Inane Language Quotes

#1. waging war against inane language that circulates almost automatically is a writer's eternal mission, and the day will never come when this battles are unnecessary.

Minae Mizumura

#2. My interior is very, very dense - Proustian-looking, sort of Henry James. The walls are covered in pictures, and I transformed the big drawing room into a library lined with books.

Hamish Bowles

#3. A life which goes excessively against natural impulse is ... likely to involve effects of strain that may be quite as bad as indulgence in forbidden impulses would have been. People who live a life which is unnatural beyond a point are likely to be filled with envy, malice and uncharitableness.

Bertrand Russell

#4. Am I supposed to be your submissive?" ...
He chuckled good-naturedly. "Submissive? I'm sorry to disappoint you my angel, but I don't run with that crowd. Perhaps you'll submit to me tonight, but after that, I'll be the one submitting to you.

Karina Halle

#5. I appreciate the additional additives and preservatives that help sell a project, but I'm sticking to what works best for me. I gotta sell the album live on stage and make people believe in the songs.

Busta Rhymes

#6. A war is not won if the defeated enemy has not been turned into a friend.

Eric Hoffer

#7. The more businesses you have, the less work you do.

Ehab Atalla

#8. Adversity is solitary, while prosperity dwells in a crowd

Margaret Of Valois

#9. We're both very very lazy, and having someone else do half the work is very convenient.

Lana Wachowski

#10. Philosophers see no harm in the Jesuits other than in their effect on humanity and the sciences. The vulgar and especially the prejudiced only hate them from an envy and jealousy born out of conspiracy and intrigue at an organisation which overshadows them.

Cesare Beccaria

#11. I think, historically, the term 'Thatcherism' will be seen as a compliment.

Margaret Thatcher

#12. You've stopped crying. I'm glad. I don't want you to cry anymore.

Tara Janzen

#13. Wouldn't it be nice, for once, to find a world which was at peace with itself. No matter how always those few wanted more than others. Those not satisfied with running their own lives but wishing to have power over the lives of the others. Greedy people. Greedy for wealth, or power or both.

Garry Douglas Kilworth

#14. ... the warm glazes, the sparkling penumbra of the room itself and, through the little window framed with honeysuckle, in the rustic avenue, the resilient dryness of the sun-parched earth, veiled only by the diaphanous gauze woven of distance and the shade of the trees.

Marcel Proust

#15. Another death. The more I see, the less I know.

Dennis Lehane