Famous Quotes & Sayings

Caitlin Thomas

A lot of warm vulgarity is incomparably preferable to a little bit of pinched niceness

Barbara Stanwyck

There is a point in portraying surface vulgarity where tragedy and comedy are very close.

E. M. Forster

Very notable was his distinction between coarseness and vulgarity, coarseness, revealing something; vulgarity, concealing something.

Cyril Connolly

Vulgarity is the garlic in the salad of life.

Friedrich Nietzsche

Every characteristic absence of spirituality, every piece of common vulgarity, is due to an inability to resist a stimulus - you have to react, you follow every impulse.

George Bernard Shaw

Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.

Mark Twain

There are no people who are quite so vulgar as the over-refined.

Mary Quant

Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.

Oscar Wilde

No crime is vulgar, but all vulgarity is crime.

Isabella Rossellini

It always amazed me that people believed I was this beautiful object.

Isabella Rossellini

I'm always a little worried when people have met me in person because I'm worried they'll be disappointed.

Rick Perlstein

Do people still read before bed? I play 'Words With Friends.'

Robert Mankoff

People often ask me about my upbringing, and if there was anything particular about it that made me become a cartoonist.

Robert Mankoff

I don't think most people know what's going to be in their obituary, but I do.

Robert Teeter

There are not enough people out talking about the President positively.

Roger Penrose

Some people take the view that we happen by accident. I think that there is something much deeper, of which we have very little inkling at the moment.

Kristy Swanson

My parents were like the kind of people who read the 'Enquirer' and believed everything it said.

Malorie Blackman

I think what we need, especially in publishing, is more commissioning editors and editors who are people of colour.

Dan Quayle

Perestroika is nothing more than refined Stalinism.

Catherine Deneuve

It was so beautiful. Such extraordinary colors, classical, and refined and very structured as well. A superb collection.

Max Lucado

Don't be defined by your failures, be refined by them.

William Empson

It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.