Quotes About Gross

#1. We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.

Farley Mowat

#2. To say it was a dark and stormy night would be a gross understatement. It was colder than witch's kiss, wetter than a spring swamp, and blacker than a tax collector's heart. A sane man would have been curled up in front of a fire with a cup of mulled wine and a good boo-, ah, a willing wench.

Hilari Bell

#3. I try not to notice the exploded eyeballs or the ruptured tongue bursting through the blackened lips. This job is quite gross enough as it is without adding my own dry heaves to the mess.

Charles Stross

#4. I'm ambitious. But if I weren't as talented as I am ambitious, I would be a gross monstrosity.

Madonna Ciccone

#5. I recognize terror as the finest emotion and so I will try to terrorize the reader. But if I find that I cannot terrify, I will try to horrify, and if I find that I cannot horrify, I'll go for the gross-out. I'm not proud.

Stephen King

#6. All the above is, of course, a gross simplification. There are deeper reasons to travel - itches and tickles on the underbelly of the unconscious mind. We go where we need to go, and then try to figure out what we're doing there.

Jeff Greenwald

#7. In my experience flying search-and-rescue missions, the greatest single variable contributing to successful rescues was the preparedness and expertise of the person(s) in distress.

Tom Gross

#8. Theorists have wonderful ideas which take years and years to be verified.

David Gross

#9. So you're my boss now," I snap.
"Technically, I'm you're boss's boss's boss."
"And technically, it's gross moral turpitude- the fact that i am fucking my boss's boss's boss."
"At the moment, you're arguing with him." Christian scowls.

E.L. James

#10. All women dress to be noticed: gross and vulgar women to be grossly and vulgarly noticed, wise and modest women to be wisely and modestly noticed.

G.K. Chesterton

#11. The gross profits in many workouts appear quite small. It's a little like looking for parking meters with some time left on them. However, the predictability coupled with a short holding period produces quite decent average annual rates of return after allowance for the occasional substantial loss.

Warren Buffett

#12. We are shallow because we have become enslaved by gross materialism, the glitter of gold and its equivalents, for which reason we think that only the material goods of this earth can satisfy us and we must therefore grab as much as can while we are able.

F. Sionil Jose

#13. I'd rather not talk about money. It's kind of gross.

Barbra Streisand

#14. I am obsessed with delivering value to investors and winning the game from a personal standpoint.

Bill Gross

#15. Now many such things may be done without intitling the people to rise in arms. A gross, flagrant, and palpable abuse no doubt will do it, as if they should be required to pay a tax equal to half or third of their substance.

Adam Smith

#16. The middle classes air their moral prejudices over their gross dinner-tables, and whisper about what they call the profligacies of their betters in order to try and pretend that they are in smart society and on intimate terms with the people they slander.

Oscar Wilde

#17. I think there's a little confusion between humor and 'gross' passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable, because they aren't the same thing.

Bob Newhart

#18. Caste may be bad. Caste may lead to conduct so gross as to be called man's inhumanity to man. All the same, it must be recognized that the Hindus observe Caste not because they are inhuman or wrong-headed. They observe Caste because they are deeply religious.

B.R. Ambedkar

#19. Gross and obscure natures, however decorated, seem impure shambles; but character gives splendor to youth, and awe to wrinkled skin and gray hairs.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#20. Quantum field theory was originally developed for the treatment of electrodynamics, immediately after the completion of quantum mechanics and the discovery of the Dirac equation.

David Gross

#21. Fattened in vice, so callous and so gross, he sins and sees not, senseless of his loss.

John Dryden

#22. I work in a medium where I get to be totally invisible and I get great pleasure from that, being a pretty self-conscious person.

Terry Gross

#23. I admitted. If I was going to hallucinate, then at least it was some hot dude instead of something gross.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#24. To assume you know someone well enough that you can and do predict their behavior and mental perspective is a gross and often tragic mistake, for it eliminates that person's freedom to create his or her own opinion and drastically affects the emerging picture of the relationship.

Meredith L. Young-Sowers

#25. Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.

Lance Gross

#26. The transformation toward eternal life is gradual. The heavy gross energy of body, mind, and spirit must first be purified and uplifted. When the energy ascends ... then self mastery can be sought.

Laozi

#27. I always thought of myself as being part of a family and sharing and, yes, leading, but not forcing people to do anything.

Bill Gross

#28. A movie playing on the TV screen in front of us. Some sort of bad Tom Cruise drama. I've never liked Tom Cruise. He always reminded me of someone's creepy cousin, who smiles too big before he touches your butt and whispers something gross in your ear with hot whiskey breath.

Erin McCarthy

#29. Due to Multi-Tenancy our gross margin by over 70%.

Zach Nelson

#30. I have gay friends, I support gay rights, I have nothing against the gay community, but when I see two guys kissing, I think it's gross. And, by the way, it's gross when 99% of straight people do it, too.

Artie Lange

#31. I'm a disorganized mess. My purse is gross: I once found a shoulder pad, string cheese, and a Christmas ornament in it!

Hoda Kotb

#32. When I go about my own politics, I meet Tea Party supporters who I can work with in Congress, that I find common ground with. I find Tea Party supporters who won't let me get a sentence out without judging me. To say that there is a 'Tea Party supporter' is a gross generality.

Cory Booker

#33. Cael, come on. Stop licking the dude. That's gross."

Letty let out a snort. "Please, like you don't lick dudes."

"That's different," Dex explained with a grimace. "None of those dudes were Ash. Besides, last time I checked, Ash was allergic to nuts.

Charlie Cochet

#34. Think Good Thoughts

Elizabeth Gross

#35. If the president uses executive orders to legislate new laws, that would be an example of him subverting legislative power from Congress, and might be considered a gross perversion of the Constitution.

Gary Hansen

#36. The girdle went from just under my breasts to the top of my knees. It cinched me in pretty tight. In fact, it was so tight that when I sat in it and farted, the farts would slide up my back, shoot out the top of the girdle, and make my hair fly off the back of my beck.

Mollie Gross

#37. People have different impressions of themselves, and where reality lies is somewhere in between.

Bill Gross

#38. Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.

Rand Paul

#39. The look that passes between Jeffrey and Kimber right then feels like it requires a swell of cheesy music in the background. Aw, I think. Baby brother's in love. I also find this kind of gross.

Cynthia Hand

#40. I find it gross to talk about bodily functions like shitting or farting or your period, if you're a girl, unless it's extremely necessary.

Riley Keough

#41. It's sort of like a teeter-totter; when interest rates go down, prices go up.

Bill Gross

#42. Those little age differentials, so crucial and so gross when we are young, erode. We end up belonging to the same category, that of the non-young. I've never much minded this myself. [p. 66]

Julian Barnes

#43. Nothing good ever happens at lunch. The cafeteria is a giant sound stage where they film daily segments of Teenage Humiliation Rituals. And it smells gross.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#44. I used to trade stocks online, and I kind of felt gross, like, all I'm doing is making money off other people's creativity, and I'm not creating anything myself.

Nathan Fielder

#45. - My little brother craps himself."
I laughed. "- Well, maybe it's because he's, like, only one?"
"- Whatever, it's still gross.

Jennifer L. Armentrout

#46. They never tell a lie, not a small fabrication, not a partial truth, nor any gross unreal statement. No lies at all, so they have nothing to hide. They are a group of people who are not afraid to have their minds open.

Marlo Morgan

#47. I don't know how many sacred cows there are today. I think there's a little confusion between humor and gross passing for humor. That's kind of regrettable.

Bob Newhart

#48. The tax laws are written by men with considerable net worth, and with little understanding of what wage-earners must do to make ends meet.

Martin L. Gross

#49. And she kissed me on the lips out of nowhere during recess one day while I was trying to read Huck Finn in the sandbox, and that was my first kiss, and later that day she dumped me because boys were gross.

John Green

#50. There are moods in which one feels the impulse to enter a tacit protest against too gross an appetite for pure aesthetics in this starving and sinning world. One turns half away, musingly, from certain beautiful useless things.

Henry James

#51. The computer field is intoxicated with change. We have seen galloping growth over a period of four decades and it still does not seem to be slowing down. The field is not mature yet and already it accounts for a significant percentage of the Gross National Product.

Fernando J. Corbato

#52. Am I the only one who thinks Nancy Grace's relentless cheer leading for Jodi Arias' death gross & excessive? The anchor as executioner?!

Geraldo Rivera

#53. In its best prewar year, Europe with almost 300 million people had a gross national product of 150 billion dollars. In that same year, the United States with 150 million people had a gross national product of 300 billion dollars.

Paul Hoffman

#54. Nothing is worse than a beautiful girl fishing for compliments by saying how gross she is. On the flip side, I find genuine humility and modesty attractive.

Chris Evans

#55. Revel in grossness. Leave food in your teeth. Proudly display feminine hygiene products.

Jennifer Ziegler

#56. Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.

Charles Bukowski

#57. The Congolese are consistently rated as the planet's poorest people, significantly worse off than other destitute Africans. In the decade from 2000, the Congolese were the only nationality whose gross domestic product per capita, a rough measure of average incomes, was less than a dollar a day.

Tom Burgis

#58. Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.

Nicolas Winding Refn

#59. I definitely want children. That's important to me, so I just want to make sure that I'm completely prepared for it when that day comes.

Lance Gross

#60. The extent of God's grace always eclipses the extent of my grotesqueness. Therefore, I can never be bad enough for God to tell me that He's had enough.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#61. Don't you remember, Travis? You ruined her sweater."
Travis smiled. "I ruin a lot of sweaters."
"Gross," I muttered.

Jamie McGuire

#62. Gross and vulgar minds will always pay a higher respect to wealth than to talent; for wealth, although it be a far less efficient source of power than talent, happens to be far more intelligible.

Charles Caleb Colton

#63. One night stands are not for me. I think it's gross when you just give it up.

Paris Hilton

#64. So, you wouldn't marry me."
"Ridiculous question. I'm eighteen!"
"Oh, it's an age thing?" He frowned. "You don't mean wild oats, do you? We're not going to have some stupid break so you can experience other
"
Zuzana put a hand over his mouth. "Gross. Don't even say it.

Laini Taylor

#65. Falling stars are high examples sent To warn, not lure. Gross fancy says they are Substantial meteors; but that is not so. They are the merest phantasies of Night, When she's asleep, and, dimly visited By past effects, she dreams of Lucifer Hurled out of Heaven.

Alfred Austin

#66. World military spending has now risen to over $1.2 trillion. This incredible sum represents 2.5 per cent of GDP (global gross domestic product). Even if 1 per cent of it were redirected towards development, the world would be much closer to achieving the Millennium Development Goals.

Ban Ki-moon

#67. Everybody smokes! Models, actresses, everyone! Don't they realize that it's gross? I understand it's an addiction, but it still pains me to see my friends do it.

Kirsten Dunst

#68. I don't want to help a politician revise the truth.

Terry Gross

#69. The market can move for irrational reasons, and you have to be prepared for that, ... you need to make big bets when the odds are in your favor
not big enough to ruin you, but big enough to make a difference.

Bill Gross

#70. I really started dreaming ... and broke out of my shyness when I got to Howard University. My first acting class was an Intro to Acting class with Professor Bay, who really broke me out of my shell, encouraged me to follow my dreams and make them a reality.

Lance Gross

#71. I have seen gross intolerance shown in support of tolerance.

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

#72. I don't mean you should despise people for being weak, if it's a kind of weakness they can't help. But when they're weak on purpose, it's another thing. When they don't even try. When they let people hurt them and don't fight back. It's gross. It's letting down the whole human race.

Mary Gaitskill

#73. It was the ruling King of Bhutan himself who, in the 1980s, set up a system that measured national advancement according to Gross National Happiness rather than Gross Domestic Product.

David Michie

#74. I know people watch our movies and they'll see a lot of images - they call it gross-out - that they don't like, and I understand that. It's an important movie and one that's extremely well done, but the amount of violent imagery was not for me.

Bobby Farrelly

#75. 'I want to touch people but if I touch them in real life they'll slap me.' That's what writing isit's a gross person getting a hug.

Dan Harmon

#76. E-I-E-I-O is actually a gross misspelling of the word farm.

George Carlin

#77. My problem lies in reconciling my gross habits with my net income.

Errol Flynn

#78. Government loses its claim to legitimacy when it fails to fulfill its obligations.

Martin L. Gross

#79. I wash my hair once a week. You can do that. I swear. My sister-in-law and all of my friends were like, 'I can't do that. It sounds gross.' Once you train your hair, it will do whatever you want it to do. And on day seven when it's too oily, you just put it in a ponytail.

Joyce Giraud

#80. Brooklyn is the only place where a guy can open up a candy store sell no candy and gross over eight million dollars a year.

Richard Jeni

#81. Booksellers in the gross are taken for little better than a pack of knaves and atheists.

John Dunton

#82. Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

George Bernard Shaw

#83. The despicable crone known as Mombi stands accused of high witchery, gross dishonesty, untold crimes against monkeys, outrageous trespassing, and general unpleasantness. Also, she is extremely unattractive. Miss Amy, do you speak for the witch?

Danielle Paige

#84. It sounds gross to say that I like myself more. But not everyone likes themselves that much. Especially in the comedy world.

Chris Kattan

#85. Bonds as an asset class will always be needed, and not just by insurance companies and pension funds but by aging boomers.

Bill Gross

#86. The gross size of our talent inventories is less important than the net use of our talents?

Neal A. Maxwell

#87. that's too small! i swear.

Jorge

#88. I think 'Bridesmaids' has changed things socially and culturally. Before, it was really difficult for women to do scatological humour without seeming gross.

Rebel Wilson

#89. Politicians are masters of the art of deception.

Martin L. Gross

#90. I beg your pardon. I'm not gross. (Simone)
Grody to the max. Gag me with a spoon. I've seen you in the mornings. You're not exactly well coiffed. (Jesse)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#91. Pure innovation is more gross than error.

George Chapman

#92. Man is neither mere intellect not the gross animal body, nor the heart or soul alone.

Mahatma Gandhi

#93. I really don't like coke. It's so gross and so dark. It's like, what are you, from the '90s? Ew,

Miley Cyrus

#94. We will find neither national purpose nor personal satisfaction in a mere continuation of economic progress, in an endless amassing of worldly goods. We cannot measure national spirit by the Dow Jones Average, nor national achievement by the Gross National Product.

Robert Kennedy

#95. Mayonnaise is a lot like men, it can make everything much better, adding flavor and ease to your life. Or, it can just be sticky and gross and make you nauseous"- "Keeping the Moon

Sarah Dessen

#96. Well, I'm proud to say American Pie was the kind of crazy, gross-out film that guys thought was the greatest.

Jason Biggs

#97. In terms of economic growth, PIMCO originated the famous phrase the 'new normal.'

Bill Gross

#98. You know those adages about smelling the roses and chasing butterflies? The markets are my butterflies and my roses.

Bill Gross

#99. Marlene picks up the muffin from the ground and bites into it. Uriah shouts, Gross!

Veronica Roth

#100. Yeah, we're back to the whole brother-marrying-sister thing. Let's get it out of our systems - all together, One, two, three: GROSS!

Rick Riordan