Misreadings Quotes & Sayings

Without a good cultural policy, without adequate help, we will always have individualists, shooting stars who are rapidly forgotten or who stop painting for a more profitable occupation. — Ralph Allen

Los Angeles had no culture of its own, just a large collection of misreadings of the artistic histories of other, proper cities. — Warren Ellis

Terror is a passion which always produces delight when it does not press too close. — Edmund Burke

I'm not tribal Labour. I'm a Liberal at heart. Different tradition, different language. — Michael Ignatieff

Among the many strange servilities mistaken for pieties, one of the least lovely is that which hopes to flatter God by despising the world, and vilifying human nature. — George Henry Lewes

In the stutter-flashes of light, the clouds look like huge transparent brains filled with bad thoughts. — Stephen King

Hairspray is the only movie I made that's subversive, because they're doing it in every high school in America. A man's playing a woman, and two men sing a love song to each other. — John Waters

I used to draw a lot. If my mother would ask me to do something else, I'd have a hairy conniption. I'd just go crazy. — Jim Carrey

To vice you to't, that you have touch'd his queen Forbiddenly. — William Shakespeare

The more you learn what to do with yourself, and the more you do for others, the more you will learn to enjoy the abundant life. — William J.H. Boetcker

It is a fundamental truth that the responsibilities of motherhood cannot be successfully delegated. No, not to day-care centers, not to schools, not to nurseries, not to babysitters. We become enamored with men's theories such as the idea of preschool training outside the home for young children. Not only does this put added pressure on the budget, but it places young children in an environment away from mother's influence. Too often the pressure for popularity, on children and teens, places an economic burden on the income of the father, so mother feels she must go to work to satisfy her children's needs. That decision can be most shortsighted. It is mother's influence during the crucial formative years that forms a child's basic character. Home is the place where a child learns faith, feels love, and thereby learns from mother's loving example to choose righteousness. How vital are mother's influence and teaching in the home - and how apparent when neglected! — Ezra Taft Benson

The Crusaders lead to the Knights Templar; the Knights Templar lead to the Masons; and the Masons lead to the Shriners, a secret society that controls world government, toys with our banking system, and single-handedly keeps the fez industry afloat. — Stephen Colbert

When the day comes that I kneel by your bedside and see your eyes close, or you kneel by mine, it must be that the one who waits behind shall know the parting is not all. — Frances Hodgson Burnett

Skating is what got me into punk rock. — Matt Skiba

If we can avoid doing violence to the minds of unseen others on the internet, others will learn to do the same. And then perhaps our internet traffic will cease to look like one great, bloody accident. — Timothy Snyder

In a language as idiomatically stressed as English, opportunities for misreadings are bound to arise. By a mere backward movement of stress, a verb can become a noun, an act a thing. To refuse, to insist on saying no to what you believe is wrong, becomes at a stroke refuse, an insurmountable pile of garbage. — Ian McEwan