There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit.
— William S. Burroughs
I vote Democrat because I believe oil companies profits of 4% on a gallon of gas are obscene, but the government taxing the same gallon at 15% isn't.
— David Letterman
I love Colorado. The mountains are so passionate. They just make me want to run to the top and yell obscene things to the valleys below." ~ Ardith
— Jocelyn Davies
Tell me: what's more obscene than fucking waste?Death is in quite poor taste, if you ask me. — Eleanor Brown
I would never use obscene language in the office. Certainly not. I kept my obscene language for the home, where it belongs.
— Harold Pinter
The French translation of 'a black hole has no hair' is so obscene that French publishers resisted it vigorously, to no avail.
— Kip S. Thorne
Medication without explanation is obscene.
— Toni Cade Bambara
I don't care if you're obscene, filthy, horrendous as long as you're honest. — Bill Hicks
In the NUDE, all that is not beautiful is obscene. — Robert Bresson
Success-minded people must understand that the use of profane and obscene words have no place in their vocabulary. — John Patrick Hickey
Terms such as obscene are used swiftly in order to protect people from exposure to the truth. — Thomas Hirschhorn
What might be merely embarrassing in real life is made obscene and hostile by TV. — Ben Fountain
Only the chaste are truly obscene. — Joris-Karl Huysmans
It's considered totally obscene to make any request to God, because if he doesn't know, what's the point asking him? — Sadhguru
Sex and obscenity are not synonymous. Obscene material is material which deals with sex in a manner appealing to prurient interest. — William J. Brennan Jr.
Bush already gave obscene tax breaks to people like me and Warren Buffet, and we are saying it's not fair. — Adam McKay
Art is amoral; so is life. For me there are no obscene pictures or books; there are only poorly conceived and poorly executed ones. — Irving Stone
That I ever think for one minute that I should ever feel lonely is obscene and unreasonable. — Andrew W.K.
We like it wet and we like it green, and we are the ones that they call obscene. — Sai Marie Johnson
How can my ankles and arms be obscene? — Libba Bray
Natural beauty is essentially temporary and sad, hence the impression of obscene mockery which artificial flowers give us. — John Updike
Vulgar and obscene, the papers run rumors daily about people in show business, tales of wicked ways and witless affairs. — Carroll O'Connor
Many things about our bodies would not seem to us so filthy and obscene if we did not have the idea of nobility in our heads. — Georg C. Lichtenberg
What are you doing now, you lazy drunken obscene unsayable son of an unnameable unmarried gipsy obscenity? What are you doing? — Ernest Hemingway,
As if keening on your kneeswere somehow obscene
As if there were a control
so marvelous
you could teach it
to eat pain. — Maggie Nelson
Guilt is the cause of more maraudersthan history's most obscene disauders — E. E. Cummings
I strain to hear, but my old ears, for all their obscene hugeness, pick up nothing but snippets: — Sara Gruen
Commercial rock 'n' roll music is a brutalization of the stream of contemporary Negro church music an obscene looting of a cultural expression. — Ralph Ellison
The pay of many of our top executives in big hundred companies in the U.K. is outrageous and even obscene. — Justin Welby
Stinky says women should be obscene but not heard. — Robert A. Heinlein
To me, the most obscene word in our language is celibacy. — Robert Green Ingersoll
Christian art, like obscene art, is surface level. — Anonymous
The most obscene symbol in human history is the Cross; yet in its ugliness it remains the most eloquent testimony to human dignity. — R.C. Sproul
