Quotes About Author

In particular, people have trouble understanding where I stand in relation to my characters, and very often this gets reduced to me making vicious fun of them.

Ultimately, it is only a powerful civil society movement which can break the vicious cycle of corruption in any society.

The constant effort towards population, which is found even in the most vicious societies, increases the number of people before the means of subsistence are increased.

Vice Is like a fury to the vicious mind, And turns delight itself to punishment.

That Sid Vicious was obviously a schizophrenic, kind of a mean one too.

I think, growing up, the female friendships that I saw on television were portrayed as catty and vicious.

I'm not angry about 'Bo' Selecta!' I was flattered at first and even appeared on his show, but he just went on to become more vicious, knocking down everything I did.

Trump is not the victim of the judicial system; he is or has been the defendant in 3,500 lawsuits - that's not the mark of a victim but rather a perpetrator.

The fact is, violence is not only not a beautiful thing, but it's also very painful and not without consequences for the perpetrator as well as the victim.

Islam was hijacked on that September 11, 2001, on that plane, as an innocent victim.

I translated an Emile Zola book, 'The Belly of Paris,' because I didn't find an existing translation that captured his sense of humor. Humor is the first victim of translation.

I'm a bit of a vault of secrets. I'm a victim of English reserve, which is slightly in contrast to how I communicate when I auction.

It's unfortunate, I've been the victim of some Australian press.

As a former victim of childhood sexual abuse, my position is unwavering when it comes to speaking out against the hypersexualization of our children.

Everyone realized I was the innocent victim of a shakedown.

The distance between Don Quixote and the petty bourgeois victim of advertising is not so great as romanticism would have us believe.

I'm always uneasy with messages. I think if there is a message, it's about taking control of your life. Not becoming a victim. Be true to yourself. In essence it's about love in the drug culture.

An unread author is an author who is a victim of the worst kind of censorship, indifference - a censorship more effective than the Ecclesiastical Index.

Michael Cohen is the furthest thing from a victim.

I am not a big fan of politicians turning tragedy into opportunity, but I believe that which politician a victim's family wants to meet is entirely their decision.

I would say that 'Schindler's List,' as powerful as it was, seemed to have continued with a particular iconography of victimization and passivity. That was the iconography with which I had grown up and to which I had grown accustomed.

In preventing a riot and dispersing a crowd, the Crucifixion is an example of cathartic victimization.

I sympathize with the victims of Hurricane Sandy and believe that those who purchased flood insurance should have their claims paid.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.