Denigrated Def Quotes & Sayings

The comment quieted the room, like a sudden shout of "Who wants extra bacon?" at a bar mitzvah. — Brandon Sanderson

But why I cry out against Rubens is because he painted undressed people instead of naked ones. — E. M. Forster

When I turn on the news in Paris, the way Syria is covered is different from the way it is covered in Washington, D.C., or London. Even in Western society, where we hold all the values of democracy and freedom of speech, as soon as you point a camera in a particular direction, there is an angle - literally and figuratively. — Natalie Dormer

Every generation enjoys the use of a vast hoard bequeathed to it by antiquity, and transmits that hoard, augmented by fresh acquisitions, to future ages. — Thomas B. Macaulay

Nothing is so hard that it can't be found by searching.
— Kim Harrison

Let's have a child," he said again. "A little girl just like you, and we will call her Obianuju because she will complete us. — Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

In gymnastics, the longest routine you do is a minute and a half, and that's pretty tough to get through. — Shannon Miller

Surround yourself with doers. Be around people who demonstrate thier boldness. — Wayne Dyer

When Bill Gates started Corbis we were told that he needed images to fill those digital picture frames in his home, and many found this plausible. But now it's pretty clear that he's set out to control the visual history of the twentieth century. — Philip Jones Griffiths