Desecrating Quotes

#1. I try to make myself, and subsequently the audience, as uncomfortable as possible, whether it's completely desecrating a song they thought was one thing, or getting too drunk to really do a very good job.

J. Tillman

#2. I am your Ted's song-legend, Crow of the death-chill, please. The God-eating, trash-licking, word-murdering, carcass-desecrating math-bomb motherfucker, and all that.

Max Porter

#3. It was not just that he had terrible style: he also gave the impression that he was deliberately desecrating the very idea of wearing clothes.

Haruki Murakami

#4. He had not even done the fledgling courtesy of shredding open a major artery, anointing himself in the viscous gore, and desecrating her body. The order was as flexible as her corpse remained.

Thomm Quackenbush

#5. I tried to picture to myself the mosque before the Christians laid their desecrating hands upon it.

W. Somerset Maugham

#6. Below the incandescent stars / below the incandescent fruit, / the strange experience of beauty; / its existence is too much; / it tears one to pieces / and each fresh wave of consciousness / is poison.

Marianne Moore

#7. The only good thing ever to come out of religion was the music.

George Carlin

#8. Enthusiasm is something so positive.

Carine Roitfeld

#9. The 'Barnaby' books were always intended to be graphic novels.

Janet Evanovich

#10. To escape the cycle of tragedy, we (searchers) have to be tough on the ideas of the planners, even while we salute their goodwill.

William Easterly

#11. When I'm writing a new play, there's a period where I know I shouldn't be out in public much. I imagine most people who create go through something like this. You willfully loosen some of the inner straps that hold your core together.

Tony Kushner

#12. You have to leave room for God's grace. Perfect is God's job.

Karen Kingsbury

#13. We worked and worked, didn't get anywhere. That's how you know you're doing research.

Harold Eugene Edgerton

#14. Let's face it: the world is twisted. And rotten.

Natsuo Kirino

#15. Is he ... is Dimitri a Strigoi?
Mason hesitated only a moment, like he was afraid to answer me, and then - he nodded.
My heart shattered. My world shattered.

Richelle Mead

#16. The true way and the sure way to friendship is through humility-being open to each other, accepting each other just as we are, knowing each other.

Mother Teresa

#17. I don't want to see it anymore. It's lousy. And it's a cheat. You build it all around something ... set yourself on something ... and then you don't want it. Isn't it too bad the great truths are all such lies?

Stephen King

#18. I won't look online. The whole fan thing makes me self-conscious, which is not to say I don't appreciate it or understand it. If Mickey Mantle were around, I'm sure I'd have a ton of questions to ask him that might make him uncomfortable. I get it. That doesn't mean it's not really awkward.

David Duchovny

#19. If there's a good side of Islam, at the end of the day it serves evil.

Mosab Hassan Yousef

#20. We don't want to be the conquistadors. We want to be Charles Darwin.

Lydia Millet