Derision Crossword Quotes & Sayings

Read things you're sure will disagree with your current thinking. If you're a die-hard anti-animal person, read Meat. If you're a die-hard global warming advocate, read Glenn Beck. If you're a Rush Limbaugh fan, read James W. Loewen's Lies My Teachers Told Me. It'll do your mind good and get your heart rate up. — Joel Salatin

How ridiculous and unrealistic is the man who is astonished at anything that happens in life. — Marcus Aurelius

I write all the time, and I write a lot of songs, but before I started putting out records those songs always just ended up on stuff that I did with The Babies. — Kevin Morby

Your nature is the Buddha. — Bodhidharma

I enjoy writing fiction more than writing anything else. Wouldn't anyone? — C.S. Lewis

I guess you could say I'm allergic to sunlight. If I'm exposed to it, it could kill me. — Lee Thompson

We had a majority in 1990, 1994, 1996, we lost it every time. You know why? Because we compromised ... We don't need a majority. We need an irate, tireless minority. We need people who are just going to stand for the truth. — Matt Shea

I confronted the fact that I was not only talking to a dog, but answering for one. — Claire Cook

The supreme task of the physicist is to arrive at those universal elementary laws from which the cosmos can be built up by pure deduction. There is no logical path to these laws; only intuition, resting on sympathetic understanding of experience, can reach them. — Albert Einstein

[Hawthorne's] pious blame is a chuckle of praise all the while. — D.H. Lawrence

I think when you work on fossils, and you realize that a species is there, and it's abundant for quite a long period of time, and then at some point it's no longer there - and so, when you look at that bigger picture, yes, you realize that either you change and adapt, or, as a species, you go extinct. — Louise Leakey

There is a secret and wholesome conviction in the heart of every man or woman who has written a book that it should be no easy matter for an intelligent reader to lay down that book unfinished. There is a pardonable impression among reviewers that half an hour in its company is sufficient. — Agnes Repplier