Adulated Ones Quotes

#1. Illusions are to the soul what atmosphere is to the earth.

Virginia Woolf

#2. Accustomed to lure him into speaking of himself. But she put them far less spontaneously, far less adroitly, than usual. Her one all-absorbing anxiety in entering that room was not an anxiety to be trifled with.

Wilkie Collins

#3. Alcohol is a pervasive fact of life, but an extraordinary fact-pleasurable and destructive, anathematized and adulated, and deeply ambiguous ... the genie in the bottle.

Griffith Edwards

#4. Suicide is a crime of loneliness, and adulated people can be frighteningly alone. Intelligence does not help in these circumstances; brilliance is almost always profoundly isolating.

Andrew Solomon

#5. And I had to take care of a little dog too named Suzy. It was the promoter's wife's - Judy Lynn's - it was her dog. And one of my duties going on the tour was to take care of it.

Mel Tillis

#6. I have been very happy, very rich, very beautiful, much adulated, very famous and very unhappy.

Brigitte Bardot

#7. I do not write for a select minority, which means nothing to me, nor for that adulated platonic entity known as 'The Masses'. Both abstractions, so dear to the demagogue, I disbelieve in. I write for myself and for my friends, and I write to ease the passing of time.

Jorge Luis Borges

#8. Anywhere I'm wanted, I'll go. I've got to be wanted, though.

Brownie McGhee

#9. A ghastly creeping terror rises from a place beyond thoughts. Some innermost trapdoor she must leap upon immediately and lean against with all her weight and padlock shut.

Anthony Doerr

#10. I could go for a sandwich, but I'm not gonna open two jars.

Brian Regan

#11. The truth hurts, but silence kills.

Mark Twain

#12. Should doesn't belong in a relationship. It supposes one person's will is more right than the other's. That is just not true. Stray from should.

Vaun Murphrey

#13. Win a lottery-prize and you are a cleaver man. Winners are adulated. To be born with a caul is everything; luck is what matters. Be fortunate and you will be thought great.

Victor Hugo