The humor of jazz is rich and many-sided. Some of it is obvious enough to make a dog laugh. Some is subtle,… — Bix Beiderbecke Copy Share Image
Of course, it may be that the arts of writing and photography are antithetical. The hope and aim of a word-handler is… — E. B. White Copy Share Image
Freudism and all it has tainted with its grotesque implications and methods, appear to me to be one of the vilest deceits… — Vladimir Nabokov 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
There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it. — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
...I am an anomaly in the system, living proof of how grotesque it is, and every day I mock it gently, deep… — Muriel Barbery Copy Share Image
I think there's an instinct to make grotesque horror films that are purely carnal, like the 'Saw' movies. — Amber Heard Copy Share Image
For me, the single word "God" suggests everything that is slippery, shady, squalid, foul, and grotesque. — Andre Breton Copy Share Image
Fate is a shape-shifter. It is the kindest and most generous entity imaginable, laying out more goodness than a person deserves, and… — Deb Caletti 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
Anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in… — Flannery O'Connor 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
Ambition is to be the fastest runner on this planet, to be the first on the South Pole, which is a grotesque… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
“My surname for a mask to pretend! I have no stand to protest, but I will find it" (in the poem 'Tatiana… — Christos Rodoulla Tsiailis Copy Share Image
I've been through the whole western world, and it seems to me that there's more retail floor space devoted to the sale… — William Gibson Copy Share Image
All action takes place, so to speak, in a kind of twilight, which like a fog or moonlight, often tends to make… — Carl von Clausewitz Copy Share Image
The vampire’s true appearance was grotesque--but it wasn’t as bad as some of the things I had seen in my day. Some… — Jim Butcher 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
For example, you have these grotesque, hilarious, profane ghosts in the book [Lincoln in the Bardo]. Even the concept of talking ghosts… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
I am sent too many mainstream scripts in which the older woman is really quite grotesque. Sometimes you read a script and… — Sigourney Weaver Copy Share Image
My heart beats more for a raw, average vulgar art, which doesn't live between sleepy fairy-tale moods and poetry but rather concedes… — Max Beckmann Copy Share Image
Is it not grotesque when the representatives of an antiquated myth-sorcery, who believes in trinity, angels, devils, hell, virgin-birth, bodily Ascension, making… — Karlheinz Deschner Copy Share Image
“She [Mrs. Hines] stood before the door as if she were barring them from the house--a dumpy, fat little woman with a… — William Faulkner Copy Share Image
Man has imagined a heaven, and has left entirely out of it the supremest of all his delights...sexual intercourse!...His heaven is like… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
The collective income of all these people - the bottom half - is less than three percent of global household income, and… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
I don't believe men want women to have grotesque plastic surgery or be undernourished and bony. All the plastic surgery in the… — Michelle Pfeiffer Copy Share Image
“If I seem a little bizarre, remember the wild profusion of my inheritance...perhaps, if one wishes to remain an individual in the… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
My idea of a perfect surrealist painting is one in which every detail is perfectly realistic, yet filled with a surrealistic, dreamlike… — Ian Hornak 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
Harvey wasn't interested in the clothes, it was the masks that mesmerized him. They were like snowflakes: no two alike. Some were… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
Man's destiny was no longer determined from 'above' by a super-human wisdom and will, but from 'below' by the sub-human agencies of… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
“The Thing cannot be described - there is no language for such abysms of shrieking and immemorial lunacy, such eldritch contradictions of… — H.P. Lovecraft 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
It seems to me that if one had kept silence up to now regarding religion, people would still be submerged in the… — Denis Diderot Copy Share Image
Asylums are nothing more than gardens of human cabbages, of miserable, grotesque, repugnant human beings watered with the fertilizer of injections. — Antonio Lobo Antunes Copy Share Image
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