Coarsely Quotes

#1. Freedom means the freedom to behave coarsely, basely, foolishly.

George Will

#2. What I don't like today is, to put it coarsely, the phony Hasidism, the phony mysticism. Many students say, "Teach me mysticism." It's a joke.

Elie Wiesel

#3. Even the most seemingly abstract, sublimely theoretical, mathematicized achievements of science have in reality moved only a step or two away from a prehistoric, coarsely sensory-based, anthropomorphic understanding of the world around us.

Stanislaw Lem

#4. Let us learn to live coarsely, dress plainly, and lie hard. The least habit of dominion over the palate has certain good effects not easily estimated.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#5. And indeed bad as his clothes were and coarsely as he spoke, he had none of the appearance of a man who sailed before the mast, but seemed like a mate or skipper accustomed to be obeyed or to strike.

Robert Louis Stevenson

#6. The imprecision in the way languages express time is related to the imprecision in the way we experience and remember it. Though no one experiences time as coarsely as the handful of distinctions in a tense system would suggest, we don't live by a mental stopwatch either.

Steven Pinker

#7. Fame is not just. She never finely or discriminatingly praises, but coarsely hurrahs.

Henry David Thoreau

#8. Sarcasm: the last refuge of modest and chaste-souled people when the PRIVACY of their soul is coarsely and intrusively invaded.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#9. As we grow older, we live more coarsely, we relax a little in our disciplines, and, to some extent, cease to obey our finest instincts. But we should be fastidious to the extreme of sanity, disregarding the gibes of those who are more unfortunate than ourselves.

Henry David Thoreau

#10. I have found it to be the most serious objection to coarse labors long continued, that they compelled me to eat and drink coarsely also.

Henry David Thoreau

#11. He moved first, rolling us so he was under me and I rested on him. "Damn you, Abby," he whispered coarsely, but holding me tight. "Damn you for what you do to me. You are everything to me and part of me dies when I think you don't trust me. I'd never do anything to hurt you.

Tara Sue Me

#12. Peered down the dark winding stairs and called out coarsely:

James Joyce

#13. Manual Lynn? Find out what that is. He wrote every single word in the play, and then everyone just rapped their parts. Imagine if like, Eminem wrote a play, that's what it sounded like to me.

Ryan Montgomery

#14. He did not study God; he was dazzled by him.

Victor Hugo

#15. I think I was probably always a liar; I just get paid for it now.

Jason Isaacs

#16. The trees are in misery, and the birds are in misery. I don't think they sing. They just screech in pain. ... Taking a close look at what's around us, there is some sort of harmony: it's the harmony of overwhelming and collective murder.

Werner Herzog

#17. Again, we run out after love, until when love has run out again.

Anthony Liccione

#18. I grew up in one of the most socially conservative neighborhoods in Ohio, and my parents were traditional Catholics. But in her old age, my mother got her home health care from a guy who was gay, who was wonderful to her. Before she died, she rode a float in the Cincinnati Gay Pride Parade.

Gail Collins

#19. He was also very clear that the decision to cast me as Cora was all Michael's.

Madeleine Stowe

#20. Learning a new thing is a shortcut to joy and informs your area of mastery.

Sara Genn

#21. I wondered if Tod and I looked as cute together as she and my uncle looked. My opinion was no doubt biased, but I was pretty sure we were damn near lethally adorable.

Rachel Vincent

#22. I've been poor and neglected, in the middle and cherished, then rich and miserable and back to the middle and now happy. I've lived it all.

Patricia Montandon

#23. Americans see everything too simply-a good guy, a bad guy, does he have a white hat or a black hat? But it's the wrong question.

Claire Messud

#24. It's quite nice coming off doing a dark, upsetting scene. It's a relief that that's over with, and then you can get back to happy old Sophie.

Sophie Turner

#25. Nowhere are prejudices more mistaken for truth, passion for reason and invective for documentation than in politics.

John Mason Brown

#26. Exhale the remnants/Of wounds that steal your freedom./No more prisons. Breathe.

Staci Backauskas