Misanthropical Quotes & Sayings

Film is a very tight little box. If you don't fit in that box, you're gone. Television, there's more room to move around. — George Lucas

There was always a woman with TB in Remarque's books. Frankly I was a little fed up with it. — Per Petterson

The opinions of the misanthropical rest upon this very partial basis, that they adopt the bad faith of a few as evidence of the worthlessness of all. — Christian Nestell Bovee

When a cat is dropped, it always lands on its feet, and when toast is dropped, it always lands with the buttered side facing down. I propose to strap buttered toast to the back of a cat; the two will hover, spinning, inches above the ground. With a giant buttered-cat array, a high-speed monorail could easily link New York with Chicago — John Frazee

And then they say one is misanthropical. Hang it! who can help being misanthropical when he finds everybody getting on in life except himself? — Benjamin Disraeli

The aphorism is cultivated only by those who have known fear in the midst of words, that fear of collapsing with all the words. — Emile M. Cioran

This ring is a symbol of my faithfulness, it binds you to me, and my love shall hold you always. — Melissa De La Cruz

It's because I chatter that I do nothing. Or perhaps it is that I chatter because I do nothing. — Fyodor Dostoyevsky

When the major studios flourished many years ago, an actor was groomed, developed, and worked frequently at his craft. The studios really took care of their actors. — James MacArthur

If we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom. — Samuel Adams

Except for half a dozen in each town the citizens are proud of that achievement of ignorance which is so easy to come by. To be 'intellectual' or 'artistic' or, in their own word, to be 'highbrow,' is to be priggish and of dubious virtue. — Sinclair Lewis

After so much reality TV and confessional celebrity interviews, the public is tired of accessible stars. Who needs them to be 'Just Like Us?' 'Just Like Us' means just as boring as we are. — Tina Brown

It is no secret that I believe my son, Attorney General Beau Biden would make a great United States Senator - just as I believe he has been a great Attorney General. But Beau has made it clear from the moment he entered public life, that any office he sought, he would earn on his own. — Joe Biden

Your fragility is also your strength. — Pina Bausch