Uninspiring Synonym Quotes & Sayings

Look what happened the last time a Republican president tried to fix a doomed national economy. Remember Herbert Hoover? — Hunter S. Thompson

I've done a lot of movies, but my favorite was 'Blind Faith.' — Courtney B. Vance

Perhaps the greatest of all pedagogical fallacies is the notion that a person learns only the particular thing he is studying at the time. — John Dewey

However much one hears about individuals, the picture formed in the mind rarely approximates to the reality. So it was with Mrs Maclintick. I was not prepared for her in the flesh. When she opened the door to us, her formidable discontent with life swept across the threshold in scorching, blasting waves. — Anthony Powell

If you listen to a lot of the songs that are popular now, there's very little melody in there. People love the beat. But to musicians, it's melody, because we understand how elusive it is and how hard it is to hold. — Branford Marsalis

Big feature films are another world. — Jerry Orbach

Even if there were no actual evidence in favor of the Darwinian theory, we should still be justified in preferring it over all rival theories. — Richard Dawkins

I was raised really, really healthy, pretty much vegetarian and a very clean lifestyle, I don't smoke, I don't drink. I'm more addicted to the things that make me feel good - endorphins after working out. — Elizabeth Berkley

We now know that memories are not fixed or frozen, like Proust's jars of preserves in a larder, but are transformed, disassembled, reassembled, and recategorized with every act of recollection. — Oliver Sacks

We have placed such idolatrous faith in our ability to protect ourselves that we call it more courageous to die killing than to die loving. — Shane Claiborne

For the three years I was in school training to be an actor, I was told, 'It's very unlikely you'll work at all on the stage or in film', so I feel I have to take all the opportunities I can. — Dominic Cooper

I try whistling to fill in the silence. The soprano sax from Coltrane's "My Favorite Things," though of course my dubious whistling doesn't come anywhere near the complex, lightning-quick original. I just add bits so what I hear in my head approximates the sound. Better than nothing, I figure. — Haruki Murakami