Derision Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

There were a lot of people doing new and interesting things with rock. But I wanted to take it farther than that. My real influence was punk. I must have listened to the first Patti Smith album 300 times. — Glenn Branca

If churches want to play the game of politics, let them pay admission like everyone else. — George Carlin

She reminded herself that Kevin would — Nicholas Sparks

I would say if you are having a tough time in your life, then going to a club and getting laughs, it does make you feel better for that hour and a half show. It gets your mind off of it. — Jon Lovitz

We like stories, we like to summarize, and we like to simplify, i.e., to reduce the dimensions of matters ... the narrative fallacy is associated with our vulnerability to overinterpretation and our mental representation of the world ... fallacy addresses our limited ability to look at sequences of facts without weaving an explanation into them, or ... forcing a logical link ... explanations bind facts together. They make them more easily remembered; they help them make more sense. Where this propensity can go wrong is when it increases our impression of understanding. — Nassim Taleb

She seemed to have encompassed time. She postulated the elapsed years during which no honeymoon nor any change had taken place, out of which the (now) five faces looked with a sort of lifeless and perennial bloom like painted portraits hung in a vacuum, each taken at its forewarned peak and smoothed of all thought and experience, the originals of which had lived and died so long ago that their joys and griefs must now be forgotten even by the very boards on which they had strutted and postured and laughed and wept. — William Faulkner

Diggy wished he could cut sentences out of his head the way he could cut them out of a book, then cut them in half and word by word and letter by letter until they were bits of nothing that drifted from the scissors' edges, gravity not even interested enough to pull them down. — Rebecca Petruck