Boondoggle Quotes

#1. Word For The Day BOONDOGGLE (BOON dahg'uhl) n. A pointless project. Work of no value, done merely to appear busy. Alternate Word ICKY (IK ee) adj. Very distasteful; disgusting.

Deb Baker

#2. The F-22 is a shameful, disgraceful boondoggle and it revolts me.

Ralph Peters

#3. During December we are all ingesting, imbibing, and spending with a reckless abandon like a bachelor party on a guilt-free boondoggle. Everyone has the unspoken agreement that what happens in December stays in December.

Jim Gaffigan

#4. The truly bold thing for Obama to do would be to tell the panic-mongers and boondoggle-seekers to shove it, and to tell taxpayers to ride out the rest of the tough times while he gets Washington's own economic house in order.

Michelle Malkin

#5. If we can boondoggle ourselves out of this depression, that word is going to be enshrined in the hearts of the American people for years to come.

Franklin D. Roosevelt

#6. For every dollar that is spent on the (boondoggle) bridge a dollar will be taken away from taxpayers. If the bridge costs $1,000,000 the taxpayers will lose $1,000, 000. They will have that much taken away from them which they would otherwise have spent on the things they needed most.

Henry Hazlitt

#7. If I am never to have you again after this night, this moment, you will remain the wife of my soul. Keeper of my heart.

Penelope Williamson

#8. Before I do a stunt, I have to make sure it is safe.

Jackie Chan

#9. When you are reluctant to change, think of the beauty of autumn.

V V Brown

#10. Denying the existence of God leads us to preposterous conclusions so that, in the end, the amoral world of the skeptic who simply cannot explain good is worse than the world of the theist who has an explanation for evil.

Ravi Zacharias

#11. Creativity can solve almost any problem. The creative act, the defeat of habit by originality, overcomes everything.

George Lois

#12. Simplicity is not a goal, but one arrives at simplicity in spite of oneself, as one approaches the real meaning of things.

Herbert Read

#13. He who does not love his own language is worse than an animal and smelly fish.

Jose Rizal

#14. It's always easier to take something than work for it ...

Alexandra Bracken

#15. In a nervous society where a man's image is frequently more important than his reality, the only people who can afford to advertise their drug menus are those with nothing to lose.

Hunter S. Thompson

#16. Do unto another as you would want the (future) other to do unto you.

Twinkle Khanna

#17. There's something nice about out-and-out children's books with no sex and a happy ending - Ransome, Streatfeild, that kind of thing.

Jo Walton

#18. Science can explain what exists in the world, how things work, and what might be in the future. By definition, it has no pretensions to knowing what should be in the future. Only religions and ideologies seek to answer such questions.

Yuval Noah Harari

#19. Envy, as a rule, is of success rather than of merit. No one would have objected to his talent deserving recognition - only to his getting it.

Ada Leverson