“Every time I see a USA rocket launch, I sit there thinking ‘What an obscene waste of money’.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Abortion is the only event that modern liberals think too violent and obscene to portray on TV. This is not because they… — Peter Hitchens Copy Share Image
When table utensils were invented in the 1100s, the Catholic Church condemned them as obscene and heretical, claiming, 'God gave us fingers… — Robin Morgan Copy Share Image
There were many words that you could not stand to hear and finally only the names of places had dignity. Abstract words… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“It is not then the existence or the non-existence, of the persons that I trouble myself about; it is the fable of… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The obscene and vulgar stories in the Bible are as repugnant to our ideas of the purity of a Divine Being, as… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
As real as,' said Eddie. 'As real as what?' said Jack. 'Wish I knew,' said Eddie. 'But I can't do corroborative nouns.… — Robert Rankin Copy Share Image
I - honestly, I don't know of a worse lie one could tell other than a lie to take a country to… — Michael Moore Copy Share Image
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us. — John Updike Copy Share Image
Do you know we are being led to Slaughters by placid admirals & that fat slow generals are getting Obscene on young… — Jim Morrison Copy Share Image
Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin… — Joe Haldeman Copy Share Image
It is the fable of Jesus Christ, as told in the New Testament, and the wild and visionary doctrine raised thereon, against… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
I'm tellin' ya I get no respect. When I was in Switzerland, I got an obscene yodel. — Rodney Dangerfield Copy Share Image
I'm against Capitol Punishment in all forms, and I have written many pamphlets on this subject in the manner of Swift's Modest… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
Our scientific advances will be merely obscene unless they help the large part of our world's population emerge from miserable uncertainty and… — Michael Moorcock Copy Share Image
I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who… — Jason Isaacs Copy Share Image
In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence , an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how… — Sebastian Junger Copy Share Image
As a writer, I've often said that, among the other things that we need to reclaim, other than the obscene wealth of… — Arundhati Roy Copy Share Image
“Art serves to confront that which is outside order, to give form to the obscene. In the process, it opens it to… — Jennifer Birkett Copy Share Image
'This thing I feel, I can't name it straight out but it seems important, do you feel it too?' — this sort… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Nothing can describe the withering horror of this. You feel lost, sick at heart before such unmasked hatred, not so much because… — John Howard Griffin Copy Share Image
As I travelled around Australia, strangers in pubs, on airplanes, in beach parking lots would bring up Gina Rinehart, not knowing I… — William Finnegan Copy Share Image
French intellectual life has, in my opinion, been turned into something cheap and meretricious by the 'star' system. It is like Hollywood.… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
It begins and ends with money. It's absurd in this day and age when we need so much money for education, health,… — Kathleen Turner Copy Share Image
