Art Quote by Coleman Young

“Swearing is an art form. You can express yourself much more directly, much more exactly, much more succinctly, with properly used curse words.”

— Coleman Young

The curse words, I have a problem with because that's not something you would say to me face to face. Where I'm from, in…

— Tommy Pham

I rely on swearing just to communicate emotion, but I wanted to express the same feelings [in song] without using curse words.

— Hutch Harris

“„I don't think you put the swear word in the right place, Grandpa,” Teddy says. When Dad first came here, my boys would look…

— Jess Walter

“If you want to get rid of the perceived meaning of curse words, you’ll have to get rid of the feelings which bring their…

— Orlando Winters

Writers used to make such wonderful pictures without all that swearing, all that cursing. And now it seems that you can't say three words…

— Ernest Borgnine

“While it may seem a bit antithetical to use quite so many "naughty words" in an etiquette book, I can assure you that I…

— Celia Rivenbark

I don't think that my lyrics are over-laced with profanity, because I myself don't speak using a lot of profanity in normal conversation. But…

— Marilyn Manson

I'm not a guy who curses very much in my personal life. When I curse it sounds like a kid trying to be cool.…

— Justin Halpern

Contrary to the negative stereotype that folks who swear have poor vocabularies, a fluency in taboo language correlates with overall verbal fluency. The more…

— Faith Salie

It's better to use a curse word than to hurt somebody else, I find.

— Marilyn Manson

“A string of very un-angelic curse words come to mind.”

— Cynthia Hand