William Cobbett Quotes

WESTBURY, a nasty odious rotten-borough, a really rotten place.

William Cobbett

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• I refuse to buy a PS3 or Xbox for my home for fear that it might ruin my life. I think I would cease to accomplish anything productive, would quickly dispense with all human contact, and would very well end up with a nasty case of arthritis in my over-used digits from constant gameplay.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Life
  • Up
  • Home

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

  

  Queen Victoria
  • Baby
  • Ugly
  • Nasty

• What I hate is nasty, ugly people.

  

  Karl Lagerfeld
  • People
  • Hate
  • Ugly

• They have horses in 'Snow White?' I am lucky nothing nasty happens to horses in 'Snow White.'

  

  Tarsem Singh
  • Snow
  • Nasty
  • Horses

• Never let anybody get you down. Never give in to people who say nasty things on the Internet. Work to represent women in the best way possible because, even though respect and equality for women has progressed over time, it's still not in the place that it should be.

  

  Harley Quinn Smith
  • People
  • Time
  • Work

• Having traveled to parts of the world where war has done its usual nasty work on people's lives, I have come to develop a particular hatred for the shape, the look, the sound of the AK-47.

  

  Abigail Disney
  • People
  • World
  • Work

• Of all the nasty outcomes predicted for women's liberation... none was more alarming, from a feminist point of view, than the suggestion that women would eventually become just like men.

  

  Barbara Ehrenreich
  • Men
  • Women
  • Feminist

• 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.

  

  Nathan Wolfe
  • Know
  • Like
  • Potential

• 'Dallas' hit a chord back in the late Seventies and Eighties because it was the age of greed: here you have this unapologetic character who is mean and nasty and ruthless and does it all with an evil grin. I think people related to JR back then because we all have someone we know exactly like him. Everyone in the world knows a JR.

  

  Larry Hagman
  • People
  • World
  • Character

• The Platonists and their Christian successors held the peculiar notion that the Earth was tainted and somehow nasty, while the heavens were perfect and divine. The fundamental idea that the Earth is a planet, that we are citizens of the Universe, was rejected and forgotten.

  

  Carl Sagan
  • Earth
  • Perfect
  • Universe

• Even the most morbid of the rape ranters have a childlike faith in the perfectibility of the universe, which they see as blighted solely by nasty men. They simplistically project outward onto a mythical 'patriarchy' their own inner conflicts and moral ambiguities.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Men
  • Faith
  • Universe

• The American people already know that Bill Clinton is a bad boy, a naughty boy. I'm going to speak out for the citizens of my state who in the majority think that Bill Clinton is probably even a nasty, bad, naughty boy.

  

  Larry Craig
  • People
  • American
  • Bad

• The nasty thing about the availability bias is that it insidiously distorts our view of the world by distorting our perception of past events and our environment.

  

  Leonard Mlodinow
  • World
  • Past
  • Environment

• I think it would be very hard to go out with an actress, because they're mad. Some actresses are just insane. I've never worked with a nasty actress - they're all absolutely delightful. But completely barking.

  

  Daniel Radcliffe
  • Mad
  • Nasty

• 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.

  

  Leah Busque
  • Time
  • Nasty

• Beatbullying's 'The Big March 2012' is such a brilliant campaign and I am very proud to be a part of it. I have been a victim of cyber bullying myself and I know firsthand just how hurtful it can be. People think that they can hide behind computers and send nasty and hurtful comments to people, and this is wrong.

  

  Katherine Jenkins
  • People
  • Proud
  • March

• I do like to write nasty songs. It's a useful weapon to have, and it's cathartic as well, because I create art out of anger, something positive out of something negative.

  

  Lisa Marie Presley
  • Art
  • Positive
  • Nasty

• 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.

  

  Kelly Bishop
  • Funny
  • Nasty

• The one thing I've learnt is that you don't want to be nasty about anybody, unless they've dropped dead. And the annoying thing is that most of the people that I know who've dropped dead are really great.

  

  Jools Holland
  • People
  • Great
  • Annoying

• If I cry, it's about the personal loss of a friend or something like that. But when it comes to politics - no, I don't cry.

  

  Nancy Pelosi
  • Friend
  • Politics
  • Loss

• Around age 11 or 12, I started playing jazz bass. From there, I went to electric bass and then guitar, which I kept up for a long time.

  

  Joshua Roman
  • Age
  • Guitar
  • Jazz

• Lately, I've been doing a lot of tuning in and impatiently tuning out. As a longtime fan of talk radio, I don't think this bodes well for the long-term broad appeal of the medium.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Long
  • Think
  • Doing

• I'm blessed that I can leave it to the pros at work and red-carpet events, because I can't say I'm adept. Still, I'm definitely not afraid to take chances when it comes to beauty.

  

  Becki Newton
  • Work
  • Beauty
  • Red

• WESTBURY, a nasty odious rotten-borough, a really rotten place.

  

  William Cobbett
  • Nasty
  • Rotten