Language is my bugbear. Everyone says things now like ‘I was sat’ instead of ‘I was sitting’, which just sounds so ugly. – Penelope Keith
You wouldn’t ask Rodin to make an ugly sculpture, or me to make a film with an ugly woman. – Roger Vadim
When I was 10, 11, 12 years old, I would pretend to be on the radio. I bought a mixer and these big, ugly headphones and I would literally broadcast the cassette tapes in my bedroom. – Ryan Seacrest
Science is organized common sense where many a beautiful theory was killed by an ugly fact. – Thomas Huxley
New technology is useful, but it’s inefficient and ugly; it knows it’ll be obsolete by lunchtime tomorrow, so it has no incentive to be anything else. – Tom Holt
There’s an old joke that politics is Hollywood for ugly people. An awful lot of the press coverage about Washington reads like coverage of Hollywood. Madonna is having some spat with Sean Penn. Who cares? And who cares which politician is mad at that politician? – Ted Cruz
I’m happy that I have a look, but I don’t over-analyse whether or not it’s beautiful or ugly. – Sophie Ellis-Bextor
We’ve been playing ugly. Without all of our bodies, we’ve been kicking it all over the shop, but fortunately we’ve been able to make the big buckets and rely on our defense for once. – Steve Nash
Tattoos are so widespread, so ugly and so very, very permanent. You can, in theory, have them removed – but a large chunk of your living flesh will go with it. – Tony Parsons
Switzerland still has a huge share of the watch market, all advertised at the airport on illuminated hoardings. Gosh, they are ugly. – Simon Hoggart
It’s tough to write beautifully about ugly things, but Mitchell S. Jackson makes it look easy. – Victor LaValle
All existing things are really one. We regard those that are beautiful and rare as valuable, and those that are ugly as foul and rotten The foul and rotten may come to be transformed into what is rare and valuable, and the rare and valuable into what is foul and rotten. – Zhuangzi
If you’re going to be born ugly and be an actor – the least they can do is let you play Lincoln. – Sam Waterston
People tend to say, ‘You’re not as fat or as ugly as I expected.’ I never know how to reply. It’s a bit of a slap, but they don’t mean it, I’m sure. – Siobhan Finneran
I was the overweight kid who didn’t have a boyfriend. I listened to other people say, ‘You’re ugly, you’re fat, you’re stupid,’ and I believed it. – Tyka Nelson
By the end of the nineteenth century, the stereotype of the ugly American – voracious, preachy, mercenary, and bombastically chauvinist – was firmly in place in Europe. – Simon Schama
The ugly is very appealing to man. It’s instinct. One shrinks from the ugly, yet wants to look at it. There’s a devilish fascination in it. We extract pleasure from horror. – Sonya Levien