Besmirching Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Reading poetry and reading the great works of the canon that we were reading in the '60s and the '70s and '80s was mind altering. — Anne Lamott

Sati was a custom religiously followed by a few, toed halfheartedly by rather more, sidestepped by many and ignored by most — Tim Mackintosh-Smith

I do not often get lonely, and I never get bored. — Laura Dekker

To be a real philosopher all that is necessary is to hate some one else's type of thinking. — William James

Humanity is living off its ecological credit card and can only do this by liquidating the planet's natural resources — Mathis Wackernagel

There are situations which cannot honorably be met by art. — George Oppen

Escaping goblins to be caught by wolves!" he said, and it became a proverb, though we now say 'out of the frying-pan into the fire' in the same sort of uncomfortable situations. — J.R.R. Tolkien

No one's conception of art is going to be acceptable to everybody. — Jane Alexander

Even if Osama bin Laden is caught tomorrow, it is five years too late. To capture him now I don't think makes us any safer. — Nancy Pelosi

It seems like topsy-turvyland to make reason serve the irrational. Yet that is just what it has always done, and ought always to do. — Walter Lippmann