Top 100 Sinclair Quotes
#1. As a newspaper man, Doremus remembered that the only reporters who misrepresented and concealed facts more unscrupulously than the Capitalists were the Communists.
Sinclair Lewis
#2. All the Utopias - Brook Farm, Robert Owen's sanctuary of chatter, Upton Sinclair's Helicon Hall - and their regulation end in scandal, feuds, poverty, griminess, disillusion.
Sinclair Lewis
#3. Wall Street had been doing business with pieces of paper; and now someone asked for a dollar, and it was discovered that the dollar had been mislaid.
Upton Sinclair
#5. I've commissioned an adaptation of 'The Jungle', by Upton Sinclair, a story of a young immigrant from Lithuania to the meat-packing industry of Chicago in 1904, and the rise of the unions in America.
David Schwimmer
#6. Do you think it's so snobbish, to want to see something besides one's fellow citizens abroad?
Sinclair Lewis
#7. You wouldn't be here if you didn't care, Abby."
"I don't." She glared at him, so full of life she almost glowed.
"You do." He kissed the pouting lips lightly. "And I'm going to keep you.
Cherise Sinclair
#8. You know how really big guys are always nicknamed Tiny?" She didn't wait for any response, afraid she'd chicken out. "Guess that would make you Master Munchkin, huh?
Cherise Sinclair
#9. There is a difference between going to a service "for the worship" and going to a service "to worship the Lord." The distinction appears to be a minor one, but it may imply the difference between the worship of God and the worship of music!
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#10. Carter is doing a high-wire act over a cesspool, preaching all the way. Sinclair Lewis, thou shouldst be living in this hour. We have a Warren Harding impersonating Elmer Gantry.
Jimmy Carter
#11. The fact that the president (Michelle Bachelet) was out giving minute-to-minute reports a few hours after the quake in the middle of the night gives you an indication of their disaster response,
Cameron Sinclair
#12. If the landscape changes, then I don't know who I am either. The landscape is a refracted autobiography. As it disappears you lose your sense of self.
Iain Sinclair
#13. She bought a budget-plan account book and made her budgets as exact as budgets are likely to be when they lack budgets.
Sinclair Lewis
#14. Use your safe word if you get scared, honey."
"I'm fine." Her voice came out husky.
"Yes, you are, aren't you?
Cherise Sinclair
#16. How do we bring glory to God? The Bible's short answer is: by growing more and more like Jesus Christ.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#18. Regeneration, however it is described, is a divine activity in us, in which we are not the actors but the recipients.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#19. Back when I was young, lists seemed like fences on the open range. But secretly, I was pleased to be corralled among other literary thoroughbreds.
Clive Sinclair
#21. On the walk, like shredded lovely flesh, were the petals of the last gallant rose.
Sinclair Lewis
#23. Now, can I help you with something? I'm new, but I'll do my best to figure out how to get what you need."
...
"That's good to hear, Abby, since I need your breasts for a few minutes.
Cherise Sinclair
#24. Marriage, and the process of coming to it, is not heaven! It is the bonding together of two needy sinners in order to make a partnership which is substantially greater than either of them alone.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#25. Here was one more difficulty for him to meet and conquer.
Upton Sinclair
#26. They were trying to save their souls- and who but a fool could fail to see that all that was the matter with their souls was that they had not been able to get a decent existence for their bodies?
Upton Sinclair
#27. Isn't there perhaps something the matter with you and me? (May I join you in the honor of having something the matter?)" "(Yes, thanks.) No, I think it's the town.
Sinclair Lewis
#28. All mountain landscapes hold stories: the ones we read, the ones we dream, and the ones we create.
-from the Editor's Note, The Alpinist (April 1, 2010)
George Michael Sinclair Kennedy
#29. At school, I never had a hold on English history, and cheder was a place run by sadistic incompetents, so I felt alienated from the Jewish part of my past.
Clive Sinclair
#30. Physical activity within four hours of bedtime and illness can also cause this type of insomnia.
Alistair Sinclair
#31. Jesus has a special, compassionate concern for those who are broken and needy.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#32. wiping tears off my face. "What's wrong?" she asked. Her slippers swished across the floor. "I could make tea." Kate's solution to everything was Earl Grey. "No, I'm good, thanks,
Jools Sinclair
#33. I don't like other actors much. The industry tends to attract insecure, needy people.
John Gordon Sinclair
#34. An inability to encourage someone else is usually rooted in an absorption
with self that is blind to the needs or gifts of others, or a pride that cannot bring itself to praise God's grace in them.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#35. For her, an orgasm felt more like a sneeze, certainly not the earthquake her friends described, and nowhere close to the shrieks of pleasure from the apartment next door. What would that feel like? To be so overwhelmed as to actually scream?
Cherise Sinclair
#36. No bought potpourri is so pleasant as that made from ones own garden, for the petals of the flowers one has gathered at home hold the sunshine and memories of summer, and of past summers only the sunny days should be remembered.
Eleanour Sinclair Rohde
#37. For me, Jews and football go together like a horse and carriage.
Clive Sinclair
#38. What is love? It is the morning and the evening star.
Sinclair Lewis
#39. HIS march to greatness was not without disastrous stumbling.
Sinclair Lewis
#40. Bound, whether by my will or my rope, open to me in all ways.
Cherise Sinclair
#41. The middle class, that prisoner of the barbarian 20th century.
Sinclair Lewis
#42. Same old eyes, same old world but the difference is how you look at what is in front of you, not what it is.
Lister Sinclair
#43. He liked three kinds of films: pretty bathing girls with bare legs; policemen or cowboys and an industrious shooting of revolvers; and funny fat men who ate spaghetti.
Sinclair Lewis
#44. In everything was the spirit of children's play - not the rule-ridden, time-killing play of adults that is a preparation for death, but the busy and credulous play of children that is a preparation for life.
Sinclair Lewis
#45. It has not yet been recorded that any human being has gained a very large or permanent contentment from meditation upon the fact that he is better off than others.
Sinclair Lewis
#46. Chasidah. Angel. I love you beyond all measure. That is the only real truth.
Linnea Sinclair
#47. You'd better make it your business to understand the market. The ability to charm or play the game is useful.
Iain Sinclair
#48. Vast is the power of cities to reclaim the wanderer.
Sinclair Lewis
#49. I do not believe the accusations against my husband, not for one second.
Anne Sinclair
#50. ...drunk enough on earth's liquors to relish the prospect of the knife.
Iain Sinclair
#51. Don't bother to argue. We're both going to have nightmares. You will be in my bed and in my arms when that happens.
Cherise Sinclair
#52. If that woman is on the side of the angels, then I have no choice; I must be on the side of the devil.
Sinclair Lewis
#53. The shame of emotion overpowered them; they cursed a little, to prove they were good rough fellows; and in a mellow silence, Babbitt whistling while Paul hummed, they paddled back to the hotel.
Sinclair Lewis
#54. When I was growing up in north-west London, our milkman's cart was pulled by a horse, and cattle still grazed on the meadows near Church Farm.
Clive Sinclair
#55. When audiences come to see us authors lecture, it is largely in the hope that we'll be funnier to look at than to read.
Sinclair Lewis
#56. Indians, of course, have no "theology," and indeed no word for the system of credulity in which the white priests arrange for God, who must be entirely bewildered by it, a series of excuses for his failures.
Sinclair Lewis
#57. Every compulsion is put upon writers to become safe, polite, obedient, and sterile.
Sinclair Lewis
#58. You talk about scandals and the Americans put theirs right in the store window for everyone to look at.
Gordon Sinclair
#59. As the early church fathers delighted in saying, Christ took what was ours so that we might receive what was His.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#61. I'm sorry to tell you this, sprite, but you are definitely little.
Cherise Sinclair
#62. The greatest mystery about a human being is not his reaction to sex or praise, but the manner in which he contrives to put in twenty-four hours a day.
Sinclair Lewis
#64. You can suck the life out of someone without ever touching a drop of their blood.
Raphael Sinclair
Helen Maryles Shankman
#66. Of late years, however, since his children were growing up, he had begun to value respectability, and had had himself made a magistrate; a position for which he was admirably fitted, because of his strong conservatism and his contempt for foreigners.
Upton Sinclair
#67. Although he assumed she'd naturally submit to him, he obviously believed she was still her own person. A strong person.
Cherise Sinclair
#69. Feelings are feelings. They don't have dumb or smart labels,
Cherise Sinclair
#70. He had, in fact, got everything from the church and Sunday School, except, perhaps, any longing whatever for decency and kindness and reason
Sinclair Lewis
#71. Thus Carol hit upon the tragedy of old age, which is not that it is less vigorous than youth, but that it is not needed by youth ...
Sinclair Lewis
#72. Can you name me even one time when someone else raced to the Americans in trouble? I don't think there was outside help even during the San Francisco earthquake.
Gordon Sinclair
#73. Deadwood lies at the northern tip of the Black Hills, where the land is ancient and rubbed smooth by time. The Black Hills are more rugged at their southern extremity, where bare granite forms pinnacles and spires.
Clive Sinclair
#74. She was a strong woman whose deepest responses apparently came when she was most vulnerable.
Cherise Sinclair
#75. Repentance, turning from sin, and degrees of conviction of sin do not constitute the grounds on which Christ is offered to us. They may constitute ways in which the Spirit works as the gospel makes its impact on us. But they never form the warrant for repentance and faith.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#76. It's a girl thing, trying to change ourselves as if we can change our lives too.
Cherise Sinclair
#77. If you keep all those thoughts inside, your brain will explode.
Cherise Sinclair
#78. You will have sex with me; that I can guarantee, Miss Sinclair."~Ian
Sandi Lynn
#79. Our first priority in ministry must be love. Love for His Word, love for His people, and love for His appearing.
Sinclair B. Ferguson
#80. You talk about German technocracy and you get automobiles.
Gordon Sinclair
#81. A little insecurity in a submissive wasn't a bad thing, but her doubts shouldn't be whether the Dominant cared.
Cherise Sinclair
#82. I have a Pomeranian dog named Nutmeg - a combination of the soccer move and the colour. It's perfect.
Christine Sinclair
#83. Can you not see that the task is your task - yours to dream, yours to resolve, yours to execute?
Upton Sinclair
#84. Now...place a finger on the nub between your nether lips."
"But it's a sin," I said, wishing to heaven it wasn't.
"Only on dry land. On my ship, it's downright sacred.
Lyla Sinclair
#85. God," she moaned.
"I usually suggest Sir or Master, but I suppose God is adequately respectful.
Cherise Sinclair
#86. God, you're uptight. Did the aliens maybe forget to remove your anal probe?
Cherise Sinclair
#87. If someone like my father chooses to criticise Israeli policies, it's not because he is a self-hating Jew, but because he is not prepared to live in a state of self-denial.
Clive Sinclair
#88. Some people become hypercritical when stressed.
Then again, he hadn't been stressed last week. She giggled, remembering how he'd instructed her on the proper way to fold hand towels. Talk about nitpicky. Perhaps this would be a good time to call it quits.
Cherise Sinclair
#90. Some of the best work that's happening right now is from architects who have remained in their home countries and who have focused on a local or national identity and the idea of critical regionalism.
Cameron Sinclair
#91. Under a tyranny, most friends are a liability. One quarter of them turn "reasonable" and become your enemies, one quarter are afraid to speak, and one quarter are killed and you die with them. But the blessed final quarter keep you alive.
Sinclair Lewis
#92. Look at me, sugar." She lifted her eyes, and he wiped away the tear that spilled over. "I could tell you what I do and don't do, but you wouldn't believe a word I said. So let's get this over with.
Cherise Sinclair
#93. No matter even if you are cold, I like you better than anybody in the world. One time I said that you were my soul. And that still goes. You're all the things that I see in a sunset when I'm driving in from the country, the things that I like but can't make poetry of.
Sinclair Lewis
#94. Dios, she'd never come so hard in her life. How many people died this way? How would he ever explain to the ambulance crews that he'd chained his girlfriend out on the deck and killed her with too many orgasms?
Cherise Sinclair
#95. To have to perform a scene, a punishment scene like that, was extremely unpleasant. It bothered me to hurt you, Jessica," he growled. "You will let me hold you, and offer me some comfort in return.
Cherise Sinclair
#96. For me, I think the most exciting thing in architecture is the re-emergence of the locally-focused architect.
Cameron Sinclair
#98. Everything seemed almost too stark, the colors too sharp, the sounds too naked.
Cherise Sinclair
#99. Why, America's the only free nation on earth. Besides! Country's too big for a revolution. No, no! Couldn't happen here!
Sinclair Lewis
#100. Whatever poet, orator or sage may say of it, old age is still old age.
Sinclair Lewis
