#suspicious

There is something suspicious about music, gentlemen. I insist that she is, by her nature, equivocal. I shall not be going too far in saying at once that she is politically suspect. ↗

— Thomas Mann

#far #gentlemen #going #her #i

I'm suspicious of any man or woman who approaches their own liberation with any kind of gender bias. ↗

— Andrew Cohen

#approaches #bias #gender #i #kind

But I was naturally suspicious; it comes from working too closely with the police for too long. Cynicism is so contagious. ↗

— Laurell K. Hamilton

#police #suspicious #nature

I also think he is given to disguises...Sometimes he wears spectacles and sometimes he does not. And twice he has worn an extremely peculiar hat. Inside. ↗

— Julia Quinn

#hat #spying #suspicious #london

There is something mighty suspicious about declaring an emergency for something that has yet to show itself to be a grand pandemic. ↗

— Billy Corgan

#declaring #emergency #grand #itself #mighty

I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren't. ↗

— Alfred North Whitehead

#am #deeply #fond #i #i am

I'm most suspicious of scripts that have a lot of stage direction at the top of the page... sunrise over the desert and masses of... a whole essay before you get to the dialogue. ↗

— Anthony Hopkins

#desert #dialogue #direction #essay #get

You can't be suspicious of a tree, or accuse a bird or a squirrel of subversion or challenge the ideology of a violet. ↗

— Hal Borland

#accuse #bird #challenge #ideology #squirrel

Some things I think are very conservative, or very liberal. I think when someone falls into one category for everything, I'm very suspicious. It doesn't make sense to me that you'd have the same solution to every issue. ↗

— Louis C. K.

#conservative #every #everything #falls #i

I know many people on the left are suspicious of words like Americanization. To them, it can sound like a cover for white privilege and warmongering. It suggests arrogance and groupthink. But these connotations are not fixed. It is in our power to reshape them by recalling the best of America. ↗

— Eric Liu

#arrogance #best #connotations #cover #fixed