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  • Doctors don’t seem to realize that most of us are perfectly content not having to visualize ourselves as animated bags of skin filled with obscene glop.

    Doctors   Skins   Bags  
    Joe Haldeman (2014). “The Forever War”, p.78, Open Road Media
  • I imagine like most of us that I'd like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives. And I can go anywhere. No one knows who I am.

    Mean   Who I Am   People  
    "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
  • Cravats grow higher, as if they mean to protect the throat. The highest cravats in public life will be worn by Citizen Antoine Saint-Just, of the National Convention and the Committee of Public Safety. In the dark and harrowing days of '94, an obscene feminine inversion will appear: a thin crimson ribbon, worn round a bare white neck.

    Mean   Dark   White  
  • The President's announcement sounded less like a national energy plan than like a page from an election-year play book. This Administration's plan to reduce obscene oil company profits is to regulate them less.

    Book   Years   Play  
  • When my face is flushed with blood, it becomes red and obscene. It betrays at the same time, through morbid reflexes, a bloody erection and a demanding thirst for indecency and criminal debauchery.

    Blood   Criminals   Red  
    Georges Bataille (1985). “Visions of Excess: Selected Writings 1927-1939”, p.8, Manchester University Press
  • President Obama announced this week that he is going to start sending out his own messages personally on Twitter. And today Anthony Weiner said, “It’s a trap, don’t do it!” But President Obama’s tweets are a little different than Anthony Weiner’s. When Obama sends out pictures of something obscene, it’s the unemployment numbers.

  • Delicacy - a sad, sad false delicacy - robs literature of the two best things among its belongings: Family-circle narratives & obscene stories.

    Circles   Two   Stories  
    Mark Twain (2016). “The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain”, p.55, Chartwell
  • On a deeper level, if our sons are learning they are obscene, disgusting, and untrustworthy, is this the best preparation for fatherhood? And is it the best preparation for becoming a mother - to feel this way about her son?

    "Father and Child Reunion". Book by Warren Farrell, 2001.
  • Medication without explanation is obscene.

    Toni Cade Bambara (1982). “The Sea Birds are Still Alive: Stories”, Vintage
  • I see the beauty of Mike's attempt to devise an ideal ethic and applaud his recognition that such must start by junking the present sexual code and starting fresh. Most philosophers haven't the courage for this; they swallow the basics of the present code--monogamy, family pattern, continence, body taboos, conventional restrictions on intercourse, and so forth--then fiddle with details...even such piffle as discussing whether the female breast is an obscene sight! (p.365)

    Sight   Female   Details  
    Robert A. Heinlein (1987). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.342, Penguin
  • Sex and obscenity are not synonymous.

    Sex   Obscenity   Obscene  
    Lenny Bruce (1992). “How to Talk Dirty and Influence People”, p.127, Simon and Schuster
  • The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.

  • Has the art of politics no apparent utility? Does it appear to be unqualifiedly ratty, raffish, sordid, obscene, and low down, andits salient virtuosi a gang of unmitigated scoundrels? Then let us not forget its high capacity to soothe and tickle the midriff, its incomparable services as a maker of entertainment.

  • In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.

    Robert Bresson (2016). “Notes on the Cinematograph”, p.61, New York Review of Books
  • The coming together of people I find obscene as a principle. It is not human. It is not a natural thing as some people would have us believe.

    David Bowie (2016). “David Bowie: The Last Interview”, p.36, Melville House
  • Cruelty practiced as a matter of social principle or public policy, and presented to the community as a means to a higher goal is the most obscene and decadent phenomenon of any civilization.

  • I don't want to go with the smooth skin and the calm brow. I hope I end up a blithering idiot cursing the sun - hallucinating, screaming, giving obscene and inane lectures on street corners and public parks.

  • Tout ce qui est anachronique est obsce' ne. Everything anachronistic is obscene.

    Obscene  
  • The Academy Awards are obscene, dirty . . . no better than a beauty contest.

    Dirty   Awards   Contests  
    "Oscars Speeches: Top 10 That Were Super Gracious" by Allan MacDonell, www.hollywoodreporter.com. February 17, 2015.
  • I would never use obscene language in the office. Certainly not. I kept my obscene language for the home, where it belongs.

    Home   Office   Use  
    Harold Pinter (2013). “Harold Pinter: Plays 4: Betrayal; Monologue; One for the Road; Mountain Language; Family Voices; A Kind of Alaska; Victoria Station; Precisely; The New World Order; Party Time; Moonlight: Ashes to Ashes; Celebration; Umbrellas; God's District; Apart from That”, p.253, Faber & Faber
  • As real as,' said Eddie. 'As real as what?' said Jack. 'Wish I knew,' said Eddie. 'But I can't do corroborative nouns. None of us are perfect, are we? I can get started. As big as, as obscene as, as foul as. But I can't get any further. But that's life for you again. As unfair as...

    Real   Perfect   Wish  
  • Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.

  • There is no other city as vulgar and obscene as Osaka. We should celebrate the image and welcome the development of casinos and red-light districts to attract people.

    Light   Cities   People  
  • The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.

    Fashion   Sides   Cost  
    "Former Vogue Editor in Chief Carine Roitfeld: 'Fashion Is a Matter of Taste, Not Money'". Interview with Claudia Voigt and Britta Sandberg, www.spiegel.de. April 7, 2011.
  • It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

    Ayn Rand, Nathaniel Branden, Alan Greenspan, Robert Hessen (1986). “Capitalism: The Unknown Ideal”, p.27, Penguin
  • At male strip shows, it is still the women that we watch, the audience of women and their eager faces. They are more obscene than if they were dancing naked themselves.

    Women   Dancing   Males  
    Jean Baudrillard (1990). “Cool memories”, Verso
  • I celebrate myself," the poet Walt Whitman wrote. The thought is so delicious it is almost obscene. Imagine the joy that would come with celebrating the self — our achievements, our experiences, our existence. Imagine what it would be like to look into the mirror and say, as God taught us, "That's good.

  • It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.

    Interview with Jose Eugenio "Jo" Soares on "Jo Soares Eleven Thirty", 1997.
  • Government workers think the job of everyone else in the economy is to protect their high salaries, crazy work rules and obscene pensions. They self-righteously lecture us about public service, the children, a 'living wage' all in the service of squeezing more money from the taxpayer to fund their breathtakingly selfish job arrangements.

    Jobs   Children   Crazy  
  • Outside the youth center, between the liquor store and the police station, a little dogwood tree is losing its mind; overflowing with blossomfoam, like a sudsy mug of beer; like a bride ripping off her clothes, dropping snow white petals to the ground in clouds, so Nature’s wastefulness seems quietly obscene. It’s been doing that all week: making beauty, and throwing it away, and making more.

    Beer   Clothes   Clouds  
    Tony Hoagland, “A Color of the Sky”
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