Women all live a double standard, but this is actually sort of a beautifully grotesque parody of it. There's a weird kind… — Joss Whedon Copy Share Image
I've seen so many beautiful curvy women gain success in hollywood and then wither into bobble headed stick figures in some grotesque… — Matthew Gray Gubler Copy Share Image
“Fully ten feet high despite a shambling, crouching attitude expressive of infinite cosmic malignancy, a monstrosity of unbelievable horror was shewn starting… — H.P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
The grotesque in my poems is the motion I use to put myself and the grotesque world together. So the miserable images… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
Nature is busy creating absolutely unique individuals, whereas culture has invented a single mold to which all must conform. It is grotesque. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All your life you live so close to truth, it becomes a permanent blur in the corner of your eye, and when… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
I find it grotesque when clothes hit you in the face and there's no room for fault. But I don't expect to… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
The true grotesque being the expression of the repose or play of a serious mind, there is a false grotesque opposed to… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
To speak of God, to think of God, is in every respect to show what one is made of. I have always… — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
I think that taking life seriously means something such as this: that whatever man does on this planet has to be done… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
It strikes me as unfair, and even in bad taste, to select a few of them for boundless admiration, attributing superhuman powers… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
We hardly know an instance of the strength and weakness of human nature so striking and so grotesque as the character of… — Thomas B. Macaulay Copy Share Image
Force yourself to write down what is of no interest, what is most obvious, most common, most colourless...antique shops, clothes, hi-fi, etc.… — Georges Perec Copy Share Image
The general unreliability of all information presents a special problem in war: all action takes place, so to speak, in the twilight,… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
I have heard of a man lost in the woods and dying of famine and exhaustion at the foot of a tree,… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Utopia is the grotesque en rose, the need to associate happiness - that is, the improbable - with becoming, and to coerce… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
The typical lawmaker of today is a man wholly devoid of principle - a mere counter in a grotesque and knavish game.… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Photography today appears to be in a state of flight... The familiar is made strange, the unfamiliar grotesque. The amateur forces his… — Dorothea Lange Copy Share Image
In a way Australia is like Catholicism. The company is sometimes questionable and the landscape is grotesque. But you always come back. — Thomas Keneally Copy Share Image
If there were a bunch of Buddhist or Hindus or Roman Catholics carrying out grotesque acts of international terror, I would expect… — Monica Crowley Copy Share Image
The more grotesque your boss's pay and the less he has do to earn it, the bigger the motivation for you to… — Tim Harford Copy Share Image
“Well, then,' the Cat went on, 'you see, a dog growls when it's angry, and wags its tail when it's pleased. Now… — Lewis Carroll Copy Share Image
The art which we may call generally art of the wayside, as opposed to that which is the business of men's lives,… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
In the corporate-owned media, men dressed like Ronald Reagan and women dressed like Rita Hayworth disseminate grotesque exaggerations and gossip in authoritative… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
The Proustian aquarium: grotesque and gorgeous fish drifting with languid fins through a subaqueous medium of pale violet polluted ink. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The more outre' and grotesque an incident is the more carefully it deserves to be examined, and the very point which appears… — Arthur Conan Doyle Copy Share Image
Our tolerance of the intolerable found a low threshold as early as the late 1950s with the grotesque excesses of McCarthyism, which… — Pankaj Mishra Copy Share Image
As a kid, I couldn't articulate it but I sought out things that could. At first it was horror films - extreme… — Tony Burgess Copy Share Image
You cannot get through the density of the propaganda with which the American people, through the dreaded media, have been filled and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
We will not have humanoid androids. It's interesting: when you start trying to make robots look more human, you end up making… — Colin Angle Copy Share Image
I'm a cartoonist, it's what I am at heart, so cartoons take reality and deform it and make it grotesque, you make… — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
I came to grotesque language in the patriarchal culture under the dictatorship. The body that was broken into pieces is a sick… — Kim Hyesoon Copy Share Image
The exhibition of real strength is never grotesque. Distortion is the agony of weakness. It is the dislocated mind whose movements are… — Robert Aris Willmott Copy Share Image
I'm not sure I agree with the thesis, because I think that even though something grotesque or gross has been part of… — Ivan Reitman Copy Share Image
“The teeth!—the teeth!—they were here, and there, and everywhere, and visibly and palpably before me; long, narrow, and excessively white, with the… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
... the random talk of people who have no chance of immortality and thus can speak their minds out has a setting,… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
People commonly travel the world over to see rivers and mountains, new stars, garish birds, freak fish, grotesque breeds of human; they… — Soren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
Romance only dies with life. No pair of pincers will ever pull it out of us. But there is a spurious sentiment… — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
For life is terribly deficient in form. Its catastrophes happen in the wrong way and to the wrong people. There is a… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It’s a shameful moment for U.S. media when it insists on being subservient to the grotesque propaganda agencies of a violent, aggressive… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image