Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alexander McQueen

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

Kelli Garner

Hollywood can be an ugly place and it can do ugly things to you.

Jean Cocteau

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

Goldwin Smith

America is supposed to be given over to ugliness. There are a good many ugly things there and the ugliest are the most pretentious.

Jack Kerouac

His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All his life was in that line.

John Constable

I never saw an ugly thing in my life.

Nicholas Sparks

Denial is an ugly thing.

Sarah Dessen

Sometimes love can be an ugly thing.

Steven T. Katz

There was a taboo as a result of the Holocaust that people respected that anti-Semitism was an ugly thing and should be avoided. Now that taboo seems to have been broken with impunity.

Charles Caleb Colton

Sturdy beggars can bear stout denials.

Thaddeus Mathis

We're in a period of denial about the extent to which racism still exists as a structural phenomenon. It was just so evident in this storm. Even in the language people used.

Edwin Louis Cole

Sin is basically a denial of God's right of possession.

Bill Watterson

What state do you live in? Denial.

Bob Inglis

So when you're dealing with an existential threat like death or like climate change, if you see it as 'we are all toast anyway,' then denial is a pretty good way of coping.

Brennan Manning

That which is denied cannot be healed.

Deepak Chopra

Don't censor incoming data through denial.

David Bowie

I re-invented my image so many times that I'm in denial that I was originally an overweight Korean woman.

Charles Bradlaugh

The abuse dies in a day, but the denial slays the life of the people, and entombs the hope of the race.

Bryan Ferry

Why should I spoil my mood by wearing an ugly suit?

Aisha Tyler

Comedy is ugly. It's honest, it's raw.

Diablo Cody

You know, I did not like being famous. It was a stressful and ugly time, and I'm glad it's over.

Deb Caletti

... But then again, a person could turn ugly. Their actual look could change when their actions were repulsive.

Dennis Lehane

There's something ugly about the flawless.

Benjamin Franklin

Vice knows [its] ugly, so [it] puts on [a] mask.

Benjamin Franklin

Vice knows she is ugly, so puts on her mask.

Brigitte Bardot

I tried to make myself as pretty as possible and even then I thought I was ugly. I found it madly difficult to go out, to show myself.

Jane Gardam

The complexion of a novelist is seldom rosy (Paul Bailey once announced to a heavy-hearted audience of novelists at PEN that we have always been an ugly tribe). We are engaged in indoor activity, haemorrhoidal, prone to chillblains, poor of circulation.