#disgust

Rebecca was an academic star. Her new book was on the phenomenon of word casings, a term she'd invented for words that no longer had meaning outside quotation marks. English was full of these empty words--"friend" and "real" and "story" and "change"--words that had been shucked of their meanings and reduced to husks. Some, like "identity" and "search" and "cloud," had clearly been drained of life by their Web usage. With others, the reasons were more complex; how had "American" become an ironic term? How had "democracy" come to be used in an arch, mocking way? ↗

— Jennifer Egan

#democracy #disgust #language #web #wit

Wild!" Ron said, twiddling the replay knob on the side. "I can make that old bloke down there pick his nose again... and again... and again... ↗

— J.K. Rowling

#harry-potter #humor #ron-weasley #humor

In this image (watching sensual murder through a peephole) Lorrain embodies the criminal delight of decadent art. The watcher who records the crimes (both the artist and consumer of art) is constructed as marginal, powerless to act, and so exculpated from action, passive subject of a complex pleasure, condemning and yet enjoying suffering imposed on others, and condemning himself for his own enjoyment. In this masochistic celebration of disempowerment, the sharpest pleasure recorded is that of the death of some important part of humanity. The dignity of human life is the ultimate victim of Lorrain's art, thrown away on a welter of delighted self-disgust. ↗

— Jennifer Birkett

#consumer #decadence #decadent #diginty #disempowerment

I've seen disgusting excess in business, and I've seen disgusting excess in Washington. But at the same time, I've certainly learned that Washington matters and that you can't ignore it, especially when you get into telecom. ↗

— Esther Dyson

#certainly #disgusting #especially #excess #get

Swallow a toad in the morning and you will encounter nothing more disgusting the rest of the day. ↗

— Nicolas Chamfort

#disgusting #encounter #more #morning #nothing

I used to be disgusted; now I try to be amused. ↗

— Elvis Costello

#disgusted #i #now #try #used

It's disgusting that a Broadway show can't try out anymore, that no matter where they are in the world, there is this massive dialogue going on between people damning or praising it. ↗

— Victor Garber

#between #broadway #broadway show #damning #dialogue

I think the country's getting disgusted with Washington partly because of the decline of civility in government. ↗

— George McGovern

#civility #country #decline #disgusted #getting

If you take most men aside when their wives are pregnant, most men are pretty frightened and worried and faintly disgusted by the whole experience. ↗

— Steven Moffat

#disgusted #experience #frightened #men #most

Fame is, I think, just a disgusting by-product of what I do. ↗

— Katy Perry

#disgusting #fame #i #i do #i think