Rising Thesaurus Quotes

#1. What is classical music if not the epitome of sensuality, passion, and understated erotica that popular music, even with all of its energy and life, cannot even begin to touch?

Lara St. John

#2. To realize life in the abstract as noble or beautiful or humane, to set it forth so with radiance upon it, that is civilization in the arts. Shakespeare is the chief modern example of this supreme faculty of mankind.

George Edward Woodberry

#3. At the end of the day, I can't force any of you to treat people the way you should. But it should be on your conscience that whatever law I pass won't do much unless each of you takes it upon yourself to show kindness to your fellow citizens.

Kiera Cass

#4. The rest is drowned out by sound breaking in through his earphones, coming in from Reality:

Neal Stephenson

#5. When the Amherst sphinx styled herself a pagan, she meant she didn't believe in the biblical God. What sort of deity, if any, she did believe in is hard to pinpoint.

Gary Sloan

#6. Though I love your company, your instructions are wasted her. I will always choose the woman who caries me off, I will always sit with the family of loneliness.

Leonard Cohen

#7. It's like athletes: To be a great company you need great competitors ... It's what keeps you alive and keeps you honest.

Craig R. Barrett

#8. I stare at the flush two blankets bring to her cheek and try to divine her dreams.

Wayne Gladstone

#9. Beloved, it is not our long prayers but our believing God that gets the answer.

John G. Lake

#10. Even if it is just one thing or person you have to be thankful for, that is enough.

Jaycee Dugard

#11. My parents and my brothers and their wives are incredible and formed me as a person long before I got to Hollywood.

John Krasinski

#12. It's kinda hard to be optimistic, When your homies lying dead on the pavement twisted.

Tupac Shakur

#13. [I]deas, when implemented, turn into precedents with unpredictable and potentially disturbing consequences.

Sarah Vowell