Political language... is designed to make lies sound truthful and murder respectable, and to give an appearance of solidity to pure wind.
Greatness, in the last analysis, is largely bravery - courage in escaping from old ideas and old standards and respectable ways of doing things.
If we desire respect for the law, we must first make the law respectable.
All Asian parents are into your children having a respectable, decent stable job. Acting was unimaginable to my parents.
The only function of economic forecasting is to make astrology look respectable.
One, I have a wonderful publisher, Black Sparrow Press; as long as they exist, they will keep me in print. And they claim they sell very respectable numbers of my books, so I guess, and it's true, every place I go, my books are in libraries and on bookshelves.
My father didn't think being an artist was a respectable or worthy goal for a man.
Customs and convictions change; respectable people are the last to know, or to admit, the change, and the ones most offended by fresh reflections of the facts in the mirror of art.
I mean, we make a 15-minute show that's incredibly silly, even though all of our scenic designers, puppet builders. animators, everybody that works on the show take their work very seriously. So somebody saying that we'd even be in contention for a very respectable award is really nice.
Autobiography is probably the most respectable form of lying.