OK, I've made a preposterous amount of money. But I was born with the attributes needed to do it. — John Caudwell Copy Share Image
'BloodRayne' was an abomination... It's a horrifying and preposterous movie. — Michael Madsen Copy Share Image
The idea that anyone would think their religious ideas make them morally superior is just preposterous. — David O. Russell Copy Share Image
I wanted to be president of the United States. I really did. The older I get, the less preposterous the idea seems. — Alec Baldwin Copy Share Image
The idea that life began with mortal birth is preposterous. There is no way to explain life if you believe that. — Boyd K. Packer Copy Share Image
Every day each of us wakes up, reaches into drawers and closets, pulls out a costume for the day and proceeds to… — Mary Schmich Copy Share Image
It seems far-fetched, even preposterous, to blame the global economic order for the persistence of severe poverty in countries that are ruled… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
Since bodily strength is but a servant to the mind, it were very barbarous and preposterous that force should be made judge… — Philip Sidney Copy Share Image
When a well-packaged web of lies has been gradually sold to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Once in a while there are things the brain simply refuses to accept as being true because they appear too improbable, too… — Walter Abish Copy Share Image
It is preposterous that the current members of the United States Senate and all of their predecessors for more than 200 years… — John Jay Hooker Copy Share Image
Our rulers at the present day, with their machines and their preachers, are all occupied in putting into our heads the preposterous… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
The assumption that everybody will figure out how much they have to save and then will just implement that plan is obviously… — Richard Thaler Copy Share Image
No writer in a free country should be expected to bother about the exact demarcation between the sensuous and the sensual; this… — Vladimir Nabokov Copy Share Image
From my point of view, why shouldn't I work in every possible mode, to see if it's viable? "Los Gigantes" would not… — T.C. Boyle Copy Share Image
Taxation, for example, is eternally lively; it concerns nine-tenths of us more directly than either smallpox or golf, and has just as… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
You see something happen to a population whereby everyone adopts something that's just preposterous in a way that makes it normal instantly.… — Steve Albini Copy Share Image
“In case you’re short on definitions, here’s one. Insanity: ‘Destroying the very things that sustain us.’ And if we’re so short-sighted so… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
I refuse to go in a home and paint a picture saying things like, 'If you come with us, you'll be taken… — John Calipari Copy Share Image
Without the knowledge of the true number of the people, as a principle, the whole scope and use of keeping bills of… — William Petty Copy Share Image
“So help me God it gets more and more preposterous, it corresponds less and less to what I remember and what I… — John Cheever Copy Share Image
“All errour is prejudicial: it is by deceiving himself that man is plunged in misery. He neglected Nature; he understood not her… — Baron d'Holbach Copy Share Image
“Emily," said the Count, "why will you reduce me to adopt this conduct? How much more willingly would I persuade, than compel… — Eliza Parsons Copy Share Image
“The central ideas of Christianity — an angry God and vicarious atonement — are contrary to every fact in nature, as also… — Virchand Gandhi Copy Share Image
Our daily life is mostly, made of cases in which we lose money and/or time and/or energy and/or appetite, cheerfulness and good… — Carlo M. Cipolla Copy Share Image
What men deny is not God, but some preposterous idol of the imagination. — George Tyrrell Copy Share Image
...a metaphor that works in one society may seem preposterous in another. — Max Black Copy Share Image
I may say it of our preposterous use of books,--He knew not what to do, and so he read. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“A waiter visited to find out if everything was okay. A preposterous question.” — Chris Pavone Copy Share Image
If a man cannot see a church, it is preposterous to take his opinion about its altar-piece or painted window. — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
