It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics. — Louise Erdrich Copy Share Image
lips all crude scarlet, and eyes as absurdly big and round as a child's good-by kiss. — Eleanor Hallowell Abbott Copy Share Image
All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made. — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
The crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated. — Peter DeFazio Copy Share Image
Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking. — Sarah Churchwell Copy Share Image
Thomas Chong is a bad influence on children because of his drug use and crude humor — Unkown Copy Share Image
“I'm tired of glossy, retouched, plastic, overdubbed, laugh-tracked, advertised experience. I want crude - straight from the soul.” — Hannah Hinchman Copy Share Image
Pious XII was too neutral to mention the gas chambers; decent people like my own family were turned into devils by crude… — Lionel Blue Copy Share Image
There's so much promise and it's just goin to waste. We turn crude, lack of class, lack of taste. — Jean Grae Copy Share Image
The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting funny is in their bones -… — F. Sionil Jose Copy Share Image
But we never tell the truth. We cannot properly 'tell' the truth, because our words are crude tools to express something, 'the… — Declan Donnellan Copy Share Image
Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole,… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Ascribing racial animus to people who are trying to safeguard democratic integrity is a crude yet effective political tactic that obscures the… — Edwin Meese Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of truth; the truth that lights the way and the truth that warms the heart. The first of… — Raymond Chandler Copy Share Image
About 75% of the price of gas is really dictated by crude oil. At the heart of the issue is increasing demand… — John S. Watson Copy Share Image
Everything made by human hands looks terrible under magnification--crude, rough, and asymmetrical. But in nature every bit of life is lovely. And… — Roman Vishniac Copy Share Image
Soaring prices for crude oil, falling production surpluses, wild speculation in commodities, a rush into the precious metals, turmoil in the Middle… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
The humor I came up with is, for the most part, a bit crude or guttural, and many people aren't going to… — Donald Ray Pollock Copy Share Image
Close observation of children at play suggests that they find out about the world in the same way as scientists find out… — Judith Rodin Copy Share Image
This is America, This vast, confused beauty, This staring, restless speed of loveliness, Mighty, overwhelming, crude, of all forms, Making grandeur out… — Amy Lowell 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
In the election campaign of 1930, Hitler seldom spoke explicitly of Jews. The crude tirades of the early 1920s were missing altogether.… — Ian Kershaw Copy Share Image
It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to… — Gore Vidal 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
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
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
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
But nature - that is, biological evolution - has not fitted man to any specific environment. On the contrary, ... he has… — Jacob Bronowski Copy Share Image