The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque. — Ron Wyden Copy Share Image
I use the grotesque the way I do because people are deaf and dumb and need help to see and hear. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I never wanted to do something grotesque. I never wanted to shock. I wanted my audience to be happy, to be kind. — Eva Zeisel Copy Share Image
“Nothing is more beautiful than freedom, and nothing more grotesque than its molestation.” — Bryant McGill Copy Share Image
At six I lived in a graveyard full of dolls, avoiding myself, my body, the suspect in its grotesque house. — Anne Sexton Copy Share Image
To the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost blind you draw large and startling figures. — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
he found what a grotesque thing a rose is and how raw the sunlight was upon the scarcely created grass. — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Anyone who tells you they know the future is telling you the most grotesque lie, because none of us do, — Tim Waterstone Copy Share Image
Salvador Dali has been called kitsch, but, although some of this work may be grotesque, its brazenly self-conscious bad taste saves it… — Denis Dutton Copy Share Image
I'm interested in the crevices, and the grotesque, and the unsavory. That started out when I was young... I've never quite been… — Carrie Brownstein Copy Share Image
Affection would not be affection if it was loudly and frequently expressed; to produce it in public is like getting your household… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
What motivates me in art is the ugly and beautiful nature of the truth. It has to be truthful and honest, even… — Corin Nemec Copy Share Image
All men are somewhat ridiculous and grotesque, just because they are men; and in this respect artists might well be regarded as… — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
The implication strongly is that Osama bin Laden is a Hitler, even though he has no state power at all. It's just… — Tariq Ali Copy Share Image
one who awakens gradually out of a dream, a delicious, grotesque, impossible dream, to feel again the realities pressing into her soul — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
Sometimes the poor are praised for being thrifty. But to recommend thrift to the poor is both grotesque and insulting. It is… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Considering the popularity of soaps with the African-American audience, it's grotesque that the entertainment industry, for all its vaunted liberalism, is lagging… — Camille Paglia Copy Share Image
The grotesque prudishness and archness with which garlic is treated in [England] has led to the superstition that rubbing the bowl with… — Elizabeth David Copy Share Image
Taxes are like abortion, and not just because both are grotesque procedures supported by Democrats. You're for them or against them. Taxes… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Wherever the human mind is healthy and vigorous in all its proportions, great in imagination and emotion no less than in intellect,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
My characters' addictions are what makes them a bit stylized or "grotesque" - not just in appearance but through what drives them.… — Porochista Khakpour Copy Share Image
“The Dordogne in 1984 was the nadir. Diarrhea, moths like flying hamsters, the blowtorch heat. Awake at three in the morning on… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
“Our fiction is not merely in flight from the physical data of the actual world…it is, bewilderingly and embarrassingly, a gothic fiction,… — Leslie Fielder Copy Share Image
“We will simply say here that, as a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
That the Hindus, absorbed in the ideal, lacked in realistic observation is evident from this. Take painting and sculpture. What do you… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
The world is rather shot to pieces [end of World War II - 1945], but the spectators climb out of their caves… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
To its committed members (the Democratic Party) was still the party of heart, humanity, and justice, but to those removed a few… — Nicholas von Hoffman Copy Share Image
But where only a free play of our presentational powers is to be sustained as in the case of pleasure gardens, room… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Young people are more hopeful at a certain age than adults, but I suspect that's glandular. As for children, I keep as… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
[Vathek] has, in parts, been called, but to some judgments, never is, dull: it is certainly in parts, grotesque, extravagant and even… — William Thomas Beckford Copy Share Image
Relate comic things in pompous fashion. Irregularity, in other words the unexpected, the surprising, the astonishing, are essential to and characteristic of… — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
As a means of contrast with the sublime, the grotesque is, in our view, the richest source that nature can offer. — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
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