Famous Quotes & Sayings

Roger Ebert

The movie cheerfully offends all civilized notions of taste, decorum, manners and hygiene... is the movie vulgar? Vulgarity is when we don't laugh. When we laugh, it's merely human nature.

William Hazlitt

A thing is not vulgar merely because it is common.

Mary Quant

Good taste is death. Vulgarity is life.

Mark Twain

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

Nathaniel Parker Willis

Vulgarity is more obvious in satin than in homespun.

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.

Tanith Lee

The worst vulgarity is to avoid vulgarity solely on the grounds that it is vulgar.

James Joyce

(...) The new nine muses, Commerce, Operatic Music, Amor, Publicity, Manufacture, Liberty of Specch, Plural Voting, Gastronomy, Private Hygiene, Seaside Concert Entertainments, Painless Obstetrics and Astronomy for the People.

Naguib Mahfouz

Without literature my life would be miserable.

Randall Terry

It's interesting to note that all revolutionary literature was written by pastors. These guys were involved in a revolution against the mightiest power that the world had ever seen.

Shimon Peres

He taught me literature, and he actually taught me how to read. He was my personal mentor.

Lesley Garrett

I do a lot of vocal hygiene.

Kate Mulgrew

The elegance and the quality - the talent is always in the literature. I start with the word and I base everything on that. It doesn't make any difference to me.

Paul de Man

Literature exists at the same time in the modes of error and truth; it both betrays and obeys its own mode of being.

Jonathan Adler

People will make judgments before you even speak based on the way you look. Most definitely your physical appearance matters. The way you dress, your hygiene - it all matters.

Carter Burwell

I like business and personal life to be distinct.

Kelly Hu

Being Asian where you're supposed to be more quiet and softer and I was always getting reprimanded for laughing to loud or speaking to loudly.

Ronnie Barker

It's better to make people laugh than cry.

Romeo Dallaire

There was no way to laugh anymore, to love, to care, and there was a sense of guilt in having survived when others had been killed. I turned into a worse workaholic than I had already been by trying to work myself into the ground.

Tyler Perry

I want to be remembered as a guy who inspired, encouraged and made people laugh.

Willie Aames

I lived to make Scott Baio laugh.

William Saroyan

I have always been a Laugher, disturbing people who are not laughers, upsetting whole audiences at theatres... I laugh, that's all. I love to laugh. Laugher to me is being alive. I have had rotten times, and I have laughed through them. Even in the midst of the very worst times I have laughed.

Whitney Cummings

I have so much to be thankful for. I work with the most amazing people, get to make people laugh for a living and have the most amazing friends. But, I am mostly thankful for Spanx.

Samuel Richardson

I am forced, as I have often said, to try to make myself laugh, that I may not cry: for one or other I must do.

Samuel Beckett

Nothing is funnier than unhappiness, I grant you that… Yes, yes, it's the most comical thing in the world. And we laugh, we laugh, with a will, in the beginning. But it's always the same thing. Yes, it's like the funny story we have heard too often, we still find it funny, but we don't laugh any more.