Outrageous Quotes - Page 4

• I'm sure I am impatient sometimes. I sure do get angry sometimes. I think it's outrageous how hard it is to get this country to feed its children and to take care of its children, to give them a decent education.

  Marian Wright Edelman

  Country, Children, Thinking

  "SUNDAY INTERVIEW - MARIAN WRIGHT EDELMAN / The president of the Children's Defense Fund - the nation's largest lobbying group for young people - talks about the `hundred-front war' in this budget-cutting era". Interview with Teresa Moore, www.sfgate.com. January 28, 1996.

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• I love Ray Mears. He's brilliant. He's so rude about me in the press, it's outrageous!

  Bear Grylls

  Rude, Rays, Brilliant

  "Question time". Interview with Patrick Barkham, www.theguardian.com. September 17, 2008.

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• The court jester had the right to say the most outrageous things to the king. Everything was permitted during carnival, even the songs that the Roman legionnaires would sing, calling Julius Caesar "queen", alluding, in a very transparent way, to his real, or presumed, homosexual escapades.

  Umberto Eco

  Song, Kings, Queens

  "Don't smile when you say that" by Umberto Eco, www.theguardian.com. June 21, 2002.

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• I joke around a lot about the manic times because they're funny. We manics do outrageous things and it is part of our colorful nature.

  Patty Duke

  Funny Things, Manic, Jokes

  Patty Duke (2010). “Brilliant Madness: Living with Manic Depressive Illness”, p.133, Bantam

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• I have Dalinian thought: the one thing the world will never have enough of is the outrageous.

  Salvador Dali

  Artist, World, Scandal

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• The whole order of things is as outrageous as any miracle which could presume to violate it.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Order, Miracle, Whole

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• So keep fightin' for freedom and justice, beloveds, but don't you forget to have fun doin' it. Lord, let your laughter ring forth. Be outrageous, ridicule the fraidy-cats, rejoice in all the oddities that freedom can produce.

  Molly Ivins

  Laughter, Fun, Freedom

  "The Fun’s in the Fight". www.motherjones.com. May/June 1993.

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• Simplicity and sexiness, that's what people want. At a price that's not outrageous.

  Diane von Furstenberg

  People, Simplicity, Want

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• Texas is OK if you want to settle down and do your own thing quietly, but it's not for outrageous people, and I was always outrageous.

  Janis Joplin

  Texas, People, Want

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• In sleep, you are safe from the revolting mechanics of living and being a prey to outrageous fortune.

  Taylor Caldwell

  Sleep, Safe, Mechanic

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• I want to show people that there's a side of myself other than just the outrageous comedian.

  Sam Kinison

  People, Comedian, Want

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• Old age is an excellent time for outrage. My goal is to say or do at least one outrageous thing every week.

  Louis Kronenberger

  Funny, Time, Goal

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• Alienation as our present destiny is achieved only by outrageous violence perpetrated by human beings on human beings.

  R. D. Laing

  Fate, Destiny, Diversity

  R.D Laing (1967). “The Politics of Experience”

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• The most outrageous shoe that I had to do was a shoe where the person gave me stones - precious stones - and say that I could do anything with precious stones.

  Christian Louboutin

  Precious Stones, Shoes, Persons

  "Talk Asia" with Sara Sidner, transcripts.cnn.com. August 10, 2012.

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• They trespassed upon my thoughts. They were intruders whose knowledge of life was to me an irritating pretense, because I felt so sure they could not possibly know the things I knew. Their bearing, which was simply the bearing of commonplace individuals going about their business in the assurance of perfect safety, was offensive to me like the outrageous flauntings of folly in the face of a danger it is unable to comprehend. I had no particular desire to enlighten them, but I had some difficulty in restraining myself from laughing in their faces, so full of stupid importance.

  Joseph Conrad

  Stupid, Safety, Perfect

  Joseph Conrad (2016). “Heart of Darkness”, p.77, Xist Publishing

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• To demand that a person pee in a cup whenever you wish him to, without a documented reason to suspect that he has been using an illegal drug, is intolerable in our republic. You are saying to him, "I wonder if you are not behaving in a way that I approve of. Convince me that you indeed are. Outrageous. Intolerable.

  Alexander Shulgin

  Drug, Wish, Demand

  Alexander Shulgin, Ann Shulgin (1995). “Pihkal: A Chemical Love Story”

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• Dad, you played rounders with me, even though you hated it and wished I'd take up cricket. You learned how to keep a stamp collecion because I wanted to know. For hours you sat in hospitals and never, not once, complained. You brushed my hair like a mother should. You gave up work for me, friends for me, four years of your life for me. You never moaned. Hardly ever. You let me have Adam. You let me have my list. I was outrageous. Wanting, wanting so much. And you never said, 'That's enough. Stop now.

  Jenny Downham

  Mother, Dad, Hair

  Jenny Downham (2008). “Before I Die”, p.307, Random House

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• To be honest, I didn't want to believe that Christianity could radically transform someone's character and values. It was much easier to raise doubts and manufacture outrageous objections that to consider the possibility that God actually could trigger a revolutionary turn-around in such a depraved and degenerate life.

  Lee Strobel

  Believe, Character, Doubt

  Lee Strobel (2000). “The Case for Faith: A Journalist Investigates the Toughest Objections to Christianity”, p.225, Harper Collins

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• Each Javelin round costs $80,000, and the idea that it's fired by a guy who doesn't make that in a year at a guy who doesn't make that in a lifetime is somehow so outrageous it almost makes the war seem winnable.

  Sebastian Junger

  War, Winning, Fire

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• To be, or not to be, that is the question: Whether 'tis Nobler in the mind to suffer The Slings and Arrows of outrageous Fortune, Or to take Arms against a Sea of troubles, And by opposing end them: to die, to sleep No more; and by a sleep, to say we end The Heart-ache, and the thousand Natural shocks That Flesh is heir to? 'Tis a consummation Devoutly to be wished. To die to sleep, To sleep, perchance to Dream; Aye, there's the rub.

  William Shakespeare

  Death, Suicide, Dream

  'Hamlet' (1601) act 3, sc. 1, l. 56

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• The illegality of cannabis is outrageous, an impediment to full utilization of a drug which helps produce the serenity and insight, sensitivity and fellowship so desperately needed in this increasingly mad and dangerous world.

  Carl Sagan

  Weed, Marijuana, Dangerous World

  "Mr. X". Essay by Carl Sagan, hermiene.net. 1969.

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• It has always seemed to me that my existence consisted purely and exclusively of nothing but the most outrageous nonsense.

  Thomas Ligotti

  Nonsense, Existence

  Thomas Ligotti (2009). “Teatro Grottesco”, p.53, Random House

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• There's nothing perplexing to me about a leafy shrub evolving out of the big bang, but that the post office exists because carbon exploded out of a supernova is a phenomenon so outrageous it makes my head twitch.

  Steve Toltz

  Office, Bangs, Shrubs

  Steve Toltz (2008). “A fraction of the whole”

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• I think that [James] Comey acted in an outrageous way during the [presidential ] campaign [in 2016].

  John Lewis

  Thinking, Presidential, Campaigns

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• I have a theory that among the large Western companies (mostly American) the higher an executive is promoted, the more wisdom is lost and by the time he or she reaches the top becomes a complete idiot. Certainly they do not deserve the outrageous salary.

  Masaaki Imai

  Salary, Idiot, Lost

  Source: blog.deming.org

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