Cynical Quotes

• I've always been a fan first and foremost - obsessing over bands and seeking out bands, and spending hours and hours listening. When I played music, the scope of my fandom became more myopic; I was focusing on the bands we were touring with, or the bands on the label. And you're always positing yourself in relation to other bands. Since I haven't been playing, I feel a little less cynical. I'm able to seek out music and approach it strictly as a fan.

  

  Carrie Brownstein
  • Listening
  • Cynical

• Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.

  

  Vladimir Nabokov
  • Tired
  • Cynical

• The Iranian government prevented journalists from marching in solidarity with the victims of the Charlie Hebdo massacre yet it organized flag-burning protests against the French embassy, that hasn't ingratiated them to a French nuclear negotiating team that is deeply cynical about the nature of the Iranian regime.

  

  Karim Sadjadpour
  • Nature
  • Team
  • Victim

• The world is now multicultural the same way the world is round. It's not a selling point, it's not a 'quirky' feature, it's not a cynical marketing ploy, it's not an artistic statement, it's not even a plot device. It's a fact, like seedless grapes.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • World
  • Marketing
  • Quirky

• The worst thing you can become in life is cynical. Cynical is like concrete. and nothing grows in concrete.

  

  Carlos Santana Santana
  • Life is
  • Cynical
  • Concrete

• Americans are cool; if you show just a chink of vulnerability, they respond so much. They'll pat you on the arm and say, 'Hey kid, you're all right.' Brits will respond but they are much more cynical.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • You
  • Cool
  • Vulnerability

• There is no crime in the cynical American calendar more humiliating than to be a sucker.

  

  Max Lerner
  • Crime
  • Sucker
  • Humiliating

• As I grew up I got cynical. I'd see Mother enthusiastic and involved with charlatans. Numerologists and astrologists who charged five hundred dollars for a 'reading' which was so vague you could twist the meaning any way you wanted.

  

  Anya Seton
  • Up
  • Mother
  • Way

• A woman tries to get all she can out of a man, and a man tries to get all he can into a woman.

  

  Isaac Goldberg
  • Men
  • Trying
  • She

• Mahatma Gandhi was a man of peace and non-violence and lived by the Hindu principle of ahimsa, action based on refusal to do harm. As his war-strewn presidency shows, George Bush knows nothing about ahimsa and non-violence. Bush should reconsider this cynical, disrespectful display of symbolism.

  

  Kevin Martin
  • Violence
  • Hinduism
  • Refusal

• Cynics about government find much to be cynical about.

  

  Alice Rivlin
  • Government
  • Cynical
  • Cynics

• When you have to work with and exist amongst cynical, burned-out personnel on a set, it doesn't matter what you're shooting or how much you're being paid - it's not worth it.

  

  Henry Rollins Black Flag
  • Matter
  • Shooting
  • Burned

• They speak very well of you". - "They speak very well of everybody." - "That so bad?" - "Yes. It means you can´t trust them.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Bad
  • Mean
  • Trust

• I feel like I've got so much to do, from a music perspective. Jamie's done his record and traveled around the world with it. Romy did all those writing sessions. I would love to do what Romy's done and experience that other side of the pop machine. It sounds terrifying and, at times, a little bit soulless. That's a real pet peeve of mine, when people talk about songwriting in a cynical way. But having said that I still want to do it, just to know what it's like.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • World
  • Music

• Like everyone is either, "I grew up with it," or "I loved it," or loved them now. And when you watch The Muppet Movie now, it is so current. It's like The Simpsons before The Simpsons. It's not as cynical as The Simpsons would be but it's self-aware and there are a billion jokes, it breaks the fourth wall every five minutes, it's astounding, it's awesome. It's very exciting to be a part of that.

  

  Nicholas Stoller
  • Wall
  • Break
  • Exciting

• Never get bored or cynical. Yesterday is a thing of the past.

  

  Walt Disney
  • Past
  • Thing
  • Bored

• I'm a bit cynical that it ever will be addressed properly. I think it is healthy to get some sort of copyright protection. But some of it has gone on forever.

  

  Peter Gabriel Genesis
  • Thinking
  • Forever
  • Healthy

• Sometimes life takes hold of one, carries the body along, accomplishes one's history, and yet is not real, but leaves oneself as it were slurred over.

  

  D. H. Lawrence
  • Life
  • Real
  • History

• Watching you walk out of my life does not make me bitter or cynical about love. But rather makes me realize that if I wanted so much to be with the wrong person, how beautiful it will be when the right person comes along.

  

  Nicholas Sparks
  • Beautiful
  • Realizing
  • Bitter

• Today, most Americans are too cynical, or tired, or both, to even approximate our Founders' courageous repudiation of injustice.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Today
  • Tired
  • Americans

• If you're conscious you must be depressed, or at least cynical.

  

  Andrew VanWyngarden MGMT
  • Conscious
  • Depressed
  • Cynical

• I think we need to find out why the citizens of the world's wealthiest, most envied, most powerful country are so cynical, so distressed, so angry, so ticked of about so many things.

  

  William Bennett
  • Thinking
  • Country
  • Powerful

• You know, it's fashionable right now for people to be cynical. We go in cycles like this and right now a lot of people are saying, 'Oh, America is doing terribly' and 'What are we going to do?'

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • America
  • Cynical

• we know that our world is corrupt and diseased but we're tired of being cynical and feeling helpless. What the hell, tilt at a windmill.

  

  Cynthia Heimel
  • World
  • Feeling
  • Feelings

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