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Tag Name "Profanity" (42)

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Profanity is the parlance of the fool. Why curse when there is such a magnificent language with which to discourse?
Theodore Roosevelt
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Profanity is the result of a weak mind trying to express itself forcably.
Randall Dale Adams
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Profanity is filthiness. A person is known as much by his language as he is by the company he keeps...Filthiness in any form is degrading and soul-destroying and should be avoided.
Joseph Fielding Smith
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profanity and obscenity entitle people who don't want unpleasant information to close their ears and eyes to you.
Kurt Vonnegut
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Profanity is merely an expression of one's emotions
Alanis Morissette
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Profanity is the effort of a feeble brain to express itself forcibly.
Spencer W. Kimball
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I'm always trying to reach a transcendent point, a romantic point, but reach it in a really unconventional way, a really profane way. To get to that romantic, touching, heartbreaking place, but through a lot of acts of profanity.
Chuck Palahniuk
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My God, look at the words people use today. They use profanity like it's nothing. Christ almighty.
Tommy Lasorda
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I've always liked Richard Pryor. I've always responded to rhythmic profanity.
David Rees
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For a woman to consider a financial question was shuddered over as a profanity.
Victoria Woodhull
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I've tried to reduce profanity but I reduced so much profanity when writing the book that I'm afraid not much could come out. Perhaps we will have to consider it simply as a profane book and hope that the next book will be less profane or perhaps more sacred.
Ernest Hemingway
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Here's what I'm going to have to say to all of you. If some of you have demons in your head who talk to you in profanity or whatever, don't let your demon shoot down your rock music, don't let your demon keep you off the joy bus. So like I say, Rock music pays off.
Wesley Willis
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I have no desire to be hip to the latest black slang and do the stereotypical black thing. I was a Richard Pryor fan, and I have used profanity in my act. But when it becomes a whole thing that defines blacks, we're limiting ourselves. The enemy is us.
Franklyn Ajaye
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All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.
Gordie Howe
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I knew the profanity used up and down my street would not go over the air... So I trained myself to say 'Holy Cow' instead.
Harry Caray
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Aping urbanity, Oozing with vanity, Plump as a manatee, Faking humanity, Intellectual inanity, Journalistic calamity, Fox Noise insanity, You're a profanity, Hannity.
John Cleese
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I love profanity, but I think if it's used too much, it just sounds a little trashy. I think it's more effective when it's dropped intelligently. I like intelligent profanity.
Katie Aselton
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There is nothing like the occasional outburst of profanity to calm jangled nerves.
Kirby Larson
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...if you've never been cussed out by a Siamese, you don't know what profanity is all about!
Lilian Jackson Braun
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I don't trust people who don't use profanity.
Mark Oliver Everett
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I do not use profanity in my novels. My characters all go to church.
Nicholas Sparks
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A lie is profanity. A lie is the worst thing in the world. Art is the ability to tell the truth.
Richard Pryor
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The daily lesson of slum life, visualised, reiterated, of low standards, vile living, obscenity, profanity, impurity, is bound tobe dwarfing and debasing to the children who are in the midst of it.
Albion Fellows Bacon
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Okay, seriously, I dont know if this is true or not, but I heard people who use profanity are trying to compensate for their lack of you know... size -Tuck
Simone Elkeles
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