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  • English plays, Atrocious in content, Absurd in form, Objectionable in action, Execrable EnglishTheatre. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Federal spending is atrocious. -- Jason Chaffetz
  • It was a horrible, terrible, atrocious, offensive football game. -- Barry Switzer
  • All things atrocious and shameless flock from all parts to Rome. -- Tacitus
  • Tiny Tim? Anyone could sing like that. It's atrocious. It's hideous, really. -- Maurice Gibb
  • One arrives at style only with atrocious effort, with fanatical and devoted stubbornness. -- Gustave Flaubert
  • I would try and sing along with bands that I like but it sounded so atrocious that I couldn't. -- Joaquin Phoenix
  • But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter. -- Arthur Rimbaud
  • The New York playgoer is a child of nature, and he has an honest and wholesome regard of whatever is atrocious in art. -- Frank Moore Colby
  • The climate in the '50s and '60s for black performers or black people in the entertainment business was atrocious. It was atrocious. -- Quincy Jones
  • Many instances of persecution and killing have occurred in countries with atrocious human rights records such as Sri Lanka, Guatemala and the Democratic Republic of Congo. -- David Suzuki
  • I was always in the popular crowd, but I really had atrocious teeth. I was encouraged to 'do well in school, 'cause no one's going to marry you!' -- Gabrielle Union
  • The food is absolutely atrocious, and parents have no idea. Parents are giving their kids three dollars and saying, 'Okay, see you later. Go off to school and have a good lunch.' -- Morgan Spurlock
  • I know it is a somewhat delicate matter to refuse a gift, but in this case the statue is so atrocious that every endeavour should be made to keep it out of the church. -- Giles Gilbert Scott
  • Since the events of September 11, we've rightfully changed our military strategy so we're now taking the fight to those individuals who aim to do us harm, rather than waiting for another atrocious attack to happen. -- Jim Gerlach
  • When I got into the film business, my aim was to adopt a positive persona, of a guy who fights against injustice. And it saved me, because my acting was atrocious to say the least! -- Chuck Norris
  • One day I woke up with an atrocious hangover, and it hurt so badly that I told myself, 'It's time to stop. I can't do it anymore. It's not good. It hurts too much.' -- Jordan Knight
  • Within the black community, roughly 60 percent of children are born to single moms. Moms don't have the emotional wherewithal to deal with their children. Their English is atrocious. Their speaking is atrocious. The dropout rate is horrendous. -- Walter Dean Myers
  • Whereas religious prayers sing of peace and harmony, religion has divided human beings through an atrocious history of enmity and bloodshed. Yet, behind the veil of superficiality and hypocrisy, I always believed in the inherent beauty of God that lies at the essence of all true spiritual paths. -- Radhanath Swami
  • Why give chemotherapy or even antibiotics to people with end-stage Alzheimer's disease? Keep them pain free and clean, love them but don't automatically try to get the last technology-produced breath from them. Start a preschool program instead or do something about the atrocious state of obesity in our children. -- Richard Lamm
  • Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has been infuriating. The stuff that Bill O'Reilly says has been illogical. You go up and down the schedule and it's insanity over there. The number of lies, perpetuated, promoted by Fox News is just shameful and it hurts everybody. -- David Shuster
  • I personally never thought that 'Dallas' would resurrect itself because I didn't think anybody knew how to do it. And it was proven to me on the few attempts that were made. The movie that was going to be done, I read that script, it was atrocious. It was just awful. And I just didn't think anybody understood it anymore. -- Patrick Duffy
  • Well, I think in trying to make life seem real enough that one is moved to do something about the more atrocious things. By going really far afield into a completely fake world, maybe there's a chance to make things resonant somehow - or in this case, truly terrifying. To make it as bad as the real stuff that's happening. -- Jenny Holzer
  • Nothing is so atrocious as fancy without taste. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
  • Slavery is ...an atrocious debasement of human nature. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Donald Trump's language has been atrocious, his behavior toward women. -- Bernie Sanders
  • To speak of atrocious crimes in mild language is treason to virtue. -- Edmund Burke
  • I found the candles"?atrocious air freshening ones that smelled like fake pine. -- Richelle Mead
  • One advantage of bad bidding is that you get practice at playing atrocious contracts. -- Alfred Sheinwold
  • The reason most folksongs are so atrocious is that they were written by the people. -- Tom Lehrer
  • So what's the most atrocious thing you've seen?" He waved his hand: "Man, of course! -- Jonathan Littell
  • The atrocious crime of being a young man . . . I shall neither attempt to palliate nor deny. -- William Pitt, 1st Earl of Chatham
  • You are an atrocious person! Since the day I met you I have become steadily more depraved. -- Georgette Heyer
  • The footing was really atrocious. I loved it. I really like Cross Country; you're one with the mud. -- Lynn Jennings
  • God, so atrocious in the Old Testament, so attractive in the New--the Jekyl and Hyde of sacred romance. -- Mark Twain
  • The present can try to bury the past, an operation that is most atrocious when it is most successful. -- Mary McCarthy
  • But, truly, I have wept too much! The Dawns are heartbreaking. Every moon is atrocious and every sun bitter." -- Arthur Rimbaud
  • Highland werewolves had a reputation for doing atrocious and highly unwarranted *things*, like wearing smoking jackets to the dinner table. -- Gail Carriger
  • Your Egnlish is so atrocious I don't feel the need to even respond' seems but a long-winded way of saying, 'Home-schooled dumbass. -- George Takei
  • Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! Even though the sound of it is something quite atrocious! If you say it loud enough you'll always sound precocious. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious! -- Julie Andrews
  • My acting is atrocious, to say the least. But I've found that it's not acting that people are concerned about, it's your presence. -- Chuck Norris
  • I know what's like to be young and have atrocious spelling, spelling words all backwards, mixing up numbers, addresses. and things like that. -- Ashley Scott
  • Whoever would undertake some atrocious enterprise should act as if it were already accomplished should impose upon himself a future as irrevocable as the past. -- Jorge Luis Borges
  • I found it atrocious and downright infuriating to learn that one in three women on the planet will be raped or beaten in her lifetime. -- Sufe Bradshaw
  • Slavery is such an atrocious debasement of human nature, that its very extirpation, if not performed with solicitous care, may sometimes open a source of serious evils. -- Benjamin Franklin
  • Alekhine developed as a player much more slowly than most. In his twenties, he was an atrocious chessplayer, and didn't mature until he was well into his thirties. -- Bobby Fischer
  • From our perspective now, there is a not a huge understanding about the totalitarian Communism that Soviet Russia practiced during the 1950s - it was an atrocious system. -- Jay Roach
  • I'm an atrocious business man, because it's just not the way I think about things. And that's pretty much what all that Grammy/MTV kind of stuff is tied into. -- J. Robbins
  • N]either antiquity nor any other nation has imagined a more atrocious and blasphemous absurdity than that of eating God. This is how Christians treat the autocrat of the universe. -- Frederick the Great
  • As objects of contemplation, images of the atrocious can answer to several different needs. To steel oneself against weakness. To make oneself more numb. To acknowledge the existence of the incorrigible. -- Susan Sontag
  • Bonnat tells me, 'Your painting isn't bad, it is chic, but even so it isn't bad, but your drawing is absolutely atrocious.' So I must gather my courage and start once again... -- Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec
  • In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth, a life full of the most atrocious tortures on earth, will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel. -- Mother Teresa
  • But I wonder where we will land if trial judges begin deciding that the fact that a man has committed an atrocious crime is proof sufficient that he is not responsible for his acts. -- H. L. Mencken
  • The Black Parade only has two songs left. Then you'll have to deal with the likes of My Chemical Romance. Personally...I think their language is atrocious and they don't know how to dress. -- Gerard Way
  • I was devastated by the atrocious bombings that struck London today. These vicious acts have cut us all to the core, for they are an attack on humanity itself. [7th July 2005 - on London bombings -- Kofi Annan
  • Since the events of September 11, weve rightfully changed our military strategy so were now taking the fight to those individuals who aim to do us harm, rather than waiting for another atrocious attack to happen. -- Jim Gerlach
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