Many Texas barbecue fanatics have a strong belief in the beneficial properties of accumulated grease. — Calvin Trillin Copy Share Image
George Bush Junior [George W Bush] was a religious fanatic, and Tony Blair wasn't far behind in a way. — Bob Hawke Copy Share Image
I'm a fanatic about Irish music. I love its moody, modal and timeless quality. I'm different from some other composers, because I… — James Horner Copy Share Image
I think anything is better than war. The extent to which one can negotiate with fanatics, I have no idea. I don't… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The religious fanatic drew a small circle and left me, the infidel, outside it. However, I, with the help of love, won… — Ameen Rihani Copy Share Image
It was tough getting fired by the NBA. I really didn't know where I was going, until [ESPN] called me. I said,… — Dick Vitale Copy Share Image
The demand for certainty is one which is natural to man, but is nevertheless an intellectual vice. So long as men are… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Be a half-assed crusader, a part-time fanatic. Don't worry to much about the fate of the world. Saving the world is only… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Fanatics end by subverting their own argument. For instance, animal rights activists have some point, and many people feel sympathy with them.… — Douglas Murray Copy Share Image
But in almost every province of the Roman world, an army of fanatics, without authority and without discipline, invaded the peaceful inhabitants;… — Edward Gibbon Copy Share Image
Mere human beings cant afford to be fanatical about anything. Not even about justice or loyalty. The fanatic for justice ends by… — Storm Jameson Copy Share Image
I always disagree, however, when people end up saying that we can only combat Communism, Fascism or what not if we develop… — George Orwell Copy Share Image
Are you apathetic toward the saccharine goodness evangelized by sentimental, superstitious fanatics, but equally bored by the intellectuals who worship at the… — Rob Brezsny Copy Share Image
Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending,… — Hanif Kureishi Copy Share Image
Christianity is an old metaphysical fiction, stuffed with fables, contradictions and absurdities: it was spawned in the fevered imagination of the Orientals,… — Frederick The Great Copy Share Image
Certain bedrock principles - arguably a true conservative mindset - dictate a respect for life. A life-conserving sensibility means that guns are… — Ilana Mercer Copy Share Image
My biggest influences were 1980s punk and metal. Metallica were my biggest influence because they were good at everything - riffs, energy… — Corey Taylor Copy Share Image
I say the last 10 percent of the way to perfection takes so much of your life that it isn't worth the… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
“Just like the way you date in relationship and become convinced before you give a partner your heart, you got to date… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
The leaders of the empire, the imperial mafia-George W. Bush, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Cheney, Colin Powell, Condoleezza Rice, Paul Wolfowitz, Richard Perle,… — William Blum Copy Share Image
I can use my credit card to send money to the Ku Klux Klan, to antiabortion fanatics, or to anti-homosexual bigots, but… — Jeff Jarvis Copy Share Image
We have an even worse situation in Syria, where the United States' allies are actually supporting people who are violently opposed to… — Rashid Khalidi Copy Share Image
We just sang real simple songs in a simple way that got to people. We didn't try to tart them up with… — Mick Ralphs Copy Share Image
There are those who view the abolitionists as just maniacs, apolitical fanatics who helped to cause the war, and Lincoln is the… — Eric Foner Copy Share Image
How do we deal with not just the acts of violence, but the extremist ideology that lies behind them? Because though the… — Tony Blair Copy Share Image
Feel eternity around you. Not as an idea, not as a nice intellectualization, but to really feel it; not to be some… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Training is principally an act of faith. The athlete must believe in its efficacy; he must believe that through training he will… — Franz Stampfl Copy Share Image
Faith is a state of openness or trust...In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to… — Shunryu Suzuki Copy Share Image
I think about fanaticism - oblivion awaits, especially for minor writers, so you have to be a fanatic; you have to be… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
Fanatics, as a class, have far more zeal than intellect and are fanatics only because they have. There can be no fanaticism… — John C. Calhoun Copy Share Image
I'm an organizational fanatic. I created a locker room that the children pass through when they come in the house. Each child… — Kathryn Sansone Copy Share Image
It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest… — Denise Caruso Copy Share Image
There must be bands of enthusiasts for everything on earth-fanatics who shared a vocabulary, a batch of technical skills and equipment, and,… — Annie Dillard Copy Share Image
It was a free-for-all with music when I was growing up. My mother was a huge music fanatic so I was listening… — Tig Notaro Copy Share Image
In the fevered state of our country, no good can ever result from any attempt to set one of these fiery zealots… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
I have observed that the world has suffered far less from ignorance than from pretensions to knowledge. It is not skeptics or… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I'm a big soccer fanatic, and although I support a team called Tottenham Hotspur in London - I love that team, I… — Adam Richman Copy Share Image
The history of the world is like: He kills me, I kill him, only with different cosmetics and different castings. So in… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
We have seen many other not just writers and intellectuals, but including writers and intellectuals in the Muslim world being attacked and… — Salman Rushdie Copy Share Image
I think the worst thing we can do is to concede to fanaticism its devotion, say. Well, you have to understand, these… — Adam Gopnik Copy Share Image
![“George Bush Junior [George W Bush] was a religious fanatic, and Tony Blair wasn't far behind in a way.” quote by Bob Hawke](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/852/bob-hawke-7891_behinds_george-bush-junior-george-w-bush-was-a-r_342255.jpg)
![“It was tough getting fired by the NBA. I really didn't know where I was going, until [ESPN] called me. I said, "Hey, 'ESPN?' Never heard of it. It sounds like a disease." Now I have that same disease as a sports fanatic. All this sports madness we didn't have years ago, now I'm very blessed and…” quote by Dick Vitale](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5eb/dick-vitale-14709_blessed_it-was-tough-getting-fired-by-the-nba-i_1190596.jpg)
![“Harvey [Weinstein] didn't want to release [MY SON THE FANATIC]; he held it for two years because he wanted a happy ending, although I don't know what that means. Does that mean the taxi driver leaves his wife or doesn't leave his wife? I think it has a happy ending.” quote by Hanif Kureishi](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/434/hanif-kureishi-3233_crafts_harvey-weinstein-didn-t-want-to-release_17929.jpg)
![“Certain bedrock principles - arguably a true conservative mindset - dictate a respect for life. A life-conserving sensibility means that guns are meant for self-defense, not for needless killing. [...] This gun owner is no gun nut; but a right-to-self-defense fanatic.” quote by Ilana Mercer](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/317/ilana-mercer-6995_bedrock_certain-bedrock-principles-arguably-a-tr_2222788.jpg)
