Social Graces Quotes

#1. Often individuals whose mental gifts so far outpaced their contemporaries, tended to lack the social graces commensurate with their other accomplishments.

Kirsten Beyer

#2. Those of us with ravaged faces, lacking in the social graces, desperately remained at home, inventing lovers on the phone.

Janis Ian

#3. There's a certain pattern that exists with geniuses - an eccentricity, a lack of social graces and an inability to really communicate with mere mortals.

John Noble

#4. I was woefully ignorant in the social graces. I was being raised, after all, by Pellinore Warthrop.

Rick Yancey

#5. She was a Canadian and had all their easy social graces.

Ernest Hemingway,

#6. A love story is not about those who lost their heart but about those who find that sullen inhabitant who, when it is stumbled upon, means the body can fool no one, can fool nothing - not the wisdom of sleep or the habit of social graces. It is a consuming of oneself and the past.

Michael Ondaatje

#7. The stresses of high-altitude climbing reveal your true character; they unmask who you really are. You no longer have all the social graces to hide behind, to play roles. You are the essence of what you are.

David Breashears

#8. At that exact moment, Nancy Grace, a CNN legal commentator who combines the nuance of a sledgehammer with the social graces of a harpy..

Charles P. Pierce

#9. Well, most people would have said 'thank you' after they'd been given help, and then I would have responded to that with 'you're welcome'. I figured we'd skip straight to my part since social graces aren't your forte.

Heather James

#10. The Pride of every Jew finds cause to believe that the cause of their down fall is not their detestable politics, or ignorance of social graces, but the raft of God. They believe it took a miracle to undo them.

Voltaire

#11. It occurred to him that he'd made a habit of pissing on the shoes of very powerful beings, but he'd never been a study in social graces. Why change now?

Kevin Lucia

#12. Those same forces that drive a genius to create the things or ideas that entertain or enlighten us often gobble so much of his personality that he has none left for the social graces.

Tom Robbins

#13. Face-book has all the social graces of a nose-picking, hyperactive six-year-old, standing at the threshold of your attention and chanting, I know something, I know something, I know something, won't tell you what it is!

Cory Doctorow

#14. That's what a book is: a failed attempt that, its failure notwithstanding, is sincere and hard-worked and expunged of as much falseness as he could manage, given his limited abilities, and has thus been imbued with a sort of purity.

George Saunders

#15. There Was an Old Woman Called Nothing-at-All,
Who Lived in a Dwelling Exceedingly Small;
A Man Stretched His Mouth to the Utmost Extent,
And Down at One Gulp House and Old Woman Went.

Sharon Olds

#16. I have a Chamberlain I bought from some surfers in Westwood many years ago. It's an early analog synthesizer; it operates on tape loops. It has 60 voices - everything from galloping horses to owls to rain to every instrument in the orchestra.

Tom Waits

#17. A woman one loves rarely suffices for all our needs, so we deceive her with another whom we do not love.

Marcel Proust

#18. My studies have proven conclusively that untreated cancer victims actually live up to four times longer than treated individuals.

Hardin B. Jones

#19. No matter how many pro-freedom politicians we elect to office, the only way to guarantee constitutional government is through an educated and activist public devoted to the ideals of liberty.

Ron Paul

#20. The first thing you need to decide when you build your blog is what you want to accomplish with it, and what it can do if successful.

Ron Dawson

#21. Some men name their swords. I've always found that a strange affection. If I had to call it something I would all it Sharp

Mark Lawrence

#22. He felt the need for something which he could attach his floating heart to; the heart that tugged at his side; the heart that seemed filled with spiced amorous gales every evening about this time.

Virginia Woolf

#23. I'm still very affected and moved by their music - maybe in a way that's different from someone who grew up around it.

Steven Soderbergh

#24. Nobody can be so amusingly arrogant as a young man who has just discovered an old idea and thinks it is his own.

Sydney J. Harris

#25. Sketching is like dancing. It's process as much as product. You can turn your head off and just sort of dissolve into the now. Doing a giant, super thought-out painting is the opposite of that.

Molly Crabapple

#26. When you have a memorable story about who you are and what your mission is, your success no longer depends on how experienced you are or how many degrees you have or who you know. A good story transcends boundaries, breaks barriers, and opens doors.

Blake Mycoskie

#27. In Congress the majority governs, but the minority rules.

Evan Esar

#28. Alimony is the curse of the writing class.

Norman Mailer