Upton Sinclair Quotes
The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.
Upton Sinclair
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I think my characters with my fingers, I think my characters with my guts. But when I say I think them, that is what I do, I feel them with the sympathetic neurons and I work out with my brain what it is that I am trying to write about, or I can't do it.
A. S. Byatt
He was the average guy. Maurice, I think, reflected every man.
Barry Gibb
Bee Gees
I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.
Gay Talese
For me to go to a restaurant and eat something that is not only good, but totally new, is a double thrill. Double the enjoyment.
Ferran Adria
For me, New York is comfortable, not strange.
Karl Lagerfeld
I don't wanna be Courtney Love - I wanna be Kurt Cobain.
Taylor Momsen
Negligence is the rust of the soul, that corrodes through all her best resolves.
Owen Feltham
I had rather believe all the Fables in the Legend, and the Talmud, and the Alcoran, than that this universal frame is without a Mind.
Francis Bacon
After the enormous success of All About my Mother, all the awards and everything, I wanted to start a movie in exactly the same place that I used to be before. I wanted to show that all of the success had not changed my perception.
Pedro Almodovar
By and large, jazz has always been like the kind of a man you wouldn't want your daughter to associate with.
Duke Ellington
We need to help younger people recognize their own capacity to do good, and help them discover the rewards of generosity.
Bill Clinton
The supreme crime of the church to-day is that everywhere and in all its operations and influences it is on the side of sloth of mind; that it banishes brains, it sanctifies stupidity, it canonizes incompetence.
Upton Sinclair