Horrific Quotes - Page 6

• The Monster’s crimes were so horrific that a mere man could not possibly have committed them. Satan, in the end, had to be invoked.

  Douglas Preston

  Men, Monsters, Satan

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• I want every day to be the most boring news day ever. I want every day to be about spelling bee champions and baby basketball. It's better to have no comedy material than a horrific news day.

  Tina Fey

  Basketball, Baby, Champion

  The BELIEVER Magazine Interview, www.believermag.com. November, 2003.

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• Richard Gavin is one of the bright new stars in contemporary weird fiction. His richly textured style, deft character portrayal, and powerful horrific conceptions make every one of his tales a pleasure to read.

  S. T. Joshi

  Stars, Powerful, Character

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• The industrial food system is so cruel and so horrific in its treatment of animals. It never asks the question: 'Should a pig be allowed to express its pig-ness?'

  Joel Salatin

  Animal, Pigs, Should

  Interview with Gaby Wood, www.theguardian.com. January 30, 2010.

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• You can't do anything in life. The social barriers in life are so intense and horrific that every encounter is just fraught with so many problems and dread. Every social situation is a potential nightmare.

  Larry David

  Encounters, Nightmare, Problem

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• Sometimes the way you respond to horrific, evil deeds is the measure of one's self as a man, as a nation, as people, as a community.

  James Woods

  Men, Self, People

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• It's hell with that big beard and stuff. That's the one bit I don't like. Either you take out at lunch or you don't eat. So I opted not to eat, 'cause having to put it on twice is horrific.

  Robbie Coltraine

  Lunch, Stuff, Beard

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are more than 300,000 families in the Gulf region that lost their homes and are waiting for peace of mind. The hurricane exposed the sad reality of poverty in America. We saw, in all its horrific detail, the vulnerabilities of living in inadequate housing and the heartbreak of losing one's home.

  Harry Connick, Jr.

  Home, Reality, America

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• I remember my first show was a live TV show in Ireland, and I was just petrified. It was horrific.

  Caroline Corr

  Tv Shows, Firsts, Tvs

  "Caroline Corr of The Corrs". Interview with Billy Amendola, www.moderndrummer.com. May 2005.

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• A terrorist network that believes a nation so tested will fold under pressure of a few horrific acts may capture its attention, but will not achieve its submission.

  Virginia Foxx

  Believe, Attention, May

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• So many women have experienced horrific forms of male violence throughout their lives, and why isn't there a song about how you get depressed because of it?

  Kathleen Hanna

  Song, Violence, Males

  "The original riot grrrl on Katy Perry, '90s revival". Interview with Abbey Goodman, www.cnn.com. June 7, 2011.

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• Being the object of Alfred Hitchcock's obsession was horrific, but while he ruined my career, he could never ruin my life.

  Tippi Hedren

  Careers, Ruins, Obsession

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• Likewise, education can direct people toward good or evil ends. When education is based on a fundamentally distorted worldview, the results are horrific.

  Daisaku Ikeda

  People, Evil, Ends

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• Countries across the world are taking action now to help them track paedophiles and terrorists who abuse new technology to plot their horrific crimes.

  Theresa May

  Country, Technology, Track

  "Theresa May hits back in coalition clash over 'snooper's charter'" by Alan Travis, Hélène Mulholland, www.theguardian.com. December 11, 2012.

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• If anyone has seen the horrific and unwatchable footage of the Chinese cat and dog trade - animals skinned alive - then they could not possibly argue in favour of China as a caring nation. There are no animal protection laws in China, and this results in the worst animal abuse and cruelty on the planet. It is indefensible.

  Steven Morrissey

  Dog, Cat, Caring

  "Morrissey reignites racism row by calling Chinese a 'subspecies'" by Alexandra Topping, www.theguardian.com. September 3, 2010.

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• I wouldn't write about people who are living and who are close to me, because I think it's a very violent thing to do to another person. And anytime I have done it, even in the disguise of fiction, the results have been horrific.

  Zadie Smith

  Writing, Thinking, People

  "In Essays, Author Zadie Smith Reveals Her Process". Interview with Melissa Block, www.npr.org. November 11, 2009.

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• I'm definitely a fan of juxtaposition. Using the most beautiful line to say the most horrific thing - I think one of the main things in songwriting is definitely friction between the words and the melody.

  Rufus Wainwright

  Beautiful, Thinking, Fans

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• Everyone knows now how early a fetus becomes a baby. Women who have been pregnant have seen their babies on ultrasounds. They know that there is a terrible truth to those horrific pictures the anti-choice fanatics hold up in front of abortion clinics.

  Ayelet Waldman

  Baby, Ultrasounds, Abortion

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• It's so weird how that can be, how you could have a night that's the worst in your life, but to everybody else it's just an ordinary night. Like on my calendar at home, I would mark this as being one of the most horrific days of my life. This and the day Daisy died. But for the rest of the world, this was just an ordinary day. Or may be it was even a good day. May be somebody won the lottery today.

  R. J. Palacio

  Home, Good Day, Night

  R. J. Palacio (2017). “The Wonder eOmni Collection: Wonder, Auggie & Me, 365 Days of Wonder”, p.281, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• To me it's a mystery that you can show the horrific things in the movies, but not some sexual stuff which everyone does.

  Seth Rogen

  Doe, Stuff, Mystery

  Source: movies.about.com

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• Part of the problem of being labeled a model minority is that everyone thinks you've made it, but that's far from the case. You can see that in the horrific stories where undocumented workers are trying to get into the country. That's the backlash.

  Arthur Dong

  Country, Thinking, Trying

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• There is no terrorist threat. Yes, there have been horrific acts of terrorism and, yes, there will be acts of terrorism again. But that doesn't mean that there's some kind of massive terrorist threat.

  Michael Moore

  Stupid, Mean, Kind

  "Fahrenhype 9/11: Morris Vs. Moore" by Jim Emerson, www.rogerebert.com. August 2, 2004.

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• I think, if you were being cruel to animals, then the thought of eating them would be horrific.

  Elizabeth Hurley

  Animal, Thinking, Would Be

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• I learned all those jokes in second grade. Second grade is really where they tell you those horrific jokes, racist jokes and misogynistic jokes that you have no idea what they mean, and you just memorize them because they have a very strong effect, they make people laugh in this kind of nervous, horrible way, and it's only later that you realize that you've got a head full of crap.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Strong, Mean, Ideas

  Source: www.lightspeedmagazine.com

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• People didn't know who I was or why I was there, so they started inventing stories about me. I was a registered sex offender and I'd just been released from prison and was being forced to do community-service work. I was a murderer, an arsonist - all these horrific things had been projected on me because no one knew what to make of this white guy who showed up and made toast at 5 o'clock every morning.

  Chuck Palahniuk

  Morning, Sex, White

  Source: content.time.com

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