Like all Vogon ships, it looked as if it had been not so much designed, as congealed. The unpleasant yellow lumps and edifices which protruded from it at unsightly angles would have disfigured the looks of most ships, but in this case, that was sadly impossible. Uglier things have been spotted in the skies, but not by reliable witnesses.
Quotes about unsightly (11 Quotes)
They started putting those piles of dirt back there, and we don't know what for. What we don't understand is why would they put all those mounds They blow into our yards. It's unsightly.
Proud crested Fiend, the World's worst foe, Ambition, canst thou boast one deed, hence no unsightly horrors flow, Nor private peace is seen to bleed.
The findings in today's report must be deeply embarrassing to us all, ... The Inquiry Committee has ripped away the curtain, and shone a harsh light into the most unsightly corners of the organization. None of us - member states, Secretariat, agencies, funds and programs - can be proud of what it has found.
Passion in all its forms is a mental thirst, a fever, a torturing unrest. As a fire consumes a magnificent building, reducing it to a heap of unsightly ashes, so are men consumed by the flames of passions, and their deeds and works fall and perish.
PESSIMISM, n. A philosophy forced upon the convictions of the observer by the disheartening prevalence of the optimist with his scarecrow hope and his unsightly smile.
Before this ugly edifice, and between it and the wheel-track of the street, was a grass-plot, much overgrown with burdock, pig-weed, apple-pern, and such unsightly vegetation, which evidently found something congenial in the soil that had so early borne the black flower of civilised society, a prison.
Neighbors don't want an unsightly junkyard next door or in the neighborhood,
I wiped away the weeds and foam, I fetched my sea-born treasures home But the poor, unsightly, noisome things Had left their beauty on the shore, With the sun and the sand and the wild uproar.
In fact, they recapitulate the story of Christianity word for word, like the inevitable course of some unsightly disease criminal ignorance, brutish stupidity, self-righteous bigotry, paranoid fear of outsiders. For the cultist, psychiatrists, the media, Government agencies have become Satan incarnate. Like the fundamental Christians, they have to be right.
The inquiry committee has ripped away the curtain, and shone a harsh light into the most unsightly corners of the organization,