Crude Quotes
When you're playing such brilliant music every day, then the last thing you ever want to do is try to write something of your own that's crude and not as good.
Rockefeller made his money in oil, which he discovered at the bottom of wells. Oil was considered crude in those days, but so was Rockefeller. Now both are considered quite refined.
You don't know Mexico, man. You have trivialized Mexico. You are a fool about Mexico if you think that Mexico is five blocks. That is not Mexico; that is some crude Americanism you have absorbed.
I still have the art projects my kids made for me 20 years ago. I cherish them, crude and silly as some of them may be.
Great thoughts in crude, unshapely verse set forth lose half their preciousness, and ever must, unless the diamond with its own rich dust be cut and polished, it seems little worth.
Poetry is an attenuation, a rehandling, an echo of crude experience; it is itself a theoretic vision of things at arm's length.
The very idea of freedom presupposes some objective moral law which overarches rulers and ruled alike...Unless we return to the crude and nursery-like belief in objective values, we perish.
In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.
Be subtle, various, ornamental, clever, And do not listen to those critics ever Whose crude provincial gullets crave in books Plain cooking made still plainer by plain cooks.
If you follow the course of one man through constant practice, your intelligence would have to be crude indeed for you not to get some nourishment from it.
In the hill country, civilization steals in last, and the people retain much of the crude but vigorous mode of expression of the colonial days and earlier.
Low oil prices played a part in a major move by Congress voting to end the 40-year-old ban on exporting American crude oil.
It is better to read a little and thoroughly than cram a crude undigested mass into my head, though it be great in quantity.
Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.
In a comic strip, you can suggest motion and time, but it's very crude compared to what an animator can do. I have a real awe for good animation.
The future looks like gasoline. . . . crude oil . . . is the future before it has been refined. It is like a dream of the future, really, and like any dream it ends with a rude awakening.
The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.
America is not the crude stereotype of a self-interested empire. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail.
If the best the roboticists can hope for is the creation of some crude, cheesy, second-rate, artificial consciousness, they still win.
There are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things.
A refined soul is distressed to know that someone owes it thanks; a crude soul, to know that it owes someone thanks.
God is a too palpably clumsy answer; an answer which shows a lack of delicacy towards us thinkers-fundamentally, even a crude prohibition to us: you shall not think!
The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous!
One goes to Nature only for hints and half-truths. Her facts are crude until you have absorbed them or translated them ... It is not so much what we see as what the thing seen suggests.
In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.
lips all crude scarlet, and eyes as absurdly big and round as a child's good-by kiss.
Running out of energy in the long run is not the problem.... The bind comes during the next 10 years: getting over our dependence on crude oil.
I am a tomb robber who is robbing my own tomb. Things from my tomb are exhibited under the radiant sun. Every time it happens I feel crude.
Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.
The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.
The Congress fights not with violent but with nonviolent means, however imperfect, however crude the nonviolence may be.
I'm sorry that some self-styled anarchists have picked up on the word spirit and have turned me into a theological ecologist, a notion which I think is crude beyond all belief.
Crude thoughts and fierce forces are my state. I do not know who I am. Nor what I was. I cannot hear a sound. Pain is near that will be like no pain felt before.
Jazz was formerly a crude term for indulging in an action which in polite society is referred to, if at all, only with such vague Latin terms as intercourse and cohabitation.
Roots cannot grow into trees if there are no supernatural elements in the soil. Man cannot grow wealthy and famous if he doesn't contribute to either, the good or evil.
It is very rare for a child of God to find gold and crude oil on the floor to fetch. He/she must dig and dig deeply well!!!
Good plan, " Freddy was saying. "Let's get some decent sleep. Tomorrow we can shake our gravy asses into town and do some sluething.
