Rodney Crowell Quotes

I've heard things said on football pitches that players clearly don't mean, whether it's racism or just an abusive comment in the heat of the moment.

Insults are engendered from vulgar minds, like toadstools from a dunghill.

Insults are pouring down on me as thick as hail.

Your words smell of corpses.

There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.

There are worse words than cuss words, there are words that hurt.

Words are the money of fools.

The Syrians are sons of bitches.

Snot-nosed kid … a grandstanding little runt

I'm afraid the Internet is filled with people using really very intemperate language.

Only with the Internet can a peasant I have never met hear my voice and I can learn what's on his mind. A fairy tale has come true.

I can see your dirtypillows.

The purpose of all opprobrious language is, not to describe, but to hurt - even when, like Hamlet, we make only the shadow-passes of a soliloquised combat. We call the enemy not what we think he is but what we think he would least like to be called.

for he is such a disagreeable man, that it would be quite a misfortune to be liked by him.

You may find somebody refreshing until they drop the N-word on you and then you're no longer feeling refreshed, you're just feeling offended. And where we draw that line as a society is sort of akin to what the Supreme Court said on pornography, you know, you know it when you see it. And it's different for each person.

You suck, surprising no one!!!! If bad was a boot, you'd fit it!!!! You're a stupid poo-poo head! I had sexual relations with your mother! Your mother was not that good in bed! You, sir, are a wretched soul! I am rubber, you are glue!

the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse

Shirley MacLaine: what an asshole.

Words are not brains, you know.

You suck. You suck diseased moose wang, Marcone.

I don't want to seem always to be criticizing your methods of voice production, Jeeves, I said, but I must inform you that that 'Well, sir' of yours is in many respects fully as unpleasant as your 'Indeed, sir?

Abusive language and swearing are a legacy of slavery, humiliation, and disrespect for human dignity, one’s own and that of other people.

I liked the trichotomy, that's the only thing I ever liked.

Don't call people names you dirty name caller you.

Swearing can be fun, but doing it all the time causes a lot of problems