Trenchant Synonym Quotes & Sayings

Ideas are the dark matter of the universe. We know it's there, but only those "in the know" can see them. — James Altucher

I always wanted to play Roxie Hart in Chicago and also Sally Bowles in Kander and Ebb's Cabaret, but I have a feeling I won't now! I've also always wanted to play Maria in The Sound of Music, but don't suppose I'll ever do that either! — Marti Webb

But all actors go through the process, it's hit and miss, you have achievement and failure. — Thomas Haden Church

Suffice it to say that black and white are also colors ... for their simultaneous contrast is as striking as that of green and red, for instance. — Vincent Van Gogh

I'm just trying to be myself. I'm not trying to be anyone else. — Conor McGregor

Most crime fiction plots are not ambitious enough for me. I want something really labyrinthine with clues and puzzles that will reward careful attention. — Sophie Hannah

A knife is a godsend to the man tied in ropes, death to the man in chains. — James Dashner

Those who think govern those who labor. — Marshall Sylver

This is what I want. I want people to take care of me. I want them to force comfort upon me. I want the soft-pillow feeling that I associate with memories of being ill when I was younger, soft pillows and fresh linens and satin-edged blankets and hot chocolate. It's not so much the comfort itself as knowing there's someone who wants to take care of you. — Franny Billingsley

An old Russian folk song is like water held back by a dam. It looks as if it were still and were no longer flowing, but in its depths it is ceaselessly rushing through the sluice gates and the stillness of its surface is deceptive. By every possible means, by repetitions and similes, the song slows down the gradual unfolding of its theme. Then at some point it suddenly reveals itself and astounds us. That is how the song's sorrowing spirit comes to expression. The song is an insane attempt to stop time by means of its words. — Boris Pasternak

Barack Obama II is born in the Kapiolani Medical Center in Honolulu. His birth is recorded in two local newspapers. — Dinesh D'Souza

I am of this mind, that might and malice, deceit and treachery perjury and impiety may lawfully be committed in love; which is lawless. — John Lyly

My hates have always occupied my mind much more actively and have given greater spiritual satisfactions than my friendships. — Westbrook Pegler

If he didn't get out of here - right now - Harrier was either going to break into hysterical laughter or strangle somebody. — Mercedes Lackey

He is full of adrenaline, his nerves are shot, and his mind is cluttered up with free-floating anxiety-floating around on an ocean of generalized terror. — Neal Stephenson