Obscene Quotations

Capturing intimacy is pretty much the only thing I'm interested in. That's what excites me and what I find beautiful in movies personally - that almost obscene sense that we shouldn't be this close to these people. I find that very inviting and meaningful as an audience member.

I pass by that it is very culpable to be facetious in obscene and smutty matters.

I actually don't have a view on whether someone watching certain material that may be legal in some places, but might be obscene to somebody else, can trigger a violent streak in someone.

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.'

In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene.

In the end, postmodern art is obscene not because it is offensive, but because it is boring.

Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair.

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.

'Forever Amber,' written by Kathleen Winsor in 1944, was banned in Boston at the time of its publication as obscene and offensive. This alone would have been enough to excite my interest, but in 1956, it was sitting inoffensively on the shelves of the small country library on the north shore of Oahu, Hawaii, where my family spent its summers.

In some ways, risk-taking is the ultimate act of self-indulgence, an obscene insult to the preciousness of life. And yet, how can one dismiss something that persists despite every reasonable theory that it shouldn't?

It's hilarious to me that by writing an obscene fake children's book I am mistaken for a parenting expert.

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.

There's nothing so obscene and depressing as an American Christmas.

Some obscene antics were displayed to police through the window. Clearly it was confidence brought on by the ingestion of alcohol.

Obscene richness in the light of extreme poverty is a grave injustice.

Politics has become a millionaire's game, and I am not one. It takes an obscene amount of money to mount a Congressional campaign.

I don't fault my former law firm for running their business like a business or expecting their new hire to be worth the obscene rate she was billed out at, but fun it was not.

Under our current collective-bargaining contract there is an incentive program that our members are sharing in. Given the obscene level of profits the company is now enjoying, though, it should probably be more.

Under current law, the legal question of whether speech is obscene is determined partly by reference to local community standards, ... EFF is concerned that these venue rules permits censorship of speech on the Internet under the standards of the least tolerant community, negating the values that the community standards doctrine was intended to protect -- diversity and localism in the marketplace of ideas.

Just McDonald's by themselves spends 1.2 billion dollars a year. And that's just radio, television and print. That's an obscene amount of money.

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.

Such is American business, I guess, where the desire for obscene profit mutes any discussion of conscience.

My race is going to cost $22-million, ... That is an obscene amount of money, but it is driven by the size of the state of Florida and the costs of television.

I think Microsoft's situation was a little company-specific, in that it had so much cash on the balance sheet that it was almost obscene to investors.

We need to fix the Bush prescription drug plan that subsidizes big pharmaceutical companies at the expense of senior citizens. We need to stop the oil companies from obscene profiteering, which reduces the standard of living for so many Americans. As usual, this Administration prescribes the same quack medicine for all our ailments: tax breaks for the richest Americans and the largest, most profitable corporations.

The rates as obscene as they may sound are, in relation to the risk, nothing.

Today's announcement should send the message loud and clear that the department is committed to using the CAN-SPAM Act and the federal laws to stop those who invade the homes of American families with unwanted, obscene spam.

But I could never make a judgement that something was obscene.

guilt is the cause of more marauders than history's most obscene disauders

How ravished one could be without ever being touched. Ravished by dead words become obscene and dead ideas become obsessions.

We do not offer pornographic content nor do we plan to offer pornographic or obscene content.

Employees will go through the photos to filter out those images that don't meet our guidelines. Some images that we deem objectionable would include nudity, images that are obscene or show violence, or are controversial in a political way.

The word 'vagina' is not an obscene word and we're not in a position to question the First Amendment.

People are stopping me on the street, ... Most people would drive by me the last few years and give me the obscene gesture. Now they're saying, 'Hey coach, great win.'

Now is the time for Wal-Mart to seize the moment and become a better company. No hardworking American should ever have to live without health care or struggle to survive on poverty-level wages while corporate America makes obscene profits.

A political race today, even a primary, is $150 million. The whole political system has become obscene in terms of the absurd amount of money that is required to compete. Just put it on ESPN and call it a sporting event.

This is an obscene action by the Detroit City Council. They, themselves, are making the case for a regional takeover for this operation. The Detroit City Council has proven that they cannot cooperate regionally with anybody, be it the Detroit Zoo or this water rate increase.

This is another simple bill to set a clear state standard to be sure state-owned or leased computers are not used to view or distribute obscene material or sexually explicit material.

At a time when 6.5 million Californians cannot afford their health care and millions more are underinsured, it is obscene to allow executives to feed at the trough of huge cash and stock payouts.

It is part of our compliance with the Press Law, which bans all obscene publications. It is also part of our agreement with our owners, the U.S. Playboy magazine.

It's an obscene amount of money, but he's worth it. This team is going to do some exciting things. And there's no sense in going out and making $25 million if you're not winning championships.

It's obscene to go against a guy who will spend $100 million. We're never going to match this mayor dollar for dollar.

That little (extremely obscene word). He's been so much maligned this year. His heart was as big as the building.

The beautifully composed imagery of '12 Years a Slave' underscores the savagery of its subject, which is an American South not of knights and ladies but obscene values and a grotesque pageantry, every gorgeous shot of the languid landscape radiating toxicity like a hyperlush blossom that's poison to the touch.

It's disappointing that neither skyrocketing gas prices nor obscene oil company profits can break the bond between Bush Republicans and Big Oil. Americans are struggling to pay the rising cost of gas, and they are not interested in handouts to help oil companies make more money by letting them drill in wildlife refuges. Now it is finally time the Republican Congress acts to provide relief and to reduce our addiction to oil.

It was loud, hostile and somewhat threatening. There were burning tires, loud firecrackers and obscene chants. They weren't about to move and the police weren't about to move them, so we were stuck.

In the summer of 1988, my father took me up to look at the remains of our home, the dream house that he'd built. It was my first time since our family left four years earlier. Political and obscene graffiti covered the half-torn walls. There was no ceiling and surprisingly no floor: the parquet, the stone, the marble, all looted.

I just think it's obscene to scare the public with public safety cuts. They need to prioritize the budget.

I never minded George Steinbrenner spending obscene amounts of money to put the best product on the field.

How can my ankles and arms be obscene?

Não é a pornografia que é obscena, é a fome que é obscena It is not pornography that is obscene, it is hunger that is obscene.

Sex and obscenity are not synonymous.

Tout ce qui est anachronique est obsce' ne. Everything anachronistic is obscene.

To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy.

I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets:

It is morally obscene to regard wealth as an anonymous, tribal product and to talk about 'redistributing' it.

Women should be obscene, not heard.

Stinky says women should be obscene but not heard.