source: James Bridie, Association for Scottish Literary Studies (2007). “The devil to stage: five plays”, Association for Scottish Literary Studies (ASLS)

topic: Ignorance, Character, Boredom, Weakness Of Character, Crass

This isn't a picture filled with wonder and a sense of fun; it's so jaded and crass that I almost wonder if it's a highly unscientific experiment designed to gauge how little audiences will settle for these days. Manic and multicolored, Speed Racer is an excess of nothingness.

- Stephanie Zacharek

source: "Speed Racer" by Stephanie Zacharek, www.salon.com. May 09, 2008.

topic: Fun, Excess, Littles, Speed Racer, Crass

It is not proof that I sought. I, of all men, know that proof is but a fallacy invented by man to justify to himself and his fellows his own crass lust and folly.

- William Faulkner

source: William Faulkner (2011). “Selected Short Stories”, p.270, Modern Library

topic: Men, Lust, Proof, Crass

Snow White and the Seven Dwarves - it turned little people into crass stereotypes.

- Jedediah Bila

topic: Dwarves, White, People, Crass, Snow White

Don't compromise your heart for something crass.

- Rodney Crowell

source: Song: This Too Will Pass

topic: Heart, Advice, Compromise, Crass

All of us experience the sad effects of blind submission to consumerism. In the first place it represents crass materialism. At the same time it represents a radical dissatisfaction because one quickly learns that the more one possesses, the more one wants, while deeper aspirations remain unsatisfied and perhaps even stifled.

- Pope John Paul II

topic: Want, Firsts, Materialism, Dissatisfaction, Unsatisfied

I am too inquisitive, too skeptical, too arrogant, to let myself be satisfied with an obvious and crass solution of things. God is such an obvious and crass solution; a solution which is a sheer indelicacy to us thinkers - at bottom He is really nothing but a coarse commandment against us: ye shall not think!

- Friedrich Nietzsche

topic: Thinking, Arrogant, Coarse, Crass

We need to fight for free education and defund the prisons

- Chris Crass

topic: Fighting, Needs, Prison, Crass, Free Education

White supremacy has taught white people to be racially, culturally, & politically illiterate.

- Chris Crass

topic: White, People, Taught, Crass, White Supremacy

I need somebody to Trump-xplain(ph) this, because I don`t understand it.I`ve heard people defend him about making fun of a disability, making fun of John McCain, making fun of women - a woman`s face.I just wanted to hear somebody defend this as well, because it just never ends. No one will ever stop defending the crass stuff he says.

- Greg Gutfeld

source: Source: www.msnbc.com

topic: Fun, People, Needs, Crass

We're supposed to believe that oil had nothing to do with it, that if Iraq were exporting pickles or jelly and the center of world oil production were in the South Pacific that the United States would've liberated them anyway. It has nothing to do with the oil, what a crass idea. Anyone with their head screwed on knows that that can't be true.

- Noam Chomsky

source: Source: www.counterpunch.org

topic: Believe, Ideas, Oil, Exporting, Oil Production

Ralph Kramden, as played by Jackie Gleason, was this big bumbling New York City bus driver who was kind of mean and crass and a little bit egotistical. But underneath it all, he was a big heart looking for a place to land I think.

- George Saunders

source: "In Search For Answers, Author George Saunders Covers Trump Campaign". "Weekend Edition Saturday" with Lynn Neary, www.npr.org. July 9, 2016.

topic: New York, Mean, Heart, Crass, City Bus

- Ben Lerner

source: "Despair strikes me as eminently reasonable and boring". Interview with Tao Lin, believermag.com. September 2014.

topic: Historical Context, Crass, Minus, Vanguard, Contemporary Fiction

I have not been able to discover whether there exists a precise French equivalent for the common Anglo-American expression 'killing time.' It's a very crass and breezy expression, when you ponder it for a moment, considering that time, after all, is killing us.

- Christopher Hitchens

source: Christopher Hitchens (2012). “Love, Poverty and War: Journeys and Essays”, p.98, Atlantic Books Ltd

topic: Crass, Breezy

I'm very aware that when my friends and I sit around over dinner these days, the conversation invariably turns to how crass the world has become. Tweeting? It's one of the silliest things ever.

- Tom Ford

topic: Dinner, World, Judgmental, Crass

My persona on stage was always coming from a place of I know better than you and I'm going to be a little bit pretentious in your face with these sort of crass ideas.

- Bo Burnham

source: Source: www.craveonline.com

topic: Ideas, Faces, Littles, Crass

I'm not a movie person. They're collaborations of the worst kind. You must compromise yourself to many interests that are venal and crass and do not have your best interests at heart.

- John Irving

topic: Heart, Collaboration, Compromise, Crass, Best Interests At Heart

The British are the only people in history crass enough to have made revolutionaries out of Americans.

- Shashi Tharoor

source: "The Great Indian Novel". Book by Shashi Tharoor, August 24, 1989.

topic: People, Revolutionary, Enough, Crass

Well, truth be told it was the hope on the last one, it's always the hope. It's just you don't just wasn't to do it- everything we do is, for a lack of a more crass term, everything we do is pushing against the conveyer belt.

- Bryan Burk

topic: Lasts, Pushing, Truth Is, Crass

The Germans take quite a knock for the holocaust, but the Catholic church manages to push more people into death, disease, and degradation every year than the holocaust managed in its entire show. And it's thought rather crass to even mention the fact. It seems to me that as long as these Catholic bishops can show their face in public that we are in complicity with mass murder.

- Terence McKenna

topic: Years, Long, People, Complicity, Crass

I have a nice bookshelf in my office, but not my house. I'm crass, but not that crass.

- Jerry Seinfeld

topic: Nice, Office, House, Crass

I don't think it's fair - you get married, you give your wife a wedding ring. I think you should give her a mood ring. Oh, it may sound crass, but just check the color when you come home. 'Hi honey. Infernal red? Oh boy, I ain't getting laid, and I gotta cut the lawn, I know it.'

- Adam Ferrara

topic: Home, Cutting, Boys, Crass, Getting Laid

Val- I’m on Bourbon– (Acheron) I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the cesspit of humanity. (Valerius)

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

source: Sherrilyn Kenyon (2009). “Bad Moon Rising: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.91, St. Martin's Press

topic: Humanity, Venture, Horror, Crass, Plebeians

What is noble, lyrical, tender in the upper level shown is also with the servants, scoundrels, and scamps, as in a distorting mirror. This contrast seems to me a most appealing musical theme--to show love in its noble and crude forms, romanticism and crass realism mixed as in everyday life.

- Stefan Zweig

source: Richard Strauss, Stefan Zweig (1977). “A Confidential Matter: The Letters of Richard Strauss and Stefan Zweig, 1931-1935”, p.70, Univ of California Press

topic: Mirrors, Musical, Everyday, Crass

To survive in a lot of male-dominated situations - the police, the military, what have you - you put on a bit of the crass, blowhard thing, because you just can't survive being the nice guy in those environments.

- Dean Norris

source: "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

topic: Military, Nice, Guy, Blowhards, Crass

Val, I'm on Bourbon—” “I will not venture down that street of crass iniquities and plebeian horror, Acheron. It is the cesspit of humanity. Don‟t even ask it.” Ash rolled his eyes at the Roman‟s arrogant tone. “I need you in the swamp.” Silence answered him. "We have a situation." “Where do you need me?

- Sherrilyn Kenyon

topic: Eye, Silence, Humanity, Iniquity, Crass

Straight out of Blackpool, I'm William Regal. My rhymes so intense, they shouldn't be legal. My style is refined, not crude and crass. I'll keep you grounded, like volcanic ash. I'll take you down, rung by rung. I'm just like British Parliment; I'm completely hung. Straight-up gangsta trippin'. Yes, boy!

- William Regal

topic: Boys, Gangsta, Wwe, Crass, Regal

We need to move away from crass, consumption-driven materialism by de-materialising status

- Jonathon Porritt

topic: Moving, Needs, Materialism, Crass

Again, as egotistical as I am, as self-centered as I am, and as much as I love strangers idolizing me, I find it very crass to be self-promoter in a way.

- John Larroquette

topic: Self, Way, Stranger, Crass, Promoters

Killing time. Its a very crass and breezy expression when you ponder it for a moment, considering that time, after all, is killing us.

- Christopher

topic: Expression, Moments, Killing, Crass, Breezy

No single imagination is wild or crass or cheesy enough to compete with the collective mindlessness that propels our fascination forward.

- Karen Tei Yamashita

source: Karen Tei Yamashita (1997). “Tropic of Orange: A Novel”

topic: Imagination, Cheesy, Fascination, Crass

It is not OK in this culture to talk to friends about causes you believe in, much less to ask them to join in. It's OK to blast perfect strangers with crass messages every hour of the day, but it's a tinge embarrassing, it brings up some shyness, it seems an intrusion, it risks rejection to share real heartfelt commitments. It's easier to share our cynicism with strangers than our dreams with friends.

- Donella Meadows

topic: Dream, Real, Believe, Intrusion, Crass

When I go to the cinema, I want to have a cinematic experience. Some people ignore the sound and you end up seeing something you might see on television and it doesn't explore the form. Sound is the other picture. When you show people a rough cut without the sound mix they are often really surprised. Sound creates a completely new world. With dialogue, people say a lot of things they don't mean. I like dialogue when it's used in a way when the body language says the complete opposite. But I love great dialogue I think expositional dialogue is quite crass and not like real life.

- Lynne Ramsay

source: Interview with Geoff Andrew, www.theguardian.com. October 28, 2002.

topic: Real, Mean, Cutting, Complete Opposites, Crass

Leonard Woolf in a letter to Lytton Strachey said he hated John Maynard Keynes "for his crass stupidity and hideous face".

- Leonard Woolf

topic: Stupidity, Letters, Faces, Keynes, Crass

Gardening is not trivial. If you believe that it is, closely examine why you feel that way. You may discover that this attitude has been forced upon you by mass media and the crass culture it creates and maintains. The fact is, gardening is just the opposite - it is, or should be, a central, basic expression of human life.

- Andrew Weil

source: "One Simple Resolution: Gardening" by Andrew Weil, www.huffingtonpost.com. December 27, 2012.

topic: Attitude, Believe, Garden, Crass

Since populists never miss an opportunity to create a lot of noise about anti-Europe stance. However, the repercussions of the British referendum could quickly put a stop to such crass rabble-rousing, as it should soon become clear that the UK was better off inside the EU - economically, socially and in foreign policy terms.

- Jean-Claude Juncker

source: Source: www.businessinsider.com

topic: Opportunity, Europe, Missing, Crass, Referendums

You can reach a situation where things of intelligence and refinement and culture can be considered elite, and things that are crass and ignorant can be considered to be real and of the people. And when you begin to have the mass of populus striving for something that's not worth striving for, then tremendous amounts of energy go into...the maintenance of that which is worthless.

- Wynton Marsalis

topic: Real, People, Ignorant, Crass

I don't see anything that could happen that could turn Never Trumpers into Trumper voters. They're two dug in on the whole concept that Trump is not even a human being in the realm of politics. That Trump is just the worst guy ever to want to be in politics. He's just repulsive, he's repugnant, he's crass, he's all these things.

- Rush Limbaugh

source: Source: www.rushlimbaugh.com

topic: Two, Guy, Want, Crass

The TV commercials, which are endless and fairly crass, gave birth to Brock, the bad-lawyer character in Razor Girl. In real life you can find even sleazier examples than him.

- Carl Hiaasen

source: "'True-life Source Material Is Fabulously Bizarre' - Carl Hiaasen Answers Our Questions about 'Razor Girl'". Interview with Adrian Liang, www.omnivoracious.com. September 8, 2016.

topic: Girl, Real, Character, Tv Commercial, Crass

I think because of these big issues of life and death that maybe sex feels like a crass question. But for Christ sake, this is a book that is so interested in an elemental human condition. And one of the ideas about surrender is an erotic surrender, too. These folks are surrendered by destiny; they surrender to each other in certain moments, but there is a lot of erotic surrender.

- Chang-Rae Lee

source: Source: therumpus.net

topic: Sex, Book, Destiny, Crass, This Is A Book

In some of our subcultures, paper bags are often used to carry intimate personal belongings. And the sight of some of our less fortunate citizens carrying their belongings in brown paper bags is too familiar to permit such crass biases to diminish protection of privacy.

- David L. Bazelon

topic: Sight, Bags, Citizens, Crass, Paper Bags

Modern man has no real "value" for the ocean. All he has is the most crass form of egoist, pragmatic value for it. He treats it as a "thing" in the worst possible sense, to exploit it for the "good" of man. The man who believes things are there only by chance cannot give things a real value. But for the Christian the value of a thing is not in itself autonomously, but because God made it.

- Francis Schaeffer

topic: Christian, Real, Believe, Crass

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