Some people have a perverse talent; they're capable of shooting themselves in the foot and stabbing themselves in the back at the… — Mardy Grothe Copy Share Image
“There is something perverse about more then enough. When we have more, it is never enough. It is always somewhere out there,… — Aleatha Romig Copy Share Image
“But there was a streak in me, a perverse one, which prevented me from giving the essential self. This "perversity" always voiced… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I do seem to try to make things harder and harder for myself. In some perverse way, obstacles interest me and I'm… — Taryn Simon Copy Share Image
Positive market incentives operating in the public interest are too few and far between, and are also up against a seemingly never-ending… — Mo Ibrahim Copy Share Image
I found that in a perverse way our culture and parents are far more comfortable talking about girls' vicitimization than girls' sexual… — Peggy Orenstein Copy Share Image
That's the thing about fiction writers: what seems alarming or particular or perverse about them is simply the shape of their brain… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
she was such a bad actress. she never said her lines rite, it was something perverse in her nature. and wat was… — Janet Fitch Copy Share Image
I don't necessarily love the sports per se, I love the stories behind them. Also in a kind of perverse way I… — Harlan Coben Copy Share Image
According to the perverse aesthetics of artistic guilty pleasure, certain books and movies are so bad - so crudely conceived, despicably motivated… — Walter Kirn Copy Share Image
The only men who can turn my blood stream into a condition resembling heavy surf are good-looking heels with characters as intricately… — Margaret Halsey Copy Share Image
“There are two women inside Miss Duvall," he said stonily. "There's the one you find in that book, experienced, jaded, greedy... a… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
You don't have to be Sigmund Freud to surmise that war has a perverse appeal for the human race, nor is the… — Ellen Willis Copy Share Image
Anglo-American culture seems to be governed by the perverse belief that portrayals of the body's abuse or destruction are harmless, even fortifying,… — Walter Kendrick Copy Share Image
Endometriosis is notoriously difficult to diagnose because the symptoms are perverse. A woman with mild endometriosis can be in an agony for… — Rose George Copy Share Image
There's so much of our psychological makeup which is impermissible for us to explore because it's inappropriate or perverse or scary. I'm… — Annette Bening Copy Share Image
I don't know why actors are just attracted to really messed up people, but it almost makes it more fun, in a… — Eliza Scanlen Copy Share Image
Initially I borrowed the word "perverse" for my works from Roland Barthes, meaning pleasure-driven and not geared to inform or promote a… — Torbjørn Rødland Copy Share Image
“If you forbid [children] from doing what is natural , they will seek it out later in ways that are unnatural and perverse.” — Debra Ollivier Copy Share Image
“To cultivate a pleasure in being wrong sounds perverse, yet losing an argument means escaping from an old idea and the acquisition… — Edward De Bono Copy Share Image
There was a perverse side of me, with things like Van Helsing coming out. I didn't want to go down that route. — Terry Gilliam Copy Share Image
For so remarkably perverse is the nature of man that he despises whoever courts him, and admires whoever will not bend before… — Thucydides Copy Share Image
I don't know how exactly but I'm maybe perverse in the sense that I like being disappointed in something on a daily… — Rose McGowan Copy Share Image
I'm often reassured in a bizarre - perhaps perverse - way when I find in the archive stuff that contradicts what my… — Antony Beevor Copy Share Image
“At one time you take pleasure in a sort of perverse self-denial, and at another you have not resolution to resist a… — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Modern society is perverse, not in spite of its puritanism or as if from a backlash provoked by its hypocrisy; it is… — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
I always thought of photography as a naughty thing to do - that was one of my favorite things about it, and… — Diane Arbus Copy Share Image
Love is only a small thing, enough for one person, and any suggestion that the heart might be larger than this is… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
As a kid, I had a real fascination with perverse, off-color, and kind of risky things, and I also had a very… — George Saunders Copy Share Image
Sleep is perverse as human nature, Sleep is perverse as legislature… So people who go to bed to sleep Must count French… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
Consider the perverse effect cap and trade has on altruistic actions. Say you decide to buy a small, high-efficiency car. That reduces… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
It takes a perverse determination to drain that instinctive curiosity away and make history seem just remote, dead and disconnected from our… — Simon Schama Copy Share Image
To punish MPs because of the distance they live from London - those with fast train journeys quite close to London as… — David Blunkett Copy Share Image
“Fame is a perverse deformity, an ego swelling as ludicrous as an extra organ, and the people that have it, for a… — Cintra Wilson Copy Share Image
Mankind, by the perverse depravity of their nature, esteem that which they have most desired as of no value the moment it… — Francois Fenelon Copy Share Image
Physicians today, as human beings, are not exempt from the perverse economic pressures created by fee-for-service regimes to see more patients for… — Mitch Kapor Copy Share Image
“Oh great, you too. So now I wear this label 'Queer' emblazoned across my chest. Or I could always carve a scarlet… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
A perverse nature can be stimulated by anything. Any book can be used as a pornographic instrument, even a great work of… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image