Poignancy Wordreference Quotes

#1. To be passionate in today's world is not politically correct ... Nowadays we are supposed to cope. This was not Mahler's problem. He saw it, he heard it, and he expressed it. He was a kaleidoscopic, Olympian figure.

Lorin Maazel

#2. Getting through the intersection involves tracing paths through the parking system, many braided filaments of direction like the Ho Chi Minh trail.

Neal Stephenson

#3. Two things you should know about me; The first is that I am deeply suspicious of people in general. It is my nature to expect the worst of them. And the second is that I am unexpectedly good with computers.

Veronica Roth

#4. What we will criticize 'modern' eroticism for is its lack of genuine sensuality, a sensuality which implies beauty or charm, passion or modesty, power over the object of desire, and fulfilment.

Henri Lefebvre

#5. Art is what we do when we're truly alive.

Seth Godin

#6. She's so thin she's either dying or rich.

Chuck Palahniuk

#7. But who will be proved right? It will only be known later. Meanwhile he is bound to act on credit and sell his soul to the devil, in the hope of history's absolution.

Arthur Koestler

#8. All my work comes from perceiving. I kept seeing things that were brooding in me. I'm not a geometric artist.

Ellsworth Kelly

#9. I think people say you shouldn't work with children or animals, but you must only work with children.

Emma Thompson

#10. When I shot the movie, I wasn't gonna think about anything except for being the biggest knucklehead in the world.

Pauly Shore

#11. The beach at Meschers was crawling with wankers in shorts and bimbos in thongs. It was reassuring.

Michel Houellebecq

#12. A generation earlier, I think that somebody from my background probably would not have felt fully comfortable at a college like Princeton. But, by the time I graduated from high school, things had changed.

Samuel Alito

#13. It's vital as we postulate and work toward exploration and human settlement beyond Earth. I like to think of the possibilities of sustaining humanity's continuum, with preserved recorded history way beyond the life of our Sun.

Vanna Bonta

#14. I don't know who had the bright idea of teaching pneumonia how to walk, but I'd like to find that dunderhead before he decides he wants to teach it how to drive.

Ellen DeGeneres

#15. Neuroscience is a science in its infancy.

Abhijit Naskar