Appalling Quotes

The photographs were never about me. They were always about the people who were laying their lives on the line for basic civil rights. I look back and I can't believe there was ever a time in this country when ANY citizen could not vote. The times were appalling.

There is a sacred horror about everything grand. It is easy to admire mediocrity and hills; but whatever is too lofty, a genius as well as a mountain, an assembly as well as a masterpiece, seen too near, is appalling.

By virtually any measure, the record of the Republican Majority is an appalling failure.

I'm the end of the line; absurd and appalling as it may seem, serious New York theater has died in my lifetime.

We need to recognise that what really matters isn't buying more and more consumer goods, but family, friends, and knowing that we are doing something worthwhile with our lives. Helping to reduce the appalling consequences of world poverty should be part of that reassessment.

In remembering the appalling suffering of war on both sides, we recognise how precious is the peace we have built in Europe since 1945.

It is only by the rational use of technology; to control and guide what technology is doing; that we can keep any hopes of a social life more desirable than our own: or in fact of a social life which is not appalling to imagine.

People say things about me all the time and I get over it. I've had some appalling things told about me.

Local television news, on both radio and television, is so appalling. Makes print journalism look like the greatest stuff ever written.

The writer's greed is appalling. He wants, or seems to want, everything and practically everybody, in another sense, and at the same time, he needs no one at all.

You have to steer a course between not appalling people, but at the same time not misleading them.

When I was living in New York, I had this slightly wannabe bohemian existence and took up painting, at which I'm appalling. I also bought several guitars.

I know I could never be in a pop band. I honestly have an appalling voice.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.