Only the scenario writers are exempt. These are tied between the tails of two spirited Caucasian ponies, which are then driven off… — S. J. Perelman Copy Share Image
Mean-spirited mediocrities, especially those with a smattering of learning, are the most likely to be opinionated. Only strong minds know how to… — Madeleine de Souvre, marquise de Sable Copy Share Image
Meanwhile, however, what’s most bothersome about Pulp Fiction is its success. This is not to be mean-spirited about Tarantino himself; may he… — Stanley Kauffmann Copy Share Image
Thanks to the arrival of such spirited and purposeful groups as X, the Blasters, R.E.M., and the Replacements, American rock has made… — Robert Hilburn Copy Share Image
I've never been able to tell jokes. In the beginning of my career I did impressions and jokes like any other comedian,… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
If there were a God he would want us to be better spirited than to take his word for everything. — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
I find the Englishman to be him of all men who stands firmest in his shoes. They have in themselves what they… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Grover Norquist is a mean-spirited, humorless, dishonest little creep... an embarrassing anomaly, the leering, drunken uncle everyone else wishes would stay home...… — Tucker Carlson Copy Share Image
Sophisticated readers understand that writers work out their anger, their conflicts, their endless grief and rolling list of loss, through their stories.… — Amy Bloom Copy Share Image
I'm a Christian first, and a mean-spirited, bigoted conservative second, and don't you ever forget it. You know who else was kind… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
Our Republic and its press will rise or fall together," Pulitzer wrote. "An able, disinterested, public-spirited press, with trained intelligence to know… — Joseph Pulitzer Copy Share Image
Many heroes lived before Agamemnon; but all are unknown and unwept, extinguished in everlasting night, because they have no spirited chronicler. — Horace Copy Share Image
We need spirited, energetic and strong young people whose hearts are filled with life, enthusiasm, zeal and dynamism; whose souls are full… — Hassan al-Banna Copy Share Image
“Those times are over and gone, and good-riddance to them, too. We were hopelessly high-spirited. Now we're the thick-waisted generation, dragging along… — Gregory Maguire Copy Share Image
I would rather have as my patron a host of anonymous citizens digging into their own pockets for the price of a… — John Updike Copy Share Image
For storytelling purposes, there has to be conflict, but that doesn't mean the people have to be mean. I've never liked mean-spirited… — Michael Schur Copy Share Image
Everybody is in your business, gossiping and being mean spirited. It's different. Sometimes I'm like, "Do I want to do this?," because… — Tinsel Korey Copy Share Image
The Christian in prayer comes up close to God, with a humble boldness of faith, and takes hold of him, wrestles with… — William Gurnall Copy Share Image
A really great people, proud and high spirited, would face all the disasters of war rather than purchase that base prosperity which… — Theodore Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I was a bit shut down by a lot of the snarkiness and biliousness in some of the poetry blogs. I was… — Simone Muench Copy Share Image
These days it seems the lyric impulse, so seemingly fragile, comes in for a lot of abuse-or simply a lot of mistrust.… — Patricia Hampl Copy Share Image
The great affair, the love affair with life, is to live as variously as possible, to groom one's curiosity like a high-spirited… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
