Appalling Quotes
176 quotes by 158 authors
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What’s really important is storytelling. None of it matters if it doesn’t support the story. I thought The Avengers was an appalling film. They’d shoot…
— Wally Pfister
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Go to Lord & Taylor on Fifth Avenue, I think it's the eighth floor, and it's just a department called 'Woman.' It's rather devastating. You've…
— Tim Gunn
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Sometimes the only way to make palatable that which is appalling and apprehensive is to season it with some humor.
— Terrence Howard
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I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.
— Gary Lineker
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A new biography came out that says that in high school Obama was a huge pothead … Mitt Romney had to respond to this and…
— Bill Maher
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It is appalling to make Jesus out of food! Now, if you’ll excuse me, I have to go bake some communion wafers.
— Bill Maher
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Dice Rules is one of the most appalling movies I have ever seen. It could not be more damaging to the career of Andrew Dice…
— Roger Ebert
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The alternatives [to the stimulus packages] were to do nothing or, worse, effectively replicate the Premiers' Plan of 1931 when governments cut expenditure, thereby compounding…
— Kevin Rudd
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There is no point in being overwhelmed by the appalling total of human sufferring; such a total does not exist. Neither poverty nor pain is…
— Jorge Luis Borges
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It’s a curious thing. I suppose most people think of artists as impatient but I don’t know of any first-rate artist who hasn’t manifested in…
— Mark Van Doren
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The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.
— Marquis de Sade
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Regret is an appalling waste of time.
— Katherine Mansfield
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The greatest gift . . . is the realization that life does not consist either of wallowing in the past or of peering anxiously at…
— Charles Macomb Flandrau
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Facebook in particular is the most appalling spying machine that has ever been invented. Here we have the world's most comprehensive database about people, their…
— Julian Assange
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I assert most unhesitatingly, that the religion of the South is a mere covering for the most horrid crimes—a justifier of the most appalling barbarity…a…
— Frederick Douglass
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The finger of the atheists' own divinity, Reason, wrote on the wall the appalling judgments that there is no God; that the universe is only…
— John Lothrop Motley
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British chancellor is telling the rest of Europe it must abandon democracy. It's appalling.
— Nigel Farage
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We build but to tear down. Most of our work and resource is squandered. Our onward march is marked by devastation. Everywhere there is an…
— Nikola Tesla
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The more images I gathered from the past, I said, the more unlikely it seemed to me that the past had actually happened in this…
— W G Sebald
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Asceticism in most cases is either the result of a sordid imagination or of passion diverted from its natural course, and experience has shown that…
— Rudolf Rocker
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