#cynical

If you're too open-minded; your brains will fall out. ↗

— Lawrence Ferlinghetti

#cynical #funny #humour #funny

It's often been said that I'm an extremely depressing, cynical writer. I've never known what to make of that. ↗

— Ann Beattie

#cynical #depressing #extremely #i #known

The camera relieves us of the burden of memory. It surveys us like God, and it surveys for us. Yet no other god has been so cynical, for the camera records in order to forget. ↗

— John Berger

#burden #camera #cynical #forget #god

Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days. ↗

— David Byrne

#cynical #days #hard #pretty #these

Inside every cynical person, there is a disappointed idealist. ↗

— George Carlin

#disappointed #every #idealist #inside #person

I never thought I'd spend all my life with Gary. I suppose I was quite cynical about marriage. But with Jude, I knew right from the beginning: there was an electricity I'd never felt before. It was so easy, we talked for hours. It was a relief, really. ↗

— Sadie Frost

#before #beginning #cynical #easy #electricity

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

#bit #copyright #cynical #ever #forever

Men of integrity, by their very existence, rekindle the belief that as a people we can live above the level of moral squalor. We need that belief; a cynical community is a corrupt community. ↗

— John W. Gardner

#belief #community #corrupt #cynical #existence

If the great Government of the United States were a private corporation no bank would take its name on a piece of paper, because it has cynically repudiated the words engraved upon its bonds. ↗

— Garet Garrett

#because #bonds #corporation #cynically #engraved

I was determined not to become an American citizen but I did it for completely cynical reasons: to avoid paying inheritance tax in the U.S. ↗

— Emily Mortimer

#american citizen #avoid #become #citizen #completely