Maligned Thesaurus Quotes

#1. In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so.

William, Saroyan

#2. Gabriel woke him up at the crack of dawn with a cup of water to the face and a kick in the ribs.

Brigid Kemmerer

#3. The building is a special place because of its architecture; But it's people who make it special by participating in it.

Charlie Chaplin

#4. The people to be most frightened of are the people who are the most frightened.

David Foster Wallace

#5. This is so much better than the 60's. So much less self indulgent and desperate. What you have here is a large group of people trying to practice unconditional love for strangers, and for the most part, succeeding.

John Perry Barlow

#6. Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.

Lana Del Rey

#7. Sleep is a healing balm for every ill.

Menander

#8. I don't like all this business stuff. I like stocks.

Fetty Wap

#9. It's nice to be liked, but it's better by far to get paid.

Liz Phair

#10. Every work of art is a trick by which the artist manipulates appearances.

Edmund Wilson

#11. Thomas Henri Huxley often preached tolerance, but in practice he could not wait to go after religion and religious people in the most scornful of terms.
[Curb your enthusiasm,2016]

Michael Ruse

#12. Write him down, if he must write him down as something, as a disbeliever; he disbelieved in the Pope, in the Kremlin, in the Vietcong, in the American eagle, in astrology, Arthur Schlesinger, Eldridge Cleaver, Senator Eastland, and Eastman Kodak. Nor did he believe overmuch in his disbelief. He

John Updike

#13. The oldest woman in the village, Paciencia,
predicts the weather from the flight of birds:
Today it will rain toads, she says,
squinting her face into a mystery of wrinkles
as she reads the sky - tomorrow,
it will be snakes.

Judith Ortiz Cofer

#14. But Barry, to me, is head and shoulders above everybody.

Marcus Allen

#15. When you dance on your own there is something so magical and so special.

Julianne Hough