Asininity Quotes & Sayings

I worry about being a fogy and just writing for orchestras. Like, really, I should be doing more electronic stuff, I feel. Laptops as part of the orchestra, and installation sound, and speakers. — Jonny Greenwood

What is a nation? — Timothy Baycroft

Always a godmother, never a mother. That sucks. I've got to get me one of those little accessories. — Courteney Cox

A mind not set on God is given to wandering and lacks the quality of a temple of worship. — Mahatma Gandhi

Asininity was puddling all around me in quantities too vast to soak up. - It Looked Different on the Model — Laurie Notaro

I believe the democratic transformation in Iraq will lead to change in Middle East. — Jalal Talabani

A girl, a mocha latte, and a naked dead man walk into a bar, — Darynda Jones

Post-modernism, which has probably lasted longer than modernism, is the process of interrogating the aesthetic discourse. Disrupting the narrative. Modernism says that things can be right. Post-modernism says that nothing can be right. So if you ever wonder why nothing new ever seems to happen any more, find a post-modernist and beat the shit out of then. Wyndham — Warren Ellis

The most remarkable thing in Binder's article may be her reference to a Women's Studies professor at the University of Michigan who, in Binder's words, worries that Fat Studies "may lead to a social proselytizing rather than serious study." In short, identity studies are becoming so far removed from any hint of academic or intellectual legitimacy that even teachers of a more established and only moderately asinine disciplines are reacting to the far more extreme asininity of newer ones. — Bruce Bawer

My characters are not underachievers; they aspire to great things, but they are limited by the world around them. — Said Sayrafiezadeh

Violence is the common origin of all regimes. Life, discussion, and political choice occur only against a background of violence. — Maurice Merleau Ponty

The war between the artist and writer and government or orthodoxy is one of the tragedies of humankind. One chief enemy is stupidity and failure to understand anything about the creative mind. For a bureaucratic politician to presume to tell any artist or writer how to get his mind functioning is the ultimate in asininity. — Helen Foster Snow

I'm not sarcastic my ways just better — Quinn Loftis

[P]ride has no intrinsic substance, being no more than the name given to the soul devouring itself. When that loathsome perversion of love has borne its fruit, it has another, more meaningful and weightier name. We call it hatred. — Georges Bernanos

NO is always a YES to something else. — Marshall B. Rosenberg