Upset Quotes - Page 19

• In New York, Catholic groups have forced an art gallery to shut down an exhibition of a six-foot image of Jesus in chocolate. So, the Archbishop of New York was very upset. He said, 'It is appalling to make Jesus out of food! Now, if you'll excuse me, I have to go bake some communion wafers.'

  Bill Maher

  Jesus, Art, Atheist

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• I don't know why people were so upset with me. Prince got his own symbol. I just wanted to adopt the handicap symbol as my own so I could park in handicap spots. Deformed people should be honored to park so close to me. Meeting a celebrity like me may give them hope in their mistake of a life.

  Zach Braff

  Mistake, People, Giving

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• The greatest words you hear in college basketball are Ohio State advances. (The Iowa upset) is amazing. But again, it's all the proof you need that there's no guarantee.

  Thad Matta

  Basketball, College, Ohio State

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• I made a mask out of my face because I didn't realize I was quite beautiful. God blessed me so. I practically destroyed it. I had to wear heavy black eyelashes like bat wings, and dark lines under my eyes, and cut all my hair off, my long dark hair. Cut it off and strip it silver and blonde. All those little maneuvers I did out of things that were happening in my life that upset me.

  Edie Sedgwick

  Beautiful, Blessed, Eye

  "Edie : American Girl". Book by Jean Stein and George Plimpton, 1982.

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• There is a new bill in the Senate that is upsetting a lot of people. This bill would give the President the power to shut off the Internet. Al Gore is strongly opposed to it. Not because he invented the Internet. Because he did. But because he just signed up for Match.com.

  Craig Ferguson

  Giving, People, President

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• A lot of Democrats are not that upset with Howard Dean. Howard Dean gets out here and he says these inflammatory things, and he doesn't apologize. He doesn't back down a little bit.

  Gwen Ifill

  Apology, Littles, Apologizing

  "Meet the Press" with Tim Russert, www.nbcnews.com. June 12, 2005.

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• I like poems that are daggers that sing. I like poems that for all the power of the sentiments expressed, and all the power to upset and offend, are so well made that they’re achieved things. However much they upset you, they also affect you.

  Frederick Seidel

  Daggers, Made, Wells

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• If your faith is in experiences, anything that happens is likely to upset that faith.

  Oswald Chambers

  Happens, Ifs

  Oswald Chambers (2010). “My Utmost for His Highest”, p.694, Discovery House

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• I find myself getting so upset because I was never able to be a good mother for my daughter or a good grandmother for my granddaughter because I was always so sick. I only hope that I can live long enough to see my granddaughter graduate.

  Dorothy Moore

  Daughter, Mother, Long

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• Our greatest gain is to lose the wealth that is of such brief duration and, by comparison with eternal things, of such little worth; yet we get upset about it and our gain turns to loss.

  Teresa of Avila

  Loss, Saint, Littles

  Saint Teresa (of Avila) (1966). “The Letters of Saint Teresa of Jesus”

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• Imagine wasting all that perfectly good anger on paranoid fantasies. Not since Emily Litella got upset about "Soviet jewelry" has there been such a waste of anger. You will notice a certain theme to these Emily Litella Moments. Behind them all is a touching faith that someone, somewhere is actually in charge of what's happening - a proposition I beg leave to doubt.

  Molly Ivins

  Perfectly Good, Touching, Doubt

  Molly Ivins (2010). “You Got to Dance with Them What Brung You”, p.72, Vintage

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• I've told people that I don't see myself living very long. That really upsets them, but I'm just being honest.

  Michael Angelakos

  Long, People, Just Being

  "Passion Pit". Interview with Larry Fitzmaurice, pitchfork.com. July 19, 2012.

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• [Asked whether he would like to see an experimental demonstration of conical refraction] No. I have been teaching it all my life, and I do not want to have my ideas upset.

  Isaac Todhunter

  Life, Teaching, Ideas

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• America Online customers are upset because the company has decided to allow advertising in its chat rooms. I can see why: you got computer sex, you can download pornography, people are making dates with 10 year-olds. Hey, what's this? A Pepsi ad? They're ruining the integrity of the Internet!

  Jay Leno

  Sex, Integrity, America

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• Every time I've talked about my family in the past, people have ended up getting upset. So I said to my friends and family: 'I shan't refer to you at all, and there's nothing for you to get upset about. There's the deal.

  Richard Griffiths

  Past, People, Family And Friends

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• Know your lover and what delights him or her, but also what he/she considers inappropriate. After all, you want to whet their appetite and create excitement, rather than make them upset.

  Laura Ramirez

  Sexy, Delight, Want

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• I don't think you should reprimand your child for everything you're feeling because for them it's as serious as when something happens in our day and we get upset about it.

  Nia Long

  Children, Thinking, Everything Happens For A Reason

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

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• If Terri was upset about how silly she would look, her mother was completely undone. Seems she wanted Terri in her full natural bloom, not with any blooming flower.

  Audrey Meadows

  Mother, Stupid, Flower

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• Because people have read those things in the newspapers, they think it is true. Ten years ago all these things I have just mentioned would have upset me.

  Ruud van Nistelrooy

  Thinking, Years, People

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• We have merely scratched the surface of the store of knowledge which will come to us. I believe that we are now, a-tremble on the verge of vast discoveries - discoveries so wondrously important they will upset the present trend of human thought and start it along completely new lines .

  Thomas A. Edison

  Motivational, Believe, Discovery

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• There is nothing in the world like a persuasive speech to fuddle the mental apparatus and upset the convictions and debauch the emotions of an audience not practiced in the tricks and delusions of oratory

  Mark Twain

  Oratory, World, Speech

  Mark Twain (2012). “Mark Twain at Your Fingertips: A Book of Quotations”, p.452, Courier Corporation

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• Baby, I've tried to find a place inside your heart. Oh, but it's hard to start a fire without a spark.

  Martina McBride

  Baby, Heart, Fire

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• I see you try to hurt me bad. Don't know what you're up against. Maybe you should reconsider; come up with another plan. Cause you know I'm not that kinda girl. I'll just get back up again.

  Pink

  Girl, Hurt, Trying

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• I wouldn't know what to do with another chance if you gave it to me.

  Fiona Apple

  Another Chance, Knows, Ifs

  Song: The Way Way Things Are, Album: When The Pawn..., 1999

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• I didn't want anyone getting close to me. I pushed people away. Built a wall around my heart to keep them out. I let one person take down the bricks, and I suppose it was a good idea, but, sometimes, he hurts me too. And it hurts so much worse then any other hurt I've felt because he is one of the very few that matter anymore.

  Jacqueline Kelly

  Hurt, Wall, Heart

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