But it's precisely in this cold, loathsome half-despair, half-belief, in this deliberate burying of yourself underground for forty years out of sheer… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Listen to the stage manager and get on stage when they tell you to. No one has time for the rock star… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
So many young decorators are trying to reinvent the wheel, and the results are sometimes very dubious. They're striving to do things… — Albert Hadley Copy Share Image
Everything good is costly, and the development of personality is one of the most costly of all things. It is a matter… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I think Ginsberg has done more harm to the craft that I honor and live by than anybody else by reducing it… — James Dickey Copy Share Image
When you go apartment-hunting in the South, you encounter little old ladies who ask you if you use strong drink. In New… — Florence King Copy Share Image
Critics who perceive the first level of Mann's irony recognize that the second voice is giving us reasons to be dubious about… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Hiding behind such sacred terms as human rights and distributive justice, politicians and intellectuals alike have perpetrated a gargantuan ruse on humankind:… — Gonzalo Fernandez de la Mora Copy Share Image
I kissed her," he explained, aggrieved. "Mmm, yes, I had the dubious pleasure of witnessing that, ah-hem, overly public occurrence." Lyall sharpened… — Gail Carriger Copy Share Image
Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose… — Blaise Cendrars Copy Share Image
... the advantages of being a postman seemed more and more dubious. It is not a congenial profession for anyone who is… — Sylvia Townsend Warner Copy Share Image
Jesse [James] was known as a kind of Robin Hood character and also it was known that his exploits were somewhat dubious… — Brad Pitt Copy Share Image
The world is full of hopeful analogies and handsome, dubious eggs, called possibilities. — George Eliot Copy Share Image
Self-publishing has been a dubious challenge to traditional publishers, at best. — Michelle Dean Copy Share Image
Transparency at the MSRB is dubious with data downloads too costly for all but the Vanguards of the world. — John Kennedy Copy Share Image
An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful. — Ada Louise Huxtable Copy Share Image
I'm very suspicious of the idea of a "final theory" in natural science, and the thought of a complete system of ethical… — Philip Kitcher Copy Share Image
Try to reject war and give peace a chance. Question the powers that be and find out why they make the dubious… — Helen Thomas Copy Share Image
To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting. — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
Yes, I am the last man to have walked on the moon, and that's a very dubious and disappointing honor. It's been… — Gene Cernan Copy Share Image
The idea that the sole aim of punishment is to prevent crime is obviously grounded upon the theory that crime can be… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
“Woe betides anyone getting in the way of people that keep on muddying the waters, throwing up smoke screens and clouding issues,… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
The way to prevent war is to bend every energy toward preventing it, not to proceed by the dubious indirection of preparing… — Max Lerner Copy Share Image
It is now technically feasible to reproduce without the aid of males (or, for that matter, females) and to produce only females.… — Valerie Solanas Copy Share Image
Bernard Williams has been a distinctive presence on the intellectual scene for more than three decades. . . . His writings do… — Colin McGinn Copy Share Image
American parents, on the whole, do not want their sons to be artisans or craftsmen, but business or professional people. As a… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
There is hardly an aspect of contemporary history more irritating and mystifying than the fact that of all the great unsolved political… — Hannah Copy Share Image
Life-writing calls for any number of dubious gifts: A touch of O.C.D., a lack of imagination, a large desk, neutrality of Swiss… — Stacy Schiff Copy Share Image
There is no logical basis to support the theory that plants feel pain. The dubious possibility that they might, however, is no… — Joanne Stepaniak Copy Share Image
I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one… — Malcolm Muggeridge Copy Share Image
Those who would assail the Book of Mormon should bear in mind that its veracity is no more dubious than the veracity… — Jon Krakauer Copy Share Image
I hear people say they're going to write. I ask, when? They give me vague statements. Indefinite plans get dubious results. When… — Natalie Goldberg Copy Share Image
We say that we often see animals in our dreams, but we forget that almost always we are ourselves animals therein, deprived… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
Human life is so strangely constituted that even perfected intellectual understanding combined with the richest experience is incapable of conquering innate weaknesses.… — Stefan Zweig Copy Share Image
When something tragic has happened, you'll find that you, the tragicee, become the person that has to make everything comfortable for everyone… — Cecelia Ahern Copy Share Image
This is why I believe that many of our current eschatologies, intoxicated by dubious interpretations of John’s Apocalypse are not only ignorant… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt Copy Share Image
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