Irreverent Quotes
36 Irreverent quotes by 33 unique authors
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One of the many divine qualities of the Bible is that it does not yield its secrets to the irreverent and the censorious.
— J I Packer
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First in violence, deepest in dirt, lawless, unlovely, ill-smelling, irreverent, new; an overgrown gawk of a - village, the "tough" among cities, a spectacle for…
— Lincoln Steffens
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Passonate, irreverent, utterly relevant, Billy Lynn's Long Halftime Walk offers an unforgettable portrait of a reluctant hero. Ben Fountain writes like a man inspired and…
— Margot Livesey
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I hate the irreverent rabble and keep them far from me.
— Horace
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The real work of this life is not what we do every day from 9-5...The real work is to be passionate, be holy, be wild,…
— Geneen Roth
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Garden writing is often very tame, a real waste when you think how opinionated, inquisitive, irreverent and lascivious gardeners themselves tend to be. Nobody talks…
— Unknown Author
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In Tharoor's hands [the story of modern India] is transformed into Mahabharata magic.... Endlessly inventive, irreverent, wise, ingenious,... it takes on at one level or…
— M. G. Vassanji
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In America few people will trust you unless you are irreverent.
— Norman Mailer
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God is not a static thing...but a dynamic, pulsating activity, a life, almost a kind of drama. Almost, if you will not think me irreverent,…
— C.S. Lewis
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My friend and I sang an a cappella rendition of Extreme's 'More Than Words' at one of our football pep rallies in a desperate attempt…
— Ed Helms
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I hope it will not be irreverent in me to say, that if it be probable that God would reveal his will to others, on…
— Abraham Lincoln
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To be an effective criminal defense counsel, an attorney must be prepared to be demanding, outrageous, irreverent, blasphemous, a rogue, a renegade, and a hated,…
— Clarence Darrow
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I love being irreverent. But I hate being irrelevant. I love being irreverent because at the end of the day your actions belie your intentions.
— Esai Morales
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Making my last record, Warrior, was a pretty miserable process, and it wore my spirit down. I was fighting like hell to keep my whole…
— Kesha
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Comics write to their point of view. If you're an exceedingly irreverent comedian, you've got to see where that point of view fits or produces…
— Jim Gaffigan
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John Lennon was very irreverent and very intelligent.
— Brenda Lee
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People think because 'Vice' is irreverent and because we're crazy, we're stunt journalists. You know what? I don't actually care.
— Shane Smith
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You learn history in school, and you have a reverential feeling toward it. But by being irreverent, it feels current.
— Benjamin Walker
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I believe that movies are fast becoming antique and dinosauric as a medium. Film is a medium for the over-40s and television has gone the…
— Malcolm Mclaren
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It doesn't seem that long ago to me that the word 'irreverent' seemed affixed to my name. 'Irreverent newcomer.' I went from irreverent to venerable…
— Bob Costas
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Eight years ago, I was drawn into Keats's world by Andrew Motion's biography. Soon I was reading back and forth between Keats's letters and his…
— Jane Campion
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God never gave man a thing to do concerning which it were irreverent to ponder how the Son of God would have done it.
— George MacDonald
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I like 'The Simpsons' quite a lot. I love the irreverent character of the whole show. It's great.
— Brian Greene
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I just think that gay men have much better taste than any straight man I have met. I have never gotten any grief about having…
— Kesha
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I respect the astute and rigorously unsentimental David Horowitz as one of America's most original and courageous political analysts. He has the true 1960s spirit…
— Camille Paglia
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