Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs. — Carroll O'Connor Copy Share Image
Now as before it is the vulgar and the vital and the possibility of its transformation into the beautiful which continues to… — Grace Hartigan Copy Share Image
Disorder in a drawing-room is vulgar; in an antiquary's study, not; the black battle-stain on a soldier's face is not vulgar, but… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Politics in a literary work, is like a gun shot in the middle of a concert, something vulgar, and however, something which… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
I regard posterity as vulgar as success. I don't trust posterity. I don't think what's good is necessarily recognized in the long… — Peter Biskind Copy Share Image
The vulgar herd catches at the gross apparent fact, but the man of insight knows what lies on the surfaces does lie. — Israel Zangwill Copy Share Image
“At root, vulgar just means popular on a mass scale. It is the semantic opposite of pretentious or snobby.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
I grant you that the artist does not see Nature as she appears to the vulgar, because his emotion reveals to him… — Auguste Rodin Copy Share Image
Women have a certain sexuality, and I think their bodies are beautiful, and I'm not embarrassed to explore that in a film.… — Angelina Jolie Copy Share Image
When I say that a good picture has surprise quality or shock appeal, I do not mean that it is a loud… — Alexey Brodovitch Copy Share Image
Life seems so vulgar, so easily content with the commonplace things of every day, and yet it always nurses and cherishes certain… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
Commerce has set the mark of selfishness, the signet of its all-enslaving power, upon a shining ore, and called it gold: before… — Percy Bysshe Shelley Copy Share Image
We reduce the deity to vulgar fractions. We place our own little ambitions and label them ?divine messages?. With our short sight… — Paul Laurence Dunbar Copy Share Image
Apart from letters, it is the vulgar custom of the moment to deride the thinkers of the Victorian and Edwardian eras; yet… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
Kirstie [Alley] saved me, in a way. [At the time], I had a terrible marriage, and I stayed at her house. She… — Bebe Neuwirth Copy Share Image
I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is… — Orson Welles Copy Share Image
For example, in Paris, if one desires to buy something, you enter the store and say "Good morning, sir" or "madam," depending… — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
My needs were simple I didn't bother much with themes or felicitous phrases and skipped fine descriptions of weather, landscapes and interiors.… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
To anyone who has followed the practice of using profanity or vulgarity and would like to correct the habit, could I offer… — L. Tom Perry Copy Share Image
It must appear impossible, that theism could, from reasoning, have been the primary religion of human race, and have afterwards, by its… — David Hume Copy Share Image
Those who dismiss rappers as vulgar outsiders miss the way that Jay-Z and Kanye embody the American dream: starting from humble beginnings,… — Andrew Hoberek Copy Share Image
How you speak and the words you use tell much about the image you choose to portray. Use language to build and… — Thomas S. Monson Copy Share Image
The artist has some internal experience that produces a poem, a painting, a piece of music. Spectators submit themselves to the work,… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
The generation that followed did not have the same concerns; none of its members attempted to follow the example of the past… — Cheikh Anta Diop Copy Share Image
“You're not stupid, you're just special! You have morons in your head instead of neurons!” — The Fart Blast Copy Share Image
“She knew she was acting like the most vulgar of women, the kind that is out to cause pain and knows how.” — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
The noblest are they who turning from the things the vulgar crave, seek the source of a blessed life in worlds to… — John Lancaster Spalding Copy Share Image
It is a vulgar error to suppose that America was ever discovered. It was merely detected. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
It is an easy and vulgar thing to please the mob, and no very arduous task to astonish them. — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
If we cannot be decent, let us endeavor to be graceful. If we can't be moral, at least we can avoid being… — Langdon Elwyn Mitchell Copy Share Image
The only good thing I've ever noticed about money, the only positive aspect of an otherwise pretty vulgar commodity, is that you… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
The workforce in Latin America was treated as a vulgar instrument for capital accumulation. — Rafael Correa Copy Share Image
We cannot at once catch the applauses of the vulgar and expect the approbation of the wise. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
Such is the privilege of genius; it perceives, it seizes relations where vulgar eyes see only isolated facts. — Francois Arago Copy Share Image
The loveliest tune imaginable becomes vulgar and insupportable as soon as the public begins to hum it and the hurdy-gurdies make it… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
I know it sounds vulgar but that's the way she like it. Got the world's biggest shh, don't matter, just don't bite… — Yung Joc Copy Share Image
We discover in the gospels a groundwork of vulgar ignorance, of things impossible, of superstition, fanaticism and fabrication . — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
The chickadee and nuthatch are more inspiring society than statesmen and philosophers, and we shall return to these last as to more… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on… — John Osborne Copy Share Image