Preposterousness Quotes

#1. If I was a poet, I had become one because poetry, more intensely than any other practice, could not evade its anachronism and marginality and so constituted a kind of acknowledgment of my own preposterousness, admitting my bad faith in good faith, so to speak.

Ben Lerner

#2. There is a sort of exotic preposterousness about a lot of elections, the way arguments are made even cruder.

Chris Patten

#3. A slow and heavy step, which had been heard upon the stairs and in the passage, paused immediately outside the door. Then there was a loud and authoritative tap.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#4. A clash of doctrine is not a disaster, it is an opportunity.

Alfred North Whitehead

#5. There is no such thing as a cat - it is just a shape that all manner of imps, hobs, and devilkins like to put on, to gain easy entrance into the homes of men.

Peter S. Beagle

#6. We are not on the way to greater individualism, but are becoming an increasingly manipulated mass civilization.

Erich Fromm

#7. Popular fiction's a strong and viable force in literature. That's why it's popular.

Nora Roberts

#8. My God, I wish we had [the] 9th Australian Division with us this morning.

Freddie De Guingand

#9. Again with the us. My heart beat a little faster. How many times had I dreamed of being one of the chosen few? To be truly accepted by the in crowd instead of sitting on the sidelines of my own life?

Kay Cassidy

#10. The Secrets of' series of books by psychotherapist D. U. Sivri are designed to give you a better outlook on life. The author is an expert and skillfully gets you thinking about your life and how it is unfolding. He challenges you and gives you the tools to build a better life.

D.U. Sivri

#11. Reality in movies is the reality of the story you're telling, so it may not match the reality as we know it, but the reason there's art is that it tries to bring some kind of understanding of all the suffering and joys and pain that we go through. Storytelling brings some value to it.

Caleb Deschanel

#12. 2008 was a good - a very successful year for Volkswagen.

Martin Winterkorn

#13. The idea that some lives matter less is the root of all that is wrong with the world.

Paul Farmer