Semiruined Quotes & Sayings

Playing in front of people is a lot different from playing in your room. — Gavin DeGraw

Supporting war initially was a mistake. — Bill Richardson

We lose too soon, and only find delight
In withered husks of some dead memory. — Oscar Wilde

That One Man (from The People Who Didn't Say Goodbye)
There is always that one man
who you can't avoid
that one face that becomes the only
representative of
Heaven. — Merrit Malloy

The resurrection is our great hope. — Billy Graham

A true scientist doesn't perform prescribed experiments; she develops her own and thus generates wholly new knowledge. This transition between doing what you're told and telling yourself what to do generally occurs midway through a dissertation. In many ways, it is the most difficult and terrifying thing that a student can do, and being unable or unwilling to do it is much of what weeds people out of Ph.D. programs. — Hope Jahren

The defense of the Western Canon is in no way a defense of the West or a nationalist enterprise ... The greatest enemies of aesthetic and cognitive standards are purported defenders who blather to us about moral and political values in literature. We do not live by the ethics of the Iliad, or by the politics of Plato. Those who teach interpretation have more in common with the Sophists than with Socrates. What can we expect Shakespeare to do for our semiruined society, since the function of Shakespearean drama has so little to do with civic virtue or social justice? — Harold Bloom

He nods, then squints across the room. "Not all those who wander are lost," he says. He's still squinting. I wonder if he's practiced this squint - a squint-stare off into the metaphysical distance. I'm realizing he's kind of handsome. But then again, it might just be that he cares about something.
"What is that?" I ask. "Did Jesus Christ say that?"
"No," he says. "Bilbo Baggins said that. — Patrick Somerville

I blur things to make everything equally important and equally unimportant. I blur things so that they do not look artistic or craftsmanlike but technological, smooth and perfect. I blur things to make all the parts a closer fit. Perhaps I also blur out the excess of unimportant information. — Gerhard

A government is for the benefit of all the people. — William Howard Taft

The face is the soul of the body. — Ludwig Wittgenstein

I guess happiness is not a state you want to be in all the time. — John Belushi

But is it possible for a woman to be too uninhibited, too willing, so as to seem almost too... masculine? — David Henry Hwang

The movie creaked along, obvious and mediocre plot. Mediocre script, mediocre music. They ought to have sealed the thing in a time capsule and marked "Late 20th Century Mediocrity" and buried it somewhere. — Haruki Murakami