Gentility Synonym Quotes & Sayings

My first band was an Argentinian folk group when I was 10. When I was 12 I had my electric guitar, and by the time I was 13, the Beatles came into the scene, and that was over. So I have a mixture of all these traditions, and I think that's who I am, a mixture of everything. — Gustavo Santaolalla

It's like she's embarking on a mission of doom. — Kristen Callihan

We are all shaped by the tools we use, in particular: the formalisms we use shape our thinking habits, for better or for worse, and that means that we have to be very careful in the choice of what we learn and teach, for unlearning is not really possible. — Edsger Dijkstra

Likewise, Humanities Computing is the creative result of failure on the part of the manufacturers of early computers to produce operational machines in time to be used during the Second World War (or, one can argue, of failure on the part of the allied forces to make the war last longer). — Melissa Terras

My hobby of not attending meetings about recycling saves more energy than your hobby of recycling. — John McCarthy

Who holds a power but newly gained is ever stern of mood. — Aeschylus

We need to make a very clear distinction between what is in our ego's self-interest and what is in our ultimate interest; it is from mistaking one for the other that all our suffering comes. — Sogyal Rinpoche

Perhaps all life was like that
dull and then a heroic flurry at the end. — Graham Greene

Frank liked me because I went nuts on the piano using feet, head, whatever I could find to bang on the piano. — George Duke

Day in and day out we do the same thing,
Tryina find the joy in our repetition.
Always complainin' about the routine and the mundane.
But let me stop to remind y'all bout one thing:
Come hell or high water you can count on the sun
Always shinin' in its untamed glory. — Phonte

I think Formula E truly has the potential to become the future of motorsport. Formula One is the past. — Sam Bird

Some writers research in order to write. I write in order to research topics that interest me. Especially if I can meet with other people, in forums from illness support groups to phone-sex hotlines, and learn what other people know best. — Chuck Palahniuk

I understood HOW: I do not understand WHY. — George Orwell

In Japan itself it seemed as if theory had been absorbed the same way Japanese media culture absorbed everything else - by turning it into a spectacular subcultural style. — McKenzie Wark