Amuck Quotes

#1. Too often fear is fiction madly running amuck, all the while madly tracking 'muck' across the floor of fact.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#2. Genius as an explosive power beats gunpowder hollow; and if knowledge, which should give that power guidance, is wanting, the chances are not small that the rocket will simply run amuck among friends and foes.

Thomas Huxley

#3. I would so rock at running amuck.

K.C. Randall

#4. It seemed that freedom of expression had run amuck, or had run as far as the Government would allow it to go.

Kenneth Eade

#5. They run amuck; I let them. Pride of lions in the yard. Stare and they burn a hole in your retina. A common flower, a weed that no one sees, yes. But for us, a noble thing, the dandelion.

Ray Bradbury

#6. If I did not wear torn pants, orthopedic shoes, frantic disheveled hair, that is to say, if I did not tone down my beauty, people would go mad. Married men would run amuck.

Brenda Ueland

#7. In the old days we were concerned with mobs, with thousands of men running amuck in the streets. The mob has conquered completely. When the mob has grown so vast that you cannot see it, then it is everywhere.

Richard Wright

#8. If you feel strongly about people having abortions, don't have one. But we are a country [USA] that likes to be punitive. We want to restrict. It is a kind of religious fervor run amuck.

John Irving

#9. The mind of America is seized by a fatal dry rot - and it's only a question of time before all that the mind controls will run amuck in a frenzy of stupid, impotent fear.

Hunter S. Thompson

#10. Weddings, I began to understand, were vile, filthy things when they ran amuck.

Laurie Notaro

#11. Opposition, n. In politics the party that prevents the government from running amuck by hamstringing it.

Ambrose Bierce

#12. Before we can go on making workers, we must first make people.

Martin Haberman

#13. Finally I said, my words soft, "How did you get so wise, Effie?" "I've survived seventy-seven years on this planet," she answered wryly, "and by making the right choices I even managed to live for most of them.

Samantha Young

#14. I don't want to be known as a jerk forever.

Seann William Scott

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Bryan McWhorter

#16. Money is not evil. There is no scarcity, except in our mind and attitudes. And what we believe we deserve will be about what we shall receive.

Melody Beattie

#17. Do all your eating at a table.

Michael Pollan

#18. As a past president of the Writers Guild, I think women shouldn't write for free. Maybe you have to do it for a time, to make a reputation, but I think the idea of giving your work away is the beginning of authors not being able to make a living.

Erica Jong