Dismissively Define Quotes & Sayings

Oh but to write what you think is so amazing- whoosh, whoosh, you don't even know how you're doing it and suddenly there it is, exactly the way it has to be. And when you read it later you're right back in your earlier life again and yet you don't know if you're yourself or someone else. — Nescio

What a paragon of virtue you are, gunslinger! the man in black laughed. — Stephen King

And then finally she came - and the whole world faded out around us and we were just alone on the crowded sidewalk. I've heard it called love.
("I Won't Take a Minute" aka "I'll Just Be a Minute" aka "Wait for Me Downstairs" aka "Finger Of Doom") — Cornell Woolrich

You can't believe everything you read - or hear. Accepting things at face value without the need to question and dig deeper is ignorance at best, stupidity at worst. — Vivian Eve

In general, I avoided giving lectures or attaching myself while abroad to a university. To learn what I wanted to know, I went instead to rural communities and onto actual farms. Talk with university people, government officials and U.S. personnel stationed in the country was much less rewarding for me. — Theodore Schultz

for there is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so: to — William Shakespeare

Boys and dating haven't been on my priority list. And they certainly can't be now. — Joelle Charbonneau

Do not think the youth has no force, because he cannot speak to you and me. Hark! in the next room his voice is sufficiently clear and emphatic. It seems he knows how to speak to his contemporaries. Bashful or bold then, he will know how to make us seniors very unnecessary. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

So often our power lies not in ourselves, but in how we help others find their own strength. — Amy Lee Peine

And inasmuch as the great-souled man deserves most, he must be the best of men; for the better a man is the more he deserves, and he that is best deserves most. Therefore the truly great-souled man must be a good man. Indeed greatness in each of the virtues would seem to go with greatness of soul. — Aristotle.

War should belong to the tragic past, to history: it should find no place on humanity's agenda for the future. — Pope John Paul II

Some newspapers dispose of their garbage by printing it. — Spiro T. Agnew

Founding a successful startup is no different than forming a rock band. — Jay Samit

I hate playing the bass, bro. I've been playing the bass because it's there and I don't want anyone else to play it. — Kid Cudi