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The desire to be' accurate' suddenly disappears when sex isn't involved and it is actual interesting day to day minutiae, if the(' Game of Thrones') world was historically accurate, why isn't every single noble house or castle absolutely covered by huge gaudy, colourful murals ? Why is it that this form of historical accuracy isn't important, but showing rape as endemic is ? – Eleanor Janega	Found on CNN 2 years ago
The Vessel is like some MC Escher nightmare, the Vessel's kind of relentless. The Vessel's very gaudy, The Vessel's very cold. The Vessel's thrilling... The Vessel's not the most friendly and life-affirming and inclusive kind of space or structure. The Vessel's kind of empty. What's the point of The Vessel ? Just to walk up and walk down ? – Jacob Alspector	Found on CNN 3 years ago
I’m going to wear this one [ring] a lot, when I got the ring with the Orioles, it was awesome because I was a player and on the team. It was awful gaudy, though. It had a lot of diamonds. It was the first of the real diamond [rings]. It was hard to wear it. And now they make them so big that you can’t get them on your finger. The year we went through, the players, it was the best. I can’t wait. – Rich Dauer	Found on FOX News 6 years ago
I’m most comfortable in high heels and wigs and makeup and gaudy clothes. – Dolly Partonhas	Found on FOX News 8 years ago
I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume. – Italo Calvino	added by anonymous 10 years ago
...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night. – H. L. Mencken	added by anonymous 13 years ago
Beware Of entrance to a quarrel but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy rich, not gaudy For the apparel oft proclaims the man. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea. – William Shakespeare	added by anonymous 14 years ago
A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition. – Henry Louis Mencken	added by anonymous 14 years ago

The desire to be' accurate' suddenly disappears when sex isn't involved and it is actual interesting day to day minutiae, if the(' Game of Thrones') world was historically accurate, why isn't every single noble house or castle absolutely covered by huge gaudy, colourful murals ? Why is it that this form of historical accuracy isn't important, but showing rape as endemic is ?

– Eleanor Janega

Found on CNN
2 years ago

The Vessel is like some MC Escher nightmare, the Vessel's kind of relentless. The Vessel's very gaudy, The Vessel's very cold. The Vessel's thrilling... The Vessel's not the most friendly and life-affirming and inclusive kind of space or structure. The Vessel's kind of empty. What's the point of The Vessel ? Just to walk up and walk down ?

– Jacob Alspector

Found on CNN
3 years ago

I’m going to wear this one [ring] a lot, when I got the ring with the Orioles, it was awesome because I was a player and on the team. It was awful gaudy, though. It had a lot of diamonds. It was the first of the real diamond [rings]. It was hard to wear it. And now they make them so big that you can’t get them on your finger. The year we went through, the players, it was the best. I can’t wait.

– Rich Dauer

Found on FOX News
6 years ago

I’m most comfortable in high heels and wigs and makeup and gaudy clothes.

– Dolly Partonhas

Found on FOX News
8 years ago

I am prisoner of a gaudy and unlivable present, where all forms of human society have reached an extreme of their cycle and there is no imagining what new forms they may assume.

– Italo Calvino

added by anonymous
10 years ago

...no man of genuinely superior intelligence has ever been an actor. Even supposing a young man of appreciable mental powers to be lured upon the stage, as philosophers are occasionally lured into bordellos, his mind would be inevitably and almost immediately destroyed by the gaudy nonsense issuing from his mouth every night.

– H. L. Mencken

added by anonymous
13 years ago

Beware Of entrance to a quarrel but being in, Bear't that the opposed may beware of thee. Give every man thy ear, but few thy voice Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Costly thy habit as thy purse can buy, But not express'd in fancy rich, not gaudy For the apparel oft proclaims the man.

– William Shakespeare

added by anonymous
14 years ago

The gaudy, blabbing, and remorseful day Is crept into the bosom of the sea.

– William Shakespeare

added by anonymous
14 years ago

A man's women folk, whatever their outward show of respect for his merit and authority, always regard him secretly as an ass, and with something akin to pity. His most gaudy sayings and doings seldom deceive them they see the actual man within, and know him for a shallow and pathetic fellow. In this fact, perhaps, lies one of the best proofs of feminine intelligence, or, as the common phrase makes it, feminine intuition.

– Henry Louis Mencken

added by anonymous
14 years ago

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