Ugly Quotes - page 4

I don't have ugly ducklings turning into swans in my stories. I have ugly ducklings turning into confident ducks. (Maeve Binchy)
Each human being has the eternal duty of transforming what is hard and brutal into a subtle and tender offering, what is crude into refinement, what is ugly into beauty, ignorance into knowledge, confrontation into collaboration, thereby rediscovering the child's dream of a creative reality incessantly renewed by death, the servant of life, and by life the servant of love. View quote
Yehudi Menuhin
People have never looked so ugly as they do today. We just consume far too much. View quote
Vivienne Westwood
A warrior doesn't know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self. View quote
Carlos Castaneda
His friends said, "Why do you have that ugly thing hanging there?" and Bull said, "I like it because it's ugly." All his life was in that line. View quote
Jack Kerouac
Divorce is simply modern society's version of medieval torture. Except it lasts longer and leaves deeper scars. A divorce releases the most primitive emotions; the ugliest, raw feelings. Emotionally wounded people do their best to inflict pain upon the other party, but rather than using claws they use divorce lawyers. View quote
William Shatner
If, while I'm painting, I distort or destroy a motif, it is not a planned or conscious act, but rather it has a different justification: I see the motif, the way I painted it, is somehow ugly or unbearable. Then I try to follow my feelings and make it attractive. And that means a process of painting, changing or destroying – for however long it takes – until I think it has improved. And I don't demand an explanation from myself as to why this is so. View quote
Gerhard Richter
If I had been born ugly, you would have never heard of Pele. View quote
George Best
Unhappiness has nothing to teach, and resignation is ugly. View quote
Françoise Sagan
That tuft of jungle feathers, That animal eye, Is just what you say. That savage of fire, That seed, Have it your way. The world is ugly, And the people are sad. View quote
Wallace Stevens
When the last days were upon me, and the ugly trifles of existence began to drive me to madness like the small drops of water torturers let fall ceaselessly upon one spot of their victim's body, I loved the irradiate refuge of sleep. In my dreams I found a little of the beauty I had vainly sought in life, and wandered through old gardens and enchanted woods. (H. P. Lovecraft)
I get so much mail from young girls who say, 'I look up to you, you're not as skinny as everyone else, I think you're beautiful' ... So when they say that my body is 'ugly' and 'disgusting,' what does that make those girls feel like? View quote
Tyra Banks
Why is art beautiful? Because it's useless. Why is life ugly? Because it's all ends and purposes and intentions. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
Maybe nature is fundamentally ugly, chaotic and complicated. But if it's like that, then I want out. View quote
Steven Weinberg
Television is democracy at its ugliest. View quote
Paddy Chayefsky
We are all so guilty at the way we have allowed the world around us to become more ugly and tasteless every year that we surrender to terror and steep ourselves in it. View quote
Norman Mailer
Men are like pillow-cases. The colour of one may be red, that of another blue, and that of the third black; but all contain the same cotton within. So it is with man; one is beautiful, another is ugly, a third holy, and a fourth wicked; but the Divine Being dwells in them all. View quote
Ramakrishna
If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent. View quote
Ramakrishna
All government is an ugly necessity. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
The mathematician's patterns, like the painter's or the poet's must be beautiful; the ideas like the colours or the words, must fit together in a harmonious way. Beauty is the first test: there is no permanent place in the world for ugly mathematics. View quote
G. H. Hardy
I spent my childhood alone, overweight and ugly, angry at everything, and knowing nothing of a life beyond this sadness. (Gloria Estefan)
Ambition makes you look pretty ugly Kicking and squealing gucci little piggy. View quote
Thom Yorke
Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code. View quote
Eric S. Raymond
... an ugly, lovely town ... crawling, sprawling ... by the side of a long and splendid curving shore. This sea-town was my world. View quote
Dylan Thomas
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness. View quote
George Bernard Shaw