Top 41 Apropos Quotes
#1. The work is at such a high level and is so well executed, it really is a matter of taste ... [Source: Project Runway - but consider, applied to the theme of book reviews, it seems apropos!]
Tim Gunn
#2. Time is money, as they say, and it was never more apropos than on a television show, where a minute is worth about $200!
Dirk Benedict
#3. As English poet W.H. Auden put it in "Apropos of Many Things": "We would rather be ruined than changed. We would rather die in our dread than climb the cross of the present and let our illusions die.
Richard Rohr
#4. On his day of demobilization a lugubrious one-armed, one-eyed brigadier wished him well and then added, apropos of nothing, Mark my words, Moutier, a great war leaves a country with three armies: an army of cripples, an army of mourners, and an army of thieves.
Lee Child
#5. Apropos, you're going to have to learn to sooner or later that you can't just let other people decide what the world around you should and shouldn't be.
Peter David
#7. Personally, I think so-called "common language" is more interesting and apropos than "proper English"; it's passionate and powerful in ways that "wherefore art thou ass and thy elbow" just isn't.
J.R. Ward
#8. I checked out the two Edith Wharton books I had just returned because I'd read them so long ago and they are more apropos now than ever. They were The House of Mirth and The Children, which is about how life in the United States in New York changed in twenty-seven years fifty years ago.
("Wants")
Grace Paley
#9. When someone between twenty and forty says, apropos of a work of art, 'I know what I like,' he is really saying 'I have no taste of my own but accept the taste of my cultural milieu.
W. H. Auden
#10. I have, of all the inglorious things, a malignant hemorrhoid. What color bracelet does one wear for that? And where does one wear it? And what slogan is apropos? Perhaps that slogan can be sewn in needlepoint around the ruffle on a cover for my embarrassing little doughnut buttocks pillow.
P. J. O'Rourke
#11. Film is our literature, so we should tell stories that are apropos of our culture, in that we can learn something about ourselves.
David Strathairn
#12. How many buff Asian faces do you see at a white party? It is pretty apropos that they call a party like that, since only white guys are allowed there!
Bathhouse Blues
#13. A remark of my brother's apropos of the troubles and pains our mother endured: "Old age is nature's self-criticism.
Emil M. Cioran
#14. The slang "you ain't seen nothing yet" is completely apropos in regards to instrumentation for marine bioacoustics research.
Whitlow W.L. Au
#15. A story should, to please, at least seem true,
Be apropos, well told, concise, and new:
And whenso'er it deviates from these rules,
The wise will sleep, and leave applause to fools.
Benjamin Stillingfleet
#16. You can't hold it in forever," Colton said, apropos of nothing. "Yes, I can." I had to. "You'll go crazy. It'll come out, one way or another." "Better crazy than broken." I wasn't sure where that came from, hadn't thought it or meant to say it. "You're not broken. You're hurting.
Jasinda Wilder
#17. Apropos this election season, America is the home of:
"Despicable trickery at elections; under-handed tamperings with public officers; and cowardly attacks upon opponents, with scurrilous newspapers for shields, and hired pens for daggers.
Charles Dickens
#18. There are some for whom the good of mankind is their primary concern, and others who basically put their own considerations before everyone else. I was among the latter.
Peter David
#19. Television is just like making a hole in the wall. All kinds of stuff comes in, on the screen, that we would never allow to come in through the door.
Albert Borgmann
#20. In retrospect, I would have to recommend against epiphanies. They are difficult on an emotional level, and they also sometimes move you to foolish and inopportune acts, which was what happened in my case.
Peter David
#21. It seemed to me that, no matter what endeavor I was involved in, I was to be something of a sham.
Peter David
#23. Do not expect God's protection in places beyond God's dominion. It will only make you feel punished. I'm warning you. When things go badly, you will blame yourself.
Barbara Kingsolver
#24. Youth believes itself immortal. There is a cure for such an attitude, but unfortunately it is a cure from which one never recovers.
Peter David
#25. Once again I felt light-headed, but this time it wasn't from the scent of lilacs; it was from the scent of my own death.
Peter David
#26. The best thing to do is just leave them alone. Alligators want to be away from you just as much as you want to be away from them.
Jack Hannah
#27. The first choice for me is what's going to make me stretch out in my craft?
Kim Fields
#28. In peacetime some sort of introduction is generally required to make a person's acquaintance; in war a small eatable will perform the same office.
Susanna Clarke
#29. It stretched forever until it met a gray-blue sky lined with pale cerise, a sky perpetually caught in the moments before sunrise.
Charlie N. Holmberg
#30. Some time later, I sat in the wine cellar, staring at the walls while cradling a wineskin in my lap like a child, murmuring over and over as if lulling the child to sleep, 'I am shat upon. I am shat upon'.
Peter David
#31. Lack of movement is a formidable force to overcome.
Peter David
#32. Unfortunately, the world does not always act in a manner consistent with one's plans for it.
Peter David
#33. I guess it really had been brave . . . because it was so bugger-all stupid, and if there was one thing I'd come to realize, ti was that bravery and bugger-all stupidity went hand in hand.
Peter David
#34. I love you, Miracle," he whispered. "You're mine," he said, inching his way forward a bit more, "and i'm yours," he added, moving further in. "Forever.
M. Leighton
#35. It's been going on for days now! On and on and on for days! If I hear one more sexual-chemistry-charged and mutually misunderstood argument I'm going to shoot the pair of you!
Dave Stone
#36. Noblest. Bravest. What rot. There was no bravery in buying oneself out of difficulty.
Peter David
#37. Every journalist who is not too stupid or full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally indefensible. He is a kind of confidence man, preying on people's vanity, ignorance, or loneliness, gaining their trust and betraying them without remorse.
Janet Malcolm
#38. You have my implicit forgiveness, you know, even when you're driving me crazy." . . .
"Jamie."
"Charlotte."
"Do come home soon. It won't be London without you."
"You never knew me in London."
"I know. I intend to fix that.
Brittany Cavallaro
#39. I remember so many things [. . .] The problem is, only half of them are true . . . and the half which is true keeps changing places with the half which is false.
Peter David
#40. ... we have bad dreams
because our brain is trying to protect us ... If we can figure out a way to beat the imaginary monsters ... Then the real monsters don't seem so scary ... That's why we like reading scary stories.
Dan Poblocki
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