Soi Disant Quotes & Sayings

Jewish vampires: Garlic? As a weapon? No its a spice silly human — Tasha Turner

I get asked all the time if I want to do more dramatic acting, and I really doubt that dramatic actors get asked if they want to do more comedies. I don't really know why that is. — Chris O'Dowd

Some enchanted evening, you may see a stranger Across a crowded room. — Oscar Hammerstein II

Quarrels would not last long if the fault was only on one side. — Francois De La Rochefoucauld

A look of faith knows what God says about a situation - and what God says is final. — T. B. Joshua

I don't do well when I don't work. — Greta Gerwig

Come here, woman," he growled. I laughed and rushed the short distance between us. I almost fell when my feet hit something foreign. "Tell me you noticed," he said, dry. His eyes twinkled with humor. I looked down and giggled. I hadn't noticed. "How am I supposed to notice anything when you're standing there without a shirt?" "You're forgiven."
-Braeden & Ivy — Cambria Hebert

I am very interested in what has been called bad taste. I believe the fear of displaying a soi-disant bad taste stops us from venturing into special cultural zones. — Manuel Puig

You forgot who you are right as the world learned your name. — Macklemore

When I have absolutely nothing to do, and I find myself in the middle of all of it going, "Wow!" When nothing's going on, that's when I get to stop and really appreciate the journey. — Tyler Perry

Sambit Bal may be right that this is a scandal the IPL needed. It certainly brings fans face-to-face with the tangled reality of their amusement, based as it is on a self-seeking, self-perpetuating commercial oligarchy issued licenses to exploit cricket as they please. Whether the fans care is another matter: one of the reasons Indians have embraced economic liberalisation so fervently is a shoulder-shrugging resignation about the efficiency and integrity of their institutions. Given the choice between Lalit Modi, with his snappy suits and his soi-disant 'Indian People's League', and the BCCI, stuffed with grandstanding politicians and crony capitalists, where would your loyalties lie? — Gideon Haigh

The Virgin Birth, the Resurrection, the raising of Lazarus, even the Old Testament miracles, all are freely used for religious propaganda, and they are very effective with an audience of unsophisticates and children — Richard Dawkins

Design is a tool that either allows us to create new markets or disrupt existing ones. — Yves Behar

Britain's decision to send troops to the city did more to change the thinking of Bostonians than any step previously taken by London. — John Ferling

I don't know what drives me, but I wake up in the morning, and I want to participate in the creative cultural conversation. — Dasha Zhukova

All normal human beings have soi-disant mixed-up glands. The race is divided into two parts: those who know this and those who do not. — Robert A. Heinlein

Belief In Self
If you quit while pursuing your dreams, you will never know how close you've come to success. It might have been hidden behind that next door you decided not to open, since the last fifty doors revealed little or nothing. — Kamil Ali

It is my considered opinion that the human race (soi disant) is cruel, idiotic, sentimental, predatory, ungrateful, ugly, conceited and egocentric to the last ditch and that the occasional discovery of an isolated exception is as deliciously surprising as finding a sudden brazil nut in what you know to be five pounds of vanilla creams. These glorious moments, although not making life actually worth living, perhaps, at least make it pleasanter. — Noel Coward