These are all cases of proved or presumptive baloney. A deception arises, sometimes innocently but collaboratively, sometimes with cynical premeditation. Usually the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“I am metaphysical being, mystical and emotional, skeptical and cynical, happy and boisterous, loud and bawdy, quiet and melancholy, tender and cruel,… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
Taking down the Christmas tree makes it feel official: time to get back to joyless and cynical. — Greg Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
Pain and guilt can't be taken away with the wave of a magic wand. They're the things we carry with us, the… — William Shatner Copy Share Image
Some cynical biographer said to me, Make sure it's a good death. Make sure you're not picking someone who just declined. — Hermione Lee Copy Share Image
A director once said, when I was complaining about something or other, "I agree, it is terrible. The worst thing you can… — Jeff Raz Copy Share Image
I learned to stop being English about things like love. If you make a film in England about love, it's hugely complicated.… — Simon Beaufoy Copy Share Image
I think if you're a regular viewer of Fox News, you're among the most cynical people on planet Earth. I cannot think… — Bill Keller Copy Share Image
Sometimes you get the cynical person saying, 'Do we really need another book set in Nazi Germany?' But I think you just… — Markus Zusak Copy Share Image
I realized that every second that I'm alive, the world cares less about me. It's just a very linear, downward progression. And… — Greg Fitzsimmons Copy Share Image
“The first of ‘Goose’s Two Laws of Survival.’ It runs thus, ‘The weak are meat the strong do eat.’ ” ... Henry grinned… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I never expected Star Wars to all of a sudden become like The Matrix and change perspective on things. I respected it… — Kyle Newman Copy Share Image
As a dramatist, you have 200 choices at every fork in the road. But the audience will reject it if you make… — Peter Morgan Copy Share Image
“Life made you get your hands dirty; life was vengeful if you tried an easy route.” — Meghan Ciana Doidge Copy Share Image
Cannes is a very strange place. I tried to show up as best I could and to try not to be cynical. — Lili Taylor Copy Share Image
“I have never fully unbosomed myself to any human being; I have never been encouraged to trust much in the sympathy of… — Mary Ann Evans Copy Share Image
“They can talk shit about each other behind the others' backs, but when it comes down to it, money is the one… — Richard Kadrey Copy Share Image
Compassion is an unstable emotion. It needs to be translated into action, or it withers. The question of what to do with… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
Love at first sight is probably for stupid people, but maybe I'm just cynical. — Greg Davies Copy Share Image
