Words matter. These are the best Obscene Quotes from famous people such as Jenny Zhang, Groucho Marx, James Sinegal, Carine Roitfeld, Jason Isaacs, and they’re great for sharing with your friends.
I’m always interested in what is seen as obscene or profane or unfit.
Women should be obscene and not heard.
Obscene salaries send the wrong message through a company. The message is that all brilliance emanates from the top; that the worker on the floor of the store or the factory is insignificant.
The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you’re working with a really good photographer.
I imagine like most of us that I’d like obscene amounts of money but the people I met and worked with who have those obscene amounts of money and have obscene amounts of fame have awful lives. Really. I mean hideously compromised lives.
I – honestly, I don’t know of a worse lie one could tell other than a lie to take a country to war. To make up things to take people to war. That’s just got to be the most obscene, immoral thing to do.
The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation’s history. I mean in this century’s history. But we all lived in this century. I didn’t live in this century.
And as far as doing God’s work, I think the bankers who took government money and then gave out obscene bonuses are the same self-interested sorts Jesus threw out of the temple.
I think it says something that I have never had an obscene letter. A young man once attempted one, but it was so totally illiterate and hopeless that it made me laugh.
With respect to the world of football, I earn a normal wage. But compared to 99.9% of Spain and the rest of the world, I earn an obscene amount.
I detest ‘Jingle Bells,’ ‘White Christmas,’ ‘Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,’ and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too.
The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene.
The closest I get to any sort of ‘designer’ items would probably be my weakness for jeans – they don’t have to be any particular brand, but I’m willing to do almost anything, go anywhere, spend obscene amounts of money for that elusive ‘perfect pair.’
My obsession is TV and movies, so I order an obscene amount of DVDs. And I have an obsession with handbags. So once a year, I treat myself to a luxury handbag.
The skin of my character in ‘The Man Who Fell to Earth’ was some concoction, a spermatozoon of an alien nature that was obscene and weird-looking.
It is only the great men who are truly obscene. If they had not dared to be obscene, they could never have dared to be great.
I didn’t think there was anything more or less obscene about any part of the body. Now, I recognize that there are certain postures and angles that make people see red, which are evidence of original sin or something, and I avoid that.
In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.
Man has learned how to challenge both Nature and art to become the incitements to vice! His very cups he has delighted to engrave with libidinous subjects, and he takes pleasure in drinking from vessels of obscene form!
The best thing I ever did was when I was offered a million dollars to go play in South Africa and didn’t take it. I was 21 years old, and part of it was like, ‘Well, if they’re offering me this obscene amount of money just to play one match, there must be something really wrong.’
The First Amendment is not an altar on which we must sacrifice our children, families, and community standards. Obscene material that is not protected by the First Amendment can and must be prohibited.
In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.
Only ugliness is obscene.
Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it’s not fair.
I don’t think there’s one thing I’ve ever said on the radio that would have been found indecent or obscene.
I have been offered obscene amounts to do commercials and stage shows abroad, but as a matter of principle, I am against them.
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest.
Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
I’ve always loved the idea that you think you know what you’re looking at from a distance, yet when you come up close, it gets intricate and nutty and obscene and provocative.
We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country.
