Travesty Quotes - Page 2

• You talk about the Pro-Life movement being one of the great shames of our nation. I think, if you want number two, I think - I think it's that. I think it's absolute - it's a travesty that people have forced someone who is gay to make their case that they deserve the same basic rights.

  Jon Stewart

  Gay, Thinking, Rights

  "The Daily Show", conversation with Mike Huckabee, December 9, 2008.

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• If I put myself on the ballot and even 50 people voted for me, it'd be a travesty.

  Al Franken

  People, Ballots, Ifs

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• I always said that in a country where a legislature, its sessions limited by statute, could alter reality by turning back the clock (I actually saw this done, once, with a long pole pushing on the hour hand), any travesty was possible. I see nothing lately to prove me wrong.

  L. Neil Smith

  Country, Reality, Hands

  "The Pot and the Kettle". The Libertarian Enterprise, www.ncc-1776.org. March 21, 2010.

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• In which year did a Harvard sculler last outrow an Oxford man at Henley?" Langdon had no idea, but he could imagine only one reason the question had been asked. "Surely such a travesty has never occurred.

  Dan Brown

  Men, Years, Oxford

  Dan Brown (2004). “The Da Vinci Code”, Doubleday Books

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• We even talked like Hemingway characters, though in travesty, as if to deny our discipleship: That is your bed, and it is a good bed, and you must make it and you must make it well. Or: Today is the day of the meatloaf. The meatloaf is swell. It is swell but when it is gone the not-having meatloaf will be tragic and the meatloaf man will not come anymore.

  Tobias Wolff

  Character, Men, Today Is The Day

  Tobias Wolff (2004). “Old School”, p.14, Vintage

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• Every time Bush talks about trust it makes chills run up and down my spine. The way he has trampled on the truth is a travesty of the American political system.

  William J. Clinton

  Running, America, Political

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• I want to deal with the homeless situation here in Washington, D.C. I think it is a travesty that we've got men - and increasingly women - families, across the street and the in shadow of this great capital, that shows a lack of concern, not just for the capital, but for American, when we are allowing something like that to happen.

  Barack Obama

  Men, Thinking, Shadow

  Source: www.politico.com

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• C++ is a ridiculously complicated travesty that few have the excess IQ points to understand enough not to screw up massively.

  Tom Christiansen

  Screw Ups, Excess, Computer

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• Not only does a lens distort forms, but the ordinary plate makes an unholy mess of colour in its tone relations. Yellow becomes black, and blue white. Black sunflowers against a white sky - what a travesty!

  Walter J. Phillips

  Photography, Blue, Sky

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• That's what goalkeeping is all about. It's really having nothing to do at times, and then having to make sure you are concentrating and ready to make the save when called upon. Going in 1-0 down would have been a travesty.

  Kasey Keller

  Ready, Has Beens, Concentrating

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• Funeral expenses are the curse of the poor everywhere on earth, they are wasteful and unnecessary, they are the price of foolish ostentation and a display that is less an evidence of grief than a vulgar travesty of those pompous obsequies where no grief is.

  Joyce Cary

  Grief, Funeral, Earth

  Joyce Cary (1985). “Except the Lord”, p.39, New Directions Publishing

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• The more alone I am, the more focused I can get. I've written things with people, some of which I liked and others I think are total travesties. Collaborating is trying to make a piece of music and get someone else to come up with the ideas. What's the fun of that?

  Alex Chilton

  Fun, Thinking, Ideas

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• To compare Whitewater to Watergate is a travesty.

  Dee Dee Myers

  Compare, Watergate

  "Dee Dee Myers : Press Secretary to an Administration Full of Talkers". Interview with Thomas B. Rosenstiel, articles.latimes.com. March 20, 1994.

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• To equate a corporation with a person is a travesty of justice.

  Madeleine M. Kunin

  Justice, Corporations, Persons

  "The Supreme Court and Corporate Electioneering" by Madeleine M. Kunin, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 28, 2010.

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  But what I didnt want to have happen, and I made this clear to Jeremy (Florida AD), if I am able to go coach, I want to coach at one place, the University of Florida. It would be a travesty, it would be ridiculous to all of a sudden come back and get the feeling back, get the health back, feel good again and then all of a sudden go throw some other colors on my shirt and go coach? I dont want to do that. I have too much love for this University and these players and for what weve built.

  Urban Meyer

  Player, Florida, Color

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