“I find Paul appealing and Peale appalling.”
Adlai E. Stevenson
“Where life is colorful and varied, religion can be austere or unimportant. Where life is appallingly monotonous, religion must be emotional, dramatic and intense. Without the curry, boiled rice can be very dull.”
C. Northcote Parkinson
“The horror of wedlock, the most appalling, the most loathsome of all the bonds humankind has devised for its own discomfort and degradation.”
Marquis De Sade
“It's not our fault our generation has short attention spans, Dad. We watch an appalling amount of TV.”
Yeardley Smith
“The people people have for friends You common sense appall But the people people marry Are the queerest folk of all.”
Charlotte Perkins Gilman
“I would still like to go up in the space shuttle. It's appalling that the accident happened, but it was an accident and obviously if I knew there was any risk, I'd be foolish to do it. I'd love to stand outside the Earth and look at it. Extraordinary feeling that, something that we've been tied to for millions of years, and a handful of people have looked at it, to be able to do that would be stunning.”
Colin Baker
“In general, I'm opposed to any industrialization of Long Island Sound, ... It's appalling to think of plunking something so large out there. We enjoy watching the tankers and freighters go by from where I live, but I don't think anybody's going to appreciate something that big sitting out there on a permanent basis.”
John Opie
