Nasty Quotes - Page 8

• I think some journalists and bloggers want their articles to be clever, and the way into that is by writing nasty things. I think our culture likes to be mean. I don't just find this in fashion - I find it in the news. More and more, it is about ripping people apart.

  Tom Ford

  Fashion, Clever, Writing

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• Nothing concentrates the mind like a firm deadline, and a little voice in the back of my mind reminding me that, "If you don't write, you don't eat." We all want to be respected and appreciated, but when you get a big honor like winning the Pulitzer, people start to look for your work in a new way with higher expectations. Today, the best thing about having won is when I get a nasty comment from some internet troll I can remind myself of the Pulitzer and say, "Well, somebody appreciates me".

  Clarence Page

  Writing, Winning, Expectations

  "Robertson Treatment Syndicated Column (Rtsc): Veteran Journalist Clarence Page Continues To Make ‘front Page’ News!". Interview With Gil Robertson, www.eurweb.com. March 12, 2015.

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• It's better to work with a nice category containing some nasty objects, than a nasty category containing only nice objects.

  John C. Baez

  Nice, Math, Categories

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• A nasty day! A nasty day! 'Twas thus I heard a critic say Because the skies were bleak and gray— And yet it somehow seemed to me The day was all that it should be. I looked it very closely o'er; Its hours still were twenty-four, With sixty minutes each—no less— For deeds of good and helpfulness; And every second full of chance To give the day significance; And every hour full of growth For everybody but the sloth— I couldn't see it quite that way, For though the skies were bleak and gray The day itself, it seemed to me, Was all a day could rightly be.

  John Kendrick Bangs

  Attitude, Sixty Minutes, Sky

  John Kendrick Bangs (1920). “The Cheery Way: A Bit of Verse for Every Day”

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• A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.

  Jonathan Swift

  Nice, Men, Ideas

  'Thoughts on Various Subjects' (1706)

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• How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.

  Lillian Hellman

  Games, Play, Rich

  Lillian Hellman (1988). “Toys in the Attic”, p.41, Dramatists Play Service Inc

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• I think any time anybody says something nasty about you, it's hard to deal with it.

  Alicia Silverstone

  Thinking, Deals, Hard

  "Fun, Fearless Female of the Year 2004: Alicia Silverstone". Interview with Jennifer Kasle Furmaniak, www.cosmopolitan.com. February 7, 2004.

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• I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.

  W. P. Kinsella

  Paper, Stuff, Enjoy

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• When I started out, everyone seemed to be adopting these names... Johnny Rotten, Sid Vicious. I wasn't really Rotten or Vicious or Nasty, so I wanted something a bit more funny - yet something that seemed real rock 'n' roll... something that acknowledged my ambition.

  Billy Idol

  Real, Ambition, Rocks

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

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• I've been lucky enough to play some funny, nasty ladies in my day, and if you can make them foolish, they're even funnier.

  Kelly Bishop

  Play, Lucky, Foolish

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• Day-old bread? Sadly, in America a lot of day-old bread just becomes nasty. Italian day-old bread, not having any preservatives in it, just becomes harder and it doesn't taste old. What I would warn people about is getting bread that's loaded with other things in it, because it starts to taste old.

  Mario Batali

  Italian, America, People

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• I don't mind if people are saying nasty things about me behind my back - I just don't want to know about them.

  Jamie Campbell Bower

  People, Mind, Want

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• We all belong to the nasty stinking little human race, & of course it is not nice for God's beloved vermin to scoff at each other... Oh, we are a nasty little lot-& to think there are people who would like to save us & continue us. It won't happen if I have any influence.

  Mark Twain

  Nice, Thinking, Race

  Mark Twain, William Dean Howells (1960). “Mark Twain-Howells Letters: The Correspondence of Samuel L. Clemens and William D. Howells, 1872-1910”, Belknap Press

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• Wait until France gets a hard shot in the nose. Wait until France reacts with some nasty work. They'll get a golf-clap from the chattering class over here and a you-go-girl from Red America. France could nuke an Algerian terrorist camp and the rest of the world would tut-tut for a day, then ask if the missiles France used were for sale. And of course the answer would be oui.

  James Lileks

  Girl, Golf, Class

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• Elf made his way fuzzily back to the drawer, trying to think nasty thoughts about his tormentor (Mungo the dog) but he couldn't, as he was too little and his mind was formless and without messages.( Elf the tiny kitten Mungo tormented )

  Martha Grimes

  Dog, Thinking, Mind

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• My first name ain't baby, it's Janet, Miss Jackson if you're nasty

  Janet Jackson

  Baby, Names, Missing

  Song: Nasty

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• The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.

  Raymond Chandler

  Men, Forests, Stalking

  Raymond Chandler (2011). “The Big Sleep & Farewell, My Lovely”, p.13, Modern Library

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• It has become a kind of religion that you can't criticise because then you become a traitor to the great cause, which I am not. It is time we began to ask who are these women who continually rubbish men. The most stupid, ill-educated and nasty woman can rubbish the nicest, kindest and most intelligent man and no one protests ... Men seem to be so cowed that they can't fight back, and it is time they did.

  Doris Lessing

  Stupid, Fighting, Intelligent

  "Lay off men, Lessing tells feminists" by Fiachra Gibbons, www.theguardian.com. August 14, 2001.

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• 1/r^2 has a nasty singularity at r=0, but it did not bother Newton-the Moon is far enough.

  Edward Witten

  Moon, Newton, Enough

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• People didnt know until I said it publicly that I had a nasty side. It was never obvious to the fans. I never lost my head, you see. Never got sent off.

  Johnny Giles

  People, Fans, Sides

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• If you think of ice cream, it (Helvetica) is a cheap, nasty, supermarket brand made of water, substitutes and vegetable fats. The texture is wrong and it leaves a little bit of a funny aftertaste.

  Bruno Maag

  Thinking, Ice Cream, Vegetables

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• If I see something really nasty on Twitter, I will usually delete it or block the person because I don't want to see that every day Get to know me, and then you can talk about me!

  Kendall Jenner

  Block, Want, Get To Know Me

  "Celebs' Best Advice For Dealing With Bullies". www.seventeen.com. October 17, 2014.

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• Today's Democrats are little more than a collection of narrow interest groups-unions, tort lawyers, minorities headed by an ossified leadership. They are clever, tenacious and increasingly nasty in defending their perks, as establishments typically are.

  Robert L. Bartley

  Clever, Groups, Minorities

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• A candle throws its light into the darkness, in a nasty world so shines a good deed. Make sure the fortune that you seek is the fortune that you need.

  Ben Harper

  Philosophy, Light, Shining

  Song: Diamonds On The Inside

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• One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.

  Anthony Powell

  Nice, People, Life Is

  1975 Hearing Secret Harmonies, ch.7.

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