Innocuous Quotes

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I don't Tweet a lot because I've Tweeted things that I thought were really innocuous about subjects that are inflammatory, and the response is so… — Lewis Black
When I first started looking at Twitter, I followed people like Steve Martin, who will just write the funniest non sequiturs now and then, which… — Steve Carell
From a wine critic's perspective, there are far too many innocuous, over-oaked, over-acidified, or over-cropped wines emerging from California. While those sins would not be… — Robert M. Parker, Jr.
Yes I try to kill myself in small amounts, an innocuous occupation. Actually I'm hung up on it. — Anne Sexton
I would never do something like Speed 2 again. If Id wanted to make those kind of movies I could have signed up for five… — Jason Patric
After an existence of nearly twenty years of almost innocuous desuetude these laws are brought forth. — Grover Cleveland
My perspective of veganism was most affected by learning that the veal calf is a by-product of dairying, and that in essence there is a… — Rynn Berry
Words themselves are innocuous; it is the consensus that gives them true power. — Gloria Naylor
There is nothing by which men display their character so much as in what they consider ridiculous... Fools and sensible men are equally innocuous. It… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Some of the most innocuous inventions have proven earth-shattering, with reverberations felt around the planet. The Internet is the poster child for disruptive technology, but… — Lynda Resnick
How good is Missouri quarterback Chase Daniel anyway? ... to me, Daniel's brilliance has nothing to do with the big numbers he puts up more… — Joe Posnanski
The more innocuous the name of a weapon, the more hideous its impact. Some of the most horrific weapons of the Vietnam era were named… — Paul Dickson
It is dangerous to engage in even the most innocuous-seeming discourse with the FBI/ Homeland Security/ a local detective. — Ingrid Newkirk
I know those little phrases that seem so innocuous, and, once you let them in, pollute the whole of speech. 'Nothing is more real than… — Samuel Beckett
Don't bother to argue anything on the Internet. And I mean, ANYTHING.... The most innocuous, innocent, harmless, basic topics will be misconstrued by people trying… — Vera Nazarian
A wide and vague impression exists that so-called Eastern religion is more contemplative, innocuous, and humane than the proselytizing monotheisms of the West. Don't believe… — Christopher Hitchens
The Gospel is a very dangerous idea. We have to see how much of that dangerous idea we can perform in our own lives. There… — Walter Brueggemann
Experience shows us Wealth unchaperoned by Virtue is never an innocuous neighbor. — Sappho
There seems to be no stopping drug frenzy once it takes hold of a nation. What starts with an innocuous HUGS, NOT DRUGS bumper sticker… — Barbara Ehrenreich
Americans, unhappily, have the most remarkable ability to alchemize all bitter truths into an innocuous but piquant confection and to transform their moral contradictions, or… — James A. Baldwin

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