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Horrendous Quotes

If I'm still wistful about On the Road, I look on the rest of the Kerouac oeuvre--the poems, the poems!--in horror. Read Satori in Paris lately? But if I had never read Jack Kerouac's horrendous poems, I never would have had the guts to write horrendous poems myself. I never would have signed up for Mrs. Safford's poetry class the spring of junior year, which led me to poetry readings, which introduced me to bad red wine, and after that it's all just one big blurry condemned path to... Sarah Vowell
It wasn't courage that motivated this casual, impersonal manner of treating so much pain; it was a special brand of cowardice...forcing others to listen to the most horrendous experiences and yet denying them the moment of empathy: don't feel sorry for me....This is nothing, nothing really. Azar Nafisi
It wasn't courage that motivated this casual, impersonal manner of treating so much pain; it was a special brand of cowardice, a destructive defense mechanism, forcing others to listen to the most horrendous experiences and yet denying them the moment of empathy: don't feel sorry for me; nothing is too big for me to handle. This is nothing, nothing really. Azar Nafisi
Of all records, Chase, Some Girls! It was in a clutch of the most horrendous crap, J. Geils Band, Sniff 'n' the Tears, the kind of albums you'd use for landfill. Jonathan Lethem
John Updike quote: "Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous,..."
Suddenly summoned to witness something great and horrendous, we keep fighting not to reduce it to our own smallness. John Updike
If you have the choice between humble and cocky, go with cocky. There's always time to be humble later, once you've been proven horrendously, irrevocably wrong. Kinky Friedman
Roger Moore quote: "I think arriving at or departing from any airport in America..."
I think arriving at or departing from any airport in America is just horrendous these days. Roger Moore
John Pomfret quote: "Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered."
Srebrenica was a horrendous war crime and it had to be uncovered. John Pomfret
I've never come into anything successful before. I've always been hired by horrible radio stations with horrendous reputations and nothing to lose. Howard Stern
Roger Daltrey quote: "I'm not anti-fox hunting because, to me, shooting foxes is..."
I'm not anti-fox hunting because, to me, shooting foxes is even worse and the results are horrendous. Roger Daltrey
America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost. E. O. Wilson
Caroline Corr quote: "I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some..."
I used to play the piano in the band, and so there's some horrendous scenes of me playing the keyboards. Caroline Corr
Desmond Tutu quote: "As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for..."
As human beings we have the most extraordinary capacity for evil. We can perpetrate some of the most horrendous atrocities. Desmond Tutu
The next few years are going to be horrendous in the UK. The last thing we need is a Somali pirate-style raid on the few wealth creators who still dare to navigate Britain's gale-force waters. Andrew Lloyd Webber
Starbucks is my main fix and it's usually you people working in there - sometimes they're actually shaking. It just makes me feel horrendous because I've been in that situation. Shirley Manson

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