Top 36 Quotes About Bullshitting
#1. Am I a good person? Deep down, do I even really want to be a good person, or do I only want to seem like a good person so that people (including myself) will approve of me? Is there a difference? How do I ever actually know whether I'm bullshitting myself, morally speaking?
David Foster Wallace
#2. Part of me wanted to confront him and demand to know what his problem was.
Stephenie Meyer
#3. I realized, then, that being an adult was just about bullshitting everyone around you. Just do things until someone stops you from doing those things, and then say, "Oh, that isn't allowed?
Garth Stein
#4. It's a piece of piss. You know what I do? I just get up and read the paper. Then people ask questions, and I just bullshit. Actively bullshit, as opposed to passively. That's the best bit. Just bullshitting. Piece of utter piss.
Neil Gaiman
#5. Again, I tried to glance away. He wasn't having that as his hold became firmer. "Never be embarrassed by my appreciation of you. Whether it's your physical beauty or your inner radiance, I don't ever want you to think I'm bullshitting you. Clear?" I
Lora Ann
#6. There's that horrible-beautiful moment, that bitter-sweet impasse where you know that somebody is bullshitting you but they're doing it with such panache and conviction ... no, it's because they say exactly what you want to hear, at that point in time.
Irvine Welsh
#7. If you don't go do what you wanna do, you're just bullshitting yourself.
Carroll Shelby
#8. In the summer of 2010, I was working on a version of 'True Detective' that I was thinking might be my next novel, and it was told in these two first-person voices; Cohle and Hart's voices.
Nic Pizzolatto
#9. The assignment of purpose to everything is called teleology. Children are native teleologists, and many never grow out of it.
Richard Dawkins
#10. Somebody has to take responsibility for being a leader.
Toni Morrison
#11. When I die, they'll say Lady Gaga was special but her fans, her Monsters, they were really something
Lady Gaga
#12. Your shadow at morning striding behind you
Or your shadow at evening rising to meet you;
T. S. Eliot
#13. Bullshitting god would be Max's plan in a nutshell. Miles could even guess his father's opening gambit. He'd point out to God that if He expected better results, He ought to have given Max better character to work with, instead of sending him into battle so poorly equipped.
Richard Russo
#14. I think you can write about what you know for about an hour and a half. Then you have to start bullshitting. So I say, lie to me and lie to me well. The only way to write well is to write accurately. Accuracy is not about the reader, it's about the subject and the character.
A.M. Homes
#15. Stop bullshitting yourself. You're not satisfied. You lowered your standards and are settling for a lot less.
Tony Robbins
#16. This is new. I never heard of Hellions vivisecting their own. They do it to some of the more heinous dead souls in the House of Knives, but not to each other. Whatever
Richard Kadrey
#17. I'll always be here, Luce. I'm yours," he breathed, squeezing my hands, "forever.
Nicole Williams
#18. Adults are starved for a kind word. When you understand the power of honest praise (as opposed to bullshitting, flattery, and sucking up), you realize that withholding it borders on immoral. If you see something that impresses you, a decent respect to humanity insists you voice your praise.
Scott Adams
#19. You're bullshitting."
"Don't they call it horseshitting down here?
Abigail Roux
#20. Most learning problems exist not within the child but in the inadequacy of the system to find a way to teach them.
Gay Su Pinnell
#21. With acting, you have to take it seriously because the other actors are putting in a lot of effort - and if you say, 'I'm just bullshitting here', it's like dissing 'em.
Ice-T
#22. People think of science like somehow that's the answer, and that it's all about right answers, but science is a lens that we look at the world through.
Dallas Campbell
#23. Children picked up things on a different level than adults. They hadn't spent much time building up defense mechanisms and rationalizations for all the shitty things that happen in the world. Kids take everything straight, no chaser. It's later on we all start bullshitting ourselves. Dominic
Al Sarrantonio
#24. When you understand the power of honest praise (as opposed to bullshitting, flattery, and sucking up), you realize that withholding it borders on immoral.
Scott Adams
#25. Everything anyone says when they have an agenda is bullshit, and bullshit isn't necessarily false, but it's never really the truth either. So when someone's bullshitting, you need to pay a little more attention.
Caliban Darklock
#26. Whenever you hear the phrase zero tolerance, remember, someone is bullshitting you.
George Carlin
#27. So elves could be walking around in our midst, disguised as normal, everyday, vertically challenged citizens.
Janet Evanovich
#28. Anyway, they used to beat up on Barry all the time. They called it roughhousing, which is like men calling lying bullshitting.
Tim Allen
#29. Any actor who tells you that they have become the people they play, unless they're clearly diagnosed as a schizophrenic, is bullshitting you.
Gary Oldman
#30. How do you know if you don't measure if you have a system that simply suckles kids through?
George W. Bush
#31. If you're really successful at bullshitting, it means you're not hanging around enough people smarter than you.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#32. Nothing in art should seem accidental, not even movement
Edgar Degas
#33. If cooperation among governments were the superior concept for progress in Europe, I'd be onboard immediately. But the problem is that cooperation isn't working.
Martin Schulz
#34. My revolution is a one-man revolution and almost everybody is the enemy. I may not be doing a great deal of damage, but at least I'm not bullshitting.
Charles Bukowski
#35. To dream your wildest dream, find your deepest desire.
Debasish Mridha
#36. We have been sitting here all night bullshitting and we still don't know what to do.
Tao Lin
Famous Authors
Popular Topics
Scroll to Top