Repellent Quotes

23 quotes by 23 authors

I am not pushy. You want it, you buy it. Most people hit the customer over the head. But if you're too self-important, it's kind… — Judith Leiber
The most winning woman I ever knew was hanged for poisoning three little children for their insurance-money, and the most repellent man of my acquaintance… — Arthur Conan Doyle
Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort… — Victor Hugo
There are little things that get on my nerves, like people who have reading material in their powder room. When you go in someoneâ€™s house,… — John Waters
Hand me down the shark repellent Bat-Spray! — Adam West
... Grateful Dead - that's it !! ... nobody in the band liked it, (the name) I didn't like it, either, but it got around… — Jerry Garcia
Writer George Orwell confessed he found something "deeply appealing" about Adolf Hitler. Where Martha Dodd was struck by Hitler's "weak, soft face," Orwell discerned "a… — Brad Marchand
There is little favorable to be said about poverty, but it was often an incubator of true friendship. Many people will appear to befriend you… — Nelson Mandela
What is it about separation, in any or all of its many forms and degrees, that makes it so basic and so sinister, so exciting… — Marilyn Frye
In the twentieth century, the repellent, harrowing disease that is made the index of a superior sensitivity, the vehicle of "spiritual" feelings and "critical" discontent,… — Susan Sontag
There's something about the way of playing a repellent character, that if you can play him with a certain amount of charm, you can get… — Curtis Armstrong
Hard floorings such as marble, wood, terrazzo and linoleum, have become fashionable of late, but I believe they create a characterless "international" style that is… — George Pendle
I place a high moral value on the way people behave. I find it repellent to have a lot, and to behave with anything other… — Fran Lebowitz
We were little animals, which is not to imply that by the end of the week we were tearing our tank tops off; just that,… — Nick Hornby
And this is the forbidden truth, the unspeakable taboo - that evil is not always repellent but frequently attractive; that it has the power to… — Joyce Carol Oates
It must be added that from his first words the foreigner made a repellent impression on the poet, but Berlioz rather liked him - that… — Mikhail Bulgakov
But the trouble with sainthood these days is the robe-and-halo imagery that gets stuck onto it." Carl got that brooding look again. "People forget that… — Diane Duane
This story ["The Depressed Person"] was the most painful thing I ever wrote. It's about narcissism, which is a part of depression. The character has… — David Foster Wallace
There are those rare people who function like human magnets, who are individually so attractive â€“ or repellent, depending on the situation â€“ that a… — Daniel Wallace
I have gone into town to buy a few last things we need for the expedition: Peruvian wasp repellent, toothbrushes, canned peaches, and a fireproof… — Daniel Handler

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