Nasty Quotes - Page 6

• Diet Coke does not contain nasty chemicals. It contains lovely and delicious carbonation, caffeine, and aspartame. What's unnatural about that?

  Meg Cabot

  Lovely, Doe, Coke

  Meg Cabot (2010). “Queen of Babble Bundle with Bonus Material”, p.76, Harper Collins

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• I have been, and will go on, fighting that damnable, dirty, rotten business with all the power at my command.

  Billy Sunday

  Sports, Dirty, Fighting

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• An evil person is like a dirty window, they never let the light shine through.

  William Makepeace Thackeray

  Dirty, Naughty, Light

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• The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.

  Linus Torvalds

  World, Intimidation, Economics

  "The Legacy Of Linus Torvalds: Linux, Git, And One Giant Flamethrower" by Robert Mcmillan, www.wired.com. November 19, 2012.

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• I mean, as long as it doesn't have a bra attached, guys can take a risk and wear stylish things that went out of style 30 years ago. As things go around, they come around.

  Steven Tyler

  Mean, Years, Long

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• I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes.

  Christopher Walken

  Mean, Thinking, Play

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• I saw something nasty in the woodshed.

  Stella Gibbons

  Saws, Cold Comfort Farm

  Cold Comfort Farm ch. 10 (1932)

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• Of course many bars in Manhasset, like bars everywhere, were nasty places, full of pickled people marinating in regret.

  J. R. Moehringer

  Regret, People, Bars

  J. R. Moehringer (2005). “The Tender Bar: A Memoir”

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• Reality is like a fruitcake; pretty enough to look at but with all sorts of nasty things lurking just beneath the surface.

  A. Lee Martinez

  Reality, Looks, Fruitcake

  A. Lee Martinez (2006). “Gil's All Fright Diner”, p.184, Macmillan

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• There are certain people in whom you can detect the seeds of madness - seeds that have remained dormant only because the people in question have lived relatively comfortable, middle class lives. They function perfectly well in the world, but you can imagine, given a nasty parent, or a prolonged bout of unemployment, how their potential for craziness might have been realized.

  Zoë Heller

  Class, People, Parent

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• Look, I never wanted to be a half-blood. most of the time it gets you killed in nasty, dangerous ways.

  Rick Riordan

  Blood, Looks, Half

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• Fine, if you see no reason to worry about bisonbecks who do the bidding of Risto'-- he sat down on a log and pulled out his lunch--'or mordakleeps who team up with anything nasty and currently have a wonderful working relationship with that same evil wizard Risto, then why should I worry? Why should we warn Kale?' Leetu's scowl turned darker. Dar lifted his sandwich to his mouth, but had one more thing to say before he bit into it. 'Actually, I agree with you. Worrying now over an encounter that might occur later would only ruin our digestion.

  Donita K. Paul

  Team, Kale, Lunch

  Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonSpell: A Novel”, p.62, WaterBrook

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• Nasty temper he's got, that Sirius Black.

  J. K. Rowling

  Black, Sirius, Temper

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• Whatsoever therefore is consequent to a time of war, where every man is enemy to every man, the same consequent to the time wherein men live without other security than what their own strength and their own invention shall furnish them withal. In such condition there is no place for industry... no knowledge of the face of the earth; no account of time; no arts; no letters; no society; and which is worst of all, continual fear, and danger of violent death; and the life of man, solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short.

  Thomas Hobbes

  Art, War, Men

  'Leviathan' (1651) pt. 1, ch. 13

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• Nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

  Kingsley Amis

  Nice, Nice Things

  Kingsley Amis (2012). “Lucky Jim”, New York Review of Books

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• And in bed, deep inside the building, are all the headaches that won't go away. The failed kidneys, the rashes, the ragged-edged moles, the lumps on the breast, the coughs that have turned nasty. In the Marie Curie Ward on the fourth floor are the kids with cancer. Their bodies secretly and slowly being consumed. And then there's the mortuary, where the dead lie in refrigerated drawers with name tags on their feet.

  Jenny Downham

  Cancer, Lying, Kids

  Jenny Downham (2007). “Before I Die”, David Fickling Books

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• Is it useful to feel fear, because it prepares you for nasty events, or is it useless, because nasty events will occur whether you are frightened or not?

  Daniel Handler

  Fear, Events, Useless

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• People don't very much like things that are beautiful - they are so far from their nasty little minds.

  Claude Debussy

  Beautiful, People, Mind

  "Debussy: Musician of France". Book by Victor Illyitch Seroff, 1957.

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• I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.

  Aldous Huxley

  Said, Brave New World Technology, Brave New World Character

  Aldous Huxley (1950). “The Collected Works of Aldous Huxley: Brave new world”

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• I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Thinking, Use

  J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Hobbit”, p.7, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• What a nasty act of cruelty, giving a dying man his last wish. Don't you realize he doesn't want it? His real wish is not to die.

  Steve Toltz

  Real, Men, Giving

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A Fraction of the Whole”, p.372, Spiegel & Grau

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• Liesel shrugged away entirely from the crowd and entered the tide of Jews, weaving through them till she grabbed hold of his arm with her left hand. His face fell on her. It reached down as she tripped, and the Jew,the nasty Jew, helped her up. It took all of his strength.

  Markus Zusak

  Hands, Left Hand, Crowds

  Markus Zusak (2013). “The Book Thief: Enhanced Movie Tie-in Edition”, p.488, RH Childrens Books

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• Jason settled back on the bench. 'I hate to break this to you, but as a rule, wizards are nasty people. They're powerful, capricious, ruthless, egotistical, used to getting their own way. That's being kind.

  Cinda Williams Chima

  Powerful, Hate, People

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• ...but I guess it's better for people to shut up rather than rather than say something nasty. -ONE NIGHT @ THE CALL CENTER Chapter 1 page 22

  Chetan Bhagat

  Night, People, Pages

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• The nasty little apes that call themselves human beings can do nothing except run and hide.

  Michael Crichton

  Running, Littles, Apes

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