Top 354 Crude Quotes & Sayings

All the months are crude experiments, out of which the perfect September is made.

I never do anything just to be crude or in your face.

I'm a rather crude cook.

I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.

A crude meal, no doubt, but the best of all sauces is hunger.

You may think me crude, and probably I am crude, but I am not so crude as I was, for I am clever enough to see that the girl of nineteen who thought herself a genius was only an unusual girl writing her heart out.

This is going to sound really crude, but I lost my fingers in a meat grinder.

We passed law that encouraged consumption through different purchasing habits like, you know, hybrid vehicles. You buy hybrid, you get a tax credit. We've encouraged the spread of ethanol as an alternative to crude oil. We have asked for Congress to pass regulatory relief so we can build more refineries to increase the supply of gasoline, hopefully taking the pressure off of price. And so the strategy is to recognize that dependency upon crude oil, in a global market, affects us economically here at home. And, therefore, we need to diversify away as quickly as possible.

The sinner's ego is crude that of the saint refined, distilled. Careful! It may be more poisonous!

There are people in this administration who say they don't care if the UN sinks under the East river, and other crude things.

I've seen 3-D movies where it seems a little crude or too in-your-face.

About 75% of the price of gas is really dictated by crude oil. At the heart of the issue is increasing demand over a period of many years around the world. World crude oil consumption now is close to 90 million barrels a day. Most of the growth in demand is coming from China and the developing world.

Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China

The crude oil market, unlike every other commodity in America, is virtually unregulated.

lips all crude scarlet, and eyes as absurdly big and round as a child's good-by kiss.

Opinion is a light, vain, crude, and imperfect thing.

Genetics is crude, but neuroscience goes directly to work on the brain, and the mind follows.

A crude mind could easily think: something is valid, therefore it is true.

Fifty-dollar oil is just another stop on the road to much higher crude prices.

Are the Simpsons cool? They are, and that is crude 2D animation.

At a crude estimate, I must have played 'Thunder Road' 1,500 times.

The most striking thing about the rich is the gracious democracy of their manners -- and the crude vulgarity of their way of life.

We measure poverty by what I believe is a very, very crude concept. We actually measure poverty by trying to get some kind of an estimate of the minimum expenditures on food that are required to maintain health, multiplying that number by three, and saying that's the level of poverty. And it's a very crude, inaccurate arrangement.

Crude hasn't been responding to fundamentals all year. I think crude has been 8 to 10 overvalued for some time and has been responding to the fear of what could happen rather than the reality of what is happening.

Public-policy-wise, if you want to be consistent, crude oil is a bulk commodity, and you should be able to export it. I would rather the crude go to U.S. refineries to get refined and then export the refined product because we get double, triple the money.

I've always believed that you have to have the skills before you destroy the skills. If you want to be crude, be crude, but don't be crude because you don't know how to do it, because you're not perfect at drawing and pattern-cutting.

The actor is merely a crude empiricist, a practitioner guided by vague instinct.

I enjoy crude behaviour and language. I revel in it.

I refuse to be crude and selfish in any way.

How can I be expected to love someone who tries such crude manipulations as bringing me breakfast in bed?

The crude real will not by itself yield truth.

Modesty answers not the crude how of femininity, but the beautiful why.

I always thought my genitals were the result of some crude practical joke.

Serious thinkers are few, and the world is ruled by crude ideas.

Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

We access virtually every producing basin, whether for natural gas or crude oil, in the U.S. and Canada.

Our language for describing emotions is very crude... that's what music is for, I guess.

Sex becomes violent when you eliminate all the sentiments... voila, it gets crude.

Fred Trueman the man has often been tactless, haphazard, crude, a creature of impulse.

Modern man has yielded to the harsh, the crude, the vulgar, the profane, the immoral.

In crude Marxist terms, liberals have a theory of infallible government that is constantly at war with the reality of life.

As crude a weapon as a cave man's club, the chemical barrage has been hurled against the fabric of life.

At a personal level, I rather like it if you can create characters and storylines that don't have to rely on being crude and swearing.

Expression and thought are inextricably linked: crude language permits only crude thinking.

The idealism of Berkeley is only a crude statement of the idealism of Jesus, and that again is a crude statement of the fact thatall nature is the rapid efflux of goodness executing and organizing itself.

Tar sands oil is the dirtiest fuel on Earth. Because producing it consumes so much energy, a gallon of tar sands crude generates 17 percent more carbon pollution than conventional crude oil.

Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of the organized life.

I draw the line at filth and crude language. It seems to be an excuse for not being funny.

The U.S. policy of hoarding crude oil never made the world, or even the U.S., a safer place.

Journalism is not a precise science, it's a crude art

On the pavement of my trampled soul the steps of madmen weave the prints of rude crude words.

Global crude oil demand is increasing, particularly in places like China.

I had hair down to my shoulders, a beard and mustache. I was crude and rude.

It kills your writing if you try to manipulate it with crude politics.

In crude oil trading, we have seen a 46 percent increase over 1 year in the margins there.

In Bach there is still too much crude Christianity, crude Germanism, crude scholasticism; he stands on the threshold of European (modern) music, but he looks back from there to the Middle Ages.

Luminous beings are we, not this crude matter.

The public voice in the theater today is crude and raucous, and, all too often, weak-minded.

Professionalism is nothing but a crude insistance on the mechanization of mankind.

Life might just be an absurd, even crude, chain of events and nothing more.