Claptrap Quotes

#1. No Romeo-and-Juliet acts, no nonsense about Love with a large L, none of that popular song claptrap with its skies of blue, dreams come true, heaven with you. Just sensuality for its own sake.

Aldous Huxley

#2. I find L.A. very interesting, partly because I think something new is forming there, but not in a moment of good fellowship as you might think from all this "diversity" claptrap. It's not as if we'll all go down to the Civic Center in our ethnic costumes and dance around.

Richard Rodriguez

#3. To prove religious faith by human reason is rationalistic claptrap.

Jostein Gaarder

#4. The muse on my shoulder is very sensitive and does not abide claptrap of any kind ... Only when I am totally immersed ... absorbed in work ... does she allow something magical to happen and I become aware of a faint heartbeat and gentle breath emanating from my brush.

Catherine Stock

#5. Even to me, a sufferer, 'depression' seems like a fetid load of weaselly claptrap, a cheap and easy excuse for not participating in life.

Michael Ian Black

#6. I, for one, find writing excruciating. Some mornings, as I'm on my way to my desk, my hands actually tremble with fear. The fear, of course, is that I'll sit down at the desk and discover that what I've written is claptrap. Fear inevitably leads to procrastination.

Rosemary Mahoney

#7. Unfortunately we have to remember we're scientists, not writers of popular semifictional archaeological claptrap.

Clive Cussler

#8. I know that the arts are important. I'm not denying that, but I can't associate myself with all the claptrap that goes on around it.

Anthony Hopkins

#9. We've surrounded the most vital and commonplace human function with a vast morass of taboos, convention, hypocrisy, and plain claptrap.

Ilka Chase

#10. May I leave you with some genuine wisdom, in place of all the humdrum claptrap? Do well. Act with honour and dignity. Not because there is some promised reward, but because it is the only way to live.

Miles Cameron

#11. If those who support aggressive war had seen a fraction of what I've seen, if they'd watched children fry to death from Napalm and bleed to death from a cluster bomb, they might not utter the claptrap they do.

John Pilger

#12. Weep for them all," the bishop said. "Equally," G - exclaimed, "and if the balance tips, let it be on the side of the people: They have suffered longer.

Victor Hugo

#13. Reality TV has taken over.

Julian Ovenden

#14. The impact of your vision, while quiet and ever present, will be astounding over time as it becomes a reality.

Steve Shallenberger

#15. I was talking to my mom one time, like, "Gosh, I'm 30." And she's like, "In your thirties you're even stronger than in your twenties." I didn't believe her, but I have played better in my thirties.

Serena Williams

#16. You hear that rape victims avoid sex afterwards. But it's actually just as common for some victims to become promiscuous in self-destructive ways.

Jon Krakauer

#17. I've not had a deliberate image makeover.

Nicola Sturgeon