Rancorously Quotes & Sayings

Letters to absence can a voice impart, And lend a tongue when distance gags the heart. — Horace Walpole

I'll know when a song's really awesome, for sure, and I get super stoked and I'm so high when I'm hearing it back, but then you sit with the record forever. You're mixing it and you can really just over-think everything. I'll go back and forth all the time. — Kurt Vile

I like ambiguity. I think it's so much more interesting to play than an overtly good or an overtly evil person. — Evangeline Lilly

I am a very deep person. I run very deep in real life. — Nicky Whelan

I've come to think that one reason for the oppressive predictability of polemical essays can be found in today's polarized social and political climate. To paraphrase Emerson: "If I know your party, I anticipate your argument." Not merely about politics but about everything. Clearly this acrimonious state of affairs is not conducive to writing essays that display independent thought and complex perspectives. Most of us open magazines, newspapers, and websites knowing precisely what to expect. Many readers apparently enjoy being members of the choir. In our rancorously partisan environment, conclusions don't follow from premises and evidence but precede them. — John Jeremiah Sullivan

Nature has given us this for free, it was meant to sustain us, we will not allow it to become a monopoly to finance the Imperial Army. — Vandana Shiva