Horrible Quotes - Page 25

• The loss of liberty which must attend being a wife was of all things the most horrible to my imagination.

  Sarah Fielding

  Loss, Imagination, Wife

  Sarah Fielding, Jane Collier (fl. 1753) (1754). “The cry: a new dramatic fable : in two volumes”, p.80

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• I do not want and will not take a royalty on any record I record. I think paying a royalty to a producer or engineer is ethically indefensible. The band write the songs. The band play the music. It's the band's fans who buy the records. The band is responsible for whether it's a great record or a horrible record. Royalties belong to the band. I would like to be paid like a plumber. I do the job and you pay me what it's worth.

  Steve Albini

  Song, Jobs, Writing

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• I see danger—awake! It's terrible, it's horrible, and it's almost here! This is why my spirit was sent to earth. This is the job God has given me. This is the job I must do, so my hands will be free of your blood.

  Frank Bruno

  Jobs, Blood, Hands

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• I haven't seen much correlation between good trading and intelligence. Some outstanding traders are quite intelligent, but a few aren't. Many outstanding intelligent people are horrible traders. Average intelligence is enough. Beyond that, emotional makeup is more important.

  William Eckhardt

  Intelligent, Makeup, Emotional

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• EXISTENCE, n. A transient, horrible, fantastic dream,/ Wherein is nothing yet all things do seem:/ From which we're wakened by a friendly nudge/ Of our bedfellow Death, and cry: "O fudge!"

  Ambrose Bierce

  Dream, Nudge Nudge, Friendly

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.74, University of Georgia Press

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• The law is a horrible business.

  Clarence Darrow

  Business, Law

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• It's impossible for me to feel like there's only one way to do a thing. There's nothing wrong with having one way of doing it, but I think it's a bad habit. I believe in range. Like, there's a lot of tunes that I play all the time-sometimes I hear 'em in a different register. And if you don't have complete freedom, or you won't let yourself get away from that one straight line, oh, my goodness, that's too horrible to even think about.

  Wes Montgomery

  Believe, Thinking, Play

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• The Self doesn't live forever in time, it lives in the timeless present prior to time, prior to history, change, succession. The Self is present as Pure Presence, not as everlasting duration, a rather horrible notion.

  Ken Wilber

  Time, Self, Forever

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Grace and Grit: Spirituality and Healing in the Life and Death of Treya Killam Wilber”, p.88, Shambhala Publications

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• I do sport at the gym a few times a week, but I hate it. Work is my only remedy. I feel so twisted and horrible in the morning, but then I go to the office and I start feeling better. Work is my Tylenol. Extra-strength.

  Alber Elbaz

  Sports, Morning, Hate

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• Sometimes, out of really horrible things come really beautiful things.

  Anthony Kiedis

  Beautiful, Sometimes, Beautiful Things

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• I'm nihilistic, antagonistic, violent, horrible - but not obliterated, yet. I just refuse to be beaten down. I think it's stubborness that keeps me going.

  Lydia Lunch

  Thinking, Stubborn, Genocide

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• We came back right over the World Trade Center, and could see, even from that altitude the devastation, the smoke that was coming up. It was obvious it was going to be horrible.

  Hugh Shelton

  World, Devastation, Obvious

  "America's New War: Responding to Terrorism". "CNN Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. October 1, 2001.

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• If you were black, you experienced prejudice. It wasn't a real horrible thing for us; we went through it. We noticed it mostly in the South and in Las Vegas, where we couldn't stay in the hotels where we entertained. But that began to change.

  Harold Nicholas

  Real, Vegas, Black

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• When there are no women on the tour it can get awful and ugly - constant horrible jokes and gross behaviour. It needs to be leavened with a feminine presence.

  Evan Dando

  Journey, Ugly, Awful

  "I can't completely let go of drugs - and I don't want to" by Mat Snow, www.theguardian.com. August 23, 2006.

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• There is a certain comfort in waking up and finding that Michael Jackson is still the Big Story. At least it tells you that nothing horrible has happened in the world that would force them to move on to real news.

  Pat Sajak

  Real, Moving, World

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• So many new ideas are at first strange and horrible though ultimately valuable that a very heavy responsibility rests upon those who would prevent their dissemination.

  John B. S. Haldane

  Responsibility, Ideas, Firsts

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• Everything trends towards catastrophe & collapse. I am interested, geared up & happy. Is it not horrible to be built like that?

  Winston Churchill

  Adversity, Trends, Collapse

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• I've never related to the work geek at all-it sounds much more horrible than nerd. Like a freak biting a chicken's head off in a sideshow.

  Jonathan Lethem

  Nerd, Biting, Sound

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• I guess because I had such a horrible life growing up, going from place to place not knowing what I was gonna do and ending up being homeless, there was a lot of pain and a lot of anger that was coming out through my guitar playing.

  Dave Mustaine

  Growing Up, Pain, Anger

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• I would be a horrible girlfriend at this point in my life, because I’m both needy and unavailable.

  Lena Dunham

  Girlfriend, Would Be, Needy

  Lena Dunham (2014). “Not That Kind of Girl: A Young Woman Tells You What She's "Learned"”, p.46, Random House

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• You could carry your burdens lightly or with great effort. You could worry about tomorrow or not. You could imagine horrible fates or garland-filled tomorrows. None of it mattered as long as you moved, as long as you did something. Asking why was fine, but it wasn't action. Nothing brought the rewards of moving, of running. Sometimes you just do things.

  Scott Jurek

  Running, Moving, Fate

  Scott Jurek, Steve Friedman (2012). “Eat and Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness”, p.94, A&C Black

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• Contact with [menstrual blood] turns new wine sour, crops touched by it become barren, grafts die, seed in gardens are dried up, the fruit of trees fall off, the edge of steel and the gleam of ivory are dulled, hives of bees die, even bronze and iron are at once seized by rust, and a horrible smell fills the air; to taste it drives dogs mad and infects their bites with an incurable poison.

  Pliny the Elder

  Dog, Fall, Wine

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• I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving

  Nellie Bly

  Pain, Leaving, Sunlight

  Nellie Bly (2016). “Ten Days in a Mad-House”, p.84, Nellie Bly

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• The physiologist is not a man of the world, he is a scientist, a man caught and absorbed by a scientific idea that he pursues; he no longer hears the cries of the animals, no longer sees the flowing blood, he sees only his idea: organisms that hide from him problems that he wants to discover. He doesn't feel that he is in a horrible carnage; under the influence of a scientific idea, he pursues with delight a nervous filament inside stinking and livid flesh that for any other person would be an object of disgust and horror.

  Claude Bernard

  Animal, Men, Blood

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• A lot of horrible, unfair, untrue things have been said about me. I can only say that the best revenge is success.

  Kate Moss

  Revenge, Unfair, Said

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