Laconic Synonym Quotes & Sayings

If you think about it, 534 members of the U.S. Congress cannot all be religious. That's just statistical nonsense. Many of them are quite well-educated. — Richard Dawkins

There are truths and lies and there are things in between, murky waters where light gets bent and broken. — Nadia Hashimi

The Olympic games held in Berlin in August 1936 afforded the Nazis a golden opportunity to impress the world with the achievements of the Third Reich, and they made the most of it. — William L. Shirer

I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance. — Joy Davidman

I have as much fun as anybody I know. — Steve Nash

Grief is a killer, isn't it?" he said. "Brings you right up to the truth. — Nicole Mones

Then the singing enveloped me. It was furry and resonant, coming from everyone's very heart. There was no sense of performance or judgment, only that the music was breath and food. — Anne Lamott

I am not an exponent of expressionism. I don't know exactly what that means, but I don't like the sound of it. I dislike cults and isms. I want to paint in terms of my own thinking and feeling. — Georgia O'Keeffe

If you seek to avoid your fate or to delay suffering, it only condemns you to suffer it redoubled in another life. — Marion Zimmer Bradley

For two years I have refused to answer idle questions on the order of "Is your novel an open work or not?" How should I know? That is your business, not mine. Or "With which of your characters do you identify?" For God's sake, with whom does an author identify? With the adverbs, obviously. — Umberto Eco

You wake up one morning, those years are gone. There's a comfort in this fact perhaps. I want to think that there must be comfort in all facts we can't alter. — Joyce Carol Oates