1985 Orwell Quotes & Sayings

In its timeless capacity to embody the human condition, the vampire is a poignant metaphor describing the psychosocial experience of the pariah - the outsider. The vampire is the Other that used to be human. The diseased, the mentally challenged, the homeless and hungry, ... are all vampires in a way; the other who used to be human, the invisible who casts no reflection among us. — Katherine Ramsland

Mythology is like gravity, inconvenient at times, but necessary for cohesion. — Elizabeth Janeway

The New Right: kiss the bankers and spank the babies. — Mason Cooley

Success is like reaching an important birthday and finding you're exactly the same. — Audrey Hepburn

Whether or not we sense and feel the presence of the Holy Spirit or one of the holy angels, by faith we are certain God will never leave us or forsake us. — Billy Graham

White boys do eat pussy better than everyone else, though, I will say that. Maybe it's those thin white-boy lips! — Azealia Banks

He described the experience as being 'a little bit less fun, perhaps, than chain-smoking for ninety minutes while handcuffed to a dowager with asthma who used to teach Health and smells incontinent. — Adam Levin

The problem with being British ... I don't know if it's me being British or being raised a strict Catholic, but you never really enjoy success. — Danny Boyle

You're smiling," Indie says.

"I know." I say. — Ally Condie

That was the real sentence imposed upon him, he thought - to discover what idea, what simple idea available to the simplest man, had made mankind accept the doctrines that led it to self-destruction. — Ayn Rand

It will sometimes strike a scientific man that the philosophers have been less intent on finding out what the facts are, than on inquiring what belief is most in harmony with their system. — Charles Sanders Peirce

Who'd give up sunny California for the grey old Earls Court Road? I'm looking out at blue skies and the mountains and trees, and it's so beautiful. — Patrick Macnee

I like to think of myself at home in the armchair, writing, smoking and occasionally wandering down the shop. — Stephen Fry

My mum and my dad have really good taste in movies. My gran would tape them off the TV and write notes about them, rating them. — Domhnall Gleeson

Being unique is highly over rated. — Rob Payne