“He was not fond of young people in herds. He thought them uninteresting and crude.” — Agatha Christie Copy Share Image
Our language for describing emotions is very crude... that's what music is for, I guess. — Ben Goertzel Copy Share Image
A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true. — Johan Huizinga Copy Share Image
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life. — H. G. Wells Copy Share Image
I always thought my genitals were the result of some crude practical joke. — Steven Morrissey Copy Share Image
Sex becomes violent when you eliminate all the sentiments... voila, it gets crude. — Bruno Dumont Copy Share Image
Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
I'm sorry that some self-styled anarchists have picked up on the word spirit and have turned me into a theological ecologist, a… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Twenty20 is itself a banal game, a crude game, but it works, so I hope Twenty20 commentary works. — Jonathan Agnew Copy Share Image
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost. — Erich Maria Remarque Copy Share Image
Rockefeller made his money in oil, which he discovered at the bottom of wells. Oil was considered crude in those days, but… — Richard Armour Copy Share Image
If you wish the sympathy of the broad masses, you must tell them the crudest and most stupid things. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Conservatives and companies condoned Rush Limbaugh's politics of personal destruction when it came to smearing elected officials. 'Fair game,' they said, even… — Christine Pelosi Copy Share Image
Data is just like crude. It’s valuable, but if unrefined it cannot really be used. It has to be changed into gas,… — Michael Palmer Copy Share Image
I do believe, separate and apart from any particular election or movement, that we are going to have to guard against a… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Public-policy-wise, if you want to be consistent, crude oil is a bulk commodity, and you should be able to export it. I… — John Shimkus Copy Share Image
To this day I over prepare. I draw storyboards for every scene - chicken scratches so crude that they amuse and horrify… — Eric Stoltz Copy Share Image
A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in… — James Fenton Copy Share Image
The price of crude oil accounts for 55 percent of the price of a gallon of gasoline, driven by global supply and… — Gary Miller Copy Share Image
Words, sentences, ideas, no matter how subtle or ingenious, the maddest flights of poetry, the most profound dreams, the most hallucinating visions,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief.… — Lloyd Alexander Copy Share Image
As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
How to become a really modern society when today we are so - as a human being, we feel so powerful. We… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
I can do no more than characterise, and recommend, the Alexander treatment as an extremely sophisticated form of rehabilition, or rather of… — Nikolaas Tinbergen Copy Share Image
Our faith in democracy, personal freedoms and human 'rights', and the other comforting prescriptions of the humanist liberal credo stem from the… — Peter Padfield Copy Share Image
The act of choosing what to place in your piece when you're a historian or a non-fiction writer already renders it into… — James McBride Copy Share Image
Narrative and metaphysics alike become flimsy and frivolous if they venture too far from the home base of all humanism - the… — John Updike Copy Share Image
The crude commercialism of America, its materialising spirit, its indifference to the poetical side of things, and its lack of imagination and… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
The physicists have known sin; and this is a knowledge which they cannot lose. — J. Robert Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why. — Wendy Shalit Copy Share Image
