Jackasses Quotes - Page 2

• I have been called a curmudgeon, which my obsolescent dictionary defines as a "surly, illmannered, badtempered fellow." ... Nowadays, curmudgeon is likely to refer to anyone who hates hypocrisy, cant, sham, dogmatic ideologies, the pretenses and evasions of euphemism, and has the nerve to point out unpleasant facts and takes the trouble to impale these sins on the skewer of humor and roast them over the fires of empiric fact, common sense, and native intelligence. In this nation of bleating sheep and braying jackasses, it then becomes an honor to be labeled curmudgeon.

  Edward Abbey

  Hate, Fire, Sheep

  "A Voice Crying in the Wilderness".

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• It sure did kick up some excitement in the Senate when one Senator called the other Senators 'sons of Wild jackasses.' Well, if you thought it made the Senators hot, you wait till you see what happens when the jackasses hear how they have been slandered.

  Will Rogers

  Son, America, Waiting

  Will Rogers, Bryan B. Sterling, Frances N. Sterling (1993). “Will Rogers' World: America's Foremost Political Humorist Comments on the Twenties and Thirties--and Eighties and Nineties”, p.53, Rowman & Littlefield

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• Only a jackass ever talks over his affairs with a woman, whether she be his sweetheart, wife, or sister, or mother.

  H. L. Mencken

  Mother, Women, Wife

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• I once told Nixon that the Presidency is like being a jackass caught in a hail storm. You've got to just stand there and take it.

  Lyndon B. Johnson

  Storm, Hail, Caught

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• Jackass: The Movie is great. I think it's in the tradition of physical comedy, which I'm really interested in. Its relationship to gravity, and how gravity acts on the body

  Matthew Barney

  Thinking, Body, Comedy

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• Fascism rewarded jackasses in uniform. Democracy gives privileges to those in sports' gear. In Italy, political regimes come to pass. Jackasses remain. Triumphant.

  Indro Montanelli

  Sports, Giving, Political

  "Controcorrente 1974-1986". Book by Indro Montanelli, 1987.

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• Take your patience pill ...You can be joyous, but you can't be a jackass.

  Michael Nutter

  Pills, Joyous

  "Million-plus expected for Phillies parade" by Jennifer Lin, Allison Steele and Dwight Ott, www.philly.com. October 30, 2008.

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• No' is golden. 'No' is the kind of power the good witch wields. It's the way whole, healthy, emotionally evolved people manage to have relationships with jackasses while limiting the amount of jackass in their lives.

  Cheryl Strayed

  People, Healthy, Golden

  Cheryl Strayed (2013). “Tiny Beautiful Things: Advice on Love and Life from Someone Who’s Been There”, p.139, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• The dividing line [between friends and acquaintances] is communication, I think. A friend is someone to whom you can say any jackass thing that enters your mind. With acquaintances, you are forever aware of their slightly unreal image of you, and to keep them content, you edit yourself to fit. Many marriages are between acquaintances. You can be with a person for three hours of your life and have a friend. Another will remain an acquaintance for thirty years.

  John D. MacDonald

  Communication, Thinking, Years

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• What happens when someone throws you against a wall or tells you you're a jackass or puts you down or calls you bad names? It goes into your body. We hold it in our body. If we don't have a way to let that go and release that, it becomes sickness eventually.

  Eve Ensler

  Wall, Names, Body

  "Playwright-activist Eve Ensler". The Tavis Smiley Show, www.pbs.org. May 22, 2013.

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• Shut up!" Eve yelled from somewhere upstairs. "Jackass!" "You know, when people say that, I just hear the word awesome.

  Rachel Caine

  People, Shut Up, Upstairs

  Rachel Caine (2011). “Last Breath: The Morganville Vampires”, p.26, Penguin

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• The look of success, when it is worn a certain way, would infuriate a jackass.

  Albert Camus

  Success, Discipline, Way

  Albert Camus (2012). “The Fall”, p.79, Vintage

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• I have learned that one of the most important rules in politics is poise - which means looking like an owl after you have behaved like a jackass.

  Ronald Reagan

  Mean, Owl, Important

  Ronald Reagan (1975). “The quotable Ronald Reagan: the common sense and straight talk of former California Governor, Ronald Reagan”

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• You jackass. We're all going to die here. You know that, right?' Harrier said. Yeah," Eugens said shakily. '...Guess I might as well die here with you as out on the desert with a bunch of other jackasses.

  Mercedes Lackey

  Desert, Might, Yeah

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• An artist is like a woman who can do nothing but love, and who succumbs to every stray male jackass.

  Heinrich Böll

  Artist, Males, Can Do

  Heinrich Böll (1965). “The clown”, Avon Books

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• Fact is, the desperate desire to be cool has skewed our culture toward nihilism, carelessness, and ineptitude. It is now cool to be an idiot. A jackass. It's cool to be a failure, as long as your failure is the basis for a reality show.

  Greg Gutfeld

  Reality, Long, Nihilism

  Greg Gutfeld (2014). “Not Cool: The Hipster Elite and Their War on You”, p.24, Crown Forum

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• I feel it's important to point out that I've earned my humility by being a jackass - like, I trip and fall on my face and say, "Oh, right. Don't think you're a big shot, because you've got a bloody nose now." So it's hard to say.

  Nick Offerman

  Fall, Humility, Thinking

  "Nick Offerman on Parks And Recreation and his comically oversized penis". Interview with Sean O'Neal, tv.avclub.com. July 18, 2012.

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• Any jackass can talk about bombing Iran.

  Chris Matthews

  Iran, Bombing

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• Because orgasmic sex would lead to women's autonomy, knowing who you are and what we want: Women are not going to follow what some jackass tells us we must do. Not all women are going to get married, be monogamous and raise a family. It will destroy the current social structure based on a sexual double standard that we're currently living under.

  Betty Dodson

  Sex, Knowing Who You Are, Double Standard

  "Betty Dodson's Feminist Sex Wars". Interview with Melissa Gira Grant, www.truth-out.org. December 16, 2013.

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• To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Stupid, Rain, Rivers

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• Be wild; that is how to clear the river. The river does not flow in polluted, we manage that. The river does not dry up, we block it. If we want to allow it its freedom, we have to allow our ideational lives to be let loose, to stream, letting anything come, initially censoring nothing. That is creative life. It is made up of divine paradox. To create one must be willing to be stone stupid, to sit upon a throne on top of a jackass and spill rubies from one’s mouth. Then the river will flow, then we can stand in the stream of it raining down.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Art, Block, Stupid

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• I always tell people, don't worry about the haters, you are not a jackass whisperer. You have to be enough. You have to be your own validation.

  Jane Park

  Validation, People, Worry

  Source: www.elle.com

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• People huddle together in doctrinaire herds, and the same jackasses who, without the slightest risk, now scream against racism are the same conformist personality types who would have carried torches in lynch mobs a century ago.

  Jim Goad

  Racism, People, Personality

  Source: love-and-pop.com

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• I guess it’s true what they say," observed Jace. "There are no straight men in the trenches." "That’s atheists, jackass," said Simon furiously. "There are no atheists in the trenches.

  Cassandra Clare

  Atheist, Men, Jace

  Cassandra Clare (2009). “City of Ashes”, p.180, Simon and Schuster

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• All work and no play may make Jim a dull boy, but no work and all play makes Jim all kinds of a jackass.

  William Randolph Hearst

  Boys, Play, Dull

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