Quotes About Appropriateness

I didn't realize I was working in a family medium.

I have been accused of making people laugh, maybe when it's not appropriate, during scenes.

All morning, on and off the floor, her mind was so scrambled with self-consciousness that when she opened her mouth her mind lagged behind and then dashed forward, propelled by the anxiety that what she was saying was unintelligible. Each time, she found that she'd spoken halfway appropriately, and each time this seemed like amazing luck.

Kan baik belum tentu benar juga belum tentu tepat. Malah bisa salah pada waktu dan tempat yang tidak cocok.

You should go to a pear tree for pears, not to an elm.

Custom adapts itself to expediency.

I'm not a big one for lots of genitals flapping in the films.

If you wear them outside, they stop being pyjamas. I wear mine to the mail box, which is right in front of my house - that's my limit. Anything else is wrong.

the Howard speech is a prime example of what Moynihan calls "semantic infiltration."20 This term refers to the appropriation of the language of one's political opponents for the purpose of blurring distinctions and molding it to one's own political position.

Gestures which delight in the right person are so indecent when performed by the wrong. In fact, it is only when we contemplate the loves of unpleasant people that we see the indecency of passion.

A word in season is most precious.

I hope I'm always appropriate on 'JR' if it's a serious case. But if you have a case of a man who has a wardrobe malfunction with a lime green mankini, even I on the odd occasion find it mildly amusing.

I'm a big proponent of young women dressing appropriately in the workplace to get ahead. We need to demand respect as women, and part of that involves how we present ourselves.

I don't think that people should wear dresses two sizes too small. I just think that sexiness is better left to the imagination. It's just more tasteful.

You should only have so many accessories. You have to make sure you have the right ones at the right time.

The world is full of bright men who know all the right things to say and who say them in the wrong place.

Be funny on a golf course? Do I kid my best friend's mother about her heart condition?

If my mother were a bumper sticker, she would read THAT'S NOT APPROPRIATE. Taylor's mom would read WHY THE F*** NOT?

Right is not always right. If you are appropriate, then you are always right.

He is so aware of being politically correct he refers to a taco as Hispanic food.

Just as with space, whose separating of things seems exactly on a par with its uniting of them, but sometimes one function and sometimes the other is what come home to us most, so, in our general dealings with the world of influences, we now need conductors and now need non-conductors, and wisdom lies in knowing which is which at the appropriate moment.

Thank God she wasn't still hanging out in her underpants.

Very good laws may be ill timed.

Communication works best when we combine appropriateness with authenticity, finding that sweet spot where opinions are not brutally honest but delicately honest.