Sophistocated Quotes & Sayings

Because everything about the voice interests me, I felt it would be fascinating to learn a completely different style of singing. — Renee Fleming

Nico grit his teeth. "Demigod blood. The blood of Olympus. — Rick Riordan

It's not just money. Part of it is, but not all. You greasers have a different set of values. You're more emotional. We're sophistocated- cool to the point of not feeling anything. Nothing is for real with us. You know sometimes I'll catch myself talking to a girl-friend, and realise i don't mean half of what I'm saying. I don't really think a beer blast on the river bottom is supercool, but I'll rave about one to a girl-friend just to be saying something. — S.E. Hinton

I want to have a family and I'd like to live in a lovely big house, with a massive driveway and gates and loads of kids. — Jennifer Ellison

I eat an enormous amount of fruits and vegetables. — Andie MacDowell

Like the character Moliere who discovered to his astonishment that he had been speaking prose all his life, I discovered to my astonishment that I had been immersed in philosophical problems all my life. And I had been drawn into the same problems as great philosophers by the same felt need to make sense of the world...The chief difference between me and them, of course, was that whereas they had something to offer by way of solutions to the problems, I had failed even to formulate very rich or sophistocated versions of the problems, let alone work my way through to defensible solutions for them. In consequence I fell on their work like a starving man on food, and it has done a geat deal to nourish and sustain me ever since. — Bryan Magee

It is a fact, indeed, that most of
the great teachers of mankind have been not writers
but speakers. Think of Pythagoras, Christ, Socrates,
the Buddha, and so on. And since I have spoken of
Socrates, I would like to say something about Plato. I
remember Bernard Shaw said that Plato was the dramatist
who invented Socrates — Jorge Luis Borges

The moon was undone now, free to move and rise and fall and drip on the boy's face, making him nice and murky, like his thoughts. — Markus Zusak

Men hate to be misunderstood, and to be understood makes them furious. — Edgar Saltus

Garris had pet names for all of them. Mahler was the Mad Doktor. Franz Liszt was Son of Lovecraft. Mendelssohn was Santa Claus Meets the Hell's Angels. Beethoven was the High School Principal. — Chet Williamson

[F]ew people have never hurt anyone or been guilty of any serious lapse [...] — Murasaki Shikibu

Always have Faith. Always have Hope. — DJ Khaled

Majestic mighty Wealth is the holiest of our gods. — Juvenal