Grandstanding Quotes

“Controversy is a last resort for the talentless.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“I predict that there will be many more like him in the future,” she sighed. “People of privilege speaking heroically on behalf of those with whom they have no intention of mixing.”
― Kevin Ansbro, In the Shadow of Time

“Why do you take off your clothes in the winter
and then cover up in the summer?
Baring it all,
Grandstanding,
Not even one leaf,
You naked tree”
― Charmaine J. Forde

“Trying to be offensive for the sole purpose of being offensive should always deem one the least offensive of offenders.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“This is almost always the case: A piece of art receives its f(r)ame when found offensive.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“It is a harsh reality that some of the most important and respectable jobs which deserve high salaries might be better off with low salaries. A politician, or a minister, or a teacher is sure to be working sincerely and selflessly for the good of the people when through and through there is little monetary reward guaranteed. This is how the charlatans are weeded out of the field.”
― Criss Jami, Healology

“Purple prose attracts attention more than converts.”
― Jeffrey Toobin, The Nine: Inside the Secret World of the Supreme Court

“[H]e quoted eloquently from the Bill of Rights, the Constitution, the Gettysburg Address, and a section which had been stricken from his party's platform seventy-five years ago. He was not quite clear on what all this had to do with [the present situation], but it was noble and stirring and would bring in a lot of votes.”
― Mark Clifton, They'd Rather Be Right

“Each having thus delivered himself of words which meant nothing, both now seated themselves and proceeded to look mighty grave.”
― Emerson Hough, 54-40 or Fight

“Modern society doesn’t have a problem with treating the janitor the same as the CEO. We have a problem with our need to show the world that we treat the janitor the same as the CEO.”
― Cic Mellace