Conventionalized Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

I don't think you will ever be able to understand what it is like - the utter loneliness, the feeling of desperation - to be abandoned in a deep well in the middle of the desert at the edge of the world, overcome by intense pain in total darkness. I went so far as to regret that the Mongolian noncom had not simply shot me and got it over with. If I had been killed that way, at least they would have been aware of my death. If I died here, however, it would be truly a lonely death, a death of no concern to anyone, a silent death. — Haruki Murakami

Both the Oblation Board and the Specters of Indifference are bewitched by this truth about human beings: that innocence is different from experience. The Oblation Board fears and hates Dust, and the Specters feast on it, but it's Dust both of them are obsessed by. — Philip Pullman

The best way to describe the sonic environment at the '98 CES is:
Imagine that the apocalypse took the form of a cocktail party. — David Foster Wallace

Taylor and I both pride ourselves on having escaped that collapsed circus tent of epistemology - those acres of canvas under which many of our colleagues still thrash aimlessly about. — Richard M. Rorty

I get ratings. If I didn't get ratings, they [media] wouldn't do it. They don't care about poll numbers, they only care about ratings. — Donald Trump

At 16, every boyfriend I had I was going to marry. — Jessica Simpson

All I want from this book is a living, enough money to make a living, buy a farm and some land, work it, write some more, travel a little, and so on. — Jack Kerouac

The self-edited author is as foolish as the self-medicated patient. — Guy Kawasaki

Let me say I was trained at Juilliard. I have a very high standard. I expect everybody around me to work equally as hard because people pay a lot of money for tickets. They demand the best that we have. — Patti LuPone

Things are going to happen that you can't control. You can't let it bother you. You have to try your best. — Laurence Yep

The spiritual is inclusive. It is the deepest sense of belonging and participation.We all participate in the spiritual at all times, whether we know it or not. — Rachel Naomi Remen

When a label is throwing money at you, you have to recoup it. — Tony Palermo