A Quote by Felix Dennis

The vast majority of free verse is ghastly. Utterly ghastly. No one reads it. No one listens to it.

Felix Dennis

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Free Free Verse Ghastly Listens Majority Reads Utterly Vast Vast Majority Verse

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Felix Dennis
British - Publisher
May 27, 1947 - June 22, 2014

I had a job right out of college writing for a small newspaper called 'The Unterrified Democrat.' Ghastly, ghastly job.

Cullen Bunn

Given the choice, the majority of children wouldn't go to school at all. The whole thing's ghastly.

Victoria Coren Mitchell

There was a terribly ghastly silence. There was a terribly ghastly noise. There was a terribly ghastly silence.

Douglas Adams

Patience! Patience! The world is a vast and ghastly intricacy of mechanism, and one has to be very wary, not to get mangled by it.

D. H. Lawrence

Ghastly," continued Marvin, "it all is. Absolutely ghastly. Just don't even talk about it. Look at this door," he said, stepping through it. The irony circuits cut in to his voice modulator as he mimicked the style of the sales brochure. " 'All the doors in his spaceship have a cheerful and sunny disposition. It is their pleasure to open for you, and their satisfaction to close again with the knowledge of a job well done.' " As the door closed behind them it became apparent that it did indeed have a satisfied sighlike quality to it. "Hummmmmmmyummmmmmmah!" it said.

Douglas Adams

Cities are responsible for the vast majority of the creation of the economy. They're also places into which we pour the vast majority of resources, the vast majority of energy and the places where a huge percentage of the decisions about how systems are built and how products designed, etc., happen.

Alex Steffen

And travellers, now, within that valley, Through the red-litten windows see Vast forms, that move fantastically To a discordant melody, While, like a ghastly rapid river, Through the pale door A hideous throng rush out forever And laugh — but smile no more.