Solecistic Quotes

#1. People do complain about the way I act on stage ... They think on stage I act too arrogant, too self-obsessed, solecistic, self-contained, synonyms.

Bo Burnham

#2. My own sense of well-being and purpose in the world. That comes from studying the world feelingly, with empathy in my work. It comes from staying alert and alive and involved in the lives of the people that I love and the people in the wider world who need my help.

Meryl Streep

#3. Awful things men were, savage, cruel, underneath their civilization.

D.H. Lawrence

#4. I am so far as I am aware not at all influenced by dramatists, expect for Shakespeare, who I have to say, it is impossible not to be influenced by if you hold language to be the major element of theatre.

Howard Barker

#5. There are trees, and then there are trees at night. Trees after dark become colorless and sizeless and moving things.

Maggie Stiefvater

#6. It's infrequent that people are rail thin yet have high blood pressure.

Eric Topol

#7. It is the hard journey that leads to a greater destiny. You can never rise if you never have anything to rise above.

Dannika Dark

#8. Every Bass Communion track is based on a single sound source. Increasingly I find that I'm really interested in taking a particular sound and it's almost like solving a problem. If I have a sound, the problem is how can I create a piece of music from this one sound source?

Steven Wilson

#9. You can deal with the brain, as I say; it looks sensible, whereas the heart, the human heart, I'm afraid, looks a fucking mess.

Julian Barnes

#10. A lot of the music is the kind of thing I grew up with, listening to it with my parents. So there was a band in London called the BBC Big Band, and I sang with them. And I had never done a big band before, and it was just so fantastic and I had such a good time ... so that's how it all came about

Frances Ruffelle

#11. I never was an Abolitionest, not even what could be called anti slavery, but I try to judge farely and honestly and it become patent to my mind early in the rebellion that the North and South could never live at peace with each other except as one nation, and that without Slavery.

Ulysses S. Grant

#12. So where were you?"
"Oh, hookers, blow, the usual."
"Why do I even love you?

Michelle Hodkin

#13. When you don't know yourself, who you are and what you want, you just become a product of your environment - a leaf that gets blown each and every way until it just lands, in a big pile of mud, and gets stuck.

Evan Sutter

#14. Champagne's completely useless, you know," he said. "The only good part is the moment you pop the cork.

Haruki Murakami