Unsightly Quotes

19 quotes by 18 authors

Songwriting, I have to take myself away from everybody to do. It's an unsightly act. — Nick Cave
I am weary seeing our laboring classes so wretchedly housed, fed, and clothed, while thousands of dollars are wasted every year over unsightly statues. If… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton
First off, LARDASS, you neglected to include a sign-off, forcing me to create one for you. I tried to create one that captured the spirit… — Dan Savage
I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home; But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
When business is not all that it should be there is a temptation to sit back and say, Well, what's the use! We've done everything… — Cliff Sloan
Don't allow yourself to become disheartened when the thread doesn't suit or seems unsightly to you. Wait and watch. Be patient and devoted. As the… — Colleen Houck
PESSIMISM- philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile. — Ambrose Bierce
Our scars reveal who we are. The fact that we have experienced profound suffering in lifeâ€”the fact that we carry what may seem to be… — Jonathan Martin
Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly… — Nathaniel Hawthorne
Left to herself, nature is always more or less civilized, and delights in a certain refinement; but where the axe has encroached upon the edge… — Henry David Thoreau
Nature doth thus kindly heal every wound. By the mediation of a thousand little mosses and fungi, the most unsightly objects become radiant of beauty.… — Henry David Thoreau
Private courts, Gloomy as coffins, and unsightly lanes Thrilled by some female vendor's scream, belike The very shrillest of all London cries, May then entangle… — William Wordsworth
During 'Saturday Night Fever' at the end of the first act dance number I tried to perform a split-jump, only I can't do them so… — Adam Garcia
I drew laughing, high-breasted girls aquaplaning without a care in the world, as a result of being amply protected against such national evils as bleeding… — J D Salinger
Authors also create lovable, friendly characters, then proceed to do terrible things to them, like throw them in unsightly librarian-controlled dungeons. This makes readers feel… — Brandon Sanderson
If you want to kill me, despise me, hate me, and live in an unsightly way... Run, and cling to life, and then some day,… — Masashi Kishimoto
Things that are unsightly: birthmarks, infidelity, strangers in one's kitchen. Too much sunlight. Stitches. Missing teeth. Overlong guests. — Catherynne M. Valente
In fact, they recapitulate the story of Christianity word for word, like the inevitable course of some unsightly disease: criminal ignorance, brutish stupidity, self-righteous bigotry,… — William S Burroughs
Passion in all its forms is a mental thirst, a fever, a torturing unrest. As a fire consumes a magnificent building, reducing it to a… — James Allen

Who Wrote These Unsightly Quotes

18 authors contributed a total of 19 Unsightly Quotes as follows: