Unprintable Quotes

#1. There's something to be said for relatives ... it has to be said because it's unprintable!

Albert Einstein

#2. A good catcher is the quarterback, the carburetor, the lead dog, the pulse taker, the traffic cop and sometimes a lot of unprintable things, but no team gets very far without one.

Miller Huggins

#3. The boy scout struggled after her with the bundle that was too heavy for him. Studs watched them, and thought unprintable things about old lady Gorman.

James Farrell

#4. What I said to them at half time would be unprintable on the radio.

Gerry Francis

#5. an exception: in the sentence I asked him what he thought of my review in his book, and his response was unprintable, the word unprintable means something much more specific than "incapable of being printed.") The

Steven Pinker

#6. I never said anything that was unprintable. Never said anything just for the sake of being startling.

Bette Davis

#7. Valentine!"
"You mean father. I despise this modern habit of calling one's parents by their names."
"What I want to call you is a hell of a lot more unprintable than your name."
- Clary Fray and Valentine Morgenstern (City of Ashes)

Cassandra Clare

#8. I have a great many opinions about writing, but I'm afraid that all of them are unprintable

Alfred Lansing

#9. What I actually want to call you is a hell of a lot more unprintable than your name

Cassandra Clare

#10. She could see the hurt in his eyes, and for a moment she wrestled the urge to call Maia a number of unprintable names.

Cassandra Clare

#11. The nowadays ruling that no word is unprintable has, I think, done nothing whatever for beautiful letters ... Obscenity is too valuable a commodity to chuck around all over the place; it should be taken out of the safe on special occasions only.

Dorothy Parker

#12. What I usually do is tell funny stories from the road, many of which are, of course, unprintable. But I don't actually have a joke. I don't tell jokes much. I tell little stories.

Howard Dean

#13. It's possible, in a poem or short story, to write about commonplace things and objects using commonplace but precise language, and to endow those things - a chair, a window curtain, a fork, a stone, a woman's earring - with immense, even startling power.

Raymond Carver

#14. That's what makes it so right. Your eyes - your soul is there, but the rest of you is still so undefined. That's the beauty of childhood. The eyes show everything you've seen so far, but the rest of you is still so open to possibility, to whatever you might become.

Bree Despain

#15. Musicians ought to reclaim some of the power in the houses of production. The opera houses are run either by managers or by stage directors, never by musicians.

Laurence Equilbey

#16. I suspect, more than voyeurism, that it has something to do with control. Control is a food that Nathan seems to feed on, devouring it with a vulgarity that clashes with his smooth exterior.

Alessandra Torre

#17. A creator needs only one enthusiast to justify him.

Man Ray

#18. Incredible cosmic powers do not equate with high IQ.

Brandon Sanderson

#19. I wasn't going to let her sucker me into being her friend again just so she could turn around and crush me one more time.

Laurie Halse Anderson

#20. I come from a family of cops, and all of them share that understanding that they put their lives on the line.

Ryan Reynolds

#21. Without wonder, men and women would lapse into deadening routine and little by little would become incapable of a life which is genuinely personal.

Pope John Paul II