Defectively Quotes & Sayings

However, although The Da Vinci Code did a whole heap of things defectively, it did one thing stupefyingly well - the plot. It was as though Brown had jettisoned all traces of style and credibility from his novel because he had realised, in a flash of Leonardo-like scientific insight, that style and credibility were the very properties preventing his theoretical story-balloon from taking flight. So they had been tossed over the side, along with beauty, truth and five hundred years of literary progress. — Andy Miller

I don't know if a little tickle of psychic ability means we are divine; there are plenty of people who can accept the miracle of eyesight without believing that eyesight proves the existence of God ... — Stephen King

If you really don't know where to start or if you're stuck, start generating random connections and allow your intuition to tell you if one might lead somewhere interesting. — John Cleese

The majority of men prefer delusion to truth. It soothes. It is easy to grasp. Above all, it fits more snugly than the truth into a universe of false appearances - of complex and irrational phenomena, defectively grasped. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Disease is an image of thought externalized. — Mary Baker Eddy

The greatest pleasure when I started making money was not buying cars or yachts but finding myself able to have as many freshly typed drafts as possible. — Gore Vidal

I was fine when it came to cheering up others, not so fine with myself. — Gene Tierney

You see Democrats who will demonize business. I don't do that. You see Republicans who demonize labor. I don't do that. — Tim Kaine

Fashion makes fools of some, sinners of others, and slaves of all. — Josh Billings

No daughter and mother ever live apart, no matter what the distance between them. — Christie Watson

There are certain half-dreaming moods of mind in which we naturally steal away from noise and glare, and seek some quiet haunt where we may indulge our reveries and build our air castles undisturbed. — Washington Irving

One play can change your momentum forever. — Sherman Alexie

I started out with this dream of being a director and doing cinematography and bought my first film camera at 15. — James Brolin

Our journey so far has been very satisfactory: we are most fortunate as regards the season, for there has been more rain this winter than has been known for the last four or five years. — William John Wills