Nine Inch Nails' sound is dominated by clanging synths and sardonic, shrieking vocals. — Michael Azerrad Copy Share Image
“Sidney's never makes a mistake, he said to himself. We know that, too. What else can we depend on?” — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Any man who has got himself set over others and don't have any responsibility to something bigger than him is a son… — Oakley Hall Copy Share Image
I see contemporary violence as a kind of sardonic response to the promise of consumer fulfilment in America. — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
Maybe the reason why so many girls are not looking for a boyfriend anymore, but rather a girlfriend is because all the… — Rachel Copy Share Image
A family is like medicine." She twisted her lips into a sardonic smile. "Best in small doses. — Alexandra Ivy Copy Share Image
“I watched him, sardonic, cynical. A great poet, truly, yet unkind. The gifts of our nature seem not to modify the manner… — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I enjoy darker sardonic wit more than knock-knock jokes. I spent the first healthy chunk of my career playing all-American, pleasant, average,… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
“His mouth has a story to tell, I’m certain of it. How can it be amused and sardonic, hard and inviting, all… — Primula Bond Copy Share Image
In our native terms, the ironic style is often compounded with the sardonic and the hard-boiled; even the effortlessly superior. But irony… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Im relatively sardonic, but Im certainly not the playboy that he is. Hes a quantity man. Hes after as many crazy adventures… — Neil Patrick Harris Copy Share Image
“Thus, you see, he arrived at the same end, via supposed duty, that he was previously pledged to via interest. I fancy… — Elizabeth Gaskell Copy Share Image
Most students of literature can pick apart a metaphor or spot an ethnic stereotype, but not many of them can say things… — Terry Eagleton Copy Share Image
It must have meant something, though, that at this turn of my life I grabbed up a book. Because it was in… — Alice Munro Copy Share Image
The person who experiences greatness must have a feeling for the myth he is in. He must reflect what is projected upon… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
I just play to progressive audiences. You know, if they're watching Discovery Channel, History Channel, that kind of thing, "Monty Python" have… — Eddie Izzard Copy Share Image
Because when she failed, I saw how she might have succeeded. Arrows that continually glanced off from Mr. Rochester's breast and fell… — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
To be sane, he held, was either to be sedated by melancholy or activated by hysteria, two responses which were 'always and… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
Freud, Jung thought, had been a great discoverer of facts about the mind, but far too inclined to leave the solid ground… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
Nazi Literature in the Americas, a wicked invented encyclopedia of imaginary fascist writers and literary tastemakers, is Bolaño playing with sharp, twisting… — Stacey D'Erasmo Copy Share Image
“Greatness is a transitory experience. It is never consistent. It depends in part upon the myth-making imagination of humankind. The person who… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Feeling unable to maintain this detachment of attitude towards human- and, in especial, matrimonial- affairs, I asked whether it was not true… — Anthony Powell Copy Share Image
“Against a set of desolate scenery, amid spectral crags and livid mountains of ash, beneath the funereal daylight of slopes illuminated in… — Jean Lorrain Copy Share Image
“Don't worry about it. If I'm wrong, Security is monitoring me every second." "That just means they'll know who to charge with… — Mike Resnick Copy Share Image
“ But,’ she continued, ‘the goddess is too strong. Her will too absolute. The poison that is indifference…and I well know that taste,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
God was feeling sardonic the day He created the Universe. So it's rather up to at least one man every few centuries… — L. Ron Hubbard Copy Share Image
If I have any claim to originality, I do it by investing my own personality into it, so it's coming from a… — James Hunter Copy Share Image
When Christopher finished, there was a moment of silence. Leo looked at Cam expectantly. “Well?” “Well what?” “Now is the time when… — Lisa Kleypas Copy Share Image
“And he enjoyed listening to Caramon's gossip. Raistlin enjoyed proving to his own satisfaction that his fellow mortals were fools and idiots,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I have been called a Rogue Elephant, a Cannibal Shark, and a crocodile. I am none the worse. I remain a caged,… — Wyndham Lewis Copy Share Image
Big dreams are risky business. The psyche can be fiendish, puckish, exalted, imperious, tender, sardonic, faithful, pestilential--whatever rivets our attention upon the… — Marc Ian Barasch Copy Share Image
