Uses Scare Quotes & Sayings

A game of chess holds many secrets. Fortunately! That is why we cannot clearly state whether chess is science, art, or a sport. — Garry Kasparov

Solitary pleasures will always exist, but for most human beings, the most pleasurable activities almost always involve sharing something: music, food, liquor, drugs, gossip, drama, beds. — David Graeber

Every woman likes her own way, but no woman can endure to see another woman master even over a man who does not concern her. — Richard Jefferies

I would rather raise certain topics and maybe let you ruminate on them. I'm not big on answering them. — Harlan Coben

New Orleanians knew how to turn deprivation into an asset; they had the best gallows humor going, they danced at funerals, they insisted on prevailing. — Tom Piazza

He wasn't sure how he ought to feel about this.
On the other hand ... boiled meat! — Julia Quinn

Noble spirits are heterodox. — Kedar Joshi

The ideal is unnatural naturalness, or natural unnaturalness. I mean it is a combination of both.
I mean here is natural instinct and here is control. You are to combine the two in harmony.
Not if you have one to the extreme, you'll be very unscientific.
If you have another to the extreme, you become, all of a sudden, a mechanical man
No longer a human being.
It is a successful combination of both.
That way it is a process of continuing growth.
Be water, my friend. — Bruce Lee

How we feel is how we want to be heard. — Hugo Von Hofmannsthal

[Ed Miliband]'s elevated personal abuse into a sort of strategy — Nick Clegg

All ideas advanced to deal with the Florentine noise problem, the Florentine traffic problem, are Utopian, and nobody believes in them, just as nobody believed in Machiavelli's Prince, a Utopian image of the ideally self-interested despot. — Mary McCarthy

The more merit, the less affection. — Baltasar Gracian

A painter leaves his emotions behind him for posterity to share. — Augustus John