Tone Deaf Movie Quotes & Sayings

Flaws weren't pariah; foibles were badges of character. Not something to be brushed away in Photoshop. — Peter Tieryas

The easiest way to get old is to be technologically behind ... — Gabrielle Zevin

I've lived through Hitler, Stalin, the Cold War, the British Empire, segregation, apartheid, God knows what. The world will survive this, and with just a tiny bit of luck so will everyone you love. — Kamila Shamsie

The proverbial thirteenth chime of the clock - is not only wrong itself, but calls into question everything that came before it. — Glenn Reynolds

Literary or scientific, liberal or specialist, all our education is predominantly verbal and therefore fails to accomplish what it is supposed to do. Instead of transforming children into fully developed adults, it turns out students of the natural sciences who are completely unaware of Nature as the primary fact of experience, it inflicts upon the world students of the humanities who know nothing of humanity, their own or anyone else's. — Aldous Huxley

Acting is not about dressing up. Acting is about stripping bare. The whole essence of learning lines is to forget them so you can make them sound like you thought of them that instant. — Glenda Jackson

In crises of this sort the Dyckmanns had usually found it effective to stare into space, encouraging the long pause that might fetch the witty words, 'Well, dear, we must go.' But the Bairds were on an entirely different wavelength, and this was the fault of the Dyckmanns. With the removal of the bottles it had been the mutual impulse of the Bairds to shoot out the door, but their second thought was that they must not... (from "Dinner on the Rocks" (1954) by Dawn Powell) — Diana Secker Tesdell

Xenophobia is fairly widespread in Russia. — Alexei Navalny

I went outside mournful, and I hit pure air. — Ali Smith

I will always love to perform standup comedy. — Shelley Berman

Lenin in a top hat and frock coat would be a far greater anomaly than the Grand Lama of Thibet or a Zulu chief in that costume. — Wyndham Lewis

Foolhardy to put your trust where it is easy to create falsehood. — Anne Mallory

I think what's fun about the Western genre is the character arcs are very strong and, arguably, more interesting and exciting than the action that is metaphorically representational of those arcs. — Jon Favreau

The emptiness of the night shielded me from the gaze of others, from morality. — Tran Vu