Bullshit Quotes - Page 5

• When it comes to bullshit...bigtime, major league bullshit...you have to stand in awe of the all-time champion of false promises and exaggerated claims...religion.

  George Carlin

  Atheist, League, Champion

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• As far as the Council is concerned, the U.S. Wardens are a bunch of mushrooms." "Eh?" "Kept in the dark and fed on bullshit.

  Jim Butcher

  Dark, Mushrooms, Feds

  Jim Butcher (2009). “Turn Coat: A Novel of the Dresden Files”, p.48, Penguin

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• I accused a woman of doing something behind my back when I knew that she hadn't, just to see if she loved me. One of a man's secret weapons in dealing with women is knowing the day you stop reacting to my bullshit is the day I feel like I've lost you, even if I'm creating a problem just so we can argue about it.

  Tyrese Gibson

  Men, Creating, Knowing

  "Ty Me Up, Ty Me Down". Interview with Andrew Goldman, www.elle.com. June 20, 2007.

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• We have to believe in ourselves more. It's all the same thing: We need to release the guilt. We need to forgive. We need to drop all the bullshit we were taught.

  Louise Hay

  Believe, Forgiving, Guilt

  Source: rayhemachandra.com

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• I'm just giving you some spiel, the ludicrous plot of a novel, a story I invented to touch your heart—one-third bullshit, one-third booze, and one-third genuine tenderness, you know the kind of thing.

  Antonio Lobo Antunes

  Heart, Giving, Plot

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• The vast majority of all consequences, especially in 21st century America, are completely meaningless bullshit.

  Tucker Max

  America, Majority, Century

  Source: www.complex.com

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• Only a few of us will admit it, but actors will sometimes read a script like this: bullshit...bullshit...my part...blah, blah, blah...my part...bullshit.

  Michael J. Fox

  Actors, Scripts, Sometimes

  Michael J. Fox (2011). “Lucky Man: A Memoir”, p.35, Random House

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• They're so boring. They're so pathetic, all those journalists. Most of them are. Most of those kind that write gossip stuff, and most of it's gossip. Things are just invented about your personal life and you just have to take that. It's bullshit. People believe it, though. They just believe everything they read.

  Mick Jagger

  Believe, Writing, People

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• People think life is real complicated. Actually, there's nothing to it. Once you leave out all the bullshit they teach you in school, life gets really simple.

  George Carlin

  Real, School, Simple

  George Carlin (2015). “3 x Carlin: An Orgy of George including Brain Droppings, Napalm and Silly Putty, and When Will Jesus Bring the Pork Chops?”, p.176, Hachette UK

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• If you cannot come to the party, do not cancel at the last minute or give a message to a child to inform the host. And don't bother explaining why you can't attend because anything after 'because' is bullshit.

  Amy Sedaris

  Children, Party, Giving

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• He had then warned his daughter not to violate the Eleventh Commandment. "Which one is that?" I asked her. "Do not bullshit thy father," she said.

  Erich Segal

  Daughter, Father, Said

  Erich Segal (1970). “Love Story”

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• After fifty most of the bullshit is gone.

  Isabel Allende

  Gone, Fifty

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• A real good artist is basically a grown-up kid, who never kills the kid. What we call being an adult is basically about killing the kid. People think you have to forget about the kid to become an adult and deal with grown-up problems. But, that's bullshit. We are still kids. It's the same, you just grow up. You're a kid with more experience.

  Quentin Dupieux

  Growing Up, Real, Kids

  "Quentin Dupieux Talks WRONG COPS, Fast-Paced Shoots, and His Secret Project with Marilyn Manson". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. December 25, 2013.

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• All flights are fuelled with Leprechaun wee and my bullshit!

  Michael O'Leary

  Flight, Leprechaun

  "'The worst job in Ireland': Ryanair boss Michael O'Leary is looking for a new assistant" by James Callery, www.independent.co.uk. November 8, 2016.

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• Actors in general are pretty good bullshit artists; we're good at just chewing the fat, interacting with people. So we're good ambassadors for movies.

  John C. Reilly

  Artist, People, Actors

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• ...I've stopped wanting to do any work at all. All work is bullshit. Everyone knows that. No matter how many telephones and extensions, no matter how many secretaries, no matter how many names in the rolodex. It's all bullshit.

  Irena Klepfisz

  Work, Names, Matter

  Irena Klepfisz (1982). “Keeper of accounts”

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• The idea that America exists in a culture of violence is bullshit. What America exists in is a culture of Kardashian.

  Stephen King

  Ideas, America, Culture

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• I started writing because it was about making my friends laugh, and when you're talking to your friends, you can't bullshit.

  Tucker Max

  Writing, Talking, Laughing

  Source: www.complex.com

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• By the way, two wars are in an endless state of sorrow. Egypt about burned to the ground and all you people care about is my bullshit... Pathetic. Shame, shame shame

  Charlie Sheen

  War, Egypt, Two

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• I see the audience as the final collaborator. I think it's kind of bullshit when people say, "I'm not interested in the audience reaction." I'm like, "Then why do you do theater? You can write a book, then you don't have to see how the audience reacts." It's a living, breathing thing.

  Lynn Nottage

  Book, Writing, Thinking

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I have done enough bullshit lately, I just have to make time for something better. Something good.

  Stefan Sagmeister

  Done, Making Time, Enough

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• Being a man is bullshit; maybe trying to be a man had been the problem all along. At a certain point you just have to trust someone. Even if it’s only yourself.

  Bennett Madison

  Men, Trying, Problem

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• My disinterest in your bullshit is so tangible you could make bricks out of it

  Scott Lynch

  Tangible, Bricks, Disinterest

  Scott Lynch (2015). “The Gentleman Bastard Series 3-Book Bundle: The Lies of Locke Lamora, Red Seas Under Red Skies, The Republic of Thieves”, p.1999, Del Rey

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• I don't know that I'm post-anything. I'd like to think maybe I'm post-bullshit.

  Baratunde Thurston

  Thinking, Posts, Knows

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

  George Saunders

  Mean, Language

  George Saunders (2012). “The Brain-Dead Megaphone”, p.63, A&C Black

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