I realized early on that the academy and the literary world alike - and I don't think there really is a distinction… — Harold Bloom Copy Share Image
The most recent incarnation of [Bob] Dylan has been the traveling journeyman/ charlatan who sings roots music, snarls dark lyrics that make… — Jay Michaelson Copy Share Image
If I did only one thing at a time I'd think I was wasting my time. If, for example, I only wrote… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
Theatre artists are essentially sort of charlatans and thieves, I mean that's the tradition that we come from, so I have absolutely… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
In my opinion, there's nothing new in the theatre, ever. Theatre-makers are thieves, in the honourable tradition of charlatans. They fake it… — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
I will go wherever the truth leads me. It is secular scholarship, Rebbe; it is not the scholarship of tradition. In secular… — Chaim Potok Copy Share Image
The greater the mental charlatan, the more definite his insistence on the wickedness and weaknesses of human nature. Yet how can anyone… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
We can't possibly have a summer love. So many people have tried that the name's become proverbial. Summer is only the unfulfilled… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
To be a person who sees a political ad on television and takes the statements in it as fact, how can you… — Curtis Sittenfeld Copy Share Image
“The old stars-and-moons act was a good way to farm the unduly trusting. But the need to raise money in the first… — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
My first meeting with you only confirmed what I first suspected. You are a fraud, a charlatan and a shyster. My favourite… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I have been saying for many years that we are using the word 'guru' only because 'charlatan' is too long to fit… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The soldier's business is to take life. For that he is paid by the State, eulogized by political charlatans and upheld by… — Emma Goldman Copy Share Image
Scientific literacy is an intellectual vaccine against the claims of charlatans who would exploit ignorance. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
I would, like any other scientist, willingly change my mind if the evidence led me to do so. So I care about… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Part of the problem is how little we understand about the ultimate betrayal of the body when it rebels against itself. You… — Charles Bronson Copy Share Image
Mathematics is the summit of human thinking. It has all the creativity and imagination that you can find in all kinds of… — Meir Shalev Copy Share Image
Either [Jesus] was what he said he was or he was the world's greatest liar. It is impossible for me to believe… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
In the military, if we don't know something, we say we don't know and proceed to shut up until we do. Some… — Marcus Luttrell Copy Share Image
A charlatan makes obscure what is clear; a thinker makes clear what is obscure. — Hugh Kingsmill Copy Share Image
Forget this world and all its troubles and if possible its multitudinous Charlatans-- everything in short but the Enchantress of Numbers. — Ada Lovelace Copy Share Image
By failing to read or listen to poets, society dooms itself to inferior modes of articulation, those of the politician, the salesman,… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
In the theatre, we're all charlatans and liars and scavengers and fly-by-nights. — Simon McBurney Copy Share Image
What we won't do is pretend that the work of lunatic charlatans is the equivalent of "true scientific discourse." It isn't. — Jimmy Wales Copy Share Image
Go your way, seducers, flatterers, idlers, those glib of tongue and charlatans; I am not a seed that you can force to… — Dominique Fernandez Copy Share Image