Misapplication Quotes & Sayings

So, while you are young you must begin to find out what is this strange thing called happiness. That is an essential part of education. — Jiddu Krishnamurti

I wanted to be an actor to act, and now, being an actor, you have to dress up, you have to be nice, you have to be smart, you have to be sexy, you have to be ready. — Vincent Cassel

Poetry proceeds from the totality of man, sense, imagination, intellect, love, desire, instinct, blood and spirit together. — Jacques Maritain

Your friend is so ugly and hairy.
Hey, you'll upset my monkey !

We were talking to the monkey... — Malachi Jones

Babylon was the Catholic Church. Your research helps us get a grip on that misapplication. I'll not mention anymore that the clues might apply to a church. They clearly don't. There are several references in these prophetic verses to cities within a nation. Babylon the Great must be a country, a nation, not a church. I assume that we've all read the clue verses to prepare for tonight. The verses identifying the identity of the Daughter of Babylon/Babylon the Great are: Psalm 137:8 Isaiah 13; 21:1-10; 47 and 48 Jeremiah 50 and 51 Zechariah 2:7 Revelation 17 and — John Price

No amphibian succeeded in adapting to salt water. — Ernst W. Mayr

I like reading books with both hands, with my heart pumping, with blood on the page. So I'm interested in people who make stuff, and I'm interested in the lives that make the text. To read a book or watch a movie any other way, to me, personally, feels like a waste of time and misapplication of energy. — Tom Bissell

The reason why it is that strong, and why HipHop is so inbred, is that there is a very structured wheel, a very definable system on how to get paid in HipHop. Busta Rhymes is someone who took that road and sure enough got paid. As long people like him are allowed to continue to do that it wont change. There is a very specific sound and a very specific attitude, and it changes every year, but as long as you stay in there and keep doing it, and keep narrowing your scope, dressing the rigt ways etc. you get paid. — DJ Shadow

Coercive redistribution of wealth through government's abuse of law and misapplication of rights destroys individual liberty; ambition, productivity, and wealth; and the purpose of the commonwealth. — Mark R. Levin

Commentators frequently blame MMORPGs for an increasing sense of isolation in modern life. But virtual worlds are less a cause of that isolation than a response to it. Virtual worlds give back what has been scooped out of modern life. The virtual world is in important ways more authentically human than the real world. It gives us back community, a feeling of competence, and a sense of being an important person whom people depend on. — Jonathan Gottschall

Love's stories written in love's richest books.
To fan the moonbeams from his sleeping eyes. — William Shakespeare

Being the Magician isn't about being powerful when you have things and useless when you don't," Persephone said.
"The Magician sees what is out there and finds connections. The Magician can make anything magical. — Maggie Stiefvater

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending; and to have the two as close together as possible. — George Burns

Do not kill ants. They are your best friends. — Joe Brainard

Why is it that places thousands of miles from my childhood village home send me back, opening the sluice-gates of the past? Well, we are all emigrants from the homeland of our childhoods. It may be, then, that the natural place to meet ourselves as children is 'abroad', and that includes the foreign country of our growing up and aging. So it is that the personal, physical feeling of departure from the time of childhood may merge in a special symbiosis with geographical departure, biography and geography resonating now on a single wavelength. — Georgi Gospodinov

If we blow ourselves up we will do it by misapplication of science; if we manage to keep from blowing ourselves up, it will be through intelligent application of science. — Robert A. Heinlein

You learned a good lesson about fighting as a team. Remember that no warrior needs to be a hero. The most heroic actions take more than one cat. — Erin Hunter