Ugly Quotations | Page 4

My story wasn't one of those cliched stories of being an ugly duckling, I had a pretty good time at school. But then I think being six foot by the age of 15 meant that I couldn't help but be noticed, and that was when my physical being felt quite painful - I could not any longer walk into a room without being noticed.

Look at the '99 Reds. I wasn't exactly God's gift to hair bleach. You have to go through an ugly stage before you get to the cute stage. Right now, he's dead smack in the ugly stage.

I was expecting an extremely ugly quarter but this was a great deal uglier than I'd thought.

It doesn't sound like the UAW is in the mood to be accommodating. So it looks like GM isn't going to get any more relief on the cost side until 2007. If they don't get it then, this is going to be an ugly situation.

It didn't paralyze her, though. It's pretty ugly but at least it didn't go into her brain.

I think they're doing whatever it takes for them to make a case for declaring impasse in hopes that they'll throw open the doors and see what happens from there. It's going to be an ugly, ugly process, and I think the game's going to get hurt terribly in the process.

That was the pivotal play of the game, a huge play. We could have been down 17-0 and it might have been ugly from there.

That was the most beautiful ugly win we've ever had. We're just elated to be going back to the Final Four.

That was ugly. I was waiting for the ugly duckling to turn into the swan, but it never happened.

That was probably the most beautiful ugly win we've had in the history of our program. Connecticut did a fantastic job. It was a war out there. They made us work for everything.

That was probably the hardest hit I've had in 10 years. I guess I blacked out for a few seconds. I remember reaching for the ball, and the next thing I remember was seeing (trainer) Al Bellamy's ugly mug asking me if I was OK.

That was probably the hardest hit I've had in 10 years, ... I guess I blacked out for a few seconds. I remember reaching for the ball, and the next thing I remember was seeing (trainer) Al Bellamy's ugly mug asking me if I was OK.

That's the part of the game I always hated, ... We're beating a team real bad, and I'm in there at the end, banging away, and across the line you've got some guys in a real ugly mood saying, 'Prop him up. I want the last shot.' That's when you really risk injury --for no reason at all.

I was proud to be with a lot of those guys in the huddle because they fought through it, and that shows character. It was an ugly season, and it wasn't what we had hoped for and not what we expected. But guys in that huddle kept playing, and I was proud of that.

I wasn't really worried about that. The main focus tonight was to get those ugly goals, go to the front of the net and get those rebounds, and I think we did. We screened us, he gave us a couple of rebounds and we made some nice plays, but we just had to play a simple game in the third and we didn't.

Melvin and I both haven't shaved since our last loss. I've trimmed mine up a little bit but Melvin hasn't shaved. The kids are giving me a hard time, but hey, I'll keep looking ugly if we keep winning games.

We need to prepare the country for what's coming. We are going to uncover people who died in their homes. It's going to be an ugly scene.

We need to prepare the country for what's coming ... we are going to uncover people who died hiding in the houses, maybe got caught in floods, it is going to be as ugly a scene as you can imagine,

We need to prepare the country for what's coming, ... We are going to uncover people who died hiding in the houses, maybe got caught in floods. It is going to be as ugly a scene as you can imagine.

You'll take an ugly win obviously, but that's not where we want to be. It may be one of the ugliest games I've been a part of.

You can call this win ugly but I thought it was pretty as all get-out. We defend. We take people out of their comfort level.

We continue to get treated like the ugly stepchild of the network. Anyway, I'm proud of what we accomplished.

We played horrible, but the key is we won. Looking at how Avon Park played in their semifinal with so much passion and desperation I kind of felt this game would be close. But the key is that we won and good teams win ugly games.

We're definitely not shooting enough and it shows. Our style of game is getting those ugly goals. Going to the net, crashing the net, that's when we have success. We have to keep doing that and focus in on getting a lot of shots on net.

Weekly earnings growth has been steadily declining. ... It's not dire yet, but clearly it's not helpful, and it's caused us (Americans) to have negative saving rates. People have poured all of their money from the stock market into housing. ... If the housing (market) busts it will get ugly fast.

We're a lot better than this. We have to pick it up. We can't play like that. We were just kind of sleepwalking through those games right there and you can't do that, get your butt whipped ugly like that two games in a row.

We got a win. No matter how ugly it is, it's still a win,

We have some very ugly numbers. You can argue that the ISM is still backward looking, and maybe even the jobless claims, but eventually we're going to need some evidence that the economy is improving. We had a lot of enthusiasm coming from earnings, but the news today is a little bit of a slap in the face that we're not out of the woods yet.

We played so ugly at the beginning of the game. We hadn't made an error all year long, and I think we booted three or four there early. I'm saying, 'What in the world's going on.' I think it was a character test for us.

We played ugly early, but as the game got along we played a little bit better. We got a lot of players in and everyone saw playing time. We were trying to work on some fundamentals, but it was a good outcome.

We've gotten some real ugly things. It's been disappointing.

We have had longtime quilters come in to volunteer their time, but because the quilts are so ugly they just could not continue to help.

We have a lot of work to do. But I'd rather win ugly than lose pretty.

We have won ugly a lot this year. But a win is a win. If this was ugly, we will win ugly. We need to fight and buckle down for everything that we can get.

Transportation is something that people feel every day. It's an ugly problem. It's very, very frustrating.

Yeah, that just went bad really fast. A matter of two really ugly ends.

We got the win, it didn't matter how ugly it was. We needed to get back on track.

We got the five points okay but it was pretty ugly and it took a long time to get going.

Those kinks usually have an ugly way of only materializing during the games.

We didn't represent the game of baseball the way it should be played. It was pretty ugly to say the least.

We had an ugly second half a year ago and had a lot of work ahead of us. What we laid out this year, the plan pretty well worked out and accomplished what we wanted to do.

When we remove the water from New Orleans, we're going to uncover people who died hiding in houses, who got caught by the flood, people whose remains will be found in the street, ... It is going to be about as ugly a scene as you can imagine.

When you see a tumour in the brain, it's an ugly looking thing. It's kind of black, grisly and messy. Or it can be white. To see it taken away is just amazing.

We didn't play very well. It was an ugly win but we'll take the points.

People say graffiti is ugly, irresponsible and childish... but that's only if it's done properly.

We don't know how to win ugly yet. It's either we have good offensive games or we lose.

The data is going to look ugly in the next couple of months.

An ugly voice repels me where an ugly face would not.

The truth, however ugly in itself, is always curious and beautiful to seekers after it.

I guess they have had 16 years when they haven't even been close in an Ashes series but we have found some sections of the crowd to be scathing and harsh. That has not been overly enjoyable. We have seen a pretty ugly side in some supporters.

You're looking exceptionally ugly tonight, Madam, is it because we have company?

Well it just looks so ugly. Is it a boy or is it a girl?

The combination of drugs, homosexuality, some good prose recited on screen. . . . In the sweat lodge ceremony we went through, did you get any glimpse of the Ugly Spirit, what that was historically or biographically?

The first person who really showed me the ugly spirit was Brion Gysin. "The ugly spirit shot Joan because . . ." and I never found out why. This Brion wrote out on a piece of paper in a sort of trance state.

It's very much related to the American tycoon. To William Randolph Hearst, Vanderbilt, Rockefeller, that whole stratum of American acquisitive evil. Monopolistic, acquisitive evil. Ugly evil. The ugly American. The ugly American at his ugly worst. That's exactly what it is.

This is the same notion - Catholic exorcism, psychotherapy, shamanistic practices - getting to the moment when whatever it was gained access. And also to the name of the spirit. Just to know that it's the Ugly Spirit. That's a great step. Because the spirit doesn't want its name to be known.

None of us are pretty, but our ugly has an alibi.

I'm not so much surprised by the success of 'Ugly Betty' as I am feeling so blessed by it.

It's the ugly things I notice more, because other people tend to ignore the ugly things.

I'm the guilty one for uttering those terrible, ugly words.

When you come out of that pink ugly hole onto this planet you're nothing but a gooey shrieking wrinkled ball of weakness.

As jazz fans, it was amusing for us to play jazz harmonies on these big, ugly electric guitars.

Not everyone gets a happily every after. Life is real and sometimes it's ugly and you just have to learn how to cope.

It's the beautiful moments like this that make up for the ugly love

If you carry around anger and ugly emotions it will show on your face.

I don't believe anyone is ugly.

Bitterness is so ugly.

Racism. It's ugly. Even in tubers.

Beautiful. And ugly. The world is always both.

People who don't have much get ugly about giving up the little they have left.

I'm ugly, I'm overweight, but I'm happy

Zis and zat' when uttered by the French is considered charming, but 'dis and dat' as an Africanism is ridiculed as gross and ugly.

Jealousy has always been my cross, the weakness and woundedness in me that has most often caused me to feel ugly and unlovable, like the Bad Seed.

God is always good and we are always loved... even when what He gives may appear ugly.

I want to see beauty. In the ugly, in the sink, in the suffering, in the daily, in all the days before I die, the moments before I sleep.

Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.

You become really ugly when you become very superficial and self-obsessed.

Most really pretty girls have pretty ugly feet, and so does Mindy Metalman, Lenore notices, all of a sudden.

Being an ugly woman is like being a man. You're gonna have to work. Yep.

If you take a negative, turn it inside out, it's still a negative. You're just revealing the ugly inside of negative so I say keep it as is.

We live in ugly times.

The girls call me ugly and they bother me the most.

It's gaudy, ugly, and in terribly bad taste. It does, however, suit my personality almost perfectly.

Old ugly is better than old nothin'

I think men are allowed to be fat and bald and ugly and women aren't. And it's just not - there is no equality there

I never saw myself as Mr. Ugly, but I'm not that handsome. I can sort of be made to look quite a lot better or quite a lot worse.

You can stay and die or you can walk your ugly ass back through that gate. It's your call, pal.

From the start to the end it was ugly and a painful game to watch.

We shot 31.4 percent and they shot 36.8 percent. You probably saw some ugly basketball.

We shoot 31 percent, they shoot 36. You probably saw some ugly basketball out there.

Let me be loved like that, by a man who will not replace me with concubines when I'm old and ugly. Let me be loved by a man who loves God more than me.

Ugly hell, gape not! come not, Lucifer! / I'll burn my books!

We thought the church had withdrawn from interfering in Italian politics ... but instead there is a terrible resurgence. These are ugly signs for freedom of expression.

We're not prepared. It's the ugly truth. If our emergency response failed so badly for a Category 5 hurricane, imagine what would happen if a Category 5 viral storm hit every state.

You have to be concerned. We've been winning some ugly ones, but they count.

This was a military organization run on military lines -- the very, very thing that at the time the American military was telling us did not exist. And it was access to this group that told me that this war was going to be a long and very ugly one.

The only thing I can say is that we're a lot better than we played tonight. It wasn't that we were tired or because of travel. We just played an ugly game tonight, period.

When you have third-and-10, third-and-15, and third-and-20, you have some difficulties. It was an ugly kind of game. We had a good drive and didn't get any points and then we were kind of stalemated for a while. We had some opportunities and didn't make the plays.

We had some ugly times on the court. But we kept everything in perspective, and I'm so proud of these girls. We are a small school, but these girls showed a lot of heart.

But I've gotten very used to winning in a fun way and playing great tennis. That's what I'm striving for, at the same time as having to be happy getting through an ugly win.