Perfunctorily Quotes

#1. Blessings be on this house, Granny said, perfunctorily. It was always a good opening remark for a witch. It concentrated people's minds on what other things might be on this house.

Terry Pratchett

#2. But it's Atlanta that can lay claim to the best of the best (which is to say worst) chef-friendly dives in America: the legendary Clermont Lounge, a sort of lost-luggage department for strippers, who perform - perfunctorily - on a stage behind the bar.

Anthony Bourdain

#3. I met my husband at the rehearsal of a play. We were introduced, and he shook my hand without looking at me and said perfunctorily, 'Pleased to meet you.'

Rebecca Pidgeon

#4. Art is our defense against hysteria and death.

Theodore Roethke

#5. Dallas, Lieutenant Eve, and aide, Peabody,

J.D. Robb

#6. I really have to wonder who or what made Daddy become this way. Babies aren't born cruel or filled with sick desire. Evil is not intrinsic. It's fashioned.

Ellen Hopkins

#7. How each of us comes for our own reasons." "Comes where?" "To be with them and listen to their message. What Stephen meant was that our motives are wrong. Our thinking is wrong. But if we come . . . with an open heart and mind, we will see the rightness of their declarations.

Janette Oke

#8. The worst thing I can say about democracy is that it has tolerated the Right Honorable Gentleman for four and a half years.

Aneurin Bevan

#9. I need something different [roles], always something just slightly different, that pushes you and challenges you.

Dominic Cooper

#10. Fear is really powerful; it's really useful to me.

James McAvoy

#11. I don't understand business minds. I consider myself an artist, and they just really don't mix.

Kathleen Rose Perkins

#12. Too much study wears the body. BUT the truth refreshes the soul, sustains the spirit for a beautiful body.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#13. Yoga exercises are the best connecting tools for unity, human dignity, health, equality, global peace and compassion.

Amit Ray

#14. She is so tiresome. 'Am I a vampire, am I a wolf, am I a vampire, am I a wolf, I cannot decide, so I'll be both!

Melika Dannese Lux

#15. After 9/11, I changed a lot of the ways I viewed the world. I realized my comedy and my politics and my view of the world did not match. I had to start writing from my heart.

Hari Kondabolu

#16. A mother's love is the morning sunshine that always enlightens our way.

Debasish Mridha

#17. I think that when you have somebody who really is kind of forced to see the world through someone else's eyes, I think it really is eye opening.

Morgan Spurlock