Letterwriting is the natural outlet of the "odds." The busy-bodies, the idle, the perverted, the cranks, the feel-it-my-duties ... Also the plain… — Josephine Tey Copy Share Image
Nothing that is expressed is obscene. What is obscene is what is hidden. — Nagisa Oshima Copy Share Image
The script was classic Joe Eszterhas, intelligent, steamy and provocative. At one time, Eszterhas was Hollywood's highest paid writer, illiterate rock and… — David Shuster Copy Share Image
The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
When my face is flushed with blood, it becomes red and obscene. It betrays at the same time, through morbid reflexes, a… — Georges Bataille Copy Share Image
If the corporations have their way, the Earth will be killed, and that's in your lifetime. It's revolting to me that students… — Helen Caldicott Copy Share Image
There is no being capable of a spiritual life who does not have within him a jungle. Where the wolf constantly HOWLS… — William James Copy Share Image
Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly… — Irving Stone Copy Share Image
Outside the youth center, between the liquor store and the police station, a little dogwood tree is losing its mind; overflowing with… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
The child thinks of growing old as an almost obscene calamity, which for some mysterious reason will never happen to itself. All… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
When I was first pregnant, which was, let's see, in nineteen-eighty-three - I remember wearing a regular bathing suit to my in-laws'… — Heidi Murkoff Copy Share Image
I find that if you take the various popular song forms to their logical extremes, you can arrive at almost anything from… — Tom Lehrer Copy Share Image
“Most priests wish they were as righteous as they seem to most members of their congregations.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“The police have no leads as yet on the person or persons who painted obscene suggestions on the buildings. One store owner… — Anne Bishop Copy Share Image
The reaction to any word may be, in an individual, either a mob-reaction or an individual reaction. It is up to the… — D. H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
For those who live neither with religious consolations about death nor with a sense of death (or of anything else) as natural,… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I don't think there's one thing I've ever said on the radio that would have been found indecent or obscene. — Howard Stern Copy Share Image