Sentimentalist Synonym Quotes & Sayings

You're told that you're supposed to go to college, but you're also told that you are being self-indulgent if you actually want to get an education. As opposed to what? Going into consulting isn't self-indulgent? Going into finance isn't self-indulgent? Going into law, like most of the people who do, in order to make yourself rich, isn't self-indulgent? It's not okay to study history, because what good does that really do anyone, but it is okay to work for a hedge fund. It's selfish to pursue your passion, unless it's also going to make you a lot of money, in which case it isn't selfish at all. — William Deresiewicz

Rather than really have, like a close relationship to anything that's coming out today, people are just, they've got it on as background music. It's kind of the same way the cabdrivers use music; it's very disposable. — David Bowie

All men are rapists and that's all they are — Marilyn French

The capacity of women to make unsuitable marriages must be considered as the cornerstone of society. — Henry Adams

I am an academic," said Professor Mandalay, "and thus have no finely developed senses that would be comprehensible to anyone who has not ever needed to grade papers without actually reading the blessed things. — Neil Gaiman

When I appear in public people expect me to neigh, grind my teeth, paw the ground and swish my tail - none of which is easy. — Princess Anne

Petting is the study of the anatomy in braille. — Ava Gardner

We are not princes of the earth, we are the descendants of worms, and any nobility must be earned. — PZ Myers

I simply love writing good stories, that's my passion. — Kate Morton

If there is ever a time that impeachment would be appropriate, this is certainly the time. — Rocky Anderson

It is an unfortunate irony that music-making intended in part to attract new listeners is usually the least well rehearsed and motivated. — Bernard Holland

We live by admiration, hope and love. — William Wordsworth

Indeed, there are Islamic terrorist training camps in America — Allen West

In a society riven into 'us' and 'them', an ambitious young person might well want to be one of the group in the know, one of the unmolested. If there was never going to be an end to your country, and you could never leave, why wouldn't you opt for a peaceful life and a satisfying career? — Anna Funder

Whenever I go on holiday, I like to time travel and imagine what it must have been like 500 years ago. I love the Tuscan landscape, which is reminiscent of a Claude Lorrain painting. — Jools Holland