If it's a woman it's caustic, if it's a man it's authority, If it's a woman it's too pushy, if it's a man it's aggressive in the best sense of the word.
I think appointments are caustic to creativity.
Play not with paradoxes. That caustic which you handle in order to scorch others may happen to sear your own fingers and make them dead to the quality of things.
I don't have a caustic sense of humor. What I find funny, that humor comes from a much gentler place.
You used to say. "Desire doubled is love and love doubled is madness. " Madness doubled is marriage I added when the caustic was cool, not intending to produce a golden rule.
My childhood memories seem to be wreathed in the twin and far from harmonious olfactory sensations of patchouli oil and caustic soda.
"Masters of War" [of Bob Dylan] wasn't peacenik, anti-war stuff. With its minor key and uncompromising final lines ("And I hope that you dieAnd your death'll come soon I will follow your casket In the pale afternoon. . . ") this was a previously unknown hybrid of caustic political commentary and punk rock, which itself wouldn't be invented for another decade or so.
[Wilson] has this strange inability to censor himself, and he'll say these things that are sometimes quite caustic or end up creating some kind of violent reaction, you know. But, you know, I admire that.
If it's a woman, it's caustic; if it's a man, it's authoritative.
Too caustic? To hell with the costs, we'll make the picture anyway.
