Quotes of: Decadent Keyword

In high school, we barely brushed against Ogden Nash, Lewis Carroll, Edward Lear, or any of the other so-unserious writers who delight everyone they touch. This was, after all, a very expensive and important school. Instead, I was force-fed a few of ...

Prisoner of Trebekistan: A Decade in Jeopardy!

Elaborate burial customs are a sure sign of decadence.

The Complete Short Stories

Anyone who believes that a second is faster than a decade did not live life.

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close

got intimacy issues these days, in case you hadn’t noticed.” He must have; the population had been dropping for decades.

Blindsight

There is a lot of bad architecture. What we need more is to look at how our landscape should look in the next decades.

Dieter Rams

Art is for anyone. It just isn't for everyone. Still, over the past decade, its audience has hugely grown, and that's irked those outside the art world, who get irritated at things like incomprehensibility or money.

Jerry Saltz

Music is art, art is life, and we are who we are, and all of these aforementioned women, unless they should choose not to, will be performing well into the next many decades because they are great artists.

Lara St. John

He seemed like the sort to have a vast arsenal of smirks, shaped over a decade of nonverbal conversation.

Artificial Gods

I'm enormously afraid of one inevitable and trivial thing - that one day I'll simply cease to exist.

Petals of Decades

For decades, parents were told by so-called parenting 'experts' that offspring would be best raised on the belief each is special and entitled to all life has to offer.

Bob Barr

For decades, the plight of the Palestinian people has been exacerbated by internal corruption, a lack of effective investment, and the political cynicism of the Arab states, who often did not have the best interests of the Palestinians at heart.

Edgar Bronfman, Sr.

Future historians trying to determine what it was like to be alive in fin de millennium America should read the last two decades of O. Henry and Best American short-story collections.

Gary Krist

The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.

Harold Acton

When 'Mulholland Dr.' was voted the Best Film of the Decade, that was very meaningful for me. That film opened up incredible doors for me, and I believe that that was the reason I was given opportunities to play all kinds of characters.

Laura Harring

We live only a few conscious decades, and we fret ourselves enough for several lifetimes.

Hitch-22: A Memoir

The late 20th century sea level rise rate lacks any sign of acceleration. Satellite altimetry indicates virtually no changes in the last decade.

Nils-Axel Morner

You have family-owned businesses that have been around for 500 years. You cannot name a corporation that survives intact for even a few decades.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

Public policy has been a passion of mine. For three decades, I've had some involvement in the political process.

Nigel S. Wright

I think I'd be a million times more successful and more iconic if I was a singer in the '40s. I'd be allowed a level of mystery, and I think I'd suit that decade.

Paloma Faith

I'm one of six kids, and the eight of us lived for over a decade in either a bus or a boat.

Paul Farmer

The level of shyness has gone up dramatically in the last decade. I think shyness is an index of social pathology rather than a pathology of the individual.

Philip Zimbardo