Ingratiation Quotes & Sayings

The reason why God doesn't show his face is because he stands behind a wall that can be broken. — Lionel Suggs

I was constantly amazed by how many people talked me into arresting them. — Edward Conlon

They say the one thing that people who live the longest have in common is that they have a religious belief. — Jim Shaw

At the end of the day I'm writing comedy. If you get too realistic as a comedy writer with your disasters, it stops being funny. — Simon Rich

When you shoot on film, you don't know whether you've got it or not until you get the film processed, and so it changes the relationship we have with the subject whether it's a landscape or a person in a so-called controlled environment in a chair in a studio in front of you. — Bill Henson

He tried to picture her in battle, covered in gore and swinging a blade - would she be silent and barbarous or would she flit through the fray, making sarcastic comments as she casually dealt deathblows? — Bethany K. Lovell

Oh yeah, she wanted to be this man's prey in every way. She'd felt his brand of dominance and wanted more of it. — Katie Reus

Opera needs to be a total escape from real life. To relate to what we're going through today is fine and dandy, but it's really about being transported and completely swept away by a romantic notion. — Rufus Wainwright

The one period of glory in NASA was the first nine years when they weren't a bureaucracy yet ... and they haven't gotten back to that excitement, that adventurism, and won't. So, I would take most of the NASA budget, and I would turn it into prizes for private sector. — Newt Gingrich

I have frequently said, and I will repeat again, in the manner of any well-meaning seriality, that I'm interested in mixing the ingratiation of wishful thinking with the criticality of knowing better. — Barbara Kruger

I love seeing the way in which young people embrace video, and the YouTube vlogger is a fantastic phenomenon. — Casey Neistat