quotes about Discredit

“In our parts such characters sometimes turn up that, however many years ago you met them, you can never recall them without an inner trembling.”

Source : Nikolai Leskov (2013). “The Enchanted Wanderer: and Other Stories”, p.3, Vintage

“New York is very user-friendly if you don't want to be in a car all the time. It can also provide you with surprises because it's so compressed - if you walk around, you just find things.”

“Science clears the fields on which technology can build.”

“My first few years as TV critic, I would go to parties and people (usually older Posties or ex-Posties who seemed to pride themselves on not watching very much television) would take me by the arm and insist that I watch this show they'd recently starting watching on DVD, about drug dealers in Baltimore.”

Source : "What to Watch: TV chat with Hank Stuever". Live chat, live.washingtonpost.com. Janaury 28, 2016.

“The trouble with me is, I belong to a vanishing race. I'm one of the intellectuals.”

Source : The Petrified Forest act 1 (1934)

“A picture was a motionless record of motion. An arrested representation of life. A picture was the kiss of death pretending to possess immutability.”

Source : Ivan Klíma, Paul Wilson (2006). “Waiting for the Dark, Waiting for the Light”, p.93, Grove Press

“Candles are good as long as you're not me and you don't fall asleep and your house burns down.”

“A blogger is an average person who happens to have a need to count his friends every half hour.”

“Even when I wasn't overweight I was never one of those girls or women who wanted to look nice. I always thought it wasn't important.”

“Statistics prove that teenage Internet gambling is the fastest growing addiction of the day,akin to drug and alcohol abuse in the 1930s, ...It's pernicious, it's evil, it's certainly one that feeds on those who are the weakest members of society and...that's the young and the poor.”

Source : "Study: Internet gambling stakes are high". www.cnn.com. March 17, 2002.