you're an insomniac, you tell yourself: there are profound truths revealed only to the insomniac by night like those phosphorescent minerals veined… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
Why it was that upon this beautiful feminine tissue, sensitive as gossamer, and practically blank as snow as yet, there should have… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
We note the increasing coarseness of language and understand how Lot must have felt when he was, according to Peter, "vexed with… — Spencer W. Kimball Copy Share Image
There is nothing in the world more difficult than candor, and nothing easier than flattery. If there is a hundredth of a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When the Prince of Wales [later King George IV] and the Duke of York went to visit their brother Prince William [later… — Horace Walpole Copy Share Image
When we too are armed and trained, we can convince men that we have hands, feet, and a heart like yours; and… — Veronica Franco Copy Share Image
So much of the humor on new sitcoms plays to the lowest common denominator. Wit isn't nearly given as much attention as… — Betty White Copy Share Image
Music may appeal to crude and coarse feelings or to refined and noble ones; and in so far as it does the… — Herbert Spencer Copy Share Image
The fact that slang is apt and forceful makes its use irresistibly tempting. Coarse or profane slang is beside the mark, but… — Emily Post Copy Share Image
Do you think it is a vain hope that one day man will find joy in noble deeds of light and mercy,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is clear from a common sense viewing of the program that coarse language is a part of the culture of the… — Jonathan Adelstein Copy Share Image
I thought it very touching to see these two women, coarse and shabby and beaten, so united; to see what they could… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
Prosperity, pleasure and success, may be rough of grain and common in fibre, but sorrow is the most sensitive of all created… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
What signifies, says some one, giving halfpence to beggars? they only lay it out in gin or tobacco. "And why should they… — Hester Lynch Piozzi Copy Share Image
Behind joy and laughter there may be a temperament, coarse, hard and callous. But behind sorrow there is always sorrow. Pain, unlike… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
After [Bill Shawn] was fired, I was going to the YMHA [Young Men's Hebrew Association] on the Upper East Side to do… — Nat Hentoff Copy Share Image
The worldly wisdom of the foolish man Is like a sieve, that does alone retain The grosser substance of the worthless bran:… — Francis Quarles Copy Share Image
The one prudence in life is concentration; the one evil is dissipation: and it makes no difference whether our dissipations are coarse… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I don't use coarse language very often. I have a larger vocabulary than that. — John McCain Copy Share Image
Even today I meet people who think of me automatically as a tough, insensitive, coarse guy named Stanley Kowalski. They can't help… — Marlon Brando Copy Share Image
He who needs only coarse food, water and drink, and as pillow his folded arms will find happiness without further search. — Confucius Copy Share Image
Note that the eating of flesh is not only physically against nature, but it also makes us spiritually coarse and gross by… — Plutarch Copy Share Image
Culture is the sum of all the forms of art, of love, and of thought, which, in the coarse or centuries, have… — Andre Malraux Copy Share Image
I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Style is the dress of thoughts; and let them be ever so just, if your style is homely, coarse, and vulgar, they… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
She had had her momentary flowering, a year, perhaps, of wildrose beauty, and then she had suddenly swollen like a fertilized fruit… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
SEINE, n. A kind of net for effecting an involuntary change of environment. For fish it is made strong and coarse, but… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
Toward seven o'clock every morning, I leave my study and step Out on the bright terrace; the sun already burns resplendent Between… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
The knives in my apartment are only sharp enough to open envelopes with. Cutting a slice of coarse bread is on the… — Peter Høeg Copy Share Image
We are so vain as to set the highest value upon those things to which nature has assigned the lowest place. What… — Seneca the Younger Copy Share Image
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