Shying Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

Star-watching: at night the stars of Alastor Cluster blaze in profusion. The atmosphere refracts their light; the sky quivers with beams, glitters, and errant flashes. The Trills go out into their gardens with jugs of wine; they name the stars and discusses localities. For the Trills, for almost anyone of Alastor, the night sky was no abstract empyrean, but rather a view across prodigious distances to known places: a vast luminous map. — Jack Vance

I don't have much use for the concept of innateness. The everyday concept incorporates a number of different notions that can come apart in in many ways, and as a result encourages a range of dangerously fallacious inferences. — David Papineau

I don't like getting people upset, so that's not my goal. But I like putting people in situations where how they respond says a lot about them. — Nathan Fielder

I feel it's part of my job to make the problems of the poor compelling. — Paul Farmer

In the arts, you simply cannot secure your bread and your freedom of action too. You cannot be a hostile critic of society and expect society to feed you regularly. — Katherine Anne Porter

It's not the men in my life that count, it's the life in my men. — Mae West

I want my girls to be strong and self-sufficient. — Angie Harmon

Man, Books & Booze is cool, right?. That's the most fun I've had in an interview this year. Definitely the most singing I've done. — Jeremy Robert Johnson

Wow! She's hot." Morrison commented while gaping lewdly at the body lying supine on the bed.
Insensitive asshole. I took a deep breath to calm my rising anger. "She's dead agent Morrison. I assure you she's very cold." I rebuked sharply. — P.A. Lupton

A great comfort, Tuttugu. I always like to do my drowning within sight of land. — Mark Lawrence

Many who have gazed upon me have compared the experience to gazing at the radiance of the sun. — Cassandra Clare

The only people discussing "race" with any insight and courage are loud middle-aged white men who romanticize the Kennedys and Motown, well-read open-minded white kids like the tie-dyed familiar sitting next to me in the Free Tibet and Boba Fett T-shirt, a few freelance journalists in Detroit, and the American hikikomori who sit in their basements pounding away at their keyboards composing measured and well-thought-out responses to the endless torrent of racist online commentary. — Paul Beatty

I chose to be Mrs. Johnny Cash in my life. I decided I'd allow him to be Moses and I'd be Moses' brother Aaron, picking his arms up and padding along behind him. — June Carter Cash