Writers tend to consider distinction and originality as virtues, but they are anathema to publishers. — Thomas M. Disch Copy Share Image
The vote, punishment... these ideas are anathema to the liberal mind — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
I have come to realize that Jesse Helms stands for everything in politics that is anathema to me. — William Weld Copy Share Image
Let us join Paul and declare anathema upon anyone who loves not the Lord Jesus. (I Cor 16:22) — Wiley Drake Copy Share Image
The idea of having to make constant reference to politics is anathema to my calling as a writer. — Wole Soyinka Copy Share Image
The Irish, as a race, have the oral tradition in their blood. A direct question to them is an anathema, but in… — P. L. Travers Copy Share Image
The idea that people should be allowed to decide something about their own fate is just anathema to European elites. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
One of the reasons the whole Hollywood way of making films wouldn't work for me is because the way I operate would… — Mike Leigh Copy Share Image
Mainstream success is important - that's probably anathema to an indie publication like Pitchfork, but it's what I believe having experienced it… — Courtney Love Copy Share Image
The dreamer whose dreams are non-utilitarian has no place in this world. In this world the poet is anathema, the thinker a… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The idea that anyone can use drugs and escape a horrible fate is anathema to these idiots. I predict in the near… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
The abuse of prisoners hurts America's cause in the war on terror, endangers US service members who might be captured by the… — John McCain Copy Share Image
If anyone assert the fabulous pre-existence of souls and shall submit to the monstrous doctrine that follows from it, let him be… — Justinian I Copy Share Image
The grand reason of the burst of public sentiment in anathemas upon Christ and his disciples, causing his crucifixion, was evidently based… — Jedediah M. Grant Copy Share Image
And gears," said Anathema. "My bike didn't have gears. I'm sure my bike didn't have gears." Crowley leaned over to the angel.… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I say, 'If I had a serious brain injury I might well write a children's book', but otherwise the idea of being… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
When people are breaking the law, they don’t get an invitation to the White House. They ought to be getting an invitation… — Mike Huckabee Copy Share Image
“She even tried the one which every romantic nerve in her body insisted should work, which consisted of theatrically giving up, sitting… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I think it's still hard for me to turn down work if it's really good because for so many years I was… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
A free society is as much a threat to the intellectual's sense of worth as an automated economy is to the workingman's… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
The concept of paying one-hundred-and-something times earnings for any company for me is just anathema. Having said that, at the end of… — Paul Tudor Jones Copy Share Image
An understandable hunger for potential clients tempts many [career counseling therapists] to overpromise, like creative writing teachers who, out of greed or… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Absolute Evil is not the kingdom of hell. The inhabitants of hell are ourselves, i.e., those who pay our painful, embarrassing, humanistic… — V. S. Pritchett Copy Share Image
Sentimentalising is anathema, as far as I am concerned. It leads you into ethical problems about violence and killing and eating meat.… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
I defy anyone now to tell me about patriotism and what America stands for, while we've elected a man who ran on… — Jumaane Williams Copy Share Image
The very idea that a child that is almost born into the world could still have their life taken from them is… — Mike Pence Copy Share Image
Surrealism is anathema for me. Because the surrealists made a joke of everything. And I consider life a tragedy. — Louise Bourgeois Copy Share Image
Robert Neville looked out over the new people of the earth. He knew he did not belong to them; he knew that,… — Richard Matheson Copy Share Image
Whenever there is a reaching down into innermost experience, into the nucleus of personality, most people are overcome by fear and many… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
It is not cheerful for a girl to discover within twenty-four hours of her wedding that her husband is a hopeless drunkard,… — William John Locke Copy Share Image
Christianity...made, for nearly 1,500 years, persecution, religious wars, massacres, theological feuds and bloodshed, heresy huntings and heretic burnings, prisons, dungeons, anathemas, curses,… — M. M. Mangasarian Copy Share Image
The hiss of the quenched element, the breakage of the pitcher which I had flung from my hand when I had emptied… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
There is a spiritual side to our connection with the planet. And in this material world, that's anathema. It is somewhat worrying.… — Bob Brown Copy Share Image
When most people said "I'm psychic, you see," they meant "I have an overactive but unoriginal imagination/wear black nail varnish/talk to my… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
If anyone in word and mind does not properly and truly confess according to the holy Fathers all even to the last… — Pope Martin I Copy Share Image
I have been brought up in a culture where capital punishment is indeed anathema. I have always thought of myself as a… — Torbjorn Tannsjo Copy Share Image
Most films and directors lose their nerve and want to indicate [emotions] a bit more, to show that their story is clear.… — Matt Damon Copy Share Image
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