Gross Quotes

• You don't pay back your parents. You can't. The debt you owe them gets collected by your children, who hand it down in turn. It's a sort of entailment. Or if you don't have children of the body, it's left as a debt to your common humanity. Or to your God, if you possess or are possessed by one. The family economy evades calculation in the gross planetary product. It's the only deal I know where, when you give more than you get, you aren't bankrupted - but rather, vastly enriched.

  

  Lois McMaster
  • Children
  • Humanity
  • Parent

• It is a gross overstatement, but in chess, it can be said I play against my opponent over the board and against myself on the clock.

  

  Viktor Korchnoi
  • Chess
  • Clock
  • Opponents

• Some of them are okay, but the popular girls like to pick on my sister, and almost all the guys are gross. I don't know why guys are like that. Do you?

  

  Regina Doman
  • Like
  • Popular
  • Sister

• Flattery of the verbal kind is gross. In short, applause is of too coarse a nature to be swallowed in the gross, though the extract or tincture be ever so agreeable.

  

  William Shenstone
  • Kind
  • Flattery
  • Applause

• Hi, folks, I'm Jerry Gross. No, I'm not, I'm Jerry Coleman.

  

  Jerry Coleman
  • Folks
  • Gross
  • Jerry

• Greed is gross. Greed is vile. Greed sucks.

  

  Yasmin Alibhai
  • Greed
  • Gross

• It is the artist's function not to copy but to synthesise: to eliminate from that gross confusion of actuality which is his raw material whatever is accidental, idle, irrelevant, and select for perpetuation that only which is appropriate and immortal.

  

  William Ernest Henley
  • Confusion
  • Immortal
  • Select

• Our statute books gradually became laden with gross, stereotyped distinctions between the sexes and, indeed, throughout much of the 19th century the position of women in our society was, in many respects, comparable to that of blacks under the pre-Civil War slave codes.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Book
  • War
  • Slave

• Firms would be given initial entitlements to gross markup on the basis of past performance, adjusted by changes in labor and capital inputs. This is somewhat similar to the definition of normal profits under some versions of the wartime excess -profits tax. Entitlements would be transferable and a competitive market established.

  

  William Vickrey
  • Past
  • Firm
  • Entitlement

• Due to Multi-Tenancy our gross margin by over 70%.

  

  Zach Nelson
  • Gross
  • Dues
  • Margins

• I don't think there's anything innately erotic about pigs. But, generally, they are sweet, shy, mysterious creatures. Especially the little ones. When they get big, they get kinda gross.

  

  Kim Deal The Breeders
  • Creatures
  • Don't Think
  • Pigs

• It was supposed to be gross, and now it's gorgeous.

  

  Dave Grohl Nirvana
  • Supposed
  • Gorgeous
  • Gross

• I find it gross to talk about bodily functions like shitting or farting or your period, if you're a girl, unless it's extremely necessary.

  

  Riley Keough
  • Girl
  • Function
  • Periods

• O, that this too too solid flesh would melt Thaw and resolve itself into a dew! Or that the Everlasting had not fix'd His canon 'gainst self-slaughter! O God! God! How weary, stale, flat and unprofitable, (135) Seem to me all the uses of this world! Fie on't! ah fie! 'tis an unweeded garden, That grows to seed; things rank and gross in nature Possess it merely. That it should come to this! But two months dead: nay, not so much, not two: (140) So excellent a king; that was, to this.

  

  William Shakespeare
  • World
  • Garden
  • Excellent

• It was a different planet in 1967, the Broadway theatre. It had a little ashtray clamped to the back of every seat and the author got 10% of the gross.

  

  Tom Stoppard
  • Different
  • Theatre
  • Author

• His element is so fine Being sharpened by his death, To drink from the wine-breath While our gross palates drink from the whole wine.

  

  William Butler Yeats
  • Wine
  • Drink
  • Fine

• I should dread to disfigure the beautiful ideal of the memories of illustrious persons with incongruous features, and to sully the imaginative purity of classical works with gross and trivial recollections.

  

  William Wordsworth
  • Beautiful
  • Memories
  • Purity

• For every five sales you make, another nine customers who had hoped to buy from you will leave your store disappointed and empty-handed. This means your existing store traffic can give you 2.8 times your current sales volume, if you sell only those customers who are ready to buy. The only thing more expensive than hiring a sales trainer is not hiring one. Any investment in sales training is an investment in your own gross profits.

  

  Roy H. Williams
  • Training
  • Sales
  • Investment

• Now there are three guys who directed "Twilight" films that had a gross of a gazillion dollars. All those "Hunger Games" guys, the "Divergent" guys. All those people. When they are looking for the next big director, they see they have a track record. So there's 20 people that spun off of "Twilight" that have more qualifications than any woman.

  

  Catherine Hardwicke
  • Guy
  • Film
  • Bigs

• Free from gross passion or of mirth or anger

  

  William Shakespeare
  • Passion
  • Gross
  • Mirth

• The bus scares me. Way too many gross people on the bus. Sixty-five people on the bus and I was the last one on. I felt like calling Unsolved Mysteries. 'Yeah, I found everybody.

  

  Kathleen Madigan
  • People
  • Everybody
  • Last

• And so, when two Christians who are both members of the Body of Christ decide to engage into sexual activity then what you are really doing is you are having sex with Jesus. 'If you have done it unto the least of these my brethren then you have done it unto me.' That's gross you are having sex with Jesus.

  

  Creflo A. Dollar
  • Jesus
  • Activity
  • Christians

• Friendship's an abstract of this noble flame, 'Tis love refin'd, and purged from all its dross, 'Tis next to angel's love, if not the same, As strong in passion is, though not so gross.

  

  Katherine Philips
  • Strong
  • Friendship
  • Flame

• I don't want to do any more movies where I look at it and go, 'Oh, God, gross.

  

  Sean Young
  • Want
  • Looks
  • Gross

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