Top 100 Quotes About Gross
#1. Don't you have a girlfriend or family you'd rather be with? (Geary)
Only Solin, and honestly, he's not this soft. Even if he was, it'd be gross. (Arik)
Sherrilyn Kenyon
#2. When we're dealing with the people in our family - no matter how annoying or gross they may be, no matter how self-inflicted their suffering may appear, no matter how afflicted they are with ignorance, prejudice or nose hairs - we give from the deepest parts of ourselves.
Anne Lamott
#3. People who wear fur smell like a wet dog if they're in the rain. And they look fat and gross.
Pamela Anderson
#4. A puritan may go to his brown-bread crust with as gross an appetite as ever an alderman to his turtle. Not that food which entereth into the mouth defileth a man, but the appetite with which it is eaten. It is neither the quality nor the quantity, but the devotion to sensual savors;
Henry David Thoreau
#5. And I was all, "Don't be gross, you crustacious fuck. You pull that thing out and I'll pepper-spray you until you fry." (You have to be stern with weenie waggers
I've been exposed to on the bus over seventeen times, so I know.)
Christopher Moore
#6. Psychosis is a gross disturbance in an individual's ability to distinguish self from reality. For schizophrenics, the membrane between imagination and reality is so porous that having an idea and having an experience are not particularly different.
Andrew Solomon
#7. Fellows come in and tell the most extraordinarily gross stories - so gross that they will positively give you a pain. And yet they'd be offended if you suggested that they weren't the sort of person you could trust your wife alone with.
Ford Madox Ford
#8. When a scientist is ahead of his times, it is often through misunderstanding of current, rather than intuition of future truth. In science there is never any error so gross that it won't one day, from some perspective, appear prophetic.
Jean Rostand
#9. I am haunted by interrupted acts,
introspective as a leper, enchanted
by a repulsive clew,
a gross and fugitive movement of the limbs.
Is this the love that shook the lights to flame?
Muriel Rukeyser
#10. Terry Gross. I would rush home from high school to listen to Terry Gross.
John Hodgman
#11. He's barely said anything and I already know this guy is gross,' she told the girls. 'If the zombies come at us, we feed them him first.
Faith McKay
#12. Ew. You guys are gross," Arrin says. "Can we go already? Before she accidentally eats him?
Bethany Wiggins
#13. The bus scares me. Way too many gross people on the bus. Sixty-five people on the bus and I was the last one on. I felt like calling Unsolved Mysteries. 'Yeah, I found everybody.
Kathleen Madigan
#14. When I was 22, I wasn't too proud to do anything. I was taking out trash, buying stinky vintage clothes, and pulling gross Kleenex out of the pockets.
Sophia Amoruso
#15. Dylan looked at me and matter-of-factly said, "My Dad's smart. Boyfriends are way better than girlfriends." I laughed. "Oh really? And why is that?" The kid wrinkled his nose. "Because girls are gross.
L.A. Witt
#16. The more gross the fraud the more glibly will it go down, and the more greedily be swallowed, since folly will always find faith where impostors will find imprudence.
Charles Caleb Colton
#17. Capital in the hands of a national government forms a part of the gross national capital.
Jean-Baptiste Say
#18. Be as delicate as possible. If communication accomplishes something on the gross but damages something on the level of feeling then it is a spiritual loss! The feeling is more important for life.
Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
#19. I suppressed a shudder at the image. Blood is so very gross to me. If I
give myself a paper cut, I nearly hyperventilate.
Rachel Hawkins
#21. Dia wrinkled her nose. "Gross. You need a decent girl, one that can straighten you out."
"I don't need to be straightened out," Carmine said. "Why drown in love when you can have so much fun swimming in lust?
J.M. Darhower
#22. Do not discourage your children from hoarding, if they have a taste to it; whoever lays up his penny rather than part with it for a cake, at least is not the slave of gross appetite; and shows besides a preference always to be esteemed, of the future to the present moment.
Samuel Johnson
#23. Words are such gross machinery, so primitive and ambiguous.
Frank Herbert
#24. It was supposed to be gross, and now it's gorgeous.
Dave Grohl
#25. What if I have bad breath?' I asked.
'Chew on some gum,' she said.
'What if I can't find his tongue?'
'Back off on your tongue until you can feel his.'
'What if he throws up in my mouth?'
'Um, that would just be gross.
Julie Halpern
#26. First, love comes in all different sizes, shapes, and colors. And can't nobody tell you that however and whichever way you choose to love is wrong. Unless it's with kin or a pet, I seen somethin' like that once and it was just fuckin' gross.
Cordelia Michelsen
#27. People always talk about the nausea that comes with chemotherapy. For me, it's more like a queasiness. And it can be intense. It's an uncomfortable, gross kind of 'blech' feeling.
Stuart Scott
#28. Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the position of women in our society was, in many respects, comparable to that of blacks under the pre-Civil War slave codes.
William J. Brennan
#29. Any investment in sales training is an investment in your own gross profits.
Roy H. Williams
#30. I think this year we'll open up 900 gross, we're closing some, so the net count is lower, but the 900 are spread all over the place. Some of the closures are relocations, where you're moving it to another place in the marketplace.
Jim Cantalupo
#31. Oh gosh, it's moving! It's so gross! Can't you just, like, flex your butt or something?
Why, yes. Travis clenched his teeth. Why don't I just clench my butt muscles in hopes that it will shock the spider enough to crawl back into the hellhole it came out of?
Rachel Van Dyken
#32. It does seem - well, difficult - to be at the mercy of some gross, unshaven stranger before you can begin to be yourself.
James Baldwin
#33. Nobody could say it is not gross misconduct to fight on the pitch with team-mates and get yourself sent off.
Gordon Taylor
#34. People want to know why I do this, why I write such gross stuff. I like to tell them I have the heart of a small boy ... and I keep it in a jar on my desk.
Stephen King
#35. I see there is a good deal of grandiloquence in my book - my friends and foes have told me. I think it must be true, for there is a good deal of grandiloquence in me - and in nature also: I saw a sunset last evening that was a gross imposition upon modesty.
Max Ehrmann
#36. Over 55,000 people saw the Beatles at Shea Stadium. We took $304,000 - the greatest gross ever in the history of show business!
Sid Bernstein
#37. Inspired teachers ... cannot be ordered by the gross from the factory. They must be discovered one by one, and brought home from the woods and swamps like orchids. They must be placed in a conservatory, not in a carpenter shop; and they must be honored and trusted.
John Jay Chapman
#38. Thankfully, it's she who spoke. Not the skeleton. Because ... gross.
Chuck Wendig
#39. I have play'd the fool, the gross fool, to believe The bosom of a friend will hold a secret Mine own could not contain.
Philip Massinger
#40. Even today, when the Obama administration has liberalized travel to Cuba - and failed to reverse that liberalization when Alan Gross was imprisoned - there are limits.
Elliott Abrams
#41. The path to Heaven is narrow, rough and full of wearisome and trying ascents, nor can it be trodden without great toil; and therefore wrong is their way, gross their error, and assured their ruin who, after the testimony of so many thousands of saints, will not learn where to settle their footing.
Robert Southwell
#42. I gave the Rayna back the phone and shook my head. "Ben and I are like brother and sister. That's gross."
"Hey, I read Flowers in the Attic. It was kind of hot.
Hilary Duff
#43. I find capitalism repugnant. It is filthy, it is gross, it is alienating ... because it causes war, hypocrisy and competition.
Fidel Castro
#44. Why the heck do we allow the media to ever tell us someone is gross? It makes me so mad. 99% of the world has flaws.
Shantel VanSanten
#45. Kindly politeness is the slow fruit of advanced reflection; it is a sort of humanity and kindliness applied to small acts and every day discourse: it bids man soften towards others, and forget himself for the sake of others: it constrains genuine nature, which is selfish and gross.
Hippolyte Taine
#46. Just so you know, the authors lie when they say it tastes sweet and salty. I will tell you the truth, it is slimy, gooey and thick. Yes, thick. Gross, but I did it for Jake, my husband, the love of my life.
Victoria Andrews
#47. It took me years to work out the difference between net and gross. In meetings I just used to say, 'Tell me if it's good or bad news.
Richard Branson
#48. The United States government, in figuring our gross national product, defines 'durable goods' as anything that will last three years.
Barbara Holland
#49. What about the abbies?" Ethan asked. "As a food source?" "Yeah." "First off, gross.
Blake Crouch
#50. When you are with the wrong person, who doesn't really love you, all you want is to be adored. It makes you more inward and needy. Gross.
Marina And The Diamonds
#51. Oh, gross. Your stomach is full of butterfly barf!
Laini Taylor
#52. Never till this day Did life disturb the dense eternity Of joyless quiet; never skylark's song, Or storm-bird's prescient scream, or eaglet's cry, Made vital the gross fog. The very light Is but an alien that can find no welcome
Hartley Coleridge
#53. I don't understand the notion that modern farming is anything do to with nature. It's a pretty gross interference with nature.
Peter Singer
#54. If you've seen a crab's mouth, all foamy and gross with whiskers and snapping bits, you can imagine this one didn't look any better blown up to billboard size.
Rick Riordan
#55. I'm sorry. Was that gross?" I asked, wanting to melt into the floor and just die. He shook his head slowly and then looked at me for a second. "I'd like to try this after you've brushed your teeth.
Amber L. Johnson
#56. SOUNDS GROSS," he said. "SALAZAR PREFERS WOOD. TAPESTRIES ARE ALSO ACCEPTABLE.
Mirriam Neal
#57. If design is to be ecologically responsible, it must be independent of concern for the gross national product.
Victor Papanek
#58. Gross. Feminists everywhere are outraged. If I were wearing a bra under this shirt, it'd be burning.
Lauren Michelle Smith
#59. Terry Gross has never had me on her show and you know, it's her show; she sets the agenda and that's not Hodgman. But I'll still listen to it.
John Hodgman
#60. On the whole, however, it is only out of pride or gross ignorance, or cowardice, that we refuse to see in the present the lineaments of times to come.
Marguerite Yourcenar
#61. Okay," she said. "I'm going to start with four basic principles of civilization. 1) Ethics is based on consent. 2) Victims shall not mete out justice themselves. 3) Government serves the will of the people. 4) Giant unwashed beards are gross.
Zach Weinersmith
#62. This noble word [women], spirit-stirring as it passes over English ears, is in America banished, and 'ladies' and 'females' substituted: the one to English taste mawkish and vulgar; the other indistinctive and gross.
Harriet Martineau
#63. I spent the first 22 years of my life absorbing everything, like a big disgusting cell, and now I'm disgorging it with jokes added out into the world. That's a really gross metaphor.
Mallory Ortberg
#64. So, let me get this straight," Winston says. "Our plan is basically seduce the soldiers and civilians of Sector 45 into fighting with us?"
Kenji crossed his arms. "Yeah, it sounds like we're going to go all peacock and hope they find us attractive enough to mate with."
"Gross," Brendan frowns.
Tahereh Mafi
#65. Carmel's a very pretty girl," she says hopefully. "Thomas seems to think so." She sighs, then smiles. "Good. He could use a woman's touch."
"Mom," I groan. "Gross." "Not that kind of touch," she laughs.
Kendare Blake
#66. When gross public debt exceeds 90 percent of GDP, economic growth tends to decline considerably.
Kevin McCarthy
#67. Back in the '60s and '70s, data were scarce, and while analysts knew that companies with fat gross margins lagged those with thin gross margins early in bull markets - and overachieved in the later phases - they couldn't do much about it.
Kenneth Fisher
#68. It seems strange that a butterfly's wing should be woven up so thin and gauzy in the monstrous loom of nature, and be so delicately tipped with fire from such a gross hand, and rainbowed all over in such a storm of thunderous elements. The marvel is that such great forces do such nice work.
Theodore Parker
#69. The first part was awesome the second part were gross but still amazing to me
Jacqueline Wilson
#70. It would, therefore, seem obvious that patriotism as a feeling is bad and harmful, and as a doctrine is stupid. For it is clear that if each people and each State considers itself the best of peoples and States, they all live in a gross and harmful delusion.
Leo Tolstoy
#71. I mean, really: He called me 33 percent lesbian, which was a gross underestimation of my lesbian-ness.
Reese Witherspoon
#72. They tended to be stolid, slovenly, heavy, and to my eyes effeminate - not in the sense of delicacy, etc., but in just the opposite sense: a gross, bland fleshiness, a bovinity without point or edge.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#73. HIs slower mind could not keep pace with her swift reactions; his emotions, not easily aroused, were still less easily subdued. Always he felt himself left far behind her, dull, clumsy, insensitive, too fond, too gross, too awkward.
Winifred Holtby
#74. You think I'm gross?" Grayson asked.
"Yes, I do. You are so horny it's unhealthy. You burb in my face every time you eat onions, and you don't bother to leave the room before you fart. This afternoon you dripped your sweat on me. On purpose!
Kelly Oram
#75. The theatre is a gross art, built in sweeps and over-emphasis. Compromise is its second name.
Enid Bagnold
#76. A man may as certainly miscarry by his seeming righteousness and supposed graces, as by gross sins; and that is, when a man doth trust in these as his righteousness before God, for the satisfying His justice, appeasing His wrath, procuring His favor, and obtaining his own pardon.
Joseph Alleine
#77. As we hoped, our kids began to learn Italian. One day Isaac sat down to dinner, looked at the plate of pasta we'd prepared, made a face, and said, "Che schifo!" a vulgar expression meaning "Gross!" We were so proud.
Douglas Preston
#78. His element is so fine
Being sharpened by his death,
To drink from the wine-breath
While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.
William Butler Yeats
#79. But our trip was different. It was a classic affirmation of everything right and true and decent in the national character. It was a gross, physical salute to the fantastic possibilities of life in this country-but only for those with true grit. And we were chock full of that.
Hunter S. Thompson
#80. Adora you're not telling the truth. Go back to your husband and pay gross devotion to your marriage and family. Edochie is an angel. Only agberos would watch football and transfer aggression to their wives, not a captain.
S.A. David
#81. The idea of sitting in a booth, and having someone pay me to sign autographs, seems so gross to me.
DJ Qualls
#82. There's a boy who they call Pony! He's always acting gross and horny! He thinks he's got a lot down there, but he sure wears tiny underwear!
Cecily Von Ziegesar
#83. God pity us that after years of writing, using mountains of paper and rivers of ink, exhausting flashy terminology about the biggest revival meetings in history, we are still faced with gross corruption in every nation, as well as with the most prayerless church age since Pentecost.
Leonard Ravenhill
#84. I just - I like the saccharin and the gooeyness of 'Bachelor,' and how just gross and like falsely romantic it is. Whereas, like, the 'Real Housewives' is just raw, and it's just - it's the fights that get me. It's just very uncomfortable for me.
Ken Marino
#85. I ate a bug once. It was flying around me. I was trying to get it away. It went right in my mouth. It was so gross!
Hilary Duff
#86. Why would you choose being bitter over choosing to make music? Being bitter is gross. It doesn't amount to anything.
Josh Homme
#87. It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.
William Ernest Henley
#88. The instinctive and universal taste of mankind selects flowers for the expression of its finest sympathies, their beauty and their fleetingness serving to make them the most fitting symbols of those delicate sentiments for which language itself seems almost too gross a medium.
George Stillman Hillard
#89. I've never been on a bike," I say. "I mean, I've been on a bike but not a motorcycle."
"And why is that?" he asks.
"Bugs. They get in your mouth, right? That's just gross."
Chris makes a face.
"If you ride around with your mouth hanging open, I assume that could be a possibility.
Summer Lane
#90. I had been a happy normal wife and mother in Orange County until ten years ago, when I was attacked by an evil vampire ... and turned into one myself. It's made my life since gross and scary and, let's face it, weird.
J.R. Rain
#91. I'd make those stretchy pants my bitch. Hell, maybe I'd take a leisurely seventy-mile jog in Central Park just to make sure my twat left her mark. Gross?
Max Monroe
#92. Higher education is booming in the United States; the Gross National Mind is mounting along with the Gross National Product.
Malcolm Muggeridge
#93. I feel like having an actual taxidermy-ed mammal would get gross, like its hair would get dirty and stuff.
Nick Antosca
#94. Maybe he's trying to be a gentleman, Carmel. Keeping away from the garlic for you."
"Gross," I say, and Thomas laughs. It's Carmel who blushes this time.
Kendare Blake
#95. Tis chiefly taste, or blunt, or gross, or fine,
Makes life insipid, bestial, or divine.
Better be born with taste to little rent
Than the dull monarch of a continent;
Without this bounty which the gods bestow,
Can Fortune make one favorite happy?
No.
John Armstrong
#96. You're kind of gross. Might want to think about shaving, too, unless you're going for the homeless look with no chance of getting laid.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#97. I've found that lifting the lid with your foot is the most thorough and least gross path to two minutes of peace of mind.
Elle Lothlorien
#98. Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
Clifton Fadiman
#99. Refrigerators are good for keeping homemade moonshine less gross. Freezers are good for keeping rattlesnakes less angry. Garages are good to hide in when your wife finds either.
Jenny Lawson
#100. According to the study, approximately 16.7 million U.S. workers born in Latin America had a combined gross income of $450 billion last year, of which 93 percent was spent locally.
Luis Gutierrez
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