Obstreperous Quotes

#1. I'm crass, contemptuous and crude, obstreperous, obnoxious, rambunctiously raw and rude.

Mario Cantone

#2. An obstreperous urge seized him. he desperately wanted to hold on to her, to support his slipping heart, and when it slipped away, he realized she had gone away, incarcerating herself in his thought with her smile and unblemished innocence.

Faraaz Kazi

#3. I kept getting the odd sensation that I was in fact perfectly stationary, and that I was pushing the world around under my feet.

Robyn Davidson

#4. The voluntary approach to corporate social responsibility has failed in many cases.

David Suzuki

#5. On tiptoes the redhead wouldn't even reach my shoulders; she is clearly too young to be a bride. And the willowy girl is too forlorn. And I am too unwilling.
Yet here we are.

Lauren DeStefano

#6. Three writers together would be a nightmare of obstreperous self-consciousness.

Mary Gaitskill

#7. I'll tell you, the screws' faces painted an even greater picture than my words can describe. We kept emptying our pots in the hall for two weeks before the screws started emptying our piss pots for us, but this didn't last too long after we started calling them bellhops.

Stephen Richards

#8. Certainly there have been better actors than me who have had no careers. Why? I don't know.

Richard Gere

#9. I can't always control my body the way I want to, and I can't control when I feel good or when I don't. I can control how clear my mind is. And I can control how willing I am to step up if somebody needs me.

Michael J. Fox

#10. There are all kinds of things God wants me to do that I'm very obstreperous about.

Mary Karr

#11. The further away you can get away from yourself as an actor, the more fun you have.

Scott Bakula

#12. In my opinion, assassination theories will continue to revolve around these assassinations as they have around several other significant assassinations in American history. The assassination of President Lincoln comes to mind.

Louis Stokes

#13. These explosions - they would kill humans? Yes. She

Sara Pennypacker

#14. Giving Back reframes portraits of philanthropy.

Valaida Fullwood

#15. Obstreperous, 'huh," said Tad. "I see you've been using that Big Word of the Day calendar I got you last Christmas."

"That is irrefragable," I told him solemnly.

Patricia Briggs

#16. Till the first friend dies, we think our ecstasy impersonal, but then discover that he was the cup from which we drank it, itself as yet unknown.

Emily Dickinson

#17. Achievement is not last, disappointment is not deadly: It is the mettle to proceed with that matters.

Winston Churchill

#18. Amid all the easily loved darlings of Charlie Brown's circle, obstreperous Lucy holds a special place in my heart. She fusses and fumes and she carps and complains. That's because Lucy cares. And it's the caring that counts.

Judith Crist

#19. Any attempt at understanding humanity must include an explanation of the hold that supernatural belief continues to have on most of the human race.

Victor J. Stenger

#20. You can't make everybody laugh. You gotta just do what you think is funny. Just be obstreperous to everybody.

Colin Quinn