Plainspoken Syn Quotes & Sayings

She smiles and slips her arm through his. Her tread is light and bouncy and I can almost see the ghost of her cheerleader's ponytail bobbing at the back of her head. — Laura Wiess

Old school feminism, coveting social power, is blind to woman's cosmic sexual power. — Camille Paglia

Having a soul, they say, is like taking sadness and turning it into something beautiful. — Florence Welch

When you sit down to write something, there should be no guidelines. The main idea is not supposed to be, 'How many different ways can we sell it?' That's so far away from the true spirit of what music is. — Prince

If Hegel had written the whole of his Logic and in the Preface disclosed the fact that it was only a thought-experiment (in which however at many points he had steered clear of many things), he would have been the greatest thinker who ever lived. As it is, he is merely comic. — Soren Kierkegaard

I don't think there's an interesting boundary between philosophy and science. Science is totally beholden to philosophy. There are philosophical assumptions in science and there's no way to get around that. — Sam Harris

Words are only painted fire, a look is the fire itself. She gave that look, and carried it away to the treasury of heaven, where all things that are divine belong. — Mark Twain

First impressions are crap. — Simmone Howell

The thing I care about is my weight - I'm as fanatical about it as a member of Girls Aloud. I weigh myself every morning. I know exactly what I want to be - 82kg - and I try to stick to it. — Tony Parsons

I'm a former, living, breathing, right-wing conspirator. — David Brock

Our 20th Century has proved to be more cruel than preceding centuries, and the first fifty years have not erased all its horrors; our world is rent asunder by those same old cave-age emotions of greed, envy, lack of control, mutual hostility which have picked up in passing respectable pseudonyms like class struggle, radical conflict, struggle of the masses, trade-union disputes. — Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn

We don't know why we are here and the context of our role in the universe, and the thought of an infinite universe. It's something the human mind can't really grasp. It's statistically impossible that there's not life on other planets. — Joel Kinnaman

For love casts out fear, and gratitude can conquer pride. — Louisa May Alcott

What I like is the idea of a group, even if it's just two people - the idea of solitude within a group. — Claire Denis