Quotes by category:Bullshit

Working with language is a means by which we can identify the bullshit within ourselves (and others).

George Saunders

bullshit language mean

I haven't played a single game all year. This is bullshit!

Georges Laraque

bullshit games years

In the 'bullshit department' a businessman can't hold a candle to a clergyman.

George Carlin

clergymen bullshit atheist

Don't piss your life away with suicide...it's a bullshit way out.

Gerard Way

bullshit suicide way

Here's a phrase that apparently the airlines simply made up: near miss. They say that if 2 planes almost collide, it's a near miss. Bullshit, my friend. It's a near hit! A collision is a near miss. [WHAM! CRUNCH!] "Look, they nearly missed!" "Yes, but not quite.

George Carlin

bullshit missing looks

I've dealt with a lot of bullshit because of the way I look and a lot of misconceptions about what people should be afraid of.

Gonjasufi

bullshit people looks

I'm tired of seeing great women in bullshit relationships.

Greg Behrendt

great-women bullshit tired

I would say that each of us has only one thing to gain from the feminist movement: Our whole humanity. Because gender has wrongly told us that some things are masculine and some things are feminine... which is bullshit.

Gloria Steinem

bullshit feminist humanity

If you're not operating on an instinctive level, you're not an artist.... Reason over emotion is bullshit, absolute bullshit... We suffocate ourselves in rules. I find fantasy liberating.

Guillermo del Toro

bullshit levels artist

We'll keep you in our thoughts With the other bullshit in your heads? No, keep me out of your thoughts, because I hear some of the stuff you talk about and if that's close to what you're thinking about, I don't want to be around that, so keep me and my family out of your thoughts, unless you're thinking of making me a sandwich.

Hannibal Buress

bullshit want thinking

..."better to have loved and lost" bullshit. Don't show me paradise and then burn it down.

Harlan Coben

paradise bullshit lost

Booze, broads and bullshit. If you got all that, what else do you need?

Harry Caray

bullshit sports needs

I think all of us are looking for that which does not admit of bullshit . . . If you tell me you can bench press 450, hell, we'll load up the bar and put you under it. Either you can do it or you can't do it-you can't bullshit. Ultimately, sports are just about as close to what one would call the truth as it is possible to get in this world.

Harry Crews

bullshit sports thinking

It is impossible for someone to lie unless he thinks he knows the truth. Producing bullshit requires no such conviction.

Harry Frankfurt

bullshit lying thinking

Bullshit is a greater enemy of the truth than lies are.

Harry Frankfurt

bullshit lying enemy

One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us contributes his share. But we tend to take the situation for granted. Most people are rather confident of their ability to recognize bullshit and to avoid being taken in by it. So the phenomenon has not aroused much deliberate concern, or attracted much sustained inquiry. In consequence, we have no clear understanding of what bullshit is, why there is so much of it, or what functions it serves.

Harry Frankfurt

bullshit taken people

One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit.

Harry Frankfurt

features bullshit culture

Bullshit is unavoidable whenever circumstance require someone to talk without knowing what he is talking about.

Harry Frankfurt

bullshit knowing talking

Knowledge without mileage equals bullshit.

Henry Rollins

mileage bullshit

Neoliberalism is vulnerable. When it comes to talking about social provisions, the only argument they have is the argument of barbarians: that social provisions make people dependent, and dependency is an evil, and people have to pick themselves up by their bootstraps. And that is such bullshit that it boggles my mind.

Henry Giroux

bullshit evil people