Huckster Quotes

#1. It isn't defeat, but rather your mental attitude toward it, that whips you.

Napoleon Hill

#2. What seems fair enough against a squalid huckster of bad liquor may take on a different face, if used by a government determined to suppress political opposition under the guise of sedition.

Learned Hand

#3. Here you are, obsessed with romantic language-a language invented for expression between lovers-and you use it to spread animosity.

Vanessa Diffenbaugh

#4. Being called a huckster and a charlatan started several years ago, so that's something I'm accustomed to. In most cases, it doesn't bother me.

Tim Ferriss

#5. The reality is that we are going to have problems with water in this century. And the fact that we are going to have problems with fossil fuel is a given.

Henry Rollins

#6. The seas and the weathers are what is; your vessels adapt to them or sink.

Tim Powers

#7. I filed the ethics complaint against Tom DeLay not because I'm a Democrat and he's a Republican or even because he drew me out of my congressional seat but because he engaged in corruption to further his plans to disenfranchise voters in Texas.

Chris Bell

#8. I sell these intermediate bond portfolios for people that can't go to stocks.

Louis Navellier

#9. Delusion will vanish as the light becomes more and more effulgent, load after load of ignorance will vanish, and then will come a time when all else has disappeared and the sun alone shines.

Swami Vivekananda

#10. The US is a business-run huckster society, and its primary value is deceit.

Noam Chomsky

#11. Don't take for granted the effort of a person who tries to keep in touch. It's not always that someone cares so much.

Charles F. Glassman

#12. Family life was and always will be the foundation of any civilization. Destroy the family and you destroy the country.

Erin Pizzey

#13. It's part of my job to maintain the emotional reality and the naturalism even when the atmosphere is contrived.

Michel Gondry

#14. True authority is not based on control - it's based on truth ...

John Geddes

#15. I'm fascinated by the mysterious element that runs through our lives. Everyone is looking out of the world through their emotion and history. Nobody has an absolute reality.

Ben Okri

#16. To be quite honest. I have seen a few things in 3D, and it didn't involve me anymore than when I saw something in 2D.

Ciaran Hinds

#17. God has matured. He is not the impulsive, bowel-less being of the Testaments - the vehement glory-monger, with His bag of cheap carny tricks and his booming voice - the fiery huckster with his burning bushes and his wonder wands. Nowadays God knows what He wants and He knows who He wants.

Nick Cave

#18. Feeling his heart, it occurs to me that it beats just like everyone else's. Like mine.

Sophie Jordan

#19. New parents always sound like hucksters in a pyramid scheme. Anyone who has kids and then gets you to go and have kids gets a check from Huckster Headquarters.

Paul Reiser