Quotes About The Kooks

#1. And now here is my secret, a very simple secret: It is only with the heart that one can see rightly; what is essential is invisible to the eye.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#2. Ever since we achieved a breakthrough in the area of recombinant DNA in 1973, left-wing nuts and environmental kooks have been screaming that we will create some kind of Frankenstein bug or Andromeda Strain that will destroy us all.

James D. Watson

#3. ...there are a lot of self-righteous people out there. And if you try to adjust your life to please them...you're just going to go crazy and risk being as unhappy as these self-righteous kooks are.

Ellen DeGeneres

#4. If you won't admit there are kooks among those who share your political viewpoint, chances are, you're one of the kooks.

Raul Ramos Y Sanchez

#5. Everest has always been a magnet for kooks, publicity seekers, hopeless romantics and others with a shaky hold on reality.

Jon Krakauer

#6. The Internet, I'm trying to point out, is a kooks' paradise. Anybody with a keyboard and a modem can spread fear, loathing, and just plain asinine ideas among hundreds of thousands of people with the click of a button. Discouraging, but true.

David F. Emery

#7. Most liberals I know do not consider themselves to even be liberals. They just think of you and me as conservatives, and that means, therefore, we're odd and we're kooks and maybe extreme and maybe mean.

Rush Limbaugh

#8. I vote Democrat because I believe liberal judges need to rewrite the Constitution every few days to suit fringe kooks who would never get their agendas past the voters.

David Letterman

#9. You know, I've spent my entire life time separating the Right from the kooks.

William F. Buckley Jr.

#10. On the unfalsifiable theory of global warming:Evidence that contradicts the global warming theory, climate kooks enlist as evidence for the correctness of their theory; every permutation in weather patterns warm or cold is said to be a consequence of that warming or proof of it.

Ilana Mercer

#11. Sexy as hell and stubborn as a mule.

R.G. Alexander

#12. After the interview ended, Stone and I were ushered out. Alex had an interview with Ted Nugent to conduct. In the elevator, Stone scrutinized me. "When we try to assess threats," he said, "the kooks are almost always wearing snowsuits in 90-degree weather.

Jon Ronson

#13. Today the campaign for world government lives on mainly among kooks and science fiction fans.

Steven Pinker

#14. When it comes to people who are saying really extreme things online, we have the tendency to think that they are just kooks, or that you shouldn't pay attention to them, you shouldn't take them seriously.

Jessica Valenti

#15. I thought by masking the depression with silence, the feelings might disappear.

Sharon E. Rainey

#16. That's why crazy people are so dangerous. You think they're nice until they're chaining you up in the garage.

Michael Buckley

#17. Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

Alan Kay

#18. After an interval of two and a half centuries, the tradition of mystic illumination renewed itself in Italy and Germany.

James Mark Baldwin