Ascribes Means Quotes

#1. Perhaps this is one of the reasons Toby dislikes politics-that some of the people who car most about politics seem to have the least compassion for ordinary human beings.

Michelle Cooper

#2. Even though I wanted to be John Malkovich or Sean Penn when I was a kid, mostly I was a music nerd.

Justin Kirk

#3. But gentlemen, as long as I am an American Citizen, and as long as American blood runs in these veins, I shall hold myself at liberty to speak, to write, and to publish whatever I please on any subject.

Elijah Parish Lovejoy

#4. What could the old man say about all those people born with more courage than they could find a way to spend, and then there was nothing to do with it but just get by? And that was when the times were decent.

Marilynne Robinson

#5. With acting, if I'm any good at it, my modeling career would never be a hindrance but would rather be a help. And if I'm not, then it doesn't really matter.

Lily Cole

#6. I was doing theater in my high school, and I started writing sort of silly songs on the piano backstage in summer theater. I eventually put them online and started getting this little following.

Bo Burnham

#7. He who attempts to make others believe in means which he himself despises is a puffer; he who makes use of more means than he knows to be necessary is a quack; and he who ascribes to those means a greater efficacy than his own experience warrants is an impostor.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#8. I have great faith in the future of books - no matter what form they may take - and of science fiction.

Connie Willis

#9. The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection.

John Millington Synge

#10. I like the way that psychological extremity can illuminate more 'normal' characters by forcing a comparison.

Antonya Nelson

#11. I do not believe that Obama is smarter than anybody else. I do not believe he has cut a new path and is a politician unlike any we've ever seen regarding his intellect. I don't believe any of this hocus-pocus. I didn't believe it when they said it about Hillary, Smartest Woman in the World.

Rush Limbaugh

#12. My mother is my father's wife. And the children of lovers are orphans.

Nancy Horan

#13. Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.

Konrad Lorenz

#14. He took a breath. "My future wife's in the police...

"Wait, wait, wait. How long have you been going out with this woman?"

Luca cleared his throat again, this time with deserved sheepishness. "We met yesterday.

Billy London

#15. In this world only the paranoid survive.

Dean Koontz

#16. Many people believe that evil is the presence of something. I think it's the absence of something.

Lisa Unger