In practice, socialism didn't work. But socialism could never have worked because it is based on false premises about human psychology and society, and gross ignorance of human economy.
David Horowitz

Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
Clifton Fadiman

It sounds gross to say that I like myself more. But not everyone likes themselves that much. Especially in the comedy world.
Chris Kattan

It's a little gross to put yourself in every song. I mean, how interesting do people really think you are?
Jakob Dylan

It's the teenage and university crowd, so we give them lots of sex jokes and gross humour.
Keenen Ivory Wayans

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw

My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.
Errol Flynn

One night stands are not for me. I think it's gross when you just give it up.
Paris Hilton

People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
Stephen King

People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.
Pamela Anderson

Pure innovation is more gross than error.
George Chapman

Rock music should be gross: that's the fun of it. It gets up and drops its trousers.
Bruce Dickinson

Silence is a statement that is open to gross misinterpretation.
Craig Bruce

So-called defense now absorbs sixty per cent of the national budget, and about twelve per cent of the Gross National Product.
George Wald

The Alien is gross, scary. There is something in a human being that looks at them and sees it as a cockroach. You can never feel nurturing towards the cockroach.
Sanaa Lathan

The friend of the present order of things condemns all political speculations in the gross.
Thomas Malthus

The gross heathenism of civilization has generally destroyed nature, and poetry, and all that is spiritual.
John Muir

The human mind is capable of excitement without the application of gross and violent stimulants; and he must have a very faint perception of its beauty and dignity who does not know this.
William Wordsworth

The price of imported oil in the US doubled between summer 2003 and summer 2005, reducing consumers' purchasing power by more than 1 per cent of gross domestic product.
Martin Feldstein

The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.
Enid Bagnold