Top 25 Ugly Things Quotes of 35 - Page 2

It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.

It's an ugly thing to see ambition and to see people satisfying themselves.

Matthew Weiner

Ambition, Ugly Things, People

People do pretty ugly things to make themselves feel better, this I do know.

Mariah Fredericks

Feel Better, Ugly Things, People

Mariah Fredericks (2012). “The Girl in the Park”, p.14, Schwartz & Wade

Hollywood can be an ugly place and it can do ugly things to you.

Kelli Garner

Ugly Things, Hollywood, Ugly

Violence is a very ugly thing. Violence is often so casual on film, and made to look so cool and so sexy, but violence is a repulsive, repugnant act that human beings inflict on each other. It shouldn't seem to be cool and sexy, ever really.

James Purefoy

Sexy, Ugly Things, Looks

"Exclusive: James Purefoy Talks IRONCLAD and JOHN CARTER". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. July 2, 2011.

An ugly thing, that is what you are when you become a tourist, an ugly, empty thing, a stupid thing, a piece of rubbish pausing here and there to gaze at this and taste that, and it will never occur to you that the people who inhabit the place in which you have just paused cannot stand you.

Jamaica Kincaid

Travel, Stupid, Ugly Things

Jamaica Kincaid (2000). “A Small Place”, p.17, Macmillan

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.

Jack Kerouac

Ugly Things, Bulls, Lines

Jack Kerouac (2007). “On the Road”, Viking Press

In the mind and nature of a man a secret is an ugly thing, like a hidden physical defect.

Isak Dinesen

Men, Ugly Things, Secret

Isak Dinesen (2011). “Last Tales”, p.61, Vintage

A rather ugly thing starts happening: the playwright finds himself knocked down for works that quite often are just as good or better than the works he's been praised for previously. And a lot of playwrights become confused by this and they start doing imitations of what they've done before, or they try to do something entirely different, in which case they get accused by the same critics of not doing what they used to do so well.

Edward Albee

Confused, Ugly Things, Trying

Edward Albee, Philip C. Kolin (1988). “Conversations with Edward Albee”, p.47, Univ. Press of Mississippi

She strived for perfection. She loved setting herself tasks, sometimes impossible ones, to prove to her heart that underneath every seemingly ugly thing there was something beautiful inside.

Cecelia Ahern

Beautiful, Heart, Ugly Things