Nasty Quotes - Page 24

• Anybody I'd spoken to who'd been in Siberia said 'would you please put mosquitos in your film,' that's what everybody knows about, they're big and they're nasty.

  Peter Weir

  Film

  Source: www.indiewire.com

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• I'm under the impression that this notion of decency is disappearing from our society where conflicts are made worse on cinema and on television, where people are nasty and cruel on the Internet and where, in general, everybody seems to be very angry.

  Helen Mirren

  People, Cinema, Television

  "Helen Mirren: UK is angry and cruel". www.mirror.co.uk. November 14, 2010.

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• When I first came to Nashville, people hardly gave country music any respect. We lived in old cars and dirty hotels, and we ate when we could.

  Loretta Lynn

  Country, Dirty, Naughty

  Loretta Lynn (2010). “Loretta Lynn: Coal Miner's Daughter”, p.10, Vintage

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• When you get to know someone, you find there's something nasty in their woodshed.

  Jo Brand

  Knows

  "Kicking off the bovver boots" by Sally Vincent, www.theguardian.com. May 7, 2004.

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• I made observations for three hours last night, and am almost ill today from fatigue; still I have worked all day, trying to reduce the places, and mean to work hard again tonight.

  Maria Mitchell

  Hard Work, Mean, Night

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• I reject the cynical view that politics is a dirty business.

  Richard M. Nixon

  Dirty, Naughty, Views

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• Every generation witnesses atrocities. People in power try to fulfill prophecy.

  Nas

  People, Trying, Generations

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

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• Like sex in Victorian England, the reality of Big Business today is our big dirty secret.

  Ralph Nader

  Sex, Dirty, Reality

  "Talking Dirty". Book by Carole McKenzie (p. 46), January 2, 2014.

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• The rest of Russia is watching the same television that Vladimir Putin is watching. As far as they're concerned, Pussy Riot was rightly convicted of blasphemy, and Putin has now finally showed some mercy and let them out early so they could spend New Year's with their kids. He was nice to them even though they are really nasty. That's the dominant view. This really is a war and the front line is really firm.

  Masha Gessen

  New Year, War, Nice

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• Id rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare.

  Tamara Ecclestone

  Fake, Fake Smile, Staring

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• Censorship feeds the dirty mind more than the four-letter word itself.

  Dick Cavett

  Dirty, Naughty, Mind

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• The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.

  Samuel Beckett

  Cycling, Ill, Turns

  Samuel Beckett (2011). “Mercier and Camier”, p.52, Grove/Atlantic, Inc.

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• I'm always happy to blow up any misconceptions that people have about stage school cos everyone thinks it's really nasty there but it's not.

  Amy Winehouse

  School, Blow, Thinking

  "Notes of disdain". Interview with Hattie Collins, www.theguardian.com. May 21, 2004.

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• You can go to India and you can see gurus go into samadhi. But when they come out of samadhi, they're nasty. They're egocentric. They don't have a deep regard or understanding of what life is. It's just a little trick they can do, a one-trick pony.

  Frederick Lenz

  Understanding, India, Ponies

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• I think you can't do any action without in some way paying homage to John Woo. He's the guy who just invented that sort of next level of poetic nasty action.

  Will Ferrell

  Thinking, Guy, Next Level

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• I see L.A. as a beautiful blonde with dirty underwear.

  David Boreanaz

  Beautiful, Dirty, Naughty

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

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• Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame.

  Alton Brown

  Flames, Doe, Want

  "Clean Your Grill, And Other Hot Holiday Tips From Food Network's Alton Brown". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Scott Simon, www.npr.org. May 26, 2012.

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• I prefer to remake flops. Dirty Rotten Scoundrels was a remake of a flop, and The Quiet American is a remake of a flop.

  Michael Caine

  Dirty, Naughty, Rotten

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• I was married for 30 years. Isn't that enough? I've had my share of dirty underwear on the floor.

  Martha Stewart

  Dirty, Years, Underwear

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• Hope is like one of those orchids that grows around toxic waste: lovely in itself - and an assertion, if you like, of indefatigable good - but a sure sign that something nasty lies underneath.

  Rachel Cusk

  Lying, Orchids, Toxic Waste

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• The subject matter of Entitlement remains relevant. Entitlement is an attitude: it is the assumption, I am owed what I get. It's a nasty attitude because people are not grateful for what they get. Instead, greed prevails and is expressed as, What have you done for me lately?

  Judith M Bardwick

  Attitude, Grateful, People

  Source: bobmorris.biz

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• People don't yell nasty things at actors - they let them continue.

  Larry David

  People, Actors

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• We are plain quiet folk, and I have no use for adventures. Nasty, disturbing, and uncomfortable things.

  J. R. R. Tolkien

  Adventure, Use, Quiet

  "The Hobbit". 75th Anniversary Edition,

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• Don't get bitter and twisted and nasty by life. You may have been wronged or cheated on; two wrongs never make a right. Instead learn your mistakes and learn your lessons. Remain strong with your head held high.

  Angela Merkel

  Strong, Mistake, Women

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• A lot of the jokes had some build-up to some nasty stuff. But most of it was all character situations leading to what the ultimate payoff would be for that character.

  Shawn Wayans

  Character, Would Be, Stuff

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