Sonorescent Quotes & Sayings

Many people would no more think of entering journalism than the sewage business - which at least does us all some good. — Stephen Fry

Truth has beauty, power, and necessity. — Sylvia Townsend Warner

Who the hell do you think you're, Kiddo?
I don't do thinking, Sir. I simply improvise. — Toba Beta

I get to play a lot of hysterics. — Hope Davis

My prescription for women entering the war zone of the professions: study football ... Women who want to remake the future should look for guidance not to substitute parent figures but to the brash assertions of pagan sport. — Camille Paglia

If I must consort with rogues [ ... ] I own I like them to be in the grand manner. — Georgette Heyer

Conversation is the wall we build between ourselves and other people, too often with tired words like used and broken bottles which, catching the sunlight as they lie embedded in the wall, are mistaken for jewels. — Janet Frame

Just to be clear, Ray Rice was not fired for beating his wife. He was fired because a video of him beating his wife was released. — Chris Rock

It is nothing but fanaticism and beautiful soulism to expect very much (or even, much only) from humanity when it has forgotten how to wage war. — Friedrich Nietzsche

Ralph Reed is deeply ambitious and always was so. There was a time when he ... in one of my interviews, he said he pondered running the Ross Perot campaign, and he wasn't sure he wanted to do the Christian Right thing; he was worried that it boxed him into a corner. — Nina Easton

In order to get nearer to Heaven, he set off to climb to the top of Notre Dame on a Wednesday morning, but owing to the gargoyles catching his trousers & meeting a party of American Schoolmistresses in a state of comparative nudity, he was forced to hide behind a Devil, & there stopped for the present. God being beyond him.
N.B. his trousers were torn, not the American achoolmistresses. — Virginia Woolf