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
I've got to have something. I want to stop it all, the whole monumental grotesque joke, before it's too late. But writing… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
Those around you can have their novellas, sweet, their short stories of cliché and coincidence, occasionally spiced up with tricks of the… — Marisha Pessl 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
The cause of the attack was not American foreign policy but an amoral disregard for human life.It is grotesque to suggest that… — Menzies Campbell Copy Share Image
I have a great need to learn what the norm is by dealing with what is not the norm... with the grotesque… — Alfred Brendel 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
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
I keep two sentimental mementos on my desk to remind me of two favorite men. There is an inkwell that my Uncle… — Scott Turow 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
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
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
I think that poets can say, "What we want is for everybody on earth to wake up free from fear and with… — Robert Hass 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 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
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
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
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
Skywhale is ambiguous. I think she is beautiful, but a lot of people think she is grotesque. You are drawn in and… — Patricia Piccinini 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
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
...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
