Preposterous Quotes

80 quotes by 72 authors

It seems preposterous now, but Amazon began as a bookstore. — George Packer
Conservatism, we are told, is out-of-date. This charge is preposterous and we ought to boldly say so. The laws of God, and of nature, have… — Barry Goldwater
It is preposterous to suppose that the people of one generation can lay down the best and only rules of government for all who are… — Ulysses S. Grant
Human beings are glorious and preposterous characters. — Tommy Lee Jones
Celebrity is absolutely preposterous. Entertainment seems to be inflating. It used to be the punctuation to your life, a film or a novel or a… — Hugh Laurie
Well, every now and then I would hear the preposterous notion that that Jane Pauley sounds like Barbara Walters. Like I could if I tried? — Jane Pauley
Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor… — Kurt Vonnegut
It's a wonderful narrative device to bring someone from the outside and look through his eyes if you want to describe the absurdity and preposterous… — Christoph Waltz
Miss Wormwood: Calvin, your test was an absolute disgrace! It's obvious you haven't read any of the material. Our first president was not Chef Boy-Ar-Dee… — Bill Watterson
Of all the preposterous assumptions of humanity over humanity, nothing exceeds most of the criticisms made on the habits of the poor by the well-housed,… — Herman Melville
But the tale or narrative set in the past may have its particular time-free value; and the candid reader will not misunderstand me, will not… — Patrick O'Brian
The multiplication of our kind borders on the obscene; the duty to love them, on the preposterous. — Emile M. Cioran
The idea that making an activity legal would reduce its incidence is preposterous. This is exactly like the Clintonian statement about wanting to make abortion… — Ann Coulter
No writer in a free country should be expected to bother about the exact demarcation between the sensuous and the sensual; this is preposterous; I… — Vladimir Nabokov
You will find as you grow older that the first thing needful to make the world a tolerable place to live in is to recognize… — W. Somerset Maugham
I have spent my life watching, not to see beyond the world, merely to see, great mystery, what is plainly before my eyes. I think… — Marilynne Robinson
But say what you will, 'tis better to be left than never to have been loved. To pass our youth in dull indifference, to refuse… — William Congreve
We could speak about the meaning of life vis-a-vis non-consequential/deontological theories, apodictic transformation schemata, the incoherence of exemplification, metaphysical realism, Cartesian interactive dualism, revised non… — Maira Kalman
It appeared to the Elders that the people here would believe anything about themselves, no matter how preposterous, as long as it was flattering. To… — Kurt Vonnegut
Sleep with Seth Mortensen? Good grief. It was the most preposterous thing I'd ever heard. It was appalling. If I absorbed his life force, there… — Richelle Mead

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