Best Gross Lines
338 Gross quotes by 285 unique authors
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Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the position of women…
— William J. Brennan
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The North thinks it knows how to make corn bread, but this is a gross superstition. Perhaps no bread in the world is quite as…
— Mark Twain
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You can get better, or you can get all gooey, and crotchety, old, pathetic, icky, gross. Not me. Not into it.
— Tony Horton
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...though every thinking being longs for God, the First Cause, it is powerless... to grasp Him. Tired with the yearning it chafes at the bit…
— Gregory of Nazianzus
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Housing has led our nation's economic expansion over the past few years, accounting for 16 percent of our Gross Domestic Product. New housing starts and…
— Randy Neugebauer
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The substance of man cannot be measured by Gross National Product.
— E F Schumacher
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Also, I learned whether you are gay, bisexual, it doesn't matter, you know … because, at the end of the day, they're both gross. But…
— Sarah Silverman
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The economic borderlines of our world will not be drawn between countries, but around Economic Domains. Along the twin paths of globalization and decentralization, the…
— John Naisbitt
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We have always had gross humor. But we try for funny, not gross.
— Shawn Wayans
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The man that lays his hand upon a woman, Save in the way of kindness, is a wretch Whom't were gross flattery to name a…
— John M. Tobin, Jr.
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I'm pretty gross. When I talk I can be gross and crude.
— Yvonne Strahovski
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I'm such a fitness freak that I eat so plain, it's gross. I have oatmeal in the morning and then I have chicken breasts and…
— Jason Sellards
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The gross size of our talent inventories is less important than the net use of our talents?
— Neal A. Maxwell
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For black politicians, civil rights organizations and white liberals to support the racist practices of the University of Michigan amounts to no less than a…
— Walter E. Williams
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Nothing is more repulsive than a furtively prurient spirituality; it is just as unsavory as gross sensuality.
— Carl Jung
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The Gross National Product measures everything except that which makes life worthwhile
— Robert Kennedy
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My first few weeks in America are always miserable, because the tastes I am cursed with are all of a kind that cannot be gratified…
— Edith Wharton
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Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
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It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever…
— William Ernest Henley
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Hunger is never delicate; they who are seldom gorged to the full with praise may be safely fed with gross compliments, for the appetite must…
— Samuel Johnson
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The American myth is of free will in its simple, primary sense. One can choose oneself and will oneself; and this absurdly optimistic assumption so…
— John Fowles
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So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.
— George Wald
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Tony Awards boost Broadway attendance and sell the shows on the road. They're the sugar to swat the fly. If you needed more explanation for…
— John Lahr
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It took me years to work out the difference between net and gross. In meetings I just used to say, 'Tell me if it's good…
— Richard Branson
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Cold-turkey deficit reduction would cause a significant recession. A recent analysis by the Congressional Budget Office estimated that going headlong over the cliff would cause…
— Christina Romer
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