Hideous Quotes

The radio makes hideous sounds.
Bob Dylan

Makes, Radio, Sounds

Machines are worshipped because they are beautiful and valued because they confer power; they are hated because they are hideous and loathed because they impose slavery.
Bertrand Russell

Power, Beautiful, Slavery

Do you remember when you were 10 or 11 years old and you really thought your folks were the best? They were completely omniscient and you took their word for everything. And then you got older and you went through this hideous age when suddenly they were the devil, they were bullies, and they didn't know anything.
Chuck Palahniuk

Age, Best, Everything

I am, as I am; whether hideous, or handsome, depends upon who is made judge.
Herman Melville

Judge, Made, Whether

Although golf was originally restricted to wealthy, overweight Protestants, today it's open to anybody who owns hideous clothing.
Dave Barry

Today, Golf, Anybody

Nothing is so hideous as an obsolete fashion.
Stendhal

Nothing, Fashion, Obsolete

A lot of women these days, a lot of young women don't want to call themselves feminists. You have this cheap, hideous 'girl power' sort of fad, which I think is pretty benign at best, but at worst, I think it's a way of taking the politics out of feminism and making it some kind of fashion.
Ani DiFranco

Politics, Women, Power

There is one, and only one, thing in modern society more hideous than crime namely, repressive justice.
Simone Weil

Society, Justice, Crime

One can no longer live with people: it is too hideous and nauseating. Owners and owned, they are like the two sides of a ghastly disease.
David Herbert Lawrence

Live, Two, Longer

In the late 1990s, some of the worst terrorist atrocities in the world were what the Turkish government itself called state terror, namely massive atrocities, 80 percent of the arms coming from the United States, millions of refugees, tens of thousands of people killed, hideous repression, that's international terror, and we can go on and on.
Noam Chomsky

Government, State, Worst

Those two are a fastidious couple. She's fast and he's hideous.
Henny Youngman

I come from one of these hideous backgrounds where being sincere is like - ugh, you might as well kill yourself.
Christina Ricci

Yourself, Might, Sincere

As an adult, it's a huge shock to be orphaned; as a child it's just hideous, ghastly.
Kristin Scott Thomas

Child, Adult, Shock

I wasn't one of those hideous children who make their parents sit through hour-long performances when you're seven. I didn't do anything like that thankfully.
Jo Brand

Children, Parents, Through

Poverty, to be picturesque, should be rural. Suburban misery is as hideous as it is pitiable.
Anthony Trollope

Poverty, Misery, Rural

I do sometimes strongly hope that in a past life, my most recent life before this, I was absolutely horrible, evil, hideous. Because otherwise - well, hell, to even things up next time around, I'm going to have to pay for this one, am I not?
Vanessa Paradis

Life, Time, Hope

Let Justice, blind and halt and maimed, chastise the rebel spirit surging in my veins, let the Law deal me penalties and pains And make me hideous in my neighbours' eyes.
Ada Cambridge

Justice, Law, Eyes

I had these fangs because I had jaundice when I was a kid and I was put on so many antibiotics that my teeth rotted. They had to cut them out. So I never had milk teeth. That was tough, you know, being in school having photos taken while I was pretending I had teeth. It was hideous.
Charlize Theron

School, Tough, Put

The bullying was hideous and relentless, and we turned it round by making ourselves celebrities.
Julian Clary

Making, Bullying, Ourselves

I just like food too much, and I don't want to change. I spent so much of childhood trying to change, and I just got sick of it... I don't want to look like Britney Spears, I just don't want to. She's hideous.
Beth Ditto

Change, Food, Trying

Rap's conscious response to the poverty and oppression of U.S. blacks is like some hideous parody of sixties black pride.
David Foster Wallace

Black, Pride, Poverty

I don't accept my business the way it is, to be honest. I don't like what it's become. I don't blame anyone for it becoming the way it has. It's got its own hideous natural progression, just like world events.
Rupert Everett

Business, Blame, Become

State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should be overcome.
Noam Chomsky

State, Results, Exist

I have friends who are going through chemotherapy, and they make the darkest, most hideous cancer jokes you've ever heard.
Kathy Griffin

Through, Friends, Cancer

I've never been tempted to do these hideous furniture shoes.
Manolo Blahnik

Shoes, Furniture, Tempted

Spare me the whispering, crowded room, the friends who come and gape and go, the ceremonious air of gloom - all, which makes death a hideous show.
Matthew Arnold

Death, Friends, Makes

Tiny Tim? Anyone could sing like that. It's atrocious. It's hideous, really.
Maurice Gibb

Anyone, Sing, Tiny

Some of the things I've seen a lot of my female-actress friends who are relatively famous receive - I've seen some hideous things. Like some really, really bad things... like, the FBI should be contacted immediately.
Elisha Cuthbert

Famous, Bad, Friends

Methamphetamine is a hideous drug. Meth makes a person become paranoid, violent, and aggressive - making them a serious threat to society and law enforcement. And maybe more importantly, meth users are a threat to their own children and families.
Dirk Kempthorne

Society, Children, Person

I spent the first fourteen years of my life convinced that my looks were hideous. Adolescence is painful for everyone, I know, but mine was plain weird.
Uma Thurman

Life, Everyone, Weird

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