'The Satanic Verses' was denied the ordinary life of a novel. It became something smaller and uglier: an insult.
I thought last week's game was ugly and this was even uglier.
If you ever go bar hopping, who do you want to take with you? You want a slightly uglier version of yourself. Similar. . . but slightly uglier.
Deny your nature, and it will erupt in some other, uglier way.
Everything's uglier close up," she said. "Not you," I answered.
Failure in the theater is more dramatic and uglier than any other form of writing. It costs so much, you feel so guilty.
The uglier a man's legs are, the better he plays golf - it's almost a law.
There are days where I've lost weight and I feel bigger or fatter or uglier and I want to just hibernate. I'll find every excuse not to exercise. I hate it.
The artist as businessman is uglier than the businessman as artist.
I doubt if there is anything in the world uglier than a Midwestern city.
The most wonderful revenge you can have is by dumping an attractive, vacant man for an uglier one. That way all of his friends can scratch their heads, and for the next year or so wonder why.
He had better get married soon, because he's getting uglier every day!
As ugly as the truth is, it's even uglier when someone says out loud what you've been thinking to yourself.
God! Is there anything uglier than a frightened man!
Ali kept calling me ugly, but I never thought of myself as being any uglier than him, I have 11 babies, somebody thought I was cute.
There are many of our so-called captains on industry who, if the truth were told, and a shorter and uglier word were not unpermissible, are little better than malefactors of great wealth.
Los Angeles is like San Diego's older, uglier sister that has herpes.
To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something else. When the damming happens without good reason. . . then it's a tragedy of diminishment for the whole planet, a loss of one more wild thing, leaving Earth just a little flatter and tamer and simpler and uglier than before.
Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
We have an obligation to make things beautiful. Not to leave the world uglier than we found it, not to empty the oceans, not to leave our problems for the next generation.
