Touted Quotes

#1. I've never been one of those actors who has touted myself as a fascinating human being. I had to decide early on whether I was to be an actor or a personality.

Robert De Niro

#2. I would never complain that Hollywood is racist when I'm one of the people touted as a welcome entity there.

Morgan Freeman

#3. I've been touted for my guacamole. I'll stand by my method. People have asked me to come to their home and prepare it. Restaurants have asked me about it.

Billy Gibbons

#4. Perhaps it is the case that no organization or hierarchy can withstand the closest of scrutiny. Not even a smugly self-touted meritocracy. The success and persistence of utter fools everywhere is sad testament to that.

Ian C. Esslemont

#5. People will often take an interesting experimental study which has been done in the world, perhaps at small scale, and then it's touted as some big solution.

Sendhil Mullainathan

#6. Seen from the point of view of a lie, the truth is often touted as radical.

Mango Wodzak

#7. Many of the touted advantages of electronic voting can still be achieved with paper ballots if you use a computerized ballot marking scheme.

Avi Rubin

#8. Long before gun control was touted as 'common sense' measures, the concept was promoted as a means to keep ethnic populations in an unequal position while assuaging the fears of whites.

Niger Innis

#9. The accumulation of genetic mutations were touted to be enough to change one species to another ... .No. It wasn't dishonesty. I think it was wish fulfillment and social momentum. Assumptions, made but not verified, were taught as fact.

Lynn Margulis

#10. In eighteenth-century England, there was a practice of hiring a picturesque hermit who would inhabit the beautiful ruin on your estate. To me it rhymes with certain kinds of pop-music entertainers and eccentrics - both touted and tolerated.

David Grubbs

#11. Practically every technology that is ever invented is touted as being the new savior, the thing that will bring peace and goodwill to the earth, but immediately it falls into other hands who see it as the opportunity to promote the very opposite.

Michael Leunig

#12. I steer clear of books with ugly covers. And ones that are touted as 'sweeping,' 'tender' or 'universal.'

Rachel Kushner

#13. Because of all the kinds of love there are out there - romantic, passionate, parental, spousal, brotherly - the love that is touted as most unassailable, complicit, and colluding is the love between sisters.

Alexandra Fuller

#14. The prince's strength was often touted as being physical. But Vhalla was beginning to learn that the man known for breaking hearts seemed to have a rather large one of his own.

Elise Kova

#15. To me, elitism means a love of excellence and superiority, but America has declared war on both and developed a sick love of the lowest common denominator to make sure no-one becomes too fine for our touted democracy. We are almost at the point of regarding every virtue as elitist.

Florence King

#16. A new institution with new design, structure, body, soul, new thinking, and direction will replace the Planning Commission. It will be one that caters to the aspirations of 21st century India.

Narendra Modi

#17. Man armed with science is like a baby with a box of matches.

John B. S. Haldane

#18. Such a mind we must desire to see in a woman,
a mind that stirs without irritating you, that arouses but does not belabour, amuses and yet subtly instructs.

Woodrow Wilson

#19. Even in civilized communities, the embryo man passes through the hunter stage of development.

Henry David Thoreau

#20. You want proof there's a God? Look outside, watch a sunset.

Frank E. Peretti