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
“Some people just can’t grasp how powerless they are. I like the spirited ones. Most of the time you hateful creatures throw… — Daniel MacKillican Copy Share Image
I really love 'Spirited Away,' it's just got an amazingly haunting atmosphere, and the technique is so non-Hollywood CGI - it's really… — Russell Mael Copy Share Image
I do have friends that are Republicans, and we have very spirited conversations on a whole range of issues. I am often… — Barbra Streisand Copy Share Image
The power to determine the quantity of money... is too important, too pervasive, to be exercised by a few people, however public-spirited,… — Milton Friedman Copy Share Image
In Leon's account of his life, no-one was mean-spirited, no-one schemed or lied or betrayed; everyone was celebrated at least in some… — Ian Mcewan Copy Share Image
My father was a Republican, and he couldn't stand what Franklin Delano Roosevelt was doing to the country. I always say I'm… — Jane Russell Copy Share Image
I just try to keep it fresh. I try to keep it interesting. The truth is my roots are independently spirited dramas… — Nicolas Cage Copy Share Image
For A to sit down and think, What shall I do? is commonplace; but to think what B ought to do is… — William Graham Sumner 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
A man goes to the village to visit the wise man and he says to the wise man, “I feel like there… — Jon Gordon 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
“1. INTENSITY: The loud, dramatic spirited children are the easiest to spot. They don’t cry; they shriek. They’re noisy when they play,… — Mary Sheedy Kurcinka Copy Share Image
I love the performance of a craft, whether it is modest or mean-spirited, yet I walk away when discussions of it begin… — Michael Ondaatje Copy Share Image
We never get any gratitude for what we do. We just are constantly ripped. We are constantly complained about. We are constantly… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Every limited mind demands a certain freedom of expression, and the man who cannot express himself satisfactorily without the stimulation derived from… — H. P. Lovecraft Copy Share Image
Do not let your spirit be influenced by your body, or your body be influenced by your spirit. Be neither insufficiently spirited… — Miyamoto Musashi Copy Share Image
I'm very free-spirited and crazy. I love to have fun, and I like doing stupid things. At the same time, I'm like… — Avril Lavigne Copy Share Image
One of the first memories I have was watching Whoopi Goldberg perform her one-woman show on Broadway on HBO. She moved seamlessly… — Aisha Hinds Copy Share Image
Baseball is a spirited race of man against man, reflex against reflex. A game of inches. Every skill is measured. Every heroic,… — Ernie Harwell Copy Share Image
There are a lot of black-hearted, mean-spirited bastards in the world. It's important that we hold them to acount. But always remember… — Darren Shan Copy Share Image
“2. PERSISTENCE: If an idea or an activity is important to them, spirited children can “lock” right in. They are committed to… — Mary Sheedy Kurcinka Copy Share Image
I went to a school in Miami that seemed like a private country club. The whole cheerleader, football player, clique-y thing there… — Zoe Kravitz Copy Share Image
Throughout this primary process the voters have vetted each candidate and after a spirited contest they have made clear who they believe… — Candice S. Miller Copy Share Image
Everybody has an idea of the kind of society they'd like to live in, and I would like to live in one… — Andrew O'Hagan 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 never could tell a joke. I just started talking to the audience, and when the drunks would yell, "Hey, when do… — Don Rickles Copy Share Image
We're going to hear a lot of spirited discussion about the President's plan in the next few days and weeks and that's… — George Allen Copy Share Image
Love is a very contradiction of all the elements of our ordinary nature -- it makes the proud man meek -- the… — Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton Copy Share Image
“WHILE EACH SPIRITED CHILD IS UNIQUE, most are more intense, persistent, sensitive, perceptive, and uncomfortable with change. Many, but not all, possess… — Mary Sheedy Kurcinka Copy Share Image
The United States is in the midst of many spirited political debates about national priorities and public spending... However, we have found… — John Gibbons Copy Share Image
I have what's known as a 'spirited' child. Mia has run me ragged since she knew how to walk. She'd run across… — Stephanie Land Copy Share Image
A critical function that we journalists perform at political conventions is to try to get into parties that we have not been… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
Books that teach us to dance: There are writers who, by portraying the impossible as possible, and by speaking of morality and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Democrats, the left has this 30-year playbook of how to destroy conservatives by simply exposing the horrible, the mean-spirited, insensitive things… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
Whatever the joke is has to be funny, and not coming from a mean-spirited place. I think some things are totally off… — Amy Schumer Copy Share Image
I will conduct a respectful debate. Now, it will be dispirited -- it will be spirited -- because there are stark differences.… — John McCain Copy Share Image
Anne Boleyn is an intriguing character. She seems to appeal to modern-day women in a very potent way. Because she was such… — Natalie Dormer 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
Ten thousand pounds is the legal value of a negligently taken life, of a child or a parent. A cold and somewhat… — Nina Bawden Copy Share Image
