Unpleasantly Quotes

#1. I thawt I thaw a putty tat." "I did, I did thee a putty tat" Finished with his Tweety Bird imitation, he grinned unpleasantly at me. "Now, then, luv, let's get down to business

Jeaniene Frost

#2. It is hard to believe when I'm with you that there can be anything as still
as solemn as unpleasantly definitive as statuary when right in front of it
in the warm New York 4 o'clock light we are drifting back and forth
between each other like a tree breathing through its spectacles

Frank O'Hara

#3. It is really funny to see people that you know acting unpleasantly just because there are TV cameras on.

Penn Jillette

#4. We fancied even that the bushes smelt unpleasantly.

Charles Darwin

#5. I guess it was no secret I'd been unpleasantly startled to find myself suddenly hitting the big 4-0. You'd have thought the previous thirty-nine years were sufficient warning.

Josh Lanyon

#6. Debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust and wide-open and that ... may well include vehement, caustic, and sometimes unpleasantly sharp attacks on government and public officials.

William J. Brennan

#7. In this case," said Randall unpleasantly, "it affords me purer gratification to dwell upon the thought of my dear Aunt Gertrude duped and betrayed."
"Your aunt doesn't suffer throught it!"
"What a pity!" said Randall.

Georgette Heyer

#8. It's unpleasantly like being drunk."
"What's so unpleasant about being drunk?"
"You ask a glass of water.

Douglas Adams

#9. It was only toward the middle of the twentieth century that the inhabitants
of many European countries came, in general unpleasantly, to the
realization that their fate could be influenced directly by intricate and
abstruse books of philosophy.

Czeslaw Milosz

#10. As you eat more healthily, your palate changes - it's amazing. Your taste buds constantly adapt: from minute to minute, in fact. If you drank orange juice right now, it would taste sweet. But if you first ate some sweets then drank the same juice, it could taste unpleasantly bitter.

Michael Greger

#11. It seems unpleasantly refined to put things off till someone knows.

William Empson

#12. Torture?" Primrose's tone was thoughtful. "Cold tea?" "German poetry." Percy reached to a shelf and offered up an unpleasantly fat leather-bound volume. Rue was arrested. "There's such a thing as German poetry?" Primrose nodded seriously. "Yes. Save yourself.

Gail Carriger

#13. I was wandering around as usual, in my unpleasantly populated sub-conscious ...

Dodie Smith

#14. It is, you must concede, unpleasantly messy, this business of having feelings, this mattering to each other. I've always thought of it as gory, a sort of perpetually occurring road accident - everyone going too fast, too close, without due care and attention, or with too much ...

Glen Duncan

#15. Mr. Lynn gave her one of his considering looks. "People are strange," he said. "Usually they're much stranger than you think. Start from there and you'll never be unpleasantly surprised. Do you fancy doughnuts?

Diana Wynne Jones

#16. As I grow older I am unpleasantly impressed by the fact that giving each human being but one life is a bad scheme.

H.L. Mencken

#17. He travels safe and not unpleasantly who is guarded by poverty and guided by love.

Philip Sidney

#18. He had had a lonely life and a lonely death. But it had been the kind of loneliness that spends itself in living amongst people, and in passing the time that way not unpleasantly. Major Palgrave might have been a lonely man, he had also been quite a cheerful one.

Agatha Christie

#19. In a dreamlike state, with eyes closed (I found the daylight too unpleasantly glaring), I perceived an uninterrupted stream of fantastic pictures, extraordinary shapes with intense, kaleidoscopic play of colors,

Albert Hofmann

#20. You are afraid of me?" Reed asks me, sounding unpleasantly surprised.
"Of course I'm afraid of you. You're menacing, you're overbearing, you're arrogant, and if you don't see that, then you can just add high to the list," I say, using my fingers to tick off his shortcomings.

Amy A. Bartol

#21. Your impression of him as a respectable man brings to my mind the work of a painter whose pictures show attractively at a distance but unpleasantly up close."
"I

John Bunyan

#22. You'll be sorry," he said unpleasantly.
"I hope so," Alabama answered. "I like paying for the things I do-it makes me feel square with the world".

Zelda Fitzgerald

#23. I do not find illness an eminence, and I do not understand how people can use it to draw attention to themselves since the attention they draw is nearly always reluctantly given and unpleasantly carried out.

John Steinbeck

#24. An inverse operation multiplies to such a degree what concerns our welfare and divides by such a formidable figure what does not concern it, that the death of millions of unknown people hardly affects us more unpleasantly than a draught.

Marcel Proust

#25. A non-materialist. And yet you are unpleasantly fat. A gluttonous ascetic? Such a contradiction.

Orson Scott Card

#26. Writing your own story around the same ideas is not plagiarism; at worst, it's being unoriginal.

Charles Stross

#27. Therefore, dearly beloved brethren, let us cheerfully do all things that lie in our power; and then may we stand still, with the utmost assurance, to see the salvation of God, and for his arm to be revealed.

Joseph Smith Jr.

#28. And the nice thing about a stake through the heart was that it also worked on non-vampires.

Terry Pratchett

#29. Any organization created out of fear must create fear to survive.

Bill Hicks

#30. During the Japanese invasion, bombs had fallen from the sky and people could run for cover. Now, they exploded in the middle of the road, or in the fields while people were playing soccer.

Mohamed Latiff Mohamed

#31. Surefire things are deadening to the human spirit.

Dorothea Lange

#32. We were two throats and one eye and we had no price.

Toni Morrison