Adulated Quotes

#1. 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

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

Brigitte Bardot

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. I could get a job in an advertising agency. I'll write copy telling people to eat more cornflakes and smoke more and more cigarettes and buy more refrigerators and automobiles, until they explode with happiness.

Sloan Wilson

#7. A bird is an instrument working according to mathematical law, which instrument it is within the capacity of man to reproduce with all its movements.

Leonardo Da Vinci

#8. A mad person sees what isn't there; A visionary sees what isn't there yet

Judith Thurman

#9. Because if I kiss you, then I'll want to taste you, and if I taste you then I'll need to fuck you. And if I fuck you, that means your mine. And when I make you mine, I want it to be in OUR bed. Not in a hotel room ... Is that okay?

Jay McLean

#10. The very commonplaces of life are components of its eternal mystery.

Gertrude Atherton

#11. Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world
to an individual or to a nation.

Frank Sinatra

#12. Since evil is nothing positive, there can be no principle of evil. It has no meaning expect in reference to something good.

Fulton J. Sheen

#13. Where there is a fence, there is no terror. Where there's no fence, there is terror.

Tzachi Hanegbi

#14. Time works so hard for us, if only we can let it.

Tana French

#15. In the long run, most of us spend about fifteen minutes total in the entanglements of passion, and the rest of our days looking back on it, humming the tune.

Barbara Kingsolver

#16. The true despisers of the world are the people who accept what God sends them, gratefully use all things when they have them, and gladly do without them if God takes them away

Martin Luther

#17. The detective's highest talent lay in the gentle art of seeking favours under the guise of conferring them!

Agatha Christie