Horrible Quotes - Page 39

• One never hugs one's good luck so affectionately as when listening to the relation of some horrible misfortunes which has overtaken others.

  Alexander Smith

  Good Luck, Listening, Hug

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.116

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• What can rulers, nobility and all the lords of the earth say to justify the horrible killing and maiming of twenty or thirty million valuable men who a short while ago ploughed, dug, wove, built, guided the traffic of the world, took their pleasure, loved their fellows, cherished their families, and feared naught?

  Helen Keller

  Men, Twenties, World

  Helen Keller (2000). “To Love this Life: Quotations”, p.69, American Foundation for the Blind

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• Ugliness without tact is horrible.

  Nathaniel Hawthorne

  Tact, Ugliness

  Nathaniel Hawthorne, Claude Mitchell Simpson, William Charvat, Ohio State Center for Textual Studies (1972). “The Centenary Edition of the Works of Nathaniel Hawthorne: The American notebooks”

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• [On Kay Strozzi in The Silent Witness:] Miss Strozzi ... had the temerity to wear as truly horrible a gown as ever I have seen on the American stage. ... Had she not luckily been strangled by a member of the cast while disporting this garment, I should have fought my way to the stage and done her in, myself.

  Dorothy Parker

  Should Have, Missing, Way

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• A dungeon horrible, on all sides round, As one great furnace, flamed; yet from those flames No light, but rather darkness visible Serv'd only to discover sights of woe, Regions of sorrow, doleful shades, where peace And rest can never dwell, hope never comes That comes to all; but torture without end.

  John Milton

  Flames, Light, Sight

  'Paradise Lost' (1667) bk. 1, l. 61

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• The world is deceitful; her end is doubtful, her conclusion is horrible, her judge terrible, and her judgment is intolerable.

  Francis Quarles

  Judging, World, Judgment

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• As the original 'Mary Poppins' budget of five million dollars continued to grow, I never saw a sad face around the entire Studio. And this made me nervous. I knew the picture would have to gross 10 million dollars for us to break even. But still there was no negative head-shaking. No prophets of doom. Even Roy was happy. He didn't even ask me to show the unfinished picture to a banker. The horrible thought struck me - suppose the staff had finally conceded that I knew what I was doing.

  Walt Disney

  Break Even, Bankers, Negative

  "The Walt Disney Story". Documentary, April 8, 1973.

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• The very thing about people that makes the human race interesting is also the thing that makes it so hard to get anything done without the most horrible confusions: no two people think exactly the same way about anything.

  Katherine Anne Porter

  Thinking, Race, Two

  Katherine Anne Porter, Isabel Bayley (1994). “Letters of Katherine Anne Porter”, p.283, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• Greece is not a country of happy mediums: everything there seems to be either wonderful or horrible.

  Nancy Mitford

  Country, Wonderful, Mediums

  Nancy Mitford (1962). “The water beetle”

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• Writing is alchemy. Dross becomes gold. Experience is transformed. Pain is changed. Suffering may become song. The ordinary or horrible is pushed by the will of the writer into grace or redemption, a prophetic wail, a screed for justice, an elegy of sadness or sorrow. ... There is always a tension between experience and the thing that finally carries it forward, bears its weight, holds it in. Without that tension, one might as well write a shopping list.

  Andrea Dworkin

  Song, Pain, Writing

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• Cooking saved my life! Sure, there were some miserable moments, but that was sort of the point, to find something challenging and consuming enough to take a place in the center of my life into which was creeping a horrible feeling of stasis and the doom of mediocrity.

  Julie Powell

  Food, Challenges, Cooking

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• FRYING-PAN, n. One part of the penal apparatus employed in that punitive institution, a woman's kitchen. The frying-pan was invented by Calvin, and by him used in cooking span-long infants that had died without baptism; and observing one day the horrible torment of a tramp who had incautiously pulled a fried babe from the waste-dump and devoured it, it occurred to the great divine to rob death of its terrors by introducing the frying-pan into every household in Geneva. Thence it spread to all corners of the world, and has been of invaluable assistance in the propagation of his sombre faith.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Long, Baptism, Cooking

  Ambrose Bierce (2001). “The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary”, p.91, University of Georgia Press

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• I wanted to be an actor, an astrologer, an astronaut; a lot of different things were going through my mind. But I also wanted to play guitar. I mentioned to my parents that I wanted an electric guitar for Christmas. They got me one! I sat there all Christmas morning making a lot of loud horrible noise.

  Joan Jett

  Morning, Guitar, Play

  "Joan Jett Opens Up About Her Biggest Transformation Yet And Looks Back On What Could've Been". Interview with Amy Rose Spiegel, www.buzzfeed.com. September 10, 2013.

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• I am often tempted to think of success in terms that are defined by others: records sold, popularity gained, album reviews, etc. These are impossible demands, however, and they can never be satisfied. Letting finite others define our worth is a horrible way to live. Only the Infinite Other [God] has the authority to do this.

  Jon Foreman

  Thinking, Albums, Way To Live

  Source: www.timothywillard.com

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• I try to stay friends with everybody because you might go back and work with somebody who you had a horrible experience with and it could be great the next time. You never know which way it's going to go, never say never.

  Rob Zombie

  Trying, Might, Way

  Interview with Frank Moran, www.horrorgalore.com. March 24, 2015.

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• Sin! Sin! Thou art a hateful and horrible thing, that abominable thing which God hates. And what wonder? Thou hast insulted His holy majesty; thou hast bereaved Him of beloved children; thou hast crucified the Son of His infinite love; thou hast vexed His gracious Spirit; thou hast defied His power; thou hast despised His grace; and in the body and blood of Jesus, as if that were a common thing, thou hast trodden under foot His matchless mercy. Surely, brethren, the wonder of wonders is, that sin is not that abominable thing which we also hate.

  Thomas Guthrie

  Jesus, Art, Children

  "Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 546, 1895.

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• We are made to be immortal, and yet we die. It's horrible, it can't be taken seriously

  Eugene Ionesco

  Taken, Made, Immortal

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• The worst of pushing horrible things down into one's subconscious is that when they pop up again they are as fresh as if they had been in a refrigerator. You haven't allowed time to get at them to-to mould them over a little.

  Josephine Tey

  Mind, Littles, Pushing

  Josephine Tey (2012). “Brat Farrar”, p.24, Simon and Schuster

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• Boredom is the most horrible of wolves.

  Jean Giono

  Boredom

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• That men should kill one another for want of somewhat else to do, which is the case of all volunteers in war, seems to be so horrible to humanity that there needs no divinity to control it.

  Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon

  War, Men, Volunteer

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• You're so lucky you never had morning sickness. It's horrible. Like a hangover without the good time.

  Joni Rodgers

  Morning, Pregnancy, Hangover

  Joni Rodgers (1999). “Sugar Land: A Novel”, Spinsters Ink Books

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• there was not a tree on the place, only the horrible prickly pear bushes thrusting out their distorted arms as if exulting in their own nakedness.

  Ethel M. Dell

  Tree, Arms, Pears

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• Our society is turning toward more and more needless consumption. It is a vicious circle that I compare to cancer . . . . Should we eliminate suffering, diseases? The idea is beautiful, but perhaps not a benefit for the long term. We should not allow our dread of diseases to endanger the future of our species. . . . In order to stabilize world population, we need to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Beautiful, Cancer, Order

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• If the immigrant is responsible for assimilation of the country, and some of these people are in fact are born there. But if you find it unwelcoming to your own barbaric notions of equality, that is not on the country, that is on you. If you leave a horrible place, please leave your horrible practices behind.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Country, Practice, People

  Source: www.foxnews.com

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• I think even like Saddam Hussein or Hitler would wake up and say, "I think it's going to be a good day. I'm gonna do some really important work." And given their definition of good, they went out and did horrible things.

  George Saunders

  Good Day, Thinking, Important

  Source: www.guernicamag.com

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