Unintuitive Def Quotes

#1. Space may be the final frontier but it's made in a Hollywood basement.

Red Hot Chili Peppers

#2. You have to be willing to deal with the ups and downs of the music, the ups and downs of the audience.

Billy Corgan

#3. Ignorance was ever the iron of certainty, for it was as blind to itself as sleep. It was the absence of questions that made answers absolute - not knowledge! To

R. Scott Bakker

#4. You'll never see my favourite film on any screen in the world," I replied with a smile. "Not even here in the Cinema Paradis

Nicolas Barreau

#5. Abandonment of slavery is also the banishment of the chimera of security. The world will not change overnight, and liberation will not happen unless individual women agree to be outcasts, eccentrics, perverts, and whatever the powers-that-be choose to call them.

Germaine Greer

#6. A person may be qualified to do greater good to mankind and become more beneficial to the world, by morality without faith than by faith without morality.

Joseph Addison

#7. Every day of my life it feels as if I'm
fighting my way up an escalator that only goes down.
And no matter how fast or how hard I run to try to reach the top, I stay in
the same place, sprinting, getting nowhere.

Colleen Hoover

#8. Although he seemed frustrated with the situation regarding Parker, I had the distinct feeling he enjoyed seeing me so happy.

Jamie McGuire

#9. Sudden success in golf is like the sudden acquisition of wealth. It is apt to unsettle and deteriorate the character.

P.G. Wodehouse

#10. Communion in faith, in the intimacy of meaning, cannot remain purely conceptual; it can maintain its vivifying energy only if it associates with communion in speech and action within a common space of social and cultural references. Faith needs culture.

Tariq Ramadan

#11. A monochrome Jackson Pollock," Jane says, and then tells Tiny, "We gotta bolt. This band is like a root canal sans painkiller".

John Green