Outrageous Quotes - Page 9

• It is outrageous to know that security procedures are apparently so lax at the Department of Veterans Affairs that a single bureaucrat had the ability to put the personal information of over 26 million Veterans at risk for sale to the highest criminal bidder.

  Bob Ney

  Risk, Information, Lax

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• Well, when I was a kid, if my father was witnessing something that he thought was particularly outrageous or he was looking at some sort of a question that he thought lacked proper definition, he would say, Well, at least Jesse James had the honor to wear a mask.

  Richard Neal

  Father, Kids, Honor

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• White-collar crime gets more outrageous by the second in America.

  Sara Paretsky

  White, America, Crime

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• Now Speaker Gingrich says interesting and insightful things. He can explain them well. On many occasions he also says outrageous things that come from nowhere and he has a tendency to say them at exactly the time when they most undermine the conservative agenda.

  Jim Talent

  Interesting, Insightful, Agendas

  "Romney Fires Back At Gingrich". "All Things Considered", www.npr.org. December 8, 2011.

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• If being good isn't working - try being outrageous.

  Mary Anne Radmacher

  Lonely, Trying, Good Times

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• My character in 'Shame' is an outrageous person. Loud and uncompromising and I begged Steve McQueen to give me the job.

  Carey Mulligan

  Jobs, Character, Giving

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• What I think is highly inappropriate is what's going on across the Internet, a kind of political jihad against Dan Rather and CBS News that's quite outrageous.

  Tom Brokaw

  Thinking, Political, News

  "Reliable Sources" with Howard Kurtz, www.cnn.com. October 3, 2004.

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• What is disgraceful and outrageous is that 18,000 children die of hunger every day, every one of them a preventable death. That's what the controversy should be about.

  John Powell

  Children, Hunger, Should

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• Satire dramatizes better than any other use of it, the inherent contradiction of free speech that it functions best when what is being said is at its most outrageous.

  Tony Hendra

  Use, Speech, Internet

  Tony Hendra (1987). “Going Too Far”, Dolphin Books

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• After Dynasty, I wanted a reality check. I wanted to get in touch with real life, you know? That kind of world is outrageous.

  Linda Evans

  Real, Dynasty, World

  "Larry King Live", www.cnn.com. April 25, 2004.

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• We have defined art as the life form and aesthetic art as the life renewal: the stimulating, animating, agitating, inspiring, inspirational, fermenting, fascinating fanaticising, explosive and outrageous: the renewal of the unknown.

  Asger Jorn

  Art, Renewal, Form

  "Asger Jorn" by Arken Museum of Modern Art, (p. 52), 2002.

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• Interest in reading memoirs is universal. What has happened is that people are writing about more and more outrageous things. Our threshold for weirdness - you can't have just a normal childhood - has gone way up.

  Sara Nelson

  Reading, Writing, People

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• I feel like shoes are one of those things that no matter how conservative or how outrageous you get, a good pair of shoes is going to last you a lifetime.

  Melanie Fiona

  Shoes, Matter, Lasts

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• Creativity is dynamic, it asserts life, frees the human spirit, conquers mental lassitude and illness, and makes real the outrageous potential of the universal imagination.

  Robert Genn

  Real, Creativity, Imagination

  Robert Genn (1996). “The Painter's Keys: A Seminar with Robert Genn”, p.64, Studio Beckett Publications

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• The outrageous is the reasonable, if introduced politely.

  Charles Fort

  Reasonable, Ifs

  Charles Fort (2016). “The Book of the Damned: The Original Classic of Paranormal Exploration”, p.19, Penguin

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• If a [democratic] society displays less brilliance than an aristocracy, there will also be less wretchedness; pleasures will be less outrageous and wellbeing will be shared by all; the sciences will be on a smaller scale but ignorance will be less common; opinions will be less vigorous and habits gentler; you will notice more vices and fewer crimes.

  Alexis de Tocqueville

  Ignorance, Vices, Aristocracy

  "Democracy in America". Book by Alexis de Tocqueville. Introduction, 1835.

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• I remember talking to someone who is vegan. At the time, I would hear a lot of outrageous claims from vegans about the good that being a vegan can do for you, for your health and whatnot. I remember someone once told me vegans don't sweat, so I started my mind going.

  Bryan Lee O'Malley

  Talking, Sweat, Mind

  Source: www.avclub.com

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• When a man says that he is Jesus or Napoleon, or that the Martians are after him, or claims something else that seems outrageous to common sense, he is labeled psychotic and locked up in a madhouse. Freedom of speech is only for normal people.

  Thomas Szasz

  Jesus, Men, People

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• I gravitate toward people that are a little more outrageous than I am. And we complement each other well.

  John Legend

  People, Littles, Wells

  "John Legend talks on music, wedding, Kanye, Syria, more". Interview with The Associated Press, www.denverpost.com. September 10, 2013.

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• I think people should be angry at things that are worthy of anger. Injustice is outrageous and deserves outrage.

  Chris Hayes

  Thinking, People, Injustice

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• The longer I live, the more it grieves me to see man, who occupies his supreme place for the very purpose of imposing his will upon nature, and freeing himself and his from an outrageous necessity--to see him taken up with some false notion, and doing just the opposite of what he wants to do; and then, because the whole bent of his mind is spoilt, bungling miserably over everything.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Taken, Men, Grieving

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1893). “Maxims and Reflections”, p.32, Library of Alexandria

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• Being a liberal is the best thing on earth you can be. You are welcoming to everyone when you're a liberal. You do not have a small mind... I'm total, total, total liberal and proud of it. And I think it's outrageous to say "The L word". I mean, excuse me. They should be damn lucky that they were liberals here. Liberals gave more to the population of the United States than any other group.

  Lauren Bacall

  Mean, Thinking, Mind

  "Larry King Live", transcripts.cnn.com. May 6, 2005.

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• I must speak the truth, even at the risk of being ostracized by my fellow scribblers. In fact, anticipating their rage, I have already applied for a place in the Canada Council's witness-protection program. This because, much as it pains me to turn on my kind, I fear the time has come to admit that far too many celebrated writers were outrageous liars, philanderers, drunks, druggies, unsuitable babysitters, plagiarists, psychopaths, parasites, cowards, indifferent dads or moms and bad credit risks.

  Mordecai Richler

  Mom, Pain, Dad

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• There is the past and its continuing horrors: violence, war, prejudices against those who are different, outrageous monopolization of the good earth's wealth by a few, political power in the hands of liars and murderers, the building of prisons instead of schools, the poisoning of the press and the entire culture by money. It is easy to become discouraged observing this, especially since this is what the press and television insist that we look at, and nothing more.

  Howard Zinn

  War, Liars, School

  Howard Zinn (2015). “A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present”, p.687, Routledge

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• He that puts on a religious habit abroad to gain himself a great name among men, and at the same time lives like an atheist at home, shall at the last be uncovered by God and presented before all the world for a most outrageous hypocrite.

  Thomas Brooks

  Religious, Atheist, Home

  "The Privy Key of Heaven". Book by Thomas Brooks, 1665.

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