Crude Quotes

189 Crude quotes by 163 unique authors

It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their absolute… — Oscar Wilde
How charming is divine philosophy! Not harsh and crabbed, as dull fools suppose, But musical as is Apollo's lute, And a perpetual feast of nectar'd… — John Milton
Both in the lower and the middle classes the wiseacres urge young men 'to think it over' before taking the decisive step. Thus they foster… — Denis de Rougemont
When it came to slaughtering sacred cows with such crude yet perfect musical precision, there was no one better than Frank. I wonder what songs… — Terry Gilliam
It was a defeat, resorting to crude threats in a game of subtlety, but sometimes one must sacrifice a battle to win the war. — Mark Lawrence
We are on the brink of a new energy order. Over the next few decades, our reserves of oil will start to run out and… — Fatih Birol
In reviewing the most mysterious doctrines of revelation, the ultimate appeal is to reason, not to determine whether she could have discovered these truths; not… — Archibald Alexander
Manlius ... took care in his invitations, actively sought to exclude from his circle crude and vulgar men like Caius Valerius. But they were all… — Iain Pears
Today we have big, crude instruments guided by intelligent surgeons, and we have little, stupid molecules of drugs that get dumped into the body, diffuse… — K. Eric Drexler
Contradictions of perspective. Contrasts of light. Contrasts of form. Points of view impossible to achieve in drawing and painting. Foreshortenings with a strong distortion of… — Alexander Rodchenko
If I think too much about all of those Chinese factories where all the stuff in a Wal-Mart is made, I get that woozy feeling… — Douglas Coupland
Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more. — Haruki Murakami
Ascribing racial animus to people who are trying to safeguard democratic integrity is a crude yet effective political tactic that obscures the truth. But there's… — Edwin Meese
But we never tell the truth. We cannot properly 'tell' the truth, because our words are crude tools to express something, 'the truth', which may… — Declan Donnellan
Bitumen is junk energy. A joule, or unit of energy, invested in extracting and processing bitumen returns only four to six joules in the form… — Thomas Homer-Dixon
It is no secret that any talented player must in his soul be an artist, and what could be dearer to his heart and soul… — David Bronstein
God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Despite the vision and farseeing wisdom of our wartime heads of state, the physicists have felt the peculiarly intimate responsibility for suggesting, for supporting, and… — J. Robert Oppenheimer
One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not… — John Burroughs
There has been something crude and heartless and unfeeling in our haste to suceed and be great. Our thought has been 'Let every man look… — Woodrow Wilson
It is better to read a little and thoroughly than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great in quantity. — Thomas Huxley
The fight between life and death is to the finish, and death ultimately is the victor . . . I do not deplore the passing… — Jack Johnson
Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art — Dan Rather
Yet another thing Canadians and Europeans have in common is an obsession with the United States, and with distinguishing themselves from it, often by crude… — Timothy Garton Ash
We were asked to believe that the variety and the novelty of even the crude films of the early days would provide a means of… — Ivor Novello

Who Wrote These Crude Quotes

163 authors contributed a total of 189 Crude Quotes, led by these top contributors: