Tawdry Quotes
22 quotes by 22 authors
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The making of a picture ought surely to be a rather fascinating adventure. It is not; it is an endless contention of tawdry egos, some…
— Raymond Chandler
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Have you never been moved by poor men's fidelity, the image of you they form in their simple minds? Why should you always talk of…
— Georges Bernanos
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Evasion of the unadorned immediacy of life is as deep-seated as it is relentless. Even with the ardent desire to be aware and alert in…
— Stephen Batchelor
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The last thing my mother said to me was, 'SuSu, your life is a celebration of everything that is cheap and tawdry.' I've always liked…
— Susan Tyrrell
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Far from being the basis of the good society, the family, with its narrow privacy and tawdry secrets, is the source of all our discontents.
— Edmund Leach
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Truth looks tawdry when she is overdressed.
— Rabindranath Tagore
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Advertizing, television and film all wield mighty powers to visually seduce us, while much fine art leaves us indifferent, confused or, at worst, repulsed. There…
— John Walford
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I'm not a villain, I've never hurt anyone. I'm just a tawdry character who explodes now and again.
— Oliver Reed
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The more wonderful the means of communication, the more trivial, tawdry, or depressing its contents seemed to be.
— Arthur C. Clarke
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This is newness: every little tawdry Obstacle glass-wrapped and peculiar, Glinting and clinking in a saint's falsetto. Only you Don't know what to make of…
— Sylvia Plath
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Dreams are tawdry when compared with the leading of God, and not worthy of the aura of wonder we usually surround them with. God only…
— Jim Elliot
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If you focus on the humanity of your stories, your characters, then the horror will be stronger, scarier. Without the humanity, the horror becomes nothing…
— Don Roff
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Danger comes in many forms, I suppose. For some people, it might be jumping off a bridge or climbing impossible moutains. For others, it could…
— David Levithan
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... the greatest menace to our capacity for contemplation is the incessant fabrication of tawdry empty stimuli which kill the receptivity of the soul.
— Josef Pieper
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My city. I pondered that phrase, wondered why Barrons felt that way. He never said “our world.†He always said “your world.†But he called…
— Karen Marie Moning
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And yet one arrives somehow, finds himself loosening the hooks of her dress in a strange bedroom-- feels the autumn dropping its silk and linen…
— William Carlos Williams
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Affection would not be affection if it was loudly and frequently expressed; to produce it in public is like getting your household furniture out for…
— C.S. Lewis
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All I can say is what you already know: some days are treasure. Not many, but I think in almost every life there are a…
— Stephen King
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Living is not this tawdry, mediocre, disciplined thing which we call our existence. Living is something entirely different; it is abundantly rich, timelessly changing, and…
— Jiddu Krishnamurti
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The artistic taste of the Catholic priests is appalling and I am most anxious to have a Catholic church in which everything is genuine and…
— Giles Gilbert Scott
Who Wrote These Tawdry Quotes
22 authors contributed a total of 22 Tawdry Quotes as follows: