Unapplausive Quotes & Sayings

Social Darwinists of the day were forever on about the joys of bloody teeth and claws, but they were curiously uncelebratory of speed and deception, poison and surprise. — Thomas Pynchon

Instead of getting a soft fence against the cold, shadowy, unapplausive audience of his life, had he only given it a more substantial presence? — George Eliot

This was insane. What was wrong with the world? Didn't they know that ghosts and supernatural powers where little girls helped their dads and uncles solve case didn't exist?
It was books. It was television shows and movies. They had desensitized the world.
Damn writers. — Darynda Jones

You are not here by accident today," she said. "God has a plan and purpose for your life. People are so afraid of failing, but if God wants you to do something, you don't have to worry about failing because God gets results. He gives you wisdom to do what he wants you to do. — Judy Christie

My mother-in-law had to stop skipping for exercise. It registered seven on the Richter scale. — Les Dawson

Every single courageous act of coming out chips away at the curse of homophobia. Most importantly it's destroyed within yourself, and that act creates the potential for its destruction where it exists in friends, family and society. — Anthony Venn-Brown

Don't you know that's what college is about ... students spending years gathering useless information they'll never use again, going hopelessly into debt, just so they feel smarter than the rest of their family? I mean, that's why I worked so hard to get here, anyway. — A.L. Jackson

There's nobody for me to attack in this matter even with soft and gentle ridicule-and I shouldn't ever think of using a grown up weapon in this kind of a nursery. Above all, I couldn't venture to attack the clergymen whom you mention, for I have their habits and live in the same glass house which they are occupying. I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time. — Mark Twain

The President never intends to get into any kind of war situation. He gets carried away by events. — Alan Alda

Freedom and independence form my character. — Mustafa Kemal Ataturk

If you only write what you know, you'll never know anything else. If you only write what you see you'll never see anything else. In order to experience new things you must always step outside of your comfort zone, or your live you life never knowing anything new — Adam Snowflake

The oyster is a blob of glup, but a woman is a woman. — James Thurber