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
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
This is a valley of ashes--a fantastic farm where ashes grow like wheat into ridges and hills and grotesque gardens; where ashes… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
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
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
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
Norman Rockwell spent his career painting pictures that helped people understand their own feelings...pictures that enriched their own experiences and celebrated their… — Bill Bonner 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
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
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
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
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
Fierce invectives against women form a conspicuous and grotesque portion of the writings of the Church fathers. — William Edward Hartpole Lecky 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
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
Rejecting the notion that democracy and markets are the same, young people are calling for an end to the poverty, grotesque levels… — Henry Giroux 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
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
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
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
The idea of a federal betting parlor on atrocities and terrorism is ridiculous and it's grotesque. — Ron Wyden 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
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
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
A man without passion would be like a body without a soul. Or even more grotesque, like a soul without a body. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
