Famous Quotes & Sayings

Edward Abbey

All dams are ugly, but the Glen Canyon Dam is sinful ugly.

John Brain

We didn't play very well. It was an ugly win but we'll take the points.

Fred Taylor

You have to be concerned. We've been winning some ugly ones, but they count.

Darrell Royal

Old ugly is better than old nothin'

Dante Alighieri

You can stay and die or you can walk your ugly ass back through that gate. It's your call, pal.

Al Groh

Those kinks usually have an ugly way of only materializing during the games.

Alice Childress

Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.

Alexander McQueen

It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.

Donald Trump

We are in a big, fat, ugly bubble. And we better be awfully careful.

Edward Gibbon

Language is the leading principle which unites or separates the tribes of mankind.

Arthur Keith

No tribe unites with another of its own free will.

Charles Simic

Here is something we can all count on. Sooner or later our tribe always comes to ask us to agree to murder.

Saint Patrick

So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God.

Roland Joffe

Eventually, the tribe developed so much confidence in me that they invited me to be their chieftain.

Tecumseh

From my tribe I take nothing, I am the maker of my own fortune.

Robert A. Heinlein

Sin is cruelty and injustice, all else is peccadillo. Oh, a sense of sin comes from violating the customs of your tribe. But breaking custom is not sin even when it feels so; sin is wronging another person.

Peter Singer

If you go back in time you'll find tribes that were essentially only concerned with their own tribal members. If you were a member of another tribe, you could be killed with impunity.

Samuel Johnson

Our supple tribes repress their patriot throats, And ask no questions but the price of votes.

Billy Bob Thornton

I'm more influenced by novelists than I am by filmmakers.

Kurt Vonnegut

I think I belong to America's last generation of novelists. Novelists will come one by one from now on, not in seeming families, and will perhaps write only one or two novels, and let it go at that.

A. S. Byatt

I am not an academic who happens to have written a novel. I am a novelist who happens to be quite good academically.

Aleksandar Hemon

I resist when someone calls me a novelist: it implies some kind of inherent superiority of the novel. I'm not a novelist, I'm a writer.

Ray Bradbury

In Hollywood, they think they know it all. You, as a writer, are essentially an outsider. Novelists and short-story writers, especially.

Orhan Pamuk

I think novelists should be disciplined and self-imposed working hours. I work a lot, but I don't feel that I'm working. I always feel that there is a child in me, healthy, and I'm playing.

Don DeLillo

One connection I see between novelists and terrorists is that we both attempt to alter consciousness.

Don DeLillo

I'm a novelist, period. An American novelist.

Don DeLillo

What terrorists gain, novelists lose.