Nannyism Quotes & Sayings

If you can't imagine female torch singers and Skrillex-style demon techno onstage at the same moment, you don't know Eurovision. — Seamus Dever

Imagination is like a muscle. I found out that the more I wrote, the bigger it got. — Philip Jose Farmer

Myths are different than fairy tales or legends. Legends are stories based in history and are more or less true. Myths, on the other hand, are stories containing a deeper truth - stories that transcend time. If you were to travel the world, you would find myths that are remarkably similar to one another - stories of heroes fighting the darkness with the light. — Seth Adam Smith

When a language creates - as it does - a community within the present, it does so only by courtesy of a community between the present and the past. — Christopher Ricks

So humor me for a minute, and look out your window. What did you see? — Hope Jahren

As Germaine Greer puts it in The Whole Woman, to become a mother without wanting it is to live like a slave, or domestic animal. — Caitlin Moran

By enlarging your knowledge of things, you will find your knowledge of self is enlarged. — Charles De Lint

I have a lot of screenwriter friends and many of them have had an experience where they aren't even welcome on set during production. — Diablo Cody

Political correctness is one of the engines of nannyism. Allowing and even encouraging 'offensive' ideas is vital for the intellectually health of a free society. — David Harsanyi

While I still do a lot of horror, it doesn't feel to me like I'm repeating myself. I like to stay interested. I'm kind of turning into one of those elder statesmen, like a Vincent Price or a Donald Pleasence. I like to think of myself alongside those guys. — Robert Englund

I'm trying to get at something a little transcendent between humans. But at the same time, there's all that baggage: What's beautiful about humans is what's balanced by what's kind of ugly and petty and depressing. — Lynn Coady

I'm an actor. It's like being a bricklayer. Sometimes I'm building a little wall, and the next time I'm building a palace. — Corbin Bernsen

The world is full of grief and no peace but every body has a different way of ending it. — Auliq Ice

The nannyism is partly to distract from the corruption - and partly just another opportunity to leverage it. A good general rule is that the more a government wants to run its citizens' lives, the worse job it will do at the most basic tasks of government. — Glenn Reynolds

I went from years of honing my craft to sudden recognition. It was quite a life changer. — Kathy Bates