#cynical

Well, I just don’t want you to think that this piece of shit is anything other than a pathetic, human defect. Nothing more. Not a monster, not a bogeyman. Nothing but another reason to feel better about yourself. Understand that it’s just a person - not worth devoting any nightmares to. ↗

— Jhonen Vasquez

#cynical #human #humor #jthm #humor

The only activity a cynic will find contagious is yawning, that is, with other people, at other people. ↗

— Criss Jami

#bore #boredom #boring #contagious #cynic

As a result, I've been portrayed as a cynical barbarian preying on the very clients I was charged to defend. ↗

— Jack Abramoff

#been #charged #clients #cynical #defend

Generally I don't like doing remakes, but I think that's more in the cynical world of Hollywood where normally remakes are purely for commercial reasons. ↗

— Gerard Butler

#cynical #doing #generally #hollywood #i

When a Cabinet Minister who is sacked for telling lies is re-appointed, in the face of every constitutional convention, only for the same man to be sacked again from the same Cabinet for the same offence by the same Prime Minister no wonder the public are cynical about politics. ↗

— William Hague

#again #cabinet #constitutional #convention #cynical

People were more interested in the phenomena than the art itself. This, combined with the growing interest in collecting art as an investment and the resultant boom in the art market, made it a difficult time for a young artist to remain sincere without becoming cynical. ↗

— Keith Haring

#artist #becoming #boom #collecting #combined

Cynical realism is the intelligent man's best excuse for doing nothing in an intolerable situation. ↗

— Aldous Huxley

#cynical #doing #excuse #intelligent #intolerable

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

I wish the masses of people would all follow my advice, because I'd throw it off a cliff. ↗

— Jarod Kintz

#cliff #cynical #funny #masses #funny

The cynical part of the answer is that I expect to see a good deal more space opera, set far enough in the future as to be disconnected from contemporary issues. ↗

— John M. Ford

#contemporary #cynical #deal #disconnected #enough