Crude Quotes

189 Crude quotes by 163 unique authors

So Stapes conducted a dinner for just the two of us, then informed me of a dozen small but important mistakes I had made. Setting… — Patrick Rothfuss
The poet, however, uses these two crude, primitive, archaic forms of thought (simile and metaphor) in the most uninhibited way, because his job is not… — Northrop Frye
Variability is one of the virtues of a woman. It avoids the crude requirement of polygamy. So long as you have one good wife you… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
As crude a weapon as the cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life - a fabric on the… — Rachel Carson
We've always known we'd eventually be called upon to open our shirts and save the day, and the superhero was a crude, hopeful attempt to… — Grant Morrison
Gentle souls! You play your love on the violin. The crude ones play it on the drums violently. But can you turn yourselves inside out,… — Vladimir Mayakovsky
Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter. — George Lucas
What is suffering? I'm not sure what it is, but I know that suffering is the name we give to the origin of all the… — Jonathan Safran Foer
[T]he truth is that fullness of soul can sometimes overflow in utter vapidity of language, for none of us can ever express the exact measure… — Gustave Flaubert
It is difficult to find a reputable American historian who will acknowledge the crude fact that a Franklin Roosevelt, say, wanted to be President merely… — Gore Vidal
Trying to capture the physicists' precise mathematical description of the quantum world with our crude words and mental images is like playing Chopin with a… — George Johnson
Good teachers must inspire children to work hard - make projects and give them good marks even if genuine projects look crude and unprofessional. — Arvind Gupta
Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking. — Sarah Churchwell
Some lucky people can be funny without half trying because they actually look funny, because acting funny is in their bones - fun as funny,… — F. Sionil Jose
The longtime standard for American TV was 525 lines from top to bottom of the image. As a practical matter, that was roughly equivalent to… — Seth Shostak
When coal came into the picture, it took about 50 or 60 years to displace timber. Then, crude oil was found, and it took 60,… — Rex Tillerson
The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place. — Timothy Noah
The rapid increase in the production and transportation of crude oil requires additional vigilance for the continued safe movement of this commodity. — Anthony Foxx
Solving climate change is a complex topic, but in a single crude brush-stroke, here is the solution: the price of carbon dioxide must be such… — David J. C. MacKay
Public-policy-wise, if you want to be consistent, crude oil is a bulk commodity, and you should be able to export it. I would rather the… — John Shimkus
In the early days, I had everything to prove. A very working class lad with a burning ambition. A very crude way of measuring success… — John Caudwell
We access virtually every producing basin, whether for natural gas or crude oil, in the U.S. and Canada. — Richard Kinder
I refuse to be crude and selfish in any way. — DeForest Kelley
First off, the crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated. — Peter DeFazio
Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China. — Gary Miller

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