Tendentious Quotes

#1. It is more than a little ironic that "capital accumulation" once a rather tendentious Marxian view of a supposed capitalist obsession, should have become - of all things - Wall Street's own slogan.

Robert Kuttner

#2. Documentary film without nuanced journalistic sourcing risks being sensational, tendentious or broad-brushed.

Naomi Wolf

#3. Everything is just so fraught with tendentious bullshit.

Vitomil Zupan

#4. Tendentious point of view;

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#5. The writers who reject tendentiousness and purpose in their work are the very ones who display it in every word they write. I could draw countless examples from the history of literature to show that the more a writer clamours for spiritual freedom, the more tendentious his work is liable to be.

Bjornstjerne Bjornson

#6. It might be added that the concept 'doctrines of men' [WCF 1.10] now arguably includes behaviourism, pragmatism, dynamic equivalence, and modern textual criticism.

J. Cammenga

#7. I felt like an animal, and animals don't know sin, do they?

Jess C. Scott

#8. In general, and most especially with artists, I pay as much attention to the man who does the work, as to the work itself.

Vincent Van Gogh

#9. How much time do I get in exchange for that rose?"
For the rose, a short engagement. For the speech, you get a lifetime."
I can live with that," he said, and kissed her.

Laura Lee Guhrke

#10. Fear is to the mind what sickness is to the body.

Marty Rubin

#11. The title, the name Frank, comes from this extraordinary British character Frank Friedbottom. He was very big in Britain in the '80s, but I, as an Irish kid, saw him on 'Top of the Charts.'

Lenny Abrahamson

#12. I Want A Million Dollars A Year For Illegally Having My Mind Read And Privacy Stolen

Amanda Bynes

#13. Thou art a retailer of phrases, and dost deal in remnants of remnants.

William Congreve

#14. Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.

Johann Kaspar Lavater

#15. I'm pretty sure in my older years, I'll be doing old-time flavored folk-mountain music.

Dolly Parton

#16. I studied how to use the clothes washer. The handy instructions on the lid helped; so did the box of suds. It instructed me to separate the whites from the coloreds. Laundry will be the last American institution to desegregate.

Huston Piner

#17. If you think good architecture is expensive, try bad architecture.

Brian Foote

#18. If You don't give readers what they want, they'll be mad at you. If you give them what they do want, they'll be even more mad at you.

Cassandra Clare