Dubious quotes
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An excellent job with a dubious undertaking, which is like saying it would be great if it wasn't awful.
-- Ada Louise Huxtable -
In the face of evil, detachment is a dubious virtue.
-- Barbara Grizzuti Harrison -
Most bloggers have no institutional credibility, and so they must build it, by linking transparently, and allowing you to easily double check their work. But more than anything, because linking sources is such an easy thing to do, and the motivations for avoiding links are so dubious, I've detected myself using a new rule of thumb: if you don't link to primary sources, I just don't trust you.
-- Ben Goldacre -
The honors Hollywood has for the writer are as dubious as tissue-paper cuff links.
-- Ben Hecht -
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Jesse [James]was known as a kind of Robin Hood character and also it was known that his exploits were somewhat dubious - however, he perpetuated this myth. Our film [The Assassination of Jesse James ] really takes place at the end of all that, the last year of his life, at the end of all that celebrity.
-- Brad Pitt -
This is why I believe that many of our current eschatologies, intoxicated by dubious interpretations of John’s Apocalypse are not only ignorant and wrong, but dangerous and immoral.
-- Brian D. McLaren -
When our governments want to sell us a course of action, they do it by making sure it's the only thing on the agenda, the only thing everyone's talking about. And they pre-load the ensuing discussion with highly selected images, devious and prejudicial language, dubious linkages, weak or false 'intelligence' and selected 'leaks.'
-- Brian Eno -
I consider the concept of a global mean temperature to be somewhat dubious. A single number cannot adequately capture climate c hange. This number, as I see it, is aimed mostly at politicians and journalists.
-- Craig F. Bohren -
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That first week, I also went to Washington. That was really tough. I sympathize with those Washington figures who have to face 40 Times Washington bureau reporters. They ask hard questions and they're relentless. And they were quite suspicious and quite dubious about me.
-- Daniel Okrent -
Computer models of the climate....[are] a very dubious business if you don't have good inputs.
-- Freeman Dyson -
I kissed her," he explained, aggrieved. "Mmm, yes, I had the dubious pleasure of witnessing that, ah-hem, overly public occurrence." Lyall sharpened his pen nib, using a small copper blade that ejected from the end of his glassicals. "Well! Why hasn't she done anything about it?" the Alpha wanted to know. "You mean like whack you upside the noggin with that deadly parasol of hers? I would be cautious in that area if I were you.
-- Gail Carriger -
Heroes only come in three kinds:dead, damaged or dubious.
-- Gregory David Roberts -
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I will no longer allow my obligation as a veteran to remember those who died in the great wars to be co-opted by current or former politicians to justify our folly in Iraq, our morally dubious war on terror and our elimination of one's right to privacy.
-- Harry Leslie Smith -
It should seem that Negroes, of all Americans, would be found in the Free-thought fold, since they have suffered more than any other class of Americans from the dubious blessings of Christianity.
-- Hubert Harrison -
My response, a dubious and hesitant one, is that it has been and may continue to be, in the time that is left to me, more productive to live out the question than to try to answer it in abstract terms.
-- J. M. Coetzee -
To me, nothing in the art world is neutral. The idea of 'disinterest' strikes me as boring, dishonest, dubious, and uninteresting.
-- Jerry Saltz -
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I was dubious about the effects of the Alexander Technique when I first went in to experience it, but I found out almost immediately that the benefits were total - both physically and mentally - and, happily, have also been long-lasting.
-- Joanne Woodward -
Never again should Ghanaians have to resort to dubious means to get to, or live in, foreign lands, simply to make a living.
-- John Kufuor -
You've had an extremely weak euro on the foreign exchange markets, you've had a very dubious policy being followed.
-- John Major -
One can forget the meaninglessness of his own existence by occupying himself with scientific experiments of dubious import. Countless scientists and scholars spend their lives in the search of truths that are irrelevant to them.
-- John Silber -
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Beauty, therefore, for the modern and postmodern artist has become a highly dubious metaphor for a discredited belief system.
-- John Walford -
Most Americans acquire dogs impulsively and for dubious reasons: as a Christmas gift for the kids. Because they saw one in a movie. To match the new living-room furniture. Because they moved to the suburbs and see a dog as part of the package.
-- Jon Katz -
The assumption that rigidly rejecting words and phrases that have existed for centuries will have much impact on public attitudes is rather dubious.
-- Kay Redfield Jamison -
How far the existence of the Academy has influenced French literature, either for good or for evil, is an extremely dubious question.
-- Lytton Strachey -
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I myself am convinced that the theory of evolution, especially to the extent to which it has been applied, will be one of the greatest jokes in the history books of the future. Posterity will marvel that so very flimsy and dubious an hypothesis could be accepted with the incredible credulity it has.
-- Malcolm Muggeridge -
The dubious privilege of a freelance writer is he’s given the freedom to starve anywhere.
-- S. J. Perelman -
[On entering the restaurant business:] Food has the dubious advantage of being legitimate, and one's customers somehow manage to live longer without sex than food, if you call that living.
-- Sally Stanford -
The diversity of India cannot thrive on facile attempts to create the homogeneous category of "Indian." Nor can it thrive on dubious attempts to gloss over xenophobic provincialism or a highly culpable state-sponsored marginalization of a minority community.
-- Nyla Ali Khan -
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It presents a really compelling case against the whole theory of anthropogenic global warming. From my point of view, it is a theory that has completely corrupted public policy making in most of the developed world. It confronts all the dubious claims that the warmists have put out there.
-- Nick Minchin -
I'm very suspicious of the idea of a "final theory" in natural science, and the thought of a complete system of ethical rules seems even more dubious.
-- Philip Kitcher -
I adore [photography's] uneasy mix of fact and fiction - its dubious claim to truth - its status as history.
-- Eleanor Antin -
Despite the dubious statistics … democracy is a thing of value for which we should be fighting.
-- Rory Stewart -
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I’m saying language is a passport. A dubious, dangerous passport too.
-- Xiaolu Guo
