Nys English Regents Exam Critical Lens Quotes & Sayings

I think drugs played a big role in the Taboo scene. People were taking copious amounts of ecstasy, which had filtered over from New York, and at a certain point you were more likely to spend most of the night in the toilets at the club. — Boy George

The factors left out of the Ricardian equation are falling wages and idle capacity. — David Ricardo

Theatre probably originated without texts, but by the time we get to the classical Greek period, theatre has become text-based. — Tom Stoppard

Abandon learning and there will be no sorrow. — Laozi

Movies have heart. Have mind. Have power. Have ambition. — Alejandro Jodorowsky

The ugly people aren't accepted so far... but so far I don't the problem is ugly thing... it's because they are zombies... so far you can have and a night with a zombie! — Deyth Banger

I have a respect for the 3-D computer-generated action movies, but my first love is stuff like 'Lethal Weapon.' — Josh Peck

We all tell stories
to ourselves and to each other. Some of learn to tell only the most interesting bits. — Shannon Donnelly

I don't like argumentation. You men do it a lot, don't you? You seem to enjoy it. I'm always amazed at how men can go on and on, happily passing around the empty cup of some futile discussion — Soseki Natsume

But what was possible or practical had been replaced by a far baser impulse. Hope. — Ted Dekker

A beauty beyond words," whispered Rini, mesmerized by the view. — Jason Medina

All kinds of mysterious phenomena exist in this world, but answers to most of them have come with advances in scientific knowledge. Love is the sole holdout-nothing can explain it. A Chinese writer by the name of Ah Cheng wrote that love is just a chemical reaction, an unconventional point of view that seemed quite fresh at the time. But if love can be controlled and initiated by means of chemistry, then novelists would be out of a job. So while he may have had his finger on the truth, I'll remain a member of the loyal opposition. — Mo Yan

This theory [the oxygen theory] is not as I have heard it described, that of the French chemists, it is mine (elle est la mienne); it is a property which I claim from my contemporaries and from posterity. — Antoine Lavoisier

And thus it was that I started to wonder why Robert Burns is so important to us. We have other poets, and other writers, and other heroes, yet we do not afford them the veneration that we afford to Robert Burns. — Len G. Murray

Hermione Granger, I'm being bossed around by Hermione Granger. — J.K. Rowling