Appropriate is boring

“Appropriate is overrated.”

— Steven W. Kohlhagen

Hate demands existence, and he who hates has to show his hate in appropriate actions and behaviors; in a sense, he has to become…

— Frantz Fanon

I'm very sensitive in real life. I cannot not cry if someone around me is crying. I will start to cry if someone is…

— Jessica Chastain

As Mayor, I will fully support my Arts Commission and its professional selection committees so that they can commission a full range of public…

— Gavin Newsom

For Father's Day, my kids always give me a bottle of cologne called English Leather. It's appropriate! To them I always smell like a…

— Robert Orben

Computer Science is a science of abstraction -creating the right model for a problem and devising the appropriate mechanizable techniques to solve it.

— Alfred Aho

While the intelligence profession oftentimes demands secrecy, it is critically important that there be a full and open discourse on intelligence matters with the…

— John O. Brennan

I have no policy, for or against: only a personal style. Which is to say, I use them when I think it's appropriate to;…

— Charles Stross

I would not, under any circumstances, try to impose my personal faith and belief on the rest of the country. I don't think that's…

— John Edwards

[T]he appropriate form of address between man and man ought to be, not monsieur, sir, but fellow sufferer, compagnon de miseres.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

Persons who have cleansed themselves of any transgression and who have shown their ability to deal with homosexual inclinations and put them in the…

— Dallin H. Oaks

There is no single best kind of death. A good death is one that is "appropriate" for that person. It is a death in…

— Edwin S. Shneidman

I don't think 'This Means War' is an appropriate picture to do in 3-D.

— McG

I was for many years myself a journalist and it is not appropriate to say a programme should not be broadcast.

— Christopher Monckton

A reader does not suddenly comprehend what is being read or studied, in a snap, miraculously. Comprehension needs to be worked forged, by those…

— Paulo Freire