It's obvious nonsense, but it makes nice people feel good about themselves to do their bit for the planet. It's vanity of… — Charles Saatchi Copy Share Image
I will gradually drop this subject of graveyards. I have been trying all I could to get down to the sentimental part… — Mark Twain 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
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
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
The one thing I'm quite critical of Hillary Clinton for, and it obviously hurt her, is that at some level, the Clintons… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
Children being children, however, the grotesque Hopping Pot had taken hold of their imaginations. The solution was to jettison the pro-Muggle moral… — Anonymous 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
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
Because most of my career in the classroom has been at art schools (beginning at Bennington in the 1970s), I am hyper-aware… — Camille Paglia 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
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
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 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
Nothing is more witty and grotesque than ancient mythology and Christianity; that is because they are so mystical. — Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel Copy Share Image
There is indeed no such thing in life as absolute darkness; one's eyes revolt and hasten to fill the vacuum by floating… — Gelett Burgess 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 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
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
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
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
Some couture collections have everything including the kitchen sink! Everything gets thrown on to make it look expensive. I find it grotesque… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
For me, marriage is a grotesque, unforgiving, clunky contrivance. Yet society pushes it as a shimmering ideal. — George Meyer Copy Share Image
