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Quotes About Sensational

It was as if vampirism carried with it a crampless case of rattlesnake PMS.
~ Moore, Christopher
It wasn't often you ran into bondage/Elvis/whorehouse-themed vampire club
~ Charlaine Harris
Cristiano Ronaldo is sensational, a very good professional, an incredible goalscoring machine for many years, but Messi is the most complete player I have seen.
~ Joachim Low
Australia turns out to be a sensational place, albeit one of the most comfortably racist places I've ever been in. They've really settled into their intolerance like an old resentful slipper.
~ John Oliver
Everybody wants a sensational story.
~ Hilarie Burton
Glen Rice is a wonderful man. He's a wonderful guy, but you want her to be with somebody like [Dennis] Rodman getting up in there. Pushing her guts up into the back of her head
~ Mike Tyson
Kelso left Le Cadet on the shelf and then took what the Los Angeles Times called "a sensational and decidedly novel action"—namely, she sued Reverend Campbell for slander
~ Susan Orlean
A few hours later, I am dressed in what will either be the most sensational or the deadliest costume in the opening ceremonies.
~ Suzanne Collins
We favor the sensational and the extremely visible. This affects the way we judge heroes. There is little room in our consciousness for heroes who do not deliver visible results—or those heroes who focus on process rather than results.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Hard science gives sensational results with a horribly boring process; philosophy gives boring results with a sensational process; literature gives sensational results with a sensational process; and economics gives boring results with a boring process.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
the mental probabilistic map in one's mind is so geared toward sensational that one would realize informational gains by dispensing with the news.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
I propose that if you want a simple step to a higher form of life, as distant from the animal as you can get, then you may have to denarrate, that is, shut down the television set, minimize time spent reading newspapers, ignore the blogs. Train your reasoning abilities to control your decisions; nudge System 1 (the heuristic or experiential system) out of the important ones. Train yourself to spot the difference between the sensational and the empirical.
~ Nassim Nicholas Taleb
Walking out with the people, I didn't know which was more exciting, the air race, the parachute jump that failed, or the cunt.
~ Charles Bukowski
LOOK, DO YOU really want a detailed description of two sex robots going at it like a pair of bonobos on day release from celibacy camp in front of an audience of jaded aristocrats?
~ Charles Stross
since goodness is not only better and good for you, but it is also more interesting, more complicated, more demanding, less predictable, more adventuresome than its opposite. Evil really is boring. Sensational, perhaps, but not interesting. A low-level activity that needs masses or singularity or screams or screeching headlines to even get attention for itself, while goodness needs nothing.
~ Toni Morrison
Even when it was happening to me, I thought, 'This will make a good story someday,' but now that I think of it, its story's not that good at all. More important than its plot, it's the quality of feeling that strikes me now-something out of this world, 'outlandish' in its literal sense.
~ Kevin Killian
Lord knows my nipples are hard.
~ Koushun Takami
You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual!
~ George Herman
His lips look like two worms fucking.
~ George R.R. Martin
If a man bites a dog, that is news.
~ John Bogart
Anyway that other thing we almost did in Paris-that's probably off the table for a while.Unless you want that whole baby-I'm-on-fire-when-we kiss thing to become freakishly literal
~ Cassandra Clare
Mr. Oklahoma Sex on Wheels
~ Cat Johnson
Kate Webster had ensured her place in the murderers' hall of fame by attacking her mistress with the axe, hacking the corpse to pieces, and boiling down the remains in the copper, removing the bones. Most grisly of all was the fate of the fat. Webster had scooped the fat from the copper and sold it around the neighbourhood as dripping. One street urchin even claimed Webster had offered him a bowl
~ Catharine Arnold
The simplification of anything is always sensational.
~ Gilbert Keith Chesterton