Meretricious In A Sentence Quotes & Sayings

I like living in one room and have never known what people do with the room they are not in. — Quentin Crisp

THE MISCONCEPTION: You calculate what is risky or rewarding and always choose to maximize gains while minimizing losses. THE TRUTH: You depend on emotions to tell you if something is good or bad, greatly overestimate rewards, and tend to stick to your first impressions. — David McRaney

by LEMONY SNICKET — Lemony Snicket

It must be remembered: fields end freedom. Whatever the astonishing subsequent achievements of civilization, it had a little recognized price: humanity itself became one of its own domesticated species. We enslaved ourselves to conquer. — Mark Elvin

My little notebooks were beginnings - they were the ground into which I dropped the seed ... I would work in this way when I was out in the crowds, then put the stuff together at home. — Walt Whitman

I do feel that the trend is away from ageism and toward a recognition that older people have a unique voice. — Daniel Petrie

Jewish introspection and Jewish humor is a way of surviving ... if you're not handsome and you're not athletic and you're not rich, there's still one last hope with girls, which is being funny. — Mike Nichols

I got my heart's desire, he thought, and there my troubles began. — Lev Grossman

What a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate. Self-emancipation — Henry David Thoreau

Therefore, they is only one thing to do ... " Here I stopped speaking altogether for a while, allowing these last words to enter their consciousness. Minutes passed and they said nothing, then Henry's voice broke the silence, his deaf man's bleat hoarse and cracked, a shock in the stillness: "Us gotta kill all dem white sonsabitches. Ain't dat what de Lawd done told you? Ain't dat right, Nat?" It was as if by those words we were committed. Us gotta kill ... I talked on, detailing my plans. — William Styron

she was clinging ivy, she needed people to hold her up. — Charlotte Lamb