Nasty Quotations

Discipline and unconditional support is earned by understanding and trust and inclusion. Not by isolation, not by nasty tricks.

We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.

I work early in the morning, before my nasty critic gets up - he rises about noon. By then, I've put in much of a day's work.

I really wanted to be nasty and mean and bad. It's so much easier than being the good girl

The only thing that will be remembered about my enemies after they're dead is the nasty things I've said about them.

Life is painful, nasty and short.. in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

Id rather have a fake smile than a nasty stare.

I like to get on with people. I don't go around being nasty, but if someone crosses me, I can be horrible back.

Sin recognized but that may keep us humble, But oh, it keeps us nasty.

It's a Stanley Cup thing. The boys mangle one another for a series, performing all kinds of nasty tricks, then they make nice, shaking soggy hands as the teams shuffle in opposite directions.

We know there are certain types of viruses that are nasty - influenza, for instance, is an area that is not a blindside. But a lot of viruses have come out of nowhere, like H.I.V., or to a certain extent SARS. Because we know we have the potential to be blindsided, we really have to investigate the unknowns.

It is nasty. You can think that you know someone in this business and you really don't. You can be stabbed in the back very easily. You can be praised very easily. It doesn't matter who you are or what you do.

Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.

I've been lucky enough to play some funny, nasty ladies in my day, and if you can make them foolish, they're even funnier.

I love to utilize my celebrity status in a responsible and constructive and substantive manner. I like to get my hands dirty rather than a photo op.

My heavily-cleverly disguised low self-regard manifested itself in my constant showing off, my addiction for publicity, and my intolerable 'me-me-me' attitudes and actions. But it's done, isn't it? And no one can really change, can they? And, hey, it has been a lot of fun being the life-long irresponsible, snarky, nasty art scamp.

I can be pretty nasty. Not 'mean' nasty, but nasty by your parents' standards. But not by my parents' standards, because my parents were nasty for their day.

No one goes unscathed, we all go through things. We just can't let people's nasty words become our beliefs about ourselves, you know?

I can still put down some pretty nasty stuff on paper, which is what I enjoy doing.

But I like being nasty. I like being cranky. Especially if it's a cold day in Chicago, it's nice to just take it out on Kyle, because he's so easy to scream at, you know?

Secret ops by secret forces have a nasty tendency to produce unintended, unforeseen, and completely disastrous consequences. New Yorkers will remember well the end result of clandestine U.S. support for Islamic militants against the Soviet Union in Afghanistan during the 1980s: 9/11.

Poetry is one of the few nasty childhood habits I've managed to grow out of

If American politics are too dirty for women to take part in, there's something wrong with American politics.

Why do we have to have violence, torture, brutality in crime dramas every time we turn on television? Any new crime drama is going to have, sooner or later, a lot of torture and nasty things that make people flinch. Lots of young people I know shrink and flinch from that kind of thing on television, so I think showing it is a mistake.

I am provocative, and I admit this. It isn't as if I'm only on the receiving end, a poor, frail little creature. I can be thoroughly nasty when I get going, and I don't pull my punches.

If, after hearing my songs, just one human being is inspired to say something nasty to a friend, or perhaps to strike a loved one, it will all have been worth the while.

The USDA labs in Ames, Iowa, are level-four security clearance. Every nasty thing you can imagine is stored there. Ground zero for the apocalypse. And there's a day care right across the street.

Extracting oil from the tar sands is a nasty, polluting, energy-intensive business.

I became a connoisseur of that nasty thud a manuscript makes when it comes through the letter box.

An ugly baby is a very nasty object - and the prettiest is frightful.

If you're going to write about war, which my books are about, wars are nasty things. I think it's sort of a cheap, easy way out to write a war story in which no one ultimately dies.

I kind of thought the writers were starting to take Taylor and make her kind of down and dirty.

Up until about 12 years ago we never, ever, wore flak jacket or helmets but now the nastiness has got worse.

After working with many nutritionists, reading books, and practicing trial and error on my own body, I have finally found a way to control my weight without deprivation. I call my program 'Somersizing,' and Somersizing is not a diet. Diet is a nasty four-letter word that conjures up negative thoughts of sacrifice and obsession and guilt.

If I see something really nasty on Twitter, I will usually delete it or block the person because I don't want to see that every day Get to know me, and then you can talk about me!

The Labour Party has become consumed by collective bile towards... the Liberal Democrats. That portrays a rather nasty arrogance.

Phil Hartman was brilliant, and Dave Foley is a really funny guy. Phil Hartman was actually even funnier offstage than he was onstage because he would say nasty things. Dave Foley's very funny, very witty guy, very quick.

We all make judgments on people, but some are much more brutal than others. It's easy to say, 'Ya know, I'm not crazy about what she's wearing,' but you don't have to be nasty about it, and you don't have to be public about it.

I'd like to be the commissioner of tennis, but do I want to get into politics? Sometimes I have delusions of grandeur that that would be an interesting, good thing. I'm talking about actual politics, like being a congressman, but then I see how unbelievably nasty it really is, and maybe I'm not quite knowledgeable enough to actually do it.

Corporate efficiency has led to a nasty trend of filtering resumes for keywords. This might save time, but it ensures that many of the best candidates will never make it to the interview.

The Animals were their own worst enemy. The Animals were a band that couldn't live up to their name. I was the singer in the band and as long as I was enjoying myself I would keep on working with the band. But it got to be rather nasty once the big money showed up - things started to turn toxic.

When you start attacking cronyism and peoples political interests, it gets nasty.

Writing is not a genteel profession. It's quite nasty and tough and kind of dirty.

It's very difficult to learn not to take nasty heckles personally.

I like to be firm. But it is easier to be nice than to be nasty.

Stress overload makes us stupid. Solid research proves it. When we get overstressed, it creates a nasty chemical soup in our brains that makes it hard to pull out of the anxious depressive spiral.

When I started blogging in 2004, I responded to every comment no matter how nasty the reader was. I was generally polite, believing that these critics would be so charmed by my professionalism that they would see the error of their misogynist ways and swiftly run out to read a bell hooks book. Ha!

I think any time anybody says something nasty about you, it's hard to deal with it.

I'm not, nor is anybody I know in government part of a nasty right wing clique.

The economics of the security world are all horribly, horribly nasty and are largely based on fear, intimidation and blackmail.

When you get to know someone, you find there's something nasty in their woodshed.

Some actresses are just insane. I've never worked with a nasty actress - they're all absolutely delightful. But completely barking.

It's volatile, the marriage. Which one isn't? Nothing better than a good, full-on row. Get it all out. Say rude and nasty things. And then be sorry. Genuinely sorry, afterwards.

Knowledge is not eating, and we cannot expect to devour and possess what we mean. Knowledge is recognition of something absent; it is a salutation, not an embrace.

The Nixon administration kept a nasty eye on our show... Cops would come by - often just in time to see the act they wanted to see.

A dirty joke is a sort of mental rebellion.

One of the jokes is there's nothing quite as scary as a nasty beaver. Maybe it'll intimidate the other team. If nothing else, it's good for a laugh.

On the one hand, it's nasty to see it because you see what's going on. On the other hand, there are going to be a lot of happy women and children tonight because this is the first time we've had some men come out (in a while).

I work really hard at these books, and when colleagues write nasty reviews of them, I take it very personally.

I was terrified and confused every day of my life until I started Nasty Gal, and for a good while after as well.

Life is painful, nasty and short . . . in my case it has only been painful and nasty.

Man, I remember those nasty turns, and how hard it was to judge them. That's what made it so difficult, and the reason the drivers are always so competitive. I always said if you could win at Stockton, you could win anywhere.

Obviously we?re not happy with the result. We got out to the lead early like we wanted, but things slipped through our hands from there. It got nasty after that.

My entire youth has been Nasty Gal. My entire future is Nasty Gal.

Right now, I don't care if we get yellow cards. I want this group to be nasty as a team because sometimes we're too soft. And tonight I got a feeling when I was on the sideline that New England kept (complaining) to the referee. That was a good sign because we were playing tough.

I don't know who's going to live or who's going to die. But we do know this: it's going to be a very nasty competitive mess.

Leslie played with a little chip on her shoulder, but it was a good chip. It wasn't nasty or mean, but if she got mad, she got intense and there wasn't much you could do to stop her.

There are lots of problems in Iraq, and this episode was done by some nasty actors who are not friendly to the United States.

Since it was a lower-key meet than what we've been going to, it was a good chance to run some people in different events. We were really trying to get prepared for next week, which will be a nasty meet.

Most people have a receptor that's very sensitive to the bitter-tasting compound, but in people that have this variant form, they can tolerate higher concentrations of this bitter compound without it tasting nasty to them.

Make sure you leave enough cash value to keep the policy in force or you could get a nasty tax bill.

So just think of it as we're taking away a nasty Thursday and you get an extra holiday day on Monday.

Software companies have a nasty habit of doing so much of their business in the last moments of the quarter that they typically only confess once the quarter has come to a close.

Sigmund Freud makes people irritable. Whenever someone mentions Freud, say, at a dinner party, I see eyes roll and listen to the nasty remarks that follow.

She's a little on the nasty side. She's very self-centered, and a lot of fun to play!

I was warned the camels can be nasty, especially the young ones. I was warned to give it a wide berth.

Let's all commit ourselves to the basic civility of minding our own business. Failing that, let's go back to a time when we were nasty and judgmental, but only behind one another's backs.

I have a whole new respect for the guys that are successful at it, because it's not an easy job to sit for a few days and come in and face those nasty setup men when you're cold. That's why most organizations, most managers tend to lean on veteran guys like myself. We've been around awhile and maybe have a book on some of those pitchers and can handle the situation." ()

Know your stuff. That makes it easier to avoid nasty surprises, such as a contract coming up for renewal with no clauses capping price increases in it, when you have allowed yourself no time to renegotiate anything.

Frankly, I'm glad he wasn't here. When he plays Lake Region gets a nasty edge.

FRIENDSHIP, n. A ship big enough to carry two in fair weather, but only one in foul.The sea was calm and the sky was blue; Merrily, merrily sailed we two.(High barometer maketh glad.) On the tipsy ship, with a dreadful shout, The tempest descended and we fell out.(O the walking is nasty bad!) --Armit Huff Bettle

I don't want him growing up with me working two jobs. I don't want him to have a childhood like I did. I had a nasty childhood.

I don't want moral ambiguity. This is legal ambiguity. This is a nasty world. These guys are trying to do the best they can.

Bunthorne's a high baritone, which is what I am. And I already come with the British accent, so that won't be a problem. You know, the designers came over and showed me the costumes. And they're wonderful--outrageous, campy, over-the-top. So maybe that's the new market I'm going to be cornering: campy, over-the-top characters who have a nasty side. Hmmm. What are they trying to tell me?

Chris has some nasty stuff and is hard to hit his fastball at 90 mph. He throws some breaking pitches at times. We're expecting a lot of things from both Chris and Andrew.

He recognized that it was hard being a black umpire, that there were times that people had nasty racial things to say. But the main thing is that he wanted to do a good job. He loved it.

We thought Will broke his leg, but he has a deep bone bruise. Nelson has horrible shin splints and Luis has a nasty bruise. It's yellow and purple. We've joked around that it looks like some kind of disease, because it's spread over his entire leg.

He keeps preaching to me that that's the kind of receiver I can be. I watch him and I admire the guy, so I'm going to go out there and watch film of him because that's the kind of receiver I want to be, a nasty guy who does everything.

He could be pretty hard to handle in there. If he taps into everything he has to bring, he could become a nasty afternoon for some center.

He was stripped on the top of the joint behind the hock, ... It could have been nasty but fortunately the wound wasn't too deep.

We look at the temperature and moisture profile and very closely at the wind profile because...the nasty tornadoes tend to occur on windy days, and that's because it's the wind that helps organize these storms into killers.

He has electric stuff. So far, he's been lights-out. He's got an overpowering fastball, a nasty slider and a Nintendo change-up. It's good to have him, for sure. From what I've seen, he's got the makeup and the stuff.

He takes the ball every day, he never complains and he gets the job done. He has nasty stuff. He warms up quick to get in a game.

He has nasty stuff. He was throwing inside and made me go to right. I guess I was due.

He had another great outing. He really had them off balance with a nasty curve. For not being a true pitcher, he certainly has done a great job.

Hmm. This could actually be a nasty storm.

He's got the makings of being a nasty closer.

He's done very, very well. He started last year for the most part and has remained the starter this year. He needs to keep improving, getting better day in and day out and becoming a big, strong, hard, nasty defender.

He's a very explosive player. I'd like to say he's nasty in the sense he's very aggressive, very physical. He goes 110 percent every play.

He's got nasty stuff, that guy. He threw it exactly where I was looking.