It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why. — Wendy Shalit Copy Share Image
Thomas Chong is a bad influence on children because of his drug use and crude humor — Unkown Copy Share Image
Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse. — John Arlott Copy Share Image
The crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated. — Peter DeFazio Copy Share Image
We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that… — Susan George Copy Share Image
It is better to read a little and thoroughly than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
Solving climate change is a complex topic, but in a single crude brush-stroke, here is the solution: the price of carbon dioxide… — David J. C. MacKay Copy Share Image
One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ...… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Running out of energy in the long run is not the problem… The bind comes during the next 10 years: getting over… — Kenneth S. Deffeyes Copy Share Image
Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it,… — Timothy Garton Ash Copy Share Image
How can I be expected to love someone who tries such crude manipulations as bringing me breakfast in bed? — Matt Groening Copy Share Image
Gentle souls! You play your love on the violin. The crude ones play it on the drums violently. But can you turn… — Vladimir Mayakovsky 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
Conscience is all about using discernment, discrimination and assessment, rather than looking to the rather crude form of advice from the judge… — Mark Coleman Copy Share Image
The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Crude hasn't been responding to fundamentals all year. I think crude has been 8 to 10 overvalued for some time and has… — Kyle Cooper Copy Share Image
Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into… — K. Eric Drexler Copy Share Image
This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes;… — Dan Rather Copy Share Image
What we call vice in our neighbor may be nothing less than a crude virtue. To him who knows nothing more of… — William Gilmore Simms Copy Share Image
We [India in 70s] certainly were capable of producing eight to ten bombs, at a cost of about $250,000 each; and we… — Subramanian Swamy 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
If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not… — Cennino Cennini Copy Share Image
There is no knowing beyond that membrane, the meniscus of death. What can be seen from here is distorted, refracted. All we… — China Mieville Copy Share Image
My understanding about nutrition is not what I'd like it to be, so for a long time my dieting strategy was very… — Kai Greene Copy Share Image
Each human being has the eternal duty of turning what is hard and brutal into a tender and subtle offering, what is… — Yehudi Menuhin Copy Share Image
This morning, prompted by increasing concerns about terrorism, oil prices reached a record high as the cost of a barrel of crude… — Jon Stewart Copy Share Image
Violence, less and less embarrassed by the limits imposed by centuries of lawfulness, is brazenly and victoriously striding across the whole world,… — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn Copy Share Image
Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking. — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
I've seen 3-D movies where it seems a little crude or too in-your-face. — Laura Dern Copy Share Image
On the pavement of my trampled soul the steps of madmen weave the prints of rude crude words. — Vladimir Mayakovsky Copy Share Image
Professionalism is nothing but a crude insistance on the mechanization of mankind. — Kedar Joshi Copy Share Image
The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place. — Timothy Noah Copy Share Image
There are only Epicureans, either crude or refined; Christ was the most refined. — Georg Buchner Copy Share Image