Dumbed Down Version Quotes

#1. In poetic language, in which the sign as such takes on an autonomous value, this sound symbolism becomes an actual factor and creates a sort of accompaniment to the signified.

Roman Jakobson

#2. When I first started auditioning I would stutter a lot because I was so terribly frightened.

Nicholas Brendon

#3. People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

Chuck Palahniuk

#4. Actually, you have to be a little bit in love with your leading man and vice versa. If you're going to portray love, you have to feel it. You can't do it any other way. But you don't carry it beyond the set.

Audrey Hepburn

#5. Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right it would differ so clearly from not right that there would be no need for argument. If so were really so, it would differ so clearly from not so that there would be no need for argument.

Zhuangzi

#6. There is no greater breach of the public trust than knowingly misleading the country into war. In a democracy, we simply cannot tolerate the abuse of this trust by the government.

John F. Kerry

#7. The only really respectable Protestants are the fundamentalists. Unfortunately, they are also palpable idiots.

H.L. Mencken

#8. Twitter and Facebook and all of this stuff is, to me, I mean it's, for some reason - I'm probably not the youngest person using it. But for some reason, it works very well. I'm setting records.

Donald Trump

#9. Let pride go afore, shame will follow after.

George Chapman

#10. Today, religious fanatics and scientific rejectionists flourish under the protective wing of postmodernism, claiming that theirs is just one more valid viewpoint - a form of mental aikido (using the opponent's strength against him).

Gudjon Bergmann

#11. I went to a Gestalt therapist and said that I want to be able to at least tell my muscles that aren't involved that they don't have to go into spasms too.

Dick York

#12. Try taking five minutes for meditation. Close your eyes and in your mind picture Jesus. Watch Him turn, look at you and hear Him ...

Kyle Idleman

#13. I say, you do have a heart!"
"Sometimes," he replied, "when I have the time.

Jules Verne

#14. The Lord is kind. He is good to all who take refuge under his wings.

John Piper