Disengages Crossword Quotes & Sayings

My interest in magic was kindled by Steve Martin, the comedian I'd gone to high school with. — Gary McCord

Remember that being offended is not the same thing as being right. — Dave Barry

All biographers, no matter how sympathetic, end up using their subjects as mirrors to figure themselves out. I don't want to be anyone's mirror. — Gloria Steinem

Christina Hoff Sommers quotes one professor's compliant about "students who have been trained to take a 'feminist perspective'": "For them reason itself is patriarchal, linear, and oppressive." In other words, Women's Studies agrees with the Victorians that women are the less intellectual sex; the difference is that in the view of Women's Studies this doesn't make them inferior but superior. — Bruce Bawer

Eccentric is a nice word to replace 'weird' and 'crazy', which you can use when you really like someone. — Haidji

Churches should evaluate everything they do to determine how it can be done better. — Thom S. Rainer

Thinking the loss of a loved one was unfortunate, ill timed, sad, or an accident is to miss the gift. — Mike Dooley

There's no point in me going to mixers and getting attached to people when I'm only going to be there nine months. * — Jenny Han

I don't try to overintellectua lize my concepts of people. In fact, the ideas I have, if you talk about them, they seem extremely corny and it's only in their execution that people can enjoy them ... It's something I've learned to trust: The stupider it is, the better it looks. — Annie Leibovitz

There is no release
In a bodkin or disease,
Nor can there be a work so great
As that which cleans man's dirty slate. — William Butler Yeats

The theory of the "wisdom of crowds" says that if you aggregate many different opinions from a diverse group of people, you are much more likely to arrive at the best opinion than if you just listen to one specialist. — Simon Kuper