Nasty famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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Act averse to nasty language and partial to fruity tea.
-- Al Swearengen -
There was a desire to see me being nasty and horrible, and of course that's not really me
-- Alan Sugar -
I'd rather be myself," he said. "Myself and nasty. Not somebody else, however jolly.
-- Aldous Huxley -
I think any time anybody says something nasty about you, it's hard to deal with it.
-- Alicia Silverstone -
One of the worst things about life is not how nasty the nasty people are. You know that already. It is how nasty the nice people can be.
-- Anthony Powell -
Outing is a nasty word for telling the truth.
-- Armistead Maupin -
It is nasty when you're playing in someone else's house to point out that they don't have enough balls.
-- Arthur Adamov -
Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.
-- Ayelet Waldman -
It keeps you fit - the alcohol, nasty women, sweat on stage, bad food - it's all very good for you.
-- Bon Scott -
I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day.
-- Bridget Fonda -
The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.
-- Camille Paglia -
When you start attacking cronyism and peoples political interests, it gets nasty.
-- Charles Koch -
I mean, it takes a large entourage to put on a tour. You can't have 'em sittin' around.
-- Clint Black -
It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.
-- Daisy Fuentes -
Sorry I had to be so nasty to you Janina, at the end of a scene.
-- Daniel Massey -
The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.
-- Dick Cavett -
Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.
-- Djuna Barnes -
For most people, life is nasty, brutish, and short; for me, it has simply been nasty and brutish.
-- Djuna Barnes -
We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
-- Edmund Husserl -
If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.
-- Edna Ferber -
1/r^2 has a nasty singularity at r=0, but it did not bother Newton-the Moon is far enough.
-- Edward Witten -
I wouldn't go up on a stage now if you paid a thousand dollars for one minute of acting. It's a nasty experience. You're up there all by yourself. You're so damn exposed.
-- Elia Kazan -
No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?
-- Elizabeth Berkley -
I've noticed Dracula was often as practical a fellow as he was a nasty one.
-- Elizabeth Kostova -
Good God, do you mean to say this place is a club?
-- F. E. Smith, 1st Earl of Birkenhead -
But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's nice to just take it out on Kyle, because he's so easy to scream at, you know?
-- Fisher Stevens -
A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.
-- George Orwell -
Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.
-- George Santayana -
I have my detractors in Washington. There are bastards who spread things around, of course, who planted nasty things in the media.
-- Hans Blix -
I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches.
-- Helen Suzman -
I kind of thought the writers were starting to take Taylor and make her kind of down and dirty.
-- Hunter Tylo -
We make our days pleasant or miserable. If we insist on being miserable, irritable and nasty, more than likely the day will give us exactly what we give it. A day is too valuable to waste on misery and unhappiness.
-- Iyanla Vanzant -
Life is nasty, brutish, and short. Death is easy.
-- Jacob M. Appel -
I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.
-- James Herriot -
Young children are such nasty little beasts!
-- Jane Welsh Carlyle -
That’s right, you nasty little vixen, bite me harder." Ian urged.
-- Jeaniene Frost -
If I had my life to live over, I would do it all again, but this time I would be nastier.
-- Jeannette Rankin -
Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.
-- Jeff Goodell -
No, no, no. There's no such thing as cheap and cheerful. It's cheap and nasty & expensive and cheerful.
-- Jeremy Clarkson -
She might be nasty, she might be fat, but I never met a person who would tell her that.
-- Jim Croce -
When you get to know someone, you find there's something nasty in their woodshed.
-- Jo Brand -
It's better to work with a nice category containing some nasty objects, than a nasty category containing only nice objects.
-- John C. Baez -
I don't want to be nasty but let's just say Robbie Williams is no Freddie Mercury.
-- John Deacon -
It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards.
-- John Lydon -
Language is a virus, money is a nasty disease.
-- Jonathan Barnbrook -
Most traditional ghost stories feature rather hapless protagonists, who have nasty things happen to them.
-- Jonathan Stroud -
It's ok to be sassy, but I'll never be trashy, it's ok to be nasty, but you got to keep it classy now
-- Joss Stone -
Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.
-- Kate Adie -
Civilization is merely an advance in taste: accepting, all the time, nicer things, and rejecting nasty ones.
-- Katharine Fullerton Gerould -
I've been lucky enough to play some funny, nasty ladies in my day, and if you can make them foolish, they're even funnier.
-- Kelly Bishop -
If I see something really nasty on Twitter, I will usually delete it or block the person because I don't want to see that every day Get to know me, and then you can talk about me!
-- Kendall Jenner -
How often the rich like to play at being poor. A rather nasty game, I've always thought.
-- Lillian Hellman -
People talk about escapism as though it's something nasty but escapism is wonderful!
-- Margaret Forster -
Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.
-- Margaret Smith -
Life is short is what some ***** said; not if you measure life - by how one lives and what he did.
-- Nas -
Don't speak to fools, they scorn the wisdom of your words.
-- Nas -
If the virgin Mary had an abortion, I'd still be carried in a chariot of stampeding horses.
-- Nas -
We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a lot of viruses have come out of nowhere, like H.I.V., or to a certain extent SARS. Because we know we have the potential to be blindsided, we really have to investigate the unknowns.
-- Nathan Wolfe -
Why be so nasty and so rude, when I can be so fierce and so successful.
-- NeNe Leakes -
It's the nasty and the accident that form the foundation for elegance that comes later.
-- Nick Bantock -
The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.
-- Nick Clegg -
When Joseph Smith, Jr. was there we had some conversation in which in every instance I did not fail to affirm that what I had said was strictly true. A dirty, nasty, filthy affair of his and Fanny Alger's was talked over in which I strictly declared that I had never deviated from the truth in the matter, and as I supposed was admitted by himself.
-- Oliver Cowdery -
Kindness Day? Kindness Day? Do you suppose if we were kind and enthusiastic for centuries uninterruptedly, that someone would create 'Nasty, Indifferent Day'?
-- Patch Adams -
An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.
-- Queen Victoria -
The plants filled the place, a forest of them, with nasty meaty leaves and stalks like the newly washed fingers of dead men.
-- Raymond Chandler -
Things have gotten so nasty in Washington.
-- Robert M. Gates -
The average politician goes through a sentence like a man exploring a disused mine shaft-blind, groping, timorous and in imminent danger of cracking his shins on a subordinate clause or a nasty bit of subjunctive.
-- Robertson Davies -
I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl
-- Robin Tunney -
Sex can lead to nasty things like herpes, gonorrhea, and something called relationships.
-- Sacha Baron Cohen -
The bicycle is a great good. But it can turn nasty, if ill employed.
-- Samuel Beckett -
What SF can do better than anything else is show us the range of our possible futures, and what we can do to realize the good ones and avoid the nasty ones.
-- Stanley Schmidt -
Without a vision human beings are nasty creatures.
-- Starhawk -
The life of a journalist is poor, nasty, brutish, and short. So is his style
-- Stella Gibbons -
That would be delightful,' agreed Flora, thinking how nasty and boring it would be.
-- Stella Gibbons -
Id rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare.
-- Tamara Ecclestone -
I don't care if you print something nasty about me. If it's true, fine. I don't care. But just make sure it's the truth.
-- Tom Cruise -
The Obama administration has a nasty habit of equating basic conservative values with terrorism.
-- Tom Fitton -
As an actor, it's much, much easier to be really nasty to someone that you really like.
-- Tom Hiddleston -
Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of
-- Tom Holt -
If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.
-- Tom Lehrer -
It wouldn't be me if I didn't get a little nasty.
-- Trey Songz -
I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.
-- W. P. Kinsella -
If I could only write, I'd write a nasty letter to the mayor, if he could only read.
-- Walt Kelly -
I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op.
-- William Baldwin -
WESTBURY, a nasty odious rotten-borough, a really rotten place.
-- William Cobbett -
I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.
-- William Hague -
Ending a sentence with a preposition is something up with which I will not put.
-- Winston Churchill -
I like to be firm. But it is easier to be nice than to be nasty.
-- Wolfgang Puck -
I guess people wouldn't say nasty things to my face. When you're kind of isolated, you don't really hear the gossip, or you're not really involved in it. You're here, and it's all going on over there.
-- Dasha Zhukova -
Right now, I see a lot of alarming trends inside Russia, especially in Siberia, which I represent in the parliament. People start to ask questions: If we mine all the natural resources - if we have all the oil, all the gas, all the coal, all the gold, all the diamonds - why the hell do we need central Russia? They are just eating at our resources. Without Moscow having a response for this, it would face very nasty questions such as one that was asked during my recent reelection campaign - it actually became a slogan of my campaign - "Stop feeding Moscow."
-- Ilya Ponomarev -
Girls, when you walk down the street, just stay nasty. Please stay nasty for me because that's how I freak out. So stay nasty and be nasty and have a beautiful time.
-- Ol' Dirty Bastard
