I think it's amusing to watch a naive, well-meaning character kind of undo more cynical characters - kind of like watching Laurel… — Stephen Hillenburg Copy Share Image
As I grew up I got cynical. I'd see Mother enthusiastic and involved with charlatans. Numerologists and astrologists who charged five hundred… — Anya Seton Copy Share Image
In the United States, doing good has come to be, like patriotism, a favorite device of persons with something to sell. — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“I think that if a person doesn't feel cynical then they're out of phase with the 20th century. Being cynical is the… — Frank Zappa Copy Share Image
There are not too many times when a movie's not cynical, you know what I mean? — Michael Pena Copy Share Image
“It's not a shame to trust another, shame is to grow cynical and bitter.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Africa is never the same to anyone who leaves it and returns again. It is not a land of change, but it… — Beryl Markham Copy Share Image
Faced with today's problems and disappointments , many people will try to escape from their responsibility. Escape in selfishness, escape in sexual… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Every one of us every day has choices to make about the kind of person we are and what we wish to… — Hillary Clinton Copy Share Image
I want to suggest to you that the day of the artists has come. That there are things about symbols and the… — Graham Cray Copy Share Image
What passes for hip cynical transcendence of sentiment is really some kind of fear of being really human, since to be really… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Politicians who wish to succeed must be prepared to dissemble, at times to lie. All deceit is bad. In politics some deceit… — Woodrow Wyatt Copy Share Image
Vladimir Nabokov liked to examine cruelty and the human condition. That didn't mean he was cruel; there's no evidence he kicked puppies… — Jeff Vandermeer Copy Share Image
“Every time you see a beautiful woman, just remember, somebody else got tired of her shit” — Kinky Friedman Copy Share Image
Journalists are often portrayed as cynical. I often think it's the opposite. — David Grann Copy Share Image
We had a lot of riots. We came under attack from many of the police departments. It certainly wasn't some publicity thing.… — Greg Ginn Copy Share Image
I refuse to accept the cynical notion that nation after nation must spiral down a militaristic stairway into the hell of nuclear… — Martin Luther King, Jr Copy Share Image
These are cynical times. Some of the romcoms I thought worked best in recent years were '500 Days of Summer,' 'Celeste and… — Ol Parker Copy Share Image
Let me tell you about the very rich. They are different from you and me. They possess and enjoy early, and it… — F. Scott Fitzgerald Copy Share Image
Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness. — Isaac Marion Copy Share Image
I think I'm too cynical for L.A. My sense of humor doesn't go down well here, which probably affects my love life.… — Teddy Thompson Copy Share Image
I think that if there are problems in journalism they're created by journalists... the trivialisation of the news and the sort of… — Russell Crowe Copy Share Image
If they lost the incredible conviction that they can change their wives or husbands, marriage would collapse at once. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
