I see no greatness in my self...I'm a simple-minded, child-like, insipid sort of moronic and kind of akward feeling adolescent. — Neal Cassady Copy Share Image
We must be firm but not rough in our guidance and avoid an insipid kind of meekness, which is ineffective. — Vincent de Paul Copy Share Image
There is no lasting pleasure but contemplation; all others grow flat and insipid upon frequent use; and when a man hath run… — Gilbert Burnet Copy Share Image
Happiness is a wine of the rarest vintage, and seems insipid to a vulgar taste. — Logan Pearsall Smith Copy Share Image
The way in which we experience and interpret the world obviously depends very much indeed on the kind of ideas that fill… — E. F. Schumacher Copy Share Image
The weak and insipid white wine makes at length excellent vinegar. — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
He was the man who of all modern, and perhaps ancient poets, had the largest and most comprehensive soul. . . .… — John Dryden Copy Share Image
How do we appreciate the good without letting it be the enemy of the perfect? How do we keep a step in… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
The better part of one's life consists of his friendships. ABRAHAM LINCOLN, letter to Joseph Gillespie, July 13, 1849 Friendship is insipid… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
To be really great in little things, to be truly noble and heroic in the insipid details of everyday life, is a… — Harriet Beecher Stowe Copy Share Image
Tis chiefly taste, or blunt, or gross, or fine, Makes life insipid, bestial, or divine. Better be born with taste to little… — John Armstrong Copy Share Image
One is conscious of no brave and noble earnestness in it, of no generalized passion for intellectual and spiritual adventure, of no… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
During the days of my youth, critics and art-lovers resorted freely to this term of abuse. Even some of the most renowned… — Ernst Gombrich Copy Share Image
There si nothing upon the face of the earth so insipid as a medium. Give me love or hate! A friend that… — Fanny Burney Copy Share Image
The harp is an insipid instrument--no good for dancing, feasting, or marching, only for sitting primly in a parlor or on a… — Mason Cooley Copy Share Image
I will not adopt that ungenerous and impolitic custom so common with novel writers, of degrading by their contemptuous censure the very… — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Friendship is insipid to those who have experienced love. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Style is the physiognomy of the mind. It is more infallible than that of the body. To imitate the style of another… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
I'll never make another Hardy picture . . . I'm fed up with these dopey, insipid parts. How long can a guy… — Mickey Rooney Copy Share Image
It is certain that there is no other passion which does produce such contrary effects in so great a degree. But this… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Any media-brainwashed automaton can summon the insipid courage to peer into the horrifying abyss. But it takes a freaking genius with a… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
I do not say a proverb is amiss when aptly and reasonably applied, but to be forever discharging them, right or wrong,… — Miguel de Cervantes Copy Share Image
It is universally allowed that, though nothing can be more interesting in itself than the conversation of two lovers, yet nothing can… — Susan Edmonstone Ferrier Copy Share Image
I think musicians should stay off television generally. I get asked all the time. Those shows are just promoting insipid comedies. Who… — Sufjan Stevens Copy Share Image
