Famous Quotes & Sayings

Salman Rushdie

One of the things a writer is for is to say the unsayable, speak the unspeakable and ask difficult questions.

Henry Giroux

What is distinctive about the U.S. is that higher education is under attack not because it is failing but because it is public. It is now considered dangerous because it has the potential to function as a site where a culture of questioning can operate, the imagination can blossom, and difficult questions can be openly debated and critically engaged.

Karl Abraham

Psychoanalysts have been occupied for a long time with the difficult question of what the psychological conditions are which determine the form of the neurotic disease to which the individual will succumb. It is as though he had a choice between different illnesses and led by unknown impulses selected one or other of them.

Henry L. Stimson

We debated long over the situation for it is a very difficult question and all of us recognize its difficulty.

Daniel Kahneman

People who face a difficult question often answer an easier one instead, without realizing it.

Shirley Manson

That's a difficult question, because to consider yourself a rebel is sort of ridiculous.

N. T. Wright

Right answers to difficult questions are better than wrong answers to difficult questions.

Frank Press

It's a difficult question of relations between people.

Sharon Horgan

I never felt like I had to rebel against my convent upbringing, because it was comparatively regular.

Paul Thomas Anderson

I'll rebel against powers and principalities, all the time. Always, I will.

Mao Zedong

It is right to rebel against reactionaries.

Katey Sagal

I was very rebellious.

Martin Freeman

Any pigeonhole is something to be rebelled against.

William Shakespeare

Youth to itself rebels, though none else near.

Brenda Lee

Whatever happened to the tomboy I used to be, the slightly rebellious rocker?

James Wolcott

Robert Pattinson is rebel cool incarnated -- the James Dean of the undead.

Amber Rose

I was a young rebel and really just wanted to be tatted with a shaved head. When I did it, I cried for a week.

Michael Winter

The greatness of being an artist is the kind of ridiculous guffaw you can have at one's own misery. 'That was miserable! Now how can I write about it?'

Shane Warne

All Graeme Smith did was say some ridiculous stuff.

Norman Reedus

I'm so fortunate, it's ridiculous.

Brad Penny

It's ridiculous that they worry about stuff like that. It shows (the Marlins) don't know anything about the game.

Stephen Harper

It sounds superficially appealing, but if you think about it for 30 seconds it's a ridiculous plan.

Marilyn Monroe

It's better being completely ridiculous than unbelievably boring.

David Pogue

I travel a ridiculous amount, so I've thought a lot about, and spent a lot of time refining, what I carry and how I carry it.

Robert Blair

Affectation is certain deformity; by forming themselves on fantastic models, the young begin with being ridiculous, and often end in being vicious.

Roy Hattersley

In politics, being ridiculous is more damaging than being extreme.