Misdeed In Sentence Quotes & Sayings

America was a land of machines, and it was through machines, the miraculous handmaidens of mob culture, that the muses of illiteracy brought America her voice and vision during the years of the immigrants' waves. Centuries ago, movable type had given literacy to the common man. Now, through these wondrous newer machines, he would give it back. — Nick Tosches

Oh, no, not likely. No one capable of tragedy could have married Mrs. Lanoline. — E. M. Forster

The fear of man, the trust in man, the deference to the opinion of man, is the merest worship of a rag-stuffed idol. — George MacDonald

I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete - that's what scares me. That's why I quit the Theatre Department. Just because I'm so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else's values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn't make it right. I'm ashamed of it. I'm sick of it. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash. — J.D. Salinger

It took me a long time to learn that mistakes aren't good or bad,
they're just mistakes, and you clean them up and go on. — Kaye Gibbons

Email is very informal, a memo. But I find that not signing off or not having a salutation bothers me. — Judith Martin

Magic has power to experience and fathom things which are inaccessible to human reason. For magic is a great secret wisdom, just as reason is a great public folly. — Paracelsus