Expletives Quotes

• It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

  Alice James

  Loss, Vulgarity Is, Trials

  Alice James (1934). “Her Brothers Her Journal”

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• [Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.

  Courtney Love

  Thinking, Littles, Cobain

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• Must swear off from swearing. Bad habit.

  Rutherford B. Hayes

  Presidential, Habit, Swearing

  Rutherford B. Hayes (2016). “Conspicuous Gallantry: Civil War Diary and Letters of Rutherford B. Hayes (Abridged)”, p.249, BIG BYTE BOOKS

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• Bad writing is more than a matter of (expletive deleted) syntax and faulty observation; bad writing usually arises from a stubborn refusal to tell stories about what people actually do to face the fact, let us say, that murderers sometimes help old ladies cross the street.

  Stephen King

  Writing, People, Syntax

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• It really bothers me when some people say that all cops are racist. Of course that's not true. Most of you are just [expletive] to everybody.

  Jeff Ross

  People, Racist, Cop

  Source: www.npr.org

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• I found Mr. Carter's actions toward the Republic of China so incredible that they defy description by socially acceptable expletives. If December 7, 1941 was a "day of infamy" then December 15, 1978 ranks right up there in international betrayal...The pathetic thing about this whole mess, however, is that it is typical of this administration's conduct of foreign affairs, which could be kindly described as being riddled by ineptitude and hypocrisy.

  Barry Goldwater

  Betrayal, War, Hypocrisy

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• Ads are baked into content like chocolate chips into a cookie. Except, it’s actually more like raisins into a cookie - because nobody f-‍-‍-ing wants them there.

  John Oliver

  Chocolate, Cookies, Want

  "8 Myths About Native Advertising That Are Almost Entirely Untrue". www.huffingtonpost.com. August 26, 2014.

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• Someone came up to me and told me that [his opponent's] knee was hurt, and he said to me, attack his knee, I'm like, 'Yeah right, I'm not going out to attack this guy's knee.' It just doesn't … it's not realistic to go after his injury, unless they got a cut the same week, then it's like, yeah, hit him in the eye, because the [expletive] is going to re-open and now you wouldn't fight on the cut. Maybe on a cut you want to take advantage of it, that makes sense.

  Nick Diaz

  Hurt, Eye, Fighting

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• I'm clean, I've always been clean. But it never ends. It seems like every reporter from last season to this season has reported and opened up a new can of (expletive). And I haven't even been to spring training. At least let me get to spring training and (expletive) up before you crucify me.

  Barry Bonds

  Spring, Training, Lasts

  "Bonds goes back, forth / Stories differ about retiring" by Henry Schulman, www.sfgate.com. February 20, 2006.

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• When he was very excited, [John Singer] Sargent would rush at his canvas with his brush poised for attack, yelling, 'Demons, demons, demons!' When he was particularly angry or frustrated, he expressed these feelings with 'Damn,' the only curse he allowed himself. He once had the expletive inscribed on a rubber stamp so he could have the satisfaction of pounding it on a piece of paper.

  Deborah Davis

  Yelling, Feelings, Frustrated

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• We played in the Senior Bowl, ... I got MVP out of jamming his (expletive). It basically started there, with a long week of getting after each other.

  Fred Smoot

  Senior, Mvp, Long

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• I'm still the baddest expletive in the world. Yeah, I'm getting older, but Kareem got older. Hakeem got older. I don't need Earthlings' respect. When it's all said and done, my name will be there and it will be mentioned ... unless you Earthlings try to erase it.

  Shaquille O'Neal

  Basketball, Names, Trying

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• You'll never see Spartacus in a (expletive) chair!

  Kirk Douglas

  Chairs, Spartacus

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• One of the benefits of being a mature well-educated woman is that you're not afraid of expletives. And you have no fear to put a fool in his place. That's the power of language and experience. You can learn a lot from Shakespeare.

  Judi Dench

  Benefits, Fool, Language

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• Half the hoes hate, half them love me. The ones that hate me only hate me cuz they ain't [expletive] me.

  Ja Rule

  Hate, Hoe, Half

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• Don't Look Down” is her official debut as Skylar Grey, the singer, born Holly Brook Hafermann and raised in Mazomanie, Wis., has been making albums since she was a tween. Grey and her mother sang as a folk duo under the name Generations; they released three indie discs. “I learned a lot about professionalism, how the show must go on even though I feel like [expletive] sometimes,” Grey remembers. “I have a lot of experience in the studio, performing onstage, talking to an audience. I learned most of that stuff when I was performing with my mom.

  Skylar Grey

  Mom, Mother, Talking

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• It's always good to be recognized being the best new cat and then when I hold down my position and stay in the game for a minute, I want to see what kind of (expletive) I'm winning then.

  Wiz Khalifa

  Cat, Winning, Games

  "Rising rap star Wiz Khalifa on living high life". Interview with Ed Masley, www.usatoday.com. October 16, 2011.

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• As some to church repair, Not for the doctrine, but the music there. These equal syllables alone require, Though oft the ear the open vowels tire While expletives their feeble aid do join, And ten low words oft creep in one dull line.

  Alexander Pope

  Music, Church, Dull

  'An Essay on Criticism' (1711) l. 347

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• The boys performance was so good that I've run out of expletives to describe it.

  Micky Mellon

  Football, Running, Boys

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• I keep hearing this [expletive] thing that guns don't kill people, but people kill people. If that's the case, why do we give people guns when they go to war? Why not just send the people?

  Ozzy Osbourne

  War, Gun, People

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• After they see me, when their mothers are feeding them all that cashmere sweater and girdle ----- [expletive deleted by the New York Times], maybe they'll have a second thought - that they can be themselves and win.

  Janis Joplin

  Mother, New York, Winning

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• Let's get rid of all the economic (expletive) this country represents! Bring it on, I hope the Muslims win!

  Chrissie Hynde

  Country, Winning, Patriotism

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• That's so when I forget how to spell my name, I can still find my (expletive) clothes.

  Stu Grimson

  Hockey, Names, Clothes

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• I think I would have taken a (expletive) load of Advil.

  Ernie Els

  Taken, Thinking, Load

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• You know, YOUR President, the one with the big ears-he ain't my President - had that woman singing for him at his Inauguration. She's going to get her [expletive] whooped. How dare Beyonce sing MY song that I been singing forever. Now I'm going to sing it for y'all.

  Etta James

  Song, Forever, Singing

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