Sanitise Quotes

#1. Fairytales cleanse and sanitise what were once true stories. In fairytales, knights are chivalrous, clean-shaven and wear shining armour - when in truth they were swarthy, filthy rapists and thugs. Castles are bright and gay when in truth they were grim fortresses.

Matthew Reilly

#2. Oh my God, Nicole is killed? Oh my God, she is dead?

O.J. Simpson

#3. We write out of revenge against reality, to dream and enter the lives of others.

Francine Du Plessix Gray

#4. Henri the painter was not French and his name was not Henri. Also he was not really a painter. Henri has so steeped himself in stories of the Left Bank in Paris that he lived there although he had never been there.

John Steinbeck

#5. It is sad not to love, but it is much sadder not to be able to love.

Miguel De Unamuno

#6. I'll never be her first.
But one day I'll be her last.

Karen Marie Moning

#7. When the slaves left Africa, they left us this music. They left us blues.

Youssou N'Dour

#8. For millenia, scientists always try to measure
the size of this vast universe. One way to know
that is first to find the smallest single thing that
constructs this universe. When they get it, the
real measurement of universe can be understood for sure.

Toba Beta

#9. If someone is not tech savvy, I have no time for them. I've always been a big believer in looking forward.

James Woods

#10. One can have awareness of the Soul (Atmalakshi) after realizing 'Who am I?

Dada Bhagwan

#11. I like to think of you not being able to end your suffering,' she said.
'I like to think of you not being able to satisfy your blood-lust,' he said.

Chelsea Cain

#12. Today, you can pick your own news. At no time has the world been this compatible with apathy.

Psyche Roxas-Mendoza

#13. The time is fast approaching when to call a man a patriot will be the deepest insult you can offer him. Patriotism now means advocating plunder in the interest of the privileged classes of the particular State system into which we have happened to be born.

Leo Tolstoy

#14. I'm sorry that I long ago coined the term "objects" for this topic because it gets many people to focus on the lesser idea.

Anonymous

#15. What ass first let loose the doctrine that the suffrage is a high boon and voting a noble privilege?

H.L. Mencken