Cynical Quotes - Page 11

I try to be cynical, but it's so hard to keep up.

People can get blinded by a sense of being comfortable or feeling secure, but that's quite a cynical point of view.

On all levels American society is rigged. I am troubled by the cynical immorality of my country. It cannot survive on this basis.

Refuse to be cynical. Refuse to think that things can never change.

This new world which is being born is cynical and amnesiac. And it has eliminated perspective.

Peel off these dusty wool blankets of apathy and antipathy and cynical desiccation. I want life in all its stupid sticky rawness.

Some cynical biographer said to me, Make sure it's a good death. Make sure you're not picking someone who just declined.

Intellectuals are cynical and cynics have never built a cathedral.

Taking down the Christmas tree makes it feel official: time to get back to joyless and cynical.

I've always felt that if I ever got cynical, I would have to stop making music because I'd just be poisoning the air.

The preponderance of pain over pleasure is the cause of our fictitious morality and religion.

Despite all the cynical things writers have said about writing for money, the truth is we write for love. That is why it is so easy to exploit us.

You do the one film that you think is terrible, but it's a big studio film and you hope you'll get another job because of it, because blah blah blah, whatever it is. You know that you hate it, you just couldn't care less if it got made because it's not something in a million years you'd go and see yourself. And it ends up being shite and you just knew it was shite to begin with, and it doesn't do you any favors at all if someone thought you were in another shite film. So I decided it doesn't get me anywhere being cynical. It's not that I want to be.

Is it cynical to assume that anyone smiling is a liar and a criminal?

Sorry to be so cynical, but this is New York

Yeah, it's pretty hard not to be completely cynical these days.

To describe drunkenness for the colorful vocabulary is rather cynical. There is nothing easier than to capitalize on drunkards.

A well governed people are generally a people who do not think much.

I'm not cynical about love at all. I'm very practical. I think love takes up a lot of time.

I'm not cynical when it comes to things that are important. I'm cynical about pop culture and all that horseshit.

When people get cynical about love, they should look at us [Yoko and John Lennon] and see it is possible

The only statistics you can trust are those you falsified yourself.

With a lot of the movies that I've done, they've been both dramas and comedies from Shanghai Noon to Billy Bob Thornton's second movie, Daddy and Them, to just a bunch of movies that I have done have been comic, and they're usually from a cynical kind of pessimistic point of view which is probably my sense of humor, and this is a part of myself in everybody that I play.

Smile first thing in the morning. Get it over with.

Oh, let me be mawkish for the nonce! I am so tired of being cynical.