their perfume has the rotten sweetness of corruption.

  William Faulkner

  Sleep, Men, Orchids

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• You know, we did a good job in containing the Soviet Union, but we made a lot of mistakes, we supported really nasty guys, we did some things that we are not particularly proud of, from Latin America to Southeast Asia, but we did have a kind of overarching framework about what we were trying to do that did lead to the defeat of the Soviet Union and the collapse of Communism. That was our objective. We achieved it.

  Hillary Clinton

  Leadership, Jobs, Latin

  "Hillary Clinton: 'Failure' to Help Syrian Rebels Led to the Rise of ISIS". Interview with Jeffrey Goldberg, www.theatlantic.com. August 10, 2014.

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• I want an iPhone 5, someone said something nasty on twitter, or my boyfriend isn't texting me back, like whatever the thing is that seems so major in your life, when a real disaster hits you suddenly strips it all away and you see what's really important and who you really are.

  Eli Roth

  Real, Iphone, My Boyfriend

  Source: collider.com

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• I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.

  Beau Willimon

  Xbox, Home, Thinking

  "Banging Everything in Sight: My Trip to the LA Gun Club" by Beau Willimon, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 24, 2010.

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• Our heads have a nasty habit of ruining what can make us happiest. And there are times in our lives when you have to put aside what we think is best and do with what you feel is best.

  A. Meredith Walters

  Thinking, Habit, Feels

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