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Quotes About Outlandish

If you own face paint and a bulb horn and you're not a circus clown, you might be uncool.
~ Steve Rushin
The dark echoed with outlandish orders in that curt, barbaric barking of Germans in command which seems to give vent to a millennial anger.
~ Primo Levi
Isn't that the most perverse thing you've ever heard?
~ John Waters
People live their lives thinking that they are forgotten, and that is why we do the most outrageous things, so as not to go unnoticed
~ Rawi Hage
We distance ourselves for protection, Wear scarves when it's cold. What seems most outlandish in our autobiography Is what really happened.
~ Steve Abbott
Brooke and I share some similarities. We're both passionate, fiercely loyal people. But she is far more outlandish than I'd ever be, particularly with her body and her sexuality. Brooke has made herself weak for men - she only gained self-confidence from their attention.
~ Sophia Bush
It does not seem to me that the steps which would be needed to make Britain - and others - more comfortable in their relationship in the European Union are inherently so outlandish or unreasonable.
~ David Cameron
Holly, do you trust me?" Holly groaned. "Artemis, don't ask me that. I just know one of your outrageous plans is coming." "Do you trust me?" "Yes," Holly sighed. "I do. More than anyone.
~ Eoin Colfer
And humans will accept any story, however outlandish, when there's something in it for them. Preferably something green that folds.
~ Eoin Colfer
Bruno Bettelheim, who might have had more influence if he weren't, as Dr. Spock himself noted, a "[v]ery frightening" figure who "scared the hell out of people." A Holocaust survivor with a heavy accent, a stern manner, and some outlandish ideas, Bettelheim gave people the creeps, and after his suicide in 1990, we'd learn there was good reason: his credentials were faked
~ Jennifer Traig
The Club Kids were about fun. Wild, messy fun - the more debauched, the better.
~ James St. James
The difference with Cleveland is that the racial tension was not a casual taste of it. It was outlandish.
~ Terrence Howard
Among these palm trees and vines, in this bush and jungle, the white man is a sort of outlandish and unseemly intruder. Pale, weak, his shirt drenched with sweat, his hair pasted down on his head, he is continually tormented by thirst, and feels impotent, melancholic.
~ Ryszard Kapu?ci?ski
After Dynasty, I wanted a reality check. I wanted to get in touch with real life, you know? That kind of world is outrageous.
~ Linda Evans
I love the wilder, more outlandish characters that are hard to make believable. Those are the ones I want to play.
~ Allison Janney
People think I'm just sort of this P. T. Barnum, razzle-dazzle guy. They think I go out of my way to be outlandish and theatrical at the expense of having emotions. They don't get that there's another side to me, and I keep trying to show that other side.
~ Ryan Murphy
You don't see a fish in a chair often.
~ Lydia Millet
I mean, it's ridiculous," Dhuey says. "It's outlandish that our arbitrary choice of cutoff dates is causing these long-lasting effects
~ Malcolm Gladwell
ANTICK  (A'NTICK)   adj.[probably from antiquus, ancient, as things out of use appear old.]Odd; ridiculously wild; buffoon in gesticulation. What! dares
~ Samuel Johnson
I used to think John Waters movies were on the outlandish side until I came to Maryland. Klam and I stop for lunch at a dark roadside joint that feels like more of a throw-back than the Surratt House ever could. The vegetable of the day is succotash to give you an idea. Technically, it's a family restaurant, but it will only remind you of your family if your mom chain-smoked menthols.
~ Sarah Vowell
I didn't have the kind of budget to compete with the big studios, therefore I had to make my films more outlandish, more outrageous.
~ Rudy Ray Moore
There are a lot of very flamboyant and outlandish people and attention-seekers in L.A., and I think that's what makes L.A. appealing. A lot of people are attracted to come here to do things and make things happen and the city seems to attract larger-than-life characters.
~ Roman Coppola
All around me, candidates were making wild promises and outlandish statements, while I was out there trying to offer up sound strategies and proven approaches—in other words, trying to be responsible. But you know what? That was seen as boring. Nobody seemed to care—at least, not in any kind of measurable way in this early going.
~ John Kasich
Well, I don't like to make outlandish statements. Not all the time. But Wimbledon would have beaten them 10-0.
~ Eamon Dunphy