The marriage of reason and nightmare which has dominated the 20th century has given birth to an ever more ambiguous world. Across… — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Nothing has a more sinister effect on art than the artist's desire to prove that he's good. The terrible temptation of idealism!… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
There is a sinister anachronistic interpretation of the aesthetic state as some kind of totalitarian regime that puts aesthetic over moral standards;… — Frederick C. Beiser Copy Share Image
Nothing sinister. Just getting exercise. Although some might consider that sinister. — Marian Keyes Copy Share Image
If I were a congressman who had voted for the American Jobs Creation Act of 2004, I'd claim it was forced on… — P. J. O'Rourke Copy Share Image
But I think Kiss Kiss, Bang Bang really got that thing where, if a movie reads really funny and then has some… — Robert Downey, Jr Copy Share Image
“So, apart from casting runes, what other hobbies do you have? Forbidden rituals, human sacrifices, torturing? –” — Simona Panova Copy Share Image
There is something elegantly sinister about the Rolling Stones. They sit before you at a press conference like five unfolding switchblades; their… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
As a child I perceived violence as a sort of natural law. In the totalitarian Soviet Union, oppression held everything together. It… — Vladimir Sorokin Copy Share Image
The thing I hate most is false modesty. The artists who are, like, 'Oh, you know, I'm really not that good. Oh,… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I go to Las Vegas--or at least I went to Las Vegas--because even though I knew everything that was sinister, calculating, and… — Marc Cooper Copy Share Image
If we are not serving Jesus, and if he is not in our thoughts and hearts, then the things of the world… — Neal A. Maxwell Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, you've grown up hearing voices that incessantly warn of government as nothing more than some separate, sinister entity that's at the… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
You don't explain to the janitorial staff how your company is a part of a sinister organization with goals of global infiltration… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The most sinister of all taxes is the inflation tax and it is the most regressive. It hits the poor and the… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
There is in fact something obscene and sinister about photography, a desire to imprison, to incorporate, a sexual intensity of pursuit. — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
It's usually easier to rouse stupidity to action than to arouse wisdom to effort, for wisdom sees alternatives while stupidity lacks the… — Chapman Cohen Copy Share Image
Modern dancers give a sinister portent about our times. The dancers don't even look at one another. They are just a lot… — Agnes de Mille Copy Share Image
Bolshevism turns flourishing countryside into sinister wastes of ruins; National Socialism transforms a Reich of destruction and misery into a healthy state… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
Pulls readers in with an ironic, breezy portrait of sinister high school competitiveness. Deft and extraordinarily accomplished. — Michael Cadnum Copy Share Image
I am constantly trying to reflect the way women are treated. It's hard to interpret that in clothes or in a show… — Alexander McQueen Copy Share Image
It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
This surpassed the fear of death. Death would be a mercy if it would make the feeling stop, the uncontrollable panic mingling… — Brandon Mull Copy Share Image
The urge to kill, like the urge to beget, Is blind and sinister. Its craving is set Today on the flesh of… — Andrei Voznesensky Copy Share Image
