#repulsive

I usually start with a repulsive character and go on from there. ↗

— Chester Gould

#go #i #repulsive #start #usually

We demand that people should be true to the pictures we have of them, no matter how repulsive those pictures may be: we prefer the true portrait in all its homogeneity, to one with a detail added which refuses to fit in. ↗

— Pamela Hansford Johnson

#be true #demand #detail #fit #homogeneity

Though everything else may appear shallow and repulsive, even the smallest task in music is so absorbing, and carries us so far away from town, country, earth, and all worldly things, that it is truly a blessed gift of God. ↗

— Felix Mendelssohn

#away #blessed #carries #country #earth

I always had a repulsive need to be something more than human. ↗

— David Bowie

#had #human #i #i always #more

Internationalism, illustrated by the Bolshevik and by the men to whom all countries are alike provided they can make money out of them, is to me repulsive. ↗

— Henry Cabot Lodge

#bolshevik #countries #illustrated #internationalism #make

The attacks of September 11 - and subsequent acts of terror from London to Madrid to Fort Hood, Texas - embody the most repulsive of human instincts, the will to power at the price of the lives of others. ↗

— Jon Meacham

#attacks #embody #fort #hood #human

Today's younger generation is no worse than my own. We were just as ignorant and repulsive as they are, but nobody listened to us. ↗

— Al Capp

#ignorant #just #listened #my own #nobody

I never want to be a showoff or attention getter or something that, truthfully, is kind of repulsive to me, but I get uncomfortable. ↗

— Selma Blair

#get #i #kind #me #never