Nasty Quotes - Page 17

• I think I have more optimism than they do and I think I have a better vision for the country than [Barack and Michelle Obama] do and I think it's a nasty statement. In actuality, it doesn't pertain to me.

  Donald Trump

  Country, Thinking, Optimism

  Source: townhall.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• As most people when I entered the work world, suddenly people are playing games, being manipulative, being a little bit nasty, you get tricked or you're kind of naive and you do something and people come steal your idea.

  Robert Greene

  Games, Ideas, People

  Source: dilanka.cc

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• [Jerome David] Salinger was really taken to the cleaners by nasty critics in his day. I think Joan Didion was one of the people who attacked him in a very unfair way.

  Whit Stillman

  Taken, Thinking, People

  Source: newrepublic.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I originally read for the roles of Debra and Rita [in Dexter], because they didn't know what direction they were going in, and I worked so hard on Deb, because I just wanted to swear. I wanted to say all those nasty words. That was it: "I want to swear on television!".

  Julie Benz

  Television, Want, Roles

  Source: www.avclub.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• You get the odd person [in social media] that will write something nasty and the trick is not to engage with them on any level.

  Boy George

  Writing, Media, Levels

  Source: www.washingtontimes.com

  6 Copy quote

  Show source

• We'd better work hard on getting rid of that must - Other people must do what I want them to do!" It's what makes people hostile, nasty, mean and combative, and it leads to feuds, wars and genocide. We'd better do something about that.

  Albert Ellis

  War, Hard Work, Mean

  15 Copy quote

• There are similiarities between Nixon and Trump, no question. But there are also big differences. Nixon was shy, private, he attacked the media behind closed doors and insulted people behind their backs, and we only know about it because of the taping system in the Oval Office. The dark side, the vengeance we only know because of these tapes. Trump is right out and front with it. He actually campaigned on how nasty he can be, which found resonance with enough voters to get him into the White House.

  John Dean

  Dark, People, Office

  Source: www.spiegel.de

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If I don't wear a wig, I'm called a nasty f*g, if I do wear a wig, I'm hilarious.

  Roy Haylock

  Wigs, Ifs

  Source: www.hollywoodchicago.com

  9 Copy quote

  Show source

• Hillary Clinton's nasty, but I can be nastier than she ever can be.

  Donald Trump

  Clinton, I Can

  Source: www.nbcnews.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Unfortunately, I saw a side of humanity I wish I'd remained blissfully ignorant of, including one driver who threw a bottle at me while I was walking my baby to the doctor on the side of the road and yelled out insults. Nurses who made nasty comments about how I should get a job (I was working two of them, in addition to being a published author). It wasn't that I didn't have a job and wasn't working. The jobs in backwoods Mississippi didn't pay enough to cover living expenses.

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Baby, Jobs, Two

  "Author Spotlight: Kevin J. Anderson & Sherrilyn Kenyon". Interview with Liz Argall, www.lightspeedmagazine.com. August 2016.

  7 Copy quote

  Show source

• My feeling is, Twitter's free. If people want to have a political discourse with me on Twitter, and they disagree with me, I've got all the time in the world for that. It's when it gets nasty that I have problems.

  Josh Groban

  People, Political, Feelings

  "Josh Groban and Denée Benton are Broadway bound". Interview with David Cote, www.timeout.com. August 23, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• ...how little our side of the industry did to move its business to the more ethical firms and to make a fuss about conflicted or unethical behavior. Had a number of us moved our business, we might have slowed or even stopped the 30-year slide in conflicted, unethical behavior that we have experienced. I, for one, regret the modest nature of our moves. We all could have done more. We have tolerated a pretty nasty decline in standards. Shame on us.

  Jeremy Grantham

  Regret, Moving, Numbers

  4 Copy quote

• Can a nasty, horrible person still produce good quality, uplifting and inspirational work?

  Oliver $

  Uplifting, Quality, Horrible Person

  4 Copy quote

• Just balancing all the different projects, I mean I spent almost 10 years just doing Nasty Gal and I say "just" but that was a lot, and it's still a lot.

  Sophia Amoruso

  Mean, Years, Different

  "#GirlBoss Sophia Amoruso on Her New Book, Nasty Galaxy". Interview with Maddy Budd, www.harpersbazaar.com. September 13, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I also notice the very nasty commercials that Hillary Clinton do on me in so many different ways, which I don't do on her. Maybe I'm trying to save the money.

  Donald Trump

  Trying, Different, Way

  Source: time.com

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea.

  Al Swearengen

  Tea, Language

  19 Copy quote

• A lot of humour is about just enjoying life and spontaneity and because you make a joke that puts somebody down - we're always teasing each other. It's with affection. It's nasty teasing that we - not all teasing; nasty teasing you cut out.

  John Cleese

  Cutting, Enjoy Life, Affection

  "Interview: John Cleese and Eric Idle, founding members of Monty Python". Interview with Tony Jones, www.abc.net.au. February 18, 2016.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Modern Romans insisted that there was only one god, a notion that struck Alobar as comically simplistic. Worse, this Semitic deity was reputed to be jealous (what was there to be jealous of if there were no other gods?), vindictive, and altogether foul-tempered. If you didn't serve the nasty fellow, the Romans would burn your house down. If you did serve him, you were called a Christian and got to burn other people's houses down.

  Tom Robbins

  Christian, Jealous, People

  "Jitterbug Perfume". Book by Tom Robbins, 1984.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• Things do look pretty grim, but I think there are more laughs in Hellboy in Hell than there are in B.P.R.D.: Hell on Earth. I think Hell is getting nicer and Earth is getting worse. Once we figured out what we were doing, the whole point of the Hellboy/B.P.R.D. stuff has always been evolution. The kind of evolution we're seeing on Earth is nasty evolution - part of this kind of evolution is that you have to wipe out what was there before you can replace it.

  Mike Mignola

  Thinking, Laughing, Earth

  "Graphic Novel Friday: Interview with Mike Mignola (Part Two)". Interview With Alex Carr, www.amazonbookreview.com. December 5, 2013.

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• I'm not going to spend two years on a film or four years on an opera if I don't feel like I can put my own self into it. That doesn't mean it has to be about myself.

  Julie Taymor

  Mean, Self, Years

  "Bill Moyers Interviews Julie Taymor". "NOW on PBS" with Bill Moyers, www.pbs.org. October 25, 2002.

  8 Copy quote

  Show source

• A nasty letter or a sarcastic one can make you righteously angry, but what can you do about a polite letter of rejection? Nothing, really, except cry.

  E. L. Konigsburg

  Sarcastic, Rejection, Letters

  E.L. Konigsburg (2015). “From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler”, p.79, Pushkin Press

  4 Copy quote

  Show source

• If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.

  Tom Lehrer

  Song, Hearing, Inspired

  21 Copy quote

• I am still my teenage self. If you think that we all step through a door marked Adult, or that we sign a Grown-Up Document, you’re quite wrong. We remain as we always were, and that, alas, is one of life’s many nasty tricks.

  Steven Morrissey

  Teenage, Thinking, Doors

  4 Copy quote

• By writing her self, woman will return to the body which has been more than confiscated from her, which has been turned into the uncanny stranger on display - the ailing or dead figure, which so often turns out to be the nasty companion, the cause and location of inhibitions. Censor the body and you censor breath and speech at the same time.
  Write your self. Your body must be heard. Only then will the immense resources of the unconscious spring forth.

  Helene Cixous

  Spring, Writing, Self

  57 Copy quote

• I used to wanna rap like Jay-Z,
  Now I feel I could run laps around Jay-Z,
  Nas ain't seen nothing this nasty,
  B.I.G. & Pac got it coming when I pass too.
  You got the mic, I ain't the one you wanna pass to

  Ab-Soul

  Running, Rap, Lap

  74 Copy quote