Bad Word – Quotes

I don\\’t know why

I don’t know why people are so reluctant to say they’re feminists. Could it be any more obvious that we still live in a patriarchal world when feminism is a bad word? Ellen Page

\”Jazz\” to begin with, is a really bad word… all the true musicians that really play jazz, jazz is the worst word for it. Jazz is a process. Jazz is a creative process. It’s not so much a genre, but a way of expression. Eldar Djangirov

When I came back

When I came back to the United States, I decided that if you could use propaganda for war, you could certainly use it for peace. And \”propaganda\” got to be a bad word because of the Germans using it, so what I did was to try and find some other words so we found the … Read more

For evil deeds may

For evil deeds may better than bad words be borne. Edmund Spenser

Older boys often asked

Older boys often asked me to teach them “some bad words in your language”. At first I politely refused. My refusal merely increased their determination, so I solved the problem by teaching them phrases like ‘man kharam’ which means “I’m an idiot”. I told them that what I was teaching them was so nasty that … Read more

Realism is a bad

Realism is a bad word. In a sense everything is realistic. I see no line between the imaginary and the real. Federico Fellini

Sophie said a bad

Sophie said a bad word. In the dim light she had stubbed her toe on one of the many dusty bricks piled around the place. Naughty-naughty Twinkle said. Oh shut up! Sophie said , standing on one leg to hold her toe. Why don’t you grow up? Diana Wynne Jones

He said a bad

He said a bad word. Do you want to know what it was? It started with F. It’s not the one you’re thinking of, though. To the other one. The one that ends with P. do you want to know what it was? It was troop. She frowned. Wait that’s not a word. Derek Landy

Art is a bad

Art is a bad word in Hollywood. You use art too many times and they show you the elevator and then your name is taken off the parking lot. Dennis Hopper

I don’t think socialism,

I don’t think socialism, and I don’t think warmness and respect are necessarily bad words. Dave Matthews