Rakishness Synonym Quotes & Sayings

The strongest natures, when they are influenced, submit the most unreservedly; it is perhaps a sign of their strength. — Virginia Woolf

Good writing - good stories - are the imagination's firing pin, and the purpose of the imagination, I believe, is to offer us solace and shelter from situations and life-passages which would otherwise prove unendurable. — Stephen King

Most people are living lives of sort of survival. And constantly posing an existential crisis, either through fantasy or oblivion, really has been pretty much explored in rock and roll. At least in the western version of rock n' roll. — Billy Corgan

Esther Duflo, a leading randomista. 'Sometimes — Tim Harford

Amelia looked at the eggs-like sickly, jaundiced eyes-and thought of her own eggs, a handful left, old shrivelled like musty dried fruit where once they must have been bursting toward the light- — Kate Atkinson

I'm drinking away the exam results that don't take me anywhere. — Steven Herrick

As far as the language instinct is concerned, the correlation between genes and languages is a coincidence. People store genes in their gonads and pass them to their children through their genitals; they store grammars in their brains and pass them to their children through their mouths. Gonads and brains are attached to each other in bodies, so when bodies move, genes and grammars move together. That is the only reason that geneticists find any correlation between the two. — Steven Pinker

It is a damn poor mind indeed which can't think of at least two ways to spell any word. — Andrew Jackson

Don't we all seek Guarida, safe haven? — Richard S. Hillman

Like symbolism, decadence puts forth the idea that the function of literature is to evoke impressions and 'correspondences', rather than to realistically depict the world ... the decadent aestheticized decay and took pleasure in perversity. In decadent literature, sickness is preferable to health, not only because sickness was regarded as more interesting, but because sickness was construed as subversive, as a threat to the very fabric of society. By embracing the marginal, the unhealthy and the deviant, the decadents attacked bourgeois life, which they perceived as the chief enemy of art. — Asti Hustvedt

I am not a fan of books. I would never want a book's autograph. — Kanye West

They are so young, they forget that the world is not as in love with them as they are. — Ann-Marie MacDonald

Sometimes in life we must slowly distant ourselves from people and places we feel unconformable. Don't feel bad feel freedom. — Ron Baratono

Our abode in this world is transitory, our life therein is but a loan, our breaths are numbered and our indolence is manifest. — Abu Bakr

In the matter of furnishing, I find a certain absence of ugliness far worse than ugliness. — Sidonie Gabrielle Colette