Cynicism Quote by Pauline Kael Download Open image “What this generation was bred to at television's knees was not wisdom, but cynicism.” — Pauline Kael ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Cynicism Generations Knees Pessimism Political Television This generation Wisdom
That which seems the height of absurdity in one generation often becomes the height of wisdom in another. — Adlai E. Stevenson Copy Share Image
“The lack of wisdom in our present society poses a critical threat to the quality of our lives. A substantial disconnect exists in our… — Rick Rigsby Copy Share Image
Though wisdom is common, yet the many live as if they had a wisdom of their own. — Heraclitus Copy Share Image
Wisdom is not a product of schooling but of the lifelong attempt to acquire it. — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Movies have been doing so much of the same thing - in slightly different ways - for so long that few of the possibilities… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
The critic is the only independent source of information. The rest is advertising. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
A good movie can take you out of your dull funk and the hopelessness that so often goes with slipping into a theatre; a… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
The movies have been so rank the last couple of years that when I see people lining up to buy tickets I sometimes think… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them. — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
If you use Hollywood as the test tissue for mankind, what could the prognosis be? — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Where there is a will, there is a way. If there is a chance in a million that you can do something, anything, to… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Watching old movies is like spending an evening with those people next door. They bore us, and we wouldn't go out of our way… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
if you think it so easy to be a critic, so difficult to be a poet or a painter or film experimenter, may I… — Pauline Kael Copy Share Image
Scepticism and cynicism about politics is so great that one of the best counters to it is what you can do at a local… — Ed Miliband Copy Share Image
“Wish in one hand, shit in the other, see which one fills up faster.” — Noelle Oxenhandler Copy Share Image
There's a distinct unease about Americans when they are outside the United States. I can't say quite what it is, but they are easily… — Lawrence Osborne Copy Share Image
If you're going to reach for it, reach all the way for it. Albums like 'Purple Rain' and 'Thriller' and those kind of records,… — Dave Sitek Copy Share Image
There have been times when a particularly heavy dose of such cynicism has caused me to reflect that surely this is the age and… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
The larger an English industry was, the more likely it was to go bankrupt, because the English were not naturally corporate people; they disliked… — Paul Theroux Copy Share Image
Cynicism masquerades as wisdom, but it is the farthest thing from it. Because cynics don’t learn anything. Because cynicism is a self-imposed blindness, a… — Stephen Colbert Copy Share Image
I think growing up in Indiana prepares anyone for a life in comedy. I do feel like there is a certain kind of self-effacing… — Jim Gaffigan Copy Share Image
“That's what I've never been able to get about religion: that charmless combination of altruism and insanity. Give me a cynical, self-interested bastard any… — Mike Carey Copy Share Image
We will need to work hard to break the cynicism, talk straight and rebuild trust in politics. — Hilary Benn Copy Share Image
Nothing is more urgent than a serious, dare I say compassionate, debate as to where we are going at home and abroad. Technicians cannot… — Henry A. Kissinger Copy Share Image
