Phonetically Transcribed Quotes & Sayings

...it was not simply a matter of musical taste; whether you preferred the Beatles or [the Rolling] Stones said much about your personality and character. People who were happy, intelligent, well-adjusted, popular, clean, decent and punctual tended to be Beatles fans. Those who were evil, cretinous, scabby, drug-ridden, filthy, criminal perverts liked the Stones.
As for your author, I personally take no side in the controversy, remaining strictly neutral. — Lewis Grossberger

There is a shadow wherever there is light, but the mind can see what the eyes can't. — Atul Randev

our fate is determined by our actions. Day in and day out, we determine where our life will lead. — Christina George

I don't think I have discipline when it comes to anything. — Brian K. Vaughan

She knew how you went about falling in love; she did not know how you went about falling into trust. — Jodi Picoult

Throb thine with Nature's throbbing breast. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

Thankfulness is the tune of angels. — Edmund Spenser

Chinese military spending is carefully monitored by the United States. — Noam Chomsky

I've often heard academics disparage non-academic writing in terms that suggest it could be a negative in the tenure process, irrespective of the quality of academic work under review. — Daniel Drezner

The hardest thing about Berlin is letting it belong to other people. — Darryl Pinckney

"Science" is pedantic, arrogant, esoteric and often insane. — Herbert M. Shelton

The existentialists' view of love is not romantic, because they do not believe in love as an abstract force or amorous sunset walks along the beach. However, Cox also said, "if your idea of romance is somewhat more gothic and stormy, full of heartache, yearning and the thwarted desire to possess breaking up, making up and breaking up again, tears before bedtime and tears in the rain, then maybe it is romantic". — Skye Cleary

Monarchy is like a splendid ship, with all sails set it moves majestically on, but then it hits a rock and sinks for ever. Democracy is like a raft. It never sinks but, damn it, your feet are always in the water. That is a good metaphor, for raft, he implies, is simply swept along by the tide or the current; one can with a paddle or a plank steer a little to stay afloat, trim forward direction slightly to left or right, perhaps even slow down or speed up a little, but there is no turning back against the current of democracy. — Bernard Crick