Sinister Quotes - Page 8

• Of all the criminal cases in which Philo Vance participated as unofficial investigator, the most sinister, the most bizarre, the seemingly most incomprehensible, and certainly the most terrifying was the one that followed the famous Greene murders.

  S. S. Van Dine

  Criminals, Murder, Bizarre

  S. S. Van Dine (2016). “The Bishop Murder Case”, S. S. Van Dine

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• Usually, no one quite knew where Django Reinhardt was going to be, but I met his brother and about an hour later in walks Django with an entourage of friends. He always traveled with a large group-carried his own admirers with him, the most sinister-looking bunch of hoodlums you've ever seen. I walked up and offered to buy him a drink. That seemed to be the right thing to do... he was the first really brilliant solo guitarist I ever became aware of, I had records of his when I was 10 years old. It just blew my mind that anyone could play a guitar like that. Still does.

  Charlie Byrd

  Music, Brother, Django

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• It was at "Little Lodge" I was first menaced with Education. The approach of a sinister figure described as 'the Governess' was announced.

  Winston Churchill

  Education, Littles, Firsts

  Winston Churchill (2010). “My Early Life: 1874-1904”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• What is it about separation, in any or all of its many forms and degrees, that makes it so basic and so sinister, so exciting and so repellent?

  Marilyn Frye

  Degrees, Separation, Form

  Marilyn Frye (1983). “The Politics of Reality: Essays in Feminist Theory”, Crossing Press, Incorporated

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• While I was writing Wild Swans I thought the famine was the result of economic mismanagement but during the research I realised that it was something more sinister.

  Jung Chang

  Writing, Swans, Research

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• Following directly behind the bier were the servants who would, in earlier times, have been slaughtered at the graveside, along with a warrior's horse. Musicians and torchbearers came next, with the rear taken up by the mimes- sinister, silent figures in wax masks modelled on dead members of the family.

  Catharine Arnold

  Horse, Taken, Warrior

  Catharine Arnold (2008). “Necropolis: London and Its Dead”, p.15, Simon and Schuster

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• I cannot imagine the type of sinister fiend who would be against the library. A library essentially says, 'Look, here is some free information that will enrich your life. Read it on your own time. I trust that you will bring it back when you are finished.' It might be the most civilized, forward-thinking institution in America. Perhaps the only one, in fact.

  Chuck Klosterman

  Thinking, America, Library

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• If we are not serving Jesus, and if he is not in our thoughts and hearts, then the things of the world will draw us instead to them! Moreover, the things of the world need not be sinister in order to be diverting and consuming.

  Neal A. Maxwell

  Jesus, Heart, Order

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• Philosophers get attention only when they appear to be doing something sinister - corrupting the youth, undermining the foundations of civilization, sneering at all we hold dear. The rest of the time everybody assumes that they are hard at work somewhere down in the sub-basement, keeping those foundations in good repair. Nobody much cares what brand of intellectual duct tape is being used.

  Richard Rorty

  Civilization, Intellectual, Foundation

  "Philosophical Convictions". The Nation, June 14, 2004.

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• Faith is the surrender of the mind; it's the surrender of reason, it's the surrender of the only thing that makes us different from other mammals. It's our need to believe, and to surrender our skepticism and our reason, our yearning to discard that and put all our trust or faith in someone or something, that is the sinister thing to me. Of all the supposed virtues, faith must be the most overrated.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Atheist, Believe, Animal

  "Penn & Teller: Bullshit! (Holier Than Thou)". TV Series, May 23, 2005.

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