Defies Authority Quotes & Sayings

It's the opposite journey from what I've usually done with films. I find it very easy to go from, say, a lit, pleasurable environment, like what you see outside there, to a very dark place. But the opposite journey, which is what this movie takes, is much more complicated. — Neil Jordan

The heart of a good mother is as big as the ocean; accommodating all kind of things and sweeping all unwanted things to its shores! — Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

For those who do not write and who never have been stirred by the creative urge, talk of muses seems a figure of speech, a quaint conceit, but for those of us who live by the Word, our muses are as real and necessary as the soft clay of language which they help to sculpt. — Dan Simmons

Smart people underestimate the ordinarity of ordinary people. — Yukihiro Matsumoto

Remodeling defies the principles of modern commerce. You shell out great sums of money to people over whom you have no authority or power, yet these same people are constantly insinuating that you're cheap. (It reminded me of medicine, another area where you shell out great sums of money to people over whom you have no authority or power, who make you feel guilty for questioning a bill.) Construction workers are the blue-collar version of the snooty salespeople at Gucci who make $8 an hour but look down on you if you balk at a $400 alligator wallet. — Margo Kaufman

Bad taste is real taste, of course, and good taste is the residue of someone else's privilege. — Dave Hickey

Dying on the inside, but outside you're looking fearless — Tupac Shakur

As exciting and wonderful as these toys can be, they can't replace the human touch — Michael Makai

I learned about M&A and how to value assets and work with investment bankers. — Patricia A. Woertz

Some poets marry a language; some have affairs with it; some treat it as a parent, some as a child, some as an equal, or as a friend. — Stephen Burt

I wanna change the game in way where I'm not knocking nobody out of the way, not claiming to be the best at this or that, but just doing wonders with the gift I've been given. — Anthony Hamilton

Every day is as amazing as we decide it is. — Toni Sorenson

Someone who lies and someone who tells the truth are playing on opposite sides, so to speak, in the same game. Each responds to the facts as he understands them, although the response of the one is guided by the authority of the truth, while the response of the other defies that authority and refuses to meet its demands. The bullshitter ignores these demands altogether. He does not reject the authority of the truth, as the liar does, and oppose himself to it. He pays no attention to it at all. By virtue of this, bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are. — Harry G. Frankfurt