Those who live in the country get idiotic in time, without noticing it, for a while they think it's original and good… — Thomas Bernhard Copy Share Image
There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom… — Alister Hardy Copy Share Image
Violence can be very grotesque and also intensely attractive. What interests me is how the two - beauty and violence - live… — Ori Gersht Copy Share Image
The men who are messing up their lives, their families, and their world in their quest to feel man enough are not… — Frank Pittman Copy Share Image
There is no God, no universe, no human race, no earthly life, no heaven, no hell. It is all a dream, a… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
Sleep takes off the costume of circumstance, arms us with terrible freedom, so that every will rushes to deed. A skillful man… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The statesmen will invent cheap lies, putting the blame upon the nation that is attacked, and every man will be glad of… — Mark Twain 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
The rush to books and universities is like the rush to the public house. People want to drown their realization of the… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
I believe that there is no test of greatness in periods, nations or men more sure than the development, among them or… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
I think one of the few faults in Dickens is that mostly his lead characters are blanks - who is David Copperfield,… — Mark Gatiss Copy Share Image
In the beginning when the world was young there were a great many thoughts but no such thing as a truth. Man… — Sherwood Anderson Copy Share Image
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
It is often said that the modern exhibition has ruined painting. It is an unfortunate fact that it does encourage competition, so… — Walter J. Phillips Copy Share Image
Well, I don't like your clothes. You look perfectly ridiculous in them. Why on earth don't you go up and change? It's… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
I think that, honestly, people's censorship issues are personal but I disagree with most of those personal choices that I see others… — Seth Rogen Copy Share Image
An unchurched christian is a grotesque anomaly. The New Testament knows nothing of such a person. For the church lies at the… — John Stott 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
Many of the younger generation know my name in a vague way and connect it with grotesque inventions, but don't believe that… — Rube Goldberg Copy Share Image
“He pictures amputated human arms flopping like fish down the center of the road; syringes floating on beds of liposuctioned fat; gelatinous… — Dan Chaon Copy Share Image
When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
I know that a translation of a work of literature is like playing a violin concerto on the piano. You can do… — Amos Oz Copy Share Image
The laws of Nature take precedence of all human laws. The purpose of all human laws is one - to defeat the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
I believe when I am in the mood that all nature is full of people whom we cannot see, and that some… — William Butler Yeats 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
There were days when she was unhappy, she did not know why,--when it did not seem worthwhile to be glad or sorry,… — Kate Chopin Copy Share Image
In the current setting the situation of the poor is neglected despite the grotesque wealth of the capitalist elites, and the dangers… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Man always made, and still makes, grotesque blunders in selecting and measuring forces, taken at random from the heap, but he never… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
To stroll is a science, it is the gastronomy of the eye. To walk is to vegetate, to stroll is to live…… — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
Many consider that Shostakovich is the greatest 20th-century composer. In his 15 symphonies, 15 quartets, and in other works he demonstrated mastery… — Dmitri Shostakovich Copy Share Image
In order to win over Paris and appear, in the eyes of all Europe, an absolute innovator, the most advanced of all,… — Filippo Tommaso Marinetti Copy Share Image
The first rule of life is to reveal nothing, to be exceptionally cautious in what you say, in whatever company you may… — Elizabeth Aston Copy Share Image
Most of us have learned to be dispassionate about evil, to look it in the face and find, as often as not,… — Flannery O'Connor Copy Share Image
The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a… — Martin Gardner Copy Share Image
