Crude Quotes

189 Crude quotes by 163 unique authors

This young wine may have a lot of tannins now, but in five or 10 years it is going to be spectacular, despite the fact… — Itzhak Perlman
The American audience has really opened up to women being A.) funny and B.) kinda crude. 'Bridesmaids' is R-rated, and I think it was a… — Chris Pratt
This much we know: Journalism is not a precise science. It's, on its best day, is a crude art. We make mistakes; I make mistakes.… — Dan Rather
But my estimates, for instance, based upon book information, were simply ridiculous, fanciful images of African attractions were soon dissipated, anticipated pleasures vanished, and all… — Henry Morton Stanley
The nature of peoples is first crude, then severe, then benign, then delicate, finally dissolute. — Giambattista Vico
If we, citizens, do not support our artists, then we sacrifice our imagination on the altar of crude reality and we end up believing in… — Yann Martel
Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer… — Wystan Hugh Auden
The windiest militant trash Important Persons shout Is not so crude as our wish: What mad Nijinsky wrote About Diaghilev Is true of the normal… — Wystan Hugh Auden
We are intelligent beings: intelligent beings cannot have been formed by a crude, blind, insensible being: there is certainly some difference between the ideas of… — Voltaire
This is the mythosphere. It's made up of all the stories, theories and beliefs, legends, myths and hopes, that are generated here on Earth. As… — Diana Wynne Jones
A shade of sorrow passed over Taliesin's face. 'There are those,' he said gently, 'who must first learn loss, despair, and grief. Of all paths… — Lloyd Alexander
What fabrications they are, mothers. Scarecrows, wax dolls for us to stick pins into, crude diagrams. We deny them an existence of their own, we… — Margaret Atwood
...wordless conditioning is crude and wholesale; cannot bring home the finer distinctions, cannot inculcate the more complex courses of behavior. For that there must be… — Aldous Huxley
Religion is still useful among the herd - that it helps their orderly conduct as nothing else could. The crude human animal is in-eradicably superstitious,… — H P Lovecraft
Passion and courtesy are two polar opposite traits that serve to balance each other into a full-blooded whole. Without socialization, passion is a crude barbarian,… — Vera Nazarian
Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why. — Wendy Shalit
I was eleven when my father left, so neither of us really knew our fathers. I’d met mine of course, but then I only knew… — Lloyd Jones
Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The future looks like gasoline. . . . crude oil . . . is the future before it has been refined. It is like a… — Chris Cleave
The Bible may, indeed does, contain a warrant for trafficking in humans, for ethnic cleansing, for slavery, for bride-price, and for indiscriminate massacre, but we… — Christopher Hitchens
The result is ... that there's no room left in the world for the weird – though plenty for crude, contemptuous, wisecracking, fun-poking imitations of… — Fritz Leiber
We are forlorn like children, and experienced like old men, we are crude and sorrowful and superficial—I believe we are lost. — Erich Maria Remarque
But have you ever overheard two women discussing men? Men are crude liars, comparing their drabs, but women - I'd rather have [an] anatomist dissect… — Lois McMaster Bujold
I always write a draft version of the novel in which I try to develop, not the story, not the plot, but the possibilities of… — Mario Vargas Llosa
Love is like a booger, you pick and pick at it. Then when you get it you wonder how to get rid of it. — Mae West

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