Misdiminers Quotes & Sayings

We pass by common objects or persons without noticing them; but the keen eye detects and notes types everywhere and among all classes. — William Makepeace Thackeray

I am a political recidivist. An incorrigible, repeat voter. A career lever-pusher. My electoral rap sheet is as long as your arm. Over the course of three decades, I have voted for presidents and school board members. I have voted in high hopes and high dudgeon. I have voted in favor of candidates and merely against their opponents. I have voted for propositions written with such complexity that I needed Noam Chomsky to deconstruct their meaning. I have been a single-issue voter and a marginal voter. I have even voted for people who ran unopposed. Hold an election and I'll be there. — Ellen Goodman

Sophie Price, you are devastatingly beautiful. — Fisher Amelie

For me no good food is illuminated without acidity. — Alexandra Guarnaschelli

If you're working on something and it's not coming together, it's easy to say, "I don't want to show this, until I've figured it out." But a lot of times you don't really solve the problems, and then you start getting into a bad situation because you don't have the time to fix it. — Lee Unkrich

I only know we loved in vain; I only feel-farewell! farewell! — Lord Byron

The American people have a right to know the air they breathe is safe. — Sheldon Whitehouse

There will never be another woman who owns the look, the personality, and the experience that you do. Those ingredients make up the recipe that defines who you are, and it's your gift from the Lord - own it. — Candace Cameron

I think if you're an actor, then you can work on stage - but if you've never done it before, you're going to have picked up a few things that you're going to need to change when you're working on stage. — Dominic Monaghan

Justice is not a natural part of the lifecycle of the United States, nor is it a product of evolution; it is always the outcome of struggle. — Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

I really wasn't a class clown. — Kevin James

Churches need to figure out how they will address the spiritual lives of their staffs and leadership teams. — John Ortberg

What you're doing is building a horrible kind of logic. People read what you write and they say, 'Yes, he is talking about things that really happen,' and they keep reading, and it makes sense to them. You're explaining things that can't be defended, and the explanations themselves are mad, just bizarre - but you offer them with such confidence. It was because she kept the chain on the door; it was because he needed to let off steam after a hard day's scraping and bowing at work; it was because she was irritating and stupid; it was because she lied to him, made a fool of him; it was because she had to die, she just had to, it makes dramatic sense; it was because 'nothing is more poetic than the death of a beautiful woman'; it was because of this, it was because of that. It's obscene to make such things reasonable. — Helen Oyeyemi

Paradoxically, no such embargo exists for the drugs and therapies that have revolutionized the treatment of serious diseases although many of them were created with the same technologies. — Paul Berg