The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“When I read the ghastly lines of tragedy darkly penned into my life, I turn and notice that the pen in my… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
You need a civil society... Bushfires can achieve the change from society to community. Bushfires can. Floods can. Ghastly crimes and disasters… — Bob Maguire Copy Share Image
If nobody said anything unless he knew what he was talking about, a ghastly hush would descend upon the earth. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I wrote Rick before I was published, and I had no vision of it, really. It was just a story that occurred… — Daniel Handler Copy Share Image
Behind each number is a person, a victim, whose individual story is ghastly. — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
things are never so indescribably ghastly that they can't get worse. — Alice Thomas Ellis Copy Share Image
And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as… — Bill Bruford Copy Share Image
Before I do anything, I think, well what hasn't been seen. Sometimes, that turns out to be something ghastly and not fit… — Jim Carrey Copy Share Image
Last chances in the Middle East have been two a dirham since the 1950s. Each year the enmities are more profound, the… — James Buchan Copy Share Image
If that hideousness came here, it wouldn't be any more hideous for the animals — they are all bound for a ghastly… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
That agony returns; And till my ghastly tale is told, This heart within me burns. — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
We ought not to tolerate for a minute the ghastly and grievous thought that God will not answer prayer. — Charles Spurgeon Copy Share Image
The ghastly thing about postal strikes is that after they are over, the service returns to normal. — Richard J. Needham Copy Share Image
How do you keep the natives off the booze long enough to pass the test? — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
We learn geology the morning after the earthquake, on ghastly diagrams of cloven mountains, upheaved plains, and the dry bed of the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
I have to experience all the ghastly, bottomless depths for life for myself; it's for that reason that I went to war,… — Otto Dix Copy Share Image
Slowly but inexorably crawling upon my consciousness and rising above every other impression, came a dizzying fear of the unknown; a fear… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
You would do better, at least no worse, to obliterate texts than to blacken margins, to fill in the holes of words… — Samuel Beckett Copy Share Image
Who knows better than artists how much ugliness there is on the way to beauty, how many ghastly, mortifying missteps, how many… — Tony Kushner Copy Share Image
One the other hand, the publishing trend is ghastly, isn't it? Two hundred and something distributors are now down to 10 or… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
As soon as you know the voice and understand what it is, the whole scene changes. The same world which was the… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image