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Quotes About Nasty

Chocolate fends off all kinds of nasty stuff. And if you get hungry while warding off evil, you have a snack. It's multipurpose equipment.
~ Jim Butcher
Something wrong with short men, is there?" Roger inquired. "They tend to turn mean if they don't get their way," Claire answered. "Like small yapping dogs. Cute and fluffy, but cross them and you're likely to get a nasty nip in the ankle.
~ Diana Gabaldon
Sir, this lane is for ten items or less. I'm counting thirteen items in your cart, including that hemorrhoid cream. And while hemorrhoids might give you a reason to be nasty, they don't give you a reason to be in this lane.
~ J. A. Konrath
Electronic aids, particularly domestic computers, will help the inner migration, the opting out of reality. Reality is no longer going to be the stuff out there, but the stuff inside your head. It's going to be commercial and nasty at the same time.
~ J. G. Ballard
I am looking for someone to share in an adventure that I am arranging, and it's very difficult to find anyone.' I should think so — in these parts! We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner!
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
We are plain quiet folk and have no use for adventures. Nasty disturbing uncomfortable things! Make you late for dinner! I can't think what anybody sees in them.
~ J. R. R. Tolkien
A cinema villain essentially needs a moustache so he can twiddle with it gleefully as he cooks up his next nasty plan.
~ Mel Brooks
I think that sometimes when they see me in a movie they expect me to be something nasty. I mean, I play a lot of villains and you show up and they think maybe... That's why it's good to defy expectations sometimes.
~ Christopher Walken
I'm very violent in the ring. I don't know if it's the Italian temper, I can get very nasty in there. But outside, I'm the easiest-going guy in the world.
~ Bruno Sammartino
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
I know Brian is nasty, but I had always thought it was his situation before this,' Nirupam remarked.... Charles could not answer at once, because he was not sure that a person's character could be separate from his situation in quite this way.
~ Diana Wynne Jones
Of course many bars in Manhasset, like bars everywhere, were nasty places, full of pickled people marinating in regret.
~ Unknown
You're nasty and you're loud, you're mean enough for two, If I could be a cloud, I'd rain all day on you.
~ Jack Prelutsky
Disrespect also can take the form of idealizing you and putting you on a pedestal as a perfect woman or goddess, perhaps treating you like a piece of fine china. The man who worships you in this way is not seeing you; he is seeing his fantasy, and when you fail to live up to that image he may turn nasty. So there may not be much difference between the man who talks down to you and the one who elevates you; both are displaying a failure to respect you as a real human being and bode ill.
~ Unknown
You despise the real bourgeois classes for all their snobbishness and their snobbish voices and ways. You do, don't you? Yet all you put in their place is a horrid little refusal to have nasty thoughts or do nasty things or be nasty in any way. Do you know that every great thing in the story of art and every beautiful thing in life is actually what you call nasty or has been caused by feelings that you would call nasty? By passion, by love, by hatred, by truth. Do you know that?
~ John Fowles
Again, I had no feeling of the supernatural, no belief that this was more than another nasty twist in the masque, a black inversion of the scene on the beach. That does not mean I was not frightened. I was, and very frightened; but my fear came from a knowledge that anything might happen. That there were no limits in this masque, no normal social laws or conventions.
~ John Fowles
Of all the mean and wicked things a landlord can do, shutting up his footpath is the nastiest.
~ John Ruskin
You're nasty and you're loud, you're mean enough for two, If I could be a cloud, I'd rain all day on you.
~ Jack Prelutsky
She was not a person who had any right to decency or kindness, she was not a person to aspire to be. She was cruel, and she was evil in many ways. She took what she wanted from anyone, she was nasty, vindictive and she never threw me a kind word.
~ Martina Cole
It is, however, with Hillary Clinton that we see the Medusa theme at its starkest and nastiest.
~ Mary Beard
If only evil could always be visible. You could fight it then. You could do something about it. If only evil wore wild clothing and spoke in rhymes. The worst evil snuck up, like a nasty compliment.
~ Mary Bly
And there's no need to be nasty about the beard. As I was telling Natalie, it's a nice, well-groomed beard, not just a cover-up for immaturity or unwashedness or acne.
~ Unknown
I got nasty habits; I take tea at three.
~ Mick Jagger
large numbers of early American colonists spent their entire lives in such dingy, nasty conditions.
~ Unknown