Crude Quotes

189 Crude quotes by 163 unique authors

A science or an art may be said to be "useful" if its development increases, even indirectly, the material well-being and comfort of men, it… — G. H. Hardy
Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only with such vague… — Charlton Laird
About 75% of the price of gas is really dictated by crude oil. At the heart of the issue is increasing demand over a period… — John S. Watson
By 3000 B.C. the art of Egypt was so ripe and so far advanced that it is surprising to find any student of early culture… — James Henry Breasted
Most children are given far too much praise for their early drawings, so much so that they rarely learn the ability to refine their first… — Charles de Lint
Crude absurdities, trivial nonsense, and sublime truths are equally potent in readying people for self-sacrifice if they are accepted as the sole, eternal truth — Eric Hoffer
If you imitate the forms of a single artist through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get… — Cennino Cennini
When you have God come amongst you to support and sustain you, why grovel through crude vulgar entities? Avoid places where they bargain in terms… — Sathya Sai Baba
Vermilion alone could render the brilliant red of the tiles on the opposite slope. The orange of the soil, the harsh crude colors of the… — Maurice de Vlaminck
for the obvious reason that nature - unadulterated and unimproved by man - is simply chaos. In fact, the camera proves that nature is crude… — Edward Weston
As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life. — Rachel Carson
Once your kid reaches middle school, parents are really supposed to fade out of the social picture. Kids are supposed to make their own plans,… — Bill Vaughan
We have the most crude accounting tools. It's tragic because our accounts and our national arithmetic doesn't tell us the things that we need to… — Susan George
We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas. — Susan George
Violence commands both literature and life, and violence is always crude and distorted. — Ellen Glasgow
I started, actually, to make my first animated cartoon in 1920. Of course, they were very crude things then and I used sort of little… — Walt Disney
At the present day the crude theory of the sexual impulse held on one side, and the ignorant rejection of theory altogether on the other… — Havelock Ellis
I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may… — Emilio Estevez
A glance at the history of European poetry is enough to inform us that rhyme itself is not indispensable. Latin poetry in the classical age… — James Fenton
Human speech is like a cracked kettle on which we tap crude rhythms for bears to dance to, while we long to make music that… — Gustave Flaubert
This revolution, the information revoultion, is a revolution of free energy as well, but of another kind: free intellectual energy. It's very crude today, yet… — Steve Jobs
Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows. — Leon Kass
Humans are crude linguists from the moment of birth - and perhaps even in the womb - to the extent at least that we can… — Jeffrey Kluger
The ladder of success in Hollywood is usually a press agent, actor, director, producer, leading man; and you are a star if you sleep with… — Hedy Lamarr
In some sort of crude sense, which no vulgarity, no humor, no overstatement can quite extinguish, the physicists have known sin; and this is a… — J. Robert Oppenheimer

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