Jaundiced View Quotes & Sayings

When I was growing up, This is Spinal Tap [1984] was the ultimate comedy, and it was the kind of thing I wanted to do. But you get to a point with parody where you can't go much further because ultimately it's feeding off of somebody else's creativity. — Ben Stiller

What is the basic difference between saying 'I know that God exists' and saying 'I know that love exists'? — Metropolitan Anthony Bloom

The bottom line is this: invest in you and there's more of you to give away. — Todd Gothberg

I was halfway across America, at the dividing line between the East of my youth and the West of my future. — Jack Kerouac

Every single song I've ever written is sung by a character created by somebody else. Some might have a jaundiced view of love, some don't. But none of these songs is me singing - not a single one. — Stephen Sondheim

But let me now stop; I may be a little partial, and view every thing with the jaundiced eye of melancholy - for I am sad - and have cause. — Mary Wollstonecraft

The Moment I Knew" "was a song about my 21st birthday party, which was the worst experience ever, — Taylor Swift

Another irritant is accidental rhyme, as in the sentence "When the rig blew, everything went flying sky-high
me too." Notice here that the rhyme is offensive because both rhyme words, "blew" and "too" are stressed positions; that is, the voice comes down hard on them. The rhyme is not offensive, to most ears, if the writer can get one of the rhymes out of stressed position: "The rig blew sky-high, and everything went flying, me too. — John Gardner

To me, the tragedy about this whole image-obsessed society is that young girls get so caught up in just achieving that they forget to realize that they have so much more to offer the world. — America Ferrera

When you are stressed on mind ... to pour it out, is the behaviour, most kind! — Sujit Lalwani

Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning. — Joseph O'Connor

It's a half-moon tonight and it's shinin' half-bright as if the sky could understand the way I feel inside-Half of me is livin' half a world from here, half of me is dyin', cryin' one lonely tear silently in the half-moon light Sparrow. Nothing will be completely right until you're with me. — Willow Aster

The view which he has given of human life has a melancholy hue,
but he feels conscious that he has drawn these dark tints from a
conviction that they are really in the picture, and not from a jaundiced
eye or an inherent spleen of disposition. — Thomas Robert Malthus

Samuel Vimes dreamed about Clues. He had a jaundiced view of Clues. He instinctively distrusted them. They got in the way. And he distrusted the kind of person who'd take one look at another man and say in a lordly voice to his companion, "Ah, my dear sir, I can tell you nothing except that he is a left-handed stonemason who has spent some years in the merchant navy and has recently fallen on hard times," and then unroll a lot of supercilious commentary about calluses and stance and the state of a man's boots, when exactly the same comments could apply to a man who was wearing his old clothes because he'd been doing a spot of home bricklaying for a new barbecue pit, and had been tattooed once when he was drunk and seventeen* and in fact got seasick on a wet pavement. What arrogance! What an insult to the rich and chaotic variety of the human experience! — Terry Pratchett

I always have had a slightly jaundiced view about people who promote books about themselves. — Peter Jackson

... a cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed ... — Sharon Kay Penman

It's funny, you know. The times that seem so trivial end up meaning so much. — Jeffrey Blount

Better to have to retrace your steps and then move forward than never to move forward at all. — Anne Burack Sayre