Quotes of Outrageous - somelinesforyou

“ Attachment to spiritual things is… just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else. ”

- Thomas Merton

“ Attachment to spiritual things is... just as much an attachment as inordinate love of anything else. ”

- Beverly Sills

“ In the great right of an excessive wrong. ”

- Robert Browning

“ In this world people have to pay an extortionate price for any exceptional gift whatever. ”

- Willa Cather

“ When you're really working well with a director then you can be as outrageous as you like and so can he. And there's no worry about it. ”

- John Hurt

“ 'Football is only a game.' That is the most outrageous nonsense of the lot. Football is a science, it's an art, it is war, ballet, drama, terror and joy all rolled into one. ”

- Tom Utley

“ Excessive fear is always powerless. ”

- Aeschylus

“ All extremes are error. The reverse of error is not truth but error still. Truth lies between these extremes. ”

- Richard Cecil

“ If sweetness be excessive, it is no longer sweetness. ”

- African proverb

“ Ask the gods nothing excessive. ”

- Aeschylus

“ Fonda was neither wrong nor unconscionable in what she said and did in North Vietnam. ”

- Tom Hayden

“ Her Elizabeth is so genius. It's just fabulous and, in its comedic, excessive way, there is a lot of accuracy there. ”

- Helen Mirren

“ When I was in college I was accused of being a goody two-shoes. But every goody two-shoes has a bad side. ”

- Elizabeth Banks

“ When I was in college, if I had anything in my pocket that was green, I was ecstatic. You are not used to having anything extravagant. Live within your means and be prepared. ”

- William Taylor

“ There are certain families in the world that just get an inordinate amount of tragedy. That's just what happened here. ”

- Steve Chandler

“ Free speech is intended to protect the controversial and even outrageous word; and not just comforting platitudes too mundane to need protection. ”

- General Colin Powell

“ What is the good of your speeches? I come to Sarajevo on a visit, and I get bombs thrown at me. It is outrageous. ”

- Archduke Franz Ferdinand

“ It's fun playing two roles. The roles provide a wonderful range of emotions. Stuart is childlike and sensitive. Adam is ruthless, outrageous. He's flamboyant. He does the unexpected. ”

- David Canary

“ 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

“ People are going to be most creative and productive when they're doing something they're really interested in. So having fun isn't an outrageous idea at all. It's a very sensible one. ”

- John Sculley

“ One can be absolutely truthful and sincere even though admittedly the most outrageous liar. Fiction and invention are of the very fabric of life. ”

- Henry Miller

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

- Maggie Kuhn

“ In a world where the outrageous has become the norm, stable organizations make no sense. ”

- Unknown

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

- Salvador Dali

“ Great things are only possible with outrageous requests. ”

- Thea Alexander

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

- R. D. Laing

“ Every author, however modest, keeps a most outrageous vanity chained like a madman in the padded cell of his breast. ”

- Logan Pearsall Smith

“ Human beings, for all their pretensions, have a remarkable propensity for lending themselves to classification somewhere within neatly labeled categories. Even the outrageous exceptions may be classified as outrageous exceptions! ”

- W.J. Reichmann

“ First Amendment absolutists think it's outrageous whenever a strip club is banned, but the same people have no problem with keeping Wal-Mart or McDonald's out of their town or banning cigarette advertising. ”

- Jonah Goldberg

“ I have never described the time I was in Doctor Who as anything except a kind of ecstatic success, but all the rest has been rather a muddle and a disappointment. Compared to Doctor Who, it has been an outrageous failure really - it's so boring. ”

- Tom Baker
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