Obscenities are too often used for shock value, as a kind of shorthand for real expression of emotion. You've got to scale… — John L'Heureux Copy Share Image
I thought how utterly we have forsaken the Earth, in the sense of excluding it from our thoughts. There are but few… — Wallace Stevens Copy Share Image
One of the general considerations about new buildings is that people tend to say that anything new is a monstrosity. And then… — Joseph Rykwert Copy Share Image
Hold up." Leo stepped forward, wagging his Wii controller. "Did you just call my a ship a monstrosity? I KNOW you didn't… — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Man is merely a frequent effect, a monstrosity is a rare one, but both are equally natural, equally inevitable, equally part of… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
The tax code is a monstrosity and there's only one thing to do with it. Scrap it, kill it, drive a stake… — Steve Forbes Copy Share Image
But all the other frenzies of passions-impious both toward the bodies and toward the sexes-beyond the laws of nature, we banish not… — Tertullian Copy Share Image
...beauty is the projection of ugliness and by developing certain monstrosities we obtain the purest ornaments. — Jean Genet Copy Share Image
You all think you have great ideas or Pokemon games, but if I actually listened to all of you and we combined… — Satoshi Tajiri Copy Share Image
A folkish state must therefore begin by raising marriage from the level of a continuous defilement of the race, and give it… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
The monstrosity of bureaucracy, I thought: always the pint-pot judging the gallon, the scribe's, the door-keeper's world. Always the stupidity of people… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat, steal, beat their wives,… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
If there be any among those common objects of hatred I do contemn and laugh at, it is that great enemy of… — Thomas Browne Copy Share Image
No degree of prosperity could justify the accumulation of large amounts of highly toxic substances which nobody knows how to make safe… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
If a dread of not being understood be hidden in the breasts of other young people to anything like the extent to… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
read the Bible to the children, until they are old enough to read for themselves ... The Bible, not nursery versions of… — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
People like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves... they feel better then. They find it easier to… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
Americans were outraged and horrified by this president's reckless spending and his endless assaults on the Constitution, but no issue drove them… — David Limbaugh Copy Share Image
I think our grandparents were Victor Frankenstein. I basically am the kind of deeply unnatural creature that Mrs Shelley instinctively dreaded. I… — Bruce Sterling Copy Share Image
I can think of nothing in the world like the utter littleness, the paltriness, the contemptibleness, the degradation, of the woman who… — Mary MacLane Copy Share Image
There comes a time when the blankness of the future is just so extreme, it's like such a black wall of nothingness.… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
People," Geralt turned his head, "like to invent monsters and monstrosities. Then they seem less monstrous themselves. When they get blind-drunk, cheat,… — Andrzej Sapkowski Copy Share Image
What’s happened so far? Coyotes evolved limited powers of speech. Worms developed teeth and became aggressive and territorial. Snakes grew wings and… — Michael Grant Copy Share Image
