Excrement Quotes
29 quotes by 26 authors
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Gentle reader, the Fountain of Youth is radioactive, and those who imbibe its poisonous heavy waters will suffer the hideous fate of decaying metal. Yet…
— William S. Burroughs
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We're told cars are wasteful. Wasteful of what? Oil did a lot of good sitting in the ground for millions of years. We're told cars…
— P.J. O'Rourke
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It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life…
— Wendell Berry
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In the war to come correspondents would assume unheard of importance, plunging through flame to feed the public its little gobbets of dehydrated excrement.
— Malcolm Lowry
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We have a fear of facing ourselves. That is the obstacle. Experiencing the innermost core of our existence is very embarrassing to a lot of…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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It as if you took a lot of very good food and some dog excrement and blended it all up so that you can't possibly…
— Douglas Hofstadter
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The Internet is like a herd of performing elephants with diarrhoea - massive, difficult to re-direct, awe-inspiring, entertaining, and a source of mind-boggling amounts of…
— Gene Spafford
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A living body is not a fixed thing but a flowing event, like a flame or a whirlpool: the shape alone is stable, for the…
— Alan Watts
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In its famous paradox, the equation of money and excrement, psychoanalysis becomes the first science to state what common sense and the poets have long…
— Norman O. Brown
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Is there wisdom in innocence? I think there is, but there is a cult now of drab men and women, for whom the world, and…
— Phillip Mann
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The smell of factory farms . . . many notice these places only when the odours reach their homes, affecting their own quality of life.…
— Matthew Scully
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I must live in my own excrement, breathe in my own poisonous sticky fumes. Yet I am a human being! I still am. Does no…
— Egon Schiele
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You are excrement. You can change yourself into gold.
— Alejandro Jodorowsky
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At the drabber moments of my life (swilling some excrement from the steps, for instance, or rooting with a bent coat-hanger down a blocked sink)…
— Alan Bennett
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The excrement bubbles, the century slime decays, and the brainwashing government lackeys would have us say it's under control.
— Jethro Tull
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It would not do for the consumer to know that the hamburger she is eating came from a steer who spent much of his life…
— Leonard Sweet
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To my eye Rubens' colouring is most contemptible. His shadows are a filthy brown somewhat the colour of excrement.
— William Blake
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To call you excrement would be an insult to the product of my bowels.
— Clive Barker
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Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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People said that he was very nice, but I confess that his utter grotesqueness made me uneasy; perhaps in the same way that the sight…
— James A. Baldwin
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