Famous Dissident Quotes & Sayings

Solitude seems to oppress me. And so does the company of other people. — Eugene Ionesco

He sighed, wondering how his life had been turned upside down by this woman in less than forty-eight hours. Correction: by this woman, a pig, and a rabbit. — Julia Quinn

I was inadvertently raised in the 'gay community.' I had straight parents, but I spent massive amounts of time at a very early age with gay, theater-hopeful thirty-somethings. — Darren Criss

When you have to made a decision, there's no return, keep this in your mind. — Al-Hanouf Halawi

If one is not productive in other spheres, one is not productive in the love either. — Erich Fromm

Once upon a time there was a beautiful Indian maiden, of course. — Stephen Crane

Often, it's not about becoming a new person, but becoming the person you were meant to be, and already are, but don't know how to be. — Heath L. Buckmaster

Unfortunately, unless the job description included a translation of the prologue of The Canterbury Tales, I was dreadfully under-qualified. — Rachel Vincent

Our most bitter enemies are our own kith and kin. Kings have no brothers, no sons, no mother! — Honore De Balzac

Moses: God or crowd control?!? — Mary Ann Shaffer

And there would come up from the sea its voice; and the sea has no voice, but mysteriously touches the strings within the soul of a man, so that the soul speaks in its own way, each soul lifting its peculiar message. — Jack Williamson

She stood on the pile of rubble, her sword held high in such a way that it gleamed in the damp morning. She looked bold and fierce - unlike the science geek who'd been his best friend for years. — Carrie Ryan

There comes a point when you've exhausted your opportunities playing good guys. I've been around long enough, I think I'm entitled to explore a bit. But what I saw there was an opportunity to play a character different from what the audience's expectation was. A chance to take their crude experience of me - of my iconography, if you will - and turn it on its ear at an appropriate juncture in the film to be useful to the process of telling the story. — Harrison Ford

I tend to gravitate toward the realm of superstition (cures and such) and odd scientific facts (like bioluminescent shrimp and fistulated cows). I like the intimacy that I often find in the grotesque. — Anna Journey

I think, for the rest of my life, I shall refrain from looking up things. It is the most ravenous time-snatcher I know. You pull one book from the shelf, which carries a hint or a reference that sends you posthaste to another book, and that to successive others. It is incredible, the number of books you hopefully open and disappointedly close, only to take down another with the same result. — Carolyn Wells