Smirked Synonyms Quotes & Sayings

Instead of yielding to idle conversation it might profit one to cultivate silence and contemplation. — Clarence Darrow

In France, a woman may forget that she is neither young nor handsome; for the absence of these claims to attention does not expose her to be neglected by the male sex. — Marguerite Gardiner

It used to be in the Senate that if you were filibustering, you stood up. There was a physical dimension to it, that you - when you became exhausted you would have to leave the floor. That was the idea of the filibuster. — Tom Udall

What goes through my head when I'm going to take a game-winning shot is ... I better make it. Don't be afraid of the moment. — Stephen Curry

The same is true of stories and legends that haunt urban space like superfluous or additional inhabitants. They are the object of a witch-hunt, by the very logic of the techno-structure. But [the extermination of proper place names] (like the extermination of trees, forests, and hidden places in which such legends live) makes the city a 'suspended symbolic order.' The habitable city is thereby annulled. Thus, as a woman from Rouen put it, no, here 'there isn't any place special, except for my own home, that's all ... There isn't anything.' Nothing 'special': nothing that is marked, opened up by a memory or a story, signed by something or someone else. Only the cave of the home remains believable, still open for a certain time to legends, still full of shadows. Except for that, according to another city-dweller, there are only 'places in which one can no longer believe in anything. — Michel De Certeau

The world is governed more by appearance than realities so that it is fully as necessary to seem to know something as to know it. — Daniel Webster

Amusement if one of humankind's strongest motivational forces. — Ivars Peterson