“Green politics at its worst amounts to a sort of Zen fascism; less extreme, it denounces growth and seeks to stop the world so that we can all get off.” WorldGrowthWorstAmountGreenExtremesFascismConservation Author:Chris Patten
“The American doctrinaire is the converse of the American demagogue, and, in this way, is scarcely less injurious to the public. The first deals in poetry, the last in cant. He is as much a visionary on one side, as the extreme theoretical democrat is a visionary on the other.” WayFirstsLastsSidesDealsPrinciplesDemocratExtremesCantTheoreticalVisionariesConverses Author:James F. Cooper
“I have a chemical imbalance that, in its most extreme state, will lead me to a mental hospital.” StatesExtremesHospitalsChemicalsLeading MeImbalance Author:Carrie Fisher
“What is passion? It is surely the becoming of a person. Are we not, for most of our lives, marking time? Most of our being is at rest, unlived. In passion, the body and the spirit seek expression outside of self. Passion is all that is other from self. Sex is only interesting when it releases passion. The more extreme and the more expressed that passion is, the more unbearable does life seem without it. It reminds us that if passion dies or is denied, we are partly dead and that soon, come what may, we will be wholly so.” IfsMayPersonsDoeSelfBodySeemsSpiritDiesPassionSexInterestingOur LivesExpressionBecomingExtremesReleaseDeniedUnbearableMarking Time Author:John Boorman
“My experience is that if the military didn't want to use force and was confronted with a president that did, the military would come back with what I would call the 'bomb Moscow' scenario. They would say it had to be done with conditions that were so extreme, you obviously wouldn't do it.” IfsWantDoneUseForcePresidentConditionsMilitaryExtremesBombsScenariosMoscow Author:George P. Shultz
“Maybe it's true that people with less extreme views who are also interested in public affairs have been driven out by a marketplace that doesn't offer them anything of the tone they want to listen to.” PeopleWantHas BeensViewsOffersAffairExtremesDrivenToneMarketplacePublic Affairs Author:David Frum
“The activists will not stop in trying to impose their extreme views on the rest of us, and they have now plotted out a state-by-state strategy to increase the number of judicial decisions redefining marriage without the voice of the people being heard.” PeopleTryingStatesVoiceDecisionViewsNumbersHeardIncreaseStrategyExtremesActivistJudicialRedefining Author:Jim Bunning
“That was certainly true the first time, when I did Body Heat, the first movie that I directed. I was looking for a vessel to tell a certain kind of story, and I was a huge fan of Film Noir, and what I liked about it was that it was so extreme in style.” FirstsKindStoriesBodyFilmCertainFansStyleHugeFirst TimeExtremesHeatVesselNoirFilm NoirBody Heat Author:Lawrence Kasdan
“When I was a barber, me being extreme was how I got popular: you name it, I was drawing it on someone's head.” NamesExtremesDrawingBarbers Author:Swizz Beatz
“I like to push characters to extremes so they have to make really tough decisions and there is no life more extreme than that of an athlete.” CharacterDecisionToughAthleteExtremesTough DecisionsTwo ExtremesMaking Tough Decisions Author:Chris Cleave
“On land, you can walk away from people, from unpleasant situations. But when you're on a ship for 14 months with 49 other people, if you don't resolve your issues it literally could mean - and this would be an extreme circumstance - the sinking of the ship. You learn a lot about other people. You learn a lot about yourself.” PeopleIfsMeanWould BeWalksSituationIssuesLandMonthsCircumstancesExtremesShipsResolveAbout YourselfSinking Author:Billy Campbell
“I wasn't rebellious. Other friends had far stricter parents and where there wasn't a relationship of respect and communication, they were usually the opposite; kids go to the other extreme.” KidsParentCommunicationOppositesExtremesRebellious Author:Randa Abdel-Fattah
“You have Extreme and Van Halen and the history that I have with other people I played with. There are some effects that will hopefully break that stereotype.” PeopleBreakEffectsExtremesHopefullyStereotypeVansVan Halen Author:Gary Cherone
“Fighting is very physical and extreme and you're very vulnerable. It's a very mental type of thing.” FightingTypeExtremesVulnerable Author:Gina Carano
“The ultimate first date? Something that is completely out of the ordinary - go crazy, because first dates are always a little awkward, so do something a little extreme.” FirstsLittlesCrazyOrdinaryUltimateExtremesAwkwardFirst Date Author:Gina Carano
“The weather records of the U.S.A. are the best kept and most accessible in the world, thanks to consistent government/military taxpayer support. There are longer European data sets, but the U.S.A. data is enough to forecast major extreme events.” WorldEnoughGovernmentSupportRecordsMilitaryEventsMajorsExtremesWeatherThanksDataConsistentTaxpayersForecasts Author:Piers Corbyn
“I'm with Milton and the Rolling Stones: I don't find the Devil an unsympathetic character. But in any case, my fiction is populated as much by people who do good as it is by those who do bad. I'm interested in imaginatively accommodating as much of the human as possible, for which you need both moral extremes and everything in between.” PeopleNeedsHumansCharacterFictionMoralCasesDevilStonesExtremesRollingRolling StonesMiltonUnsympathetic Author:Glen Duncan
“When you write on your own, you can write the extremes. No one else is watching and you can really go as far as you need to.” NeedsWritingExtremes Author:Kiran Desai
“Pubescent girls, it seems, are manifestly more likely to exhibit extreme and bizarre psychological symptoms than are teenage boys.” SeemsGirlBoysExtremesPsychologicalTeenageSymptomsBizarreExhibits Author:Caitlin Flanagan
“Twilight' has a supernatural reference to it with werewolves and vampires. 'Harry Potter' has magic. 'The Hunger Games' is about real people put into extreme situations and circumstances.” PeopleRealGamesSituationMagicCircumstancesHungerExtremesVampireTwilightHarry PotterPottersWerewolf Author:Isabelle Fuhrman
“My parents were extreme left so everything was against the system. I was walking barefoot in the streets of Paris when I was eight. When I started to DJ they hated it, because for them, nightclubs, and all of this life, was terrible and fake.” LeftParentStreetsTerribleWalkingExtremesEightThis LifeHatedParisFakeDjsBarefootNightclubsStreets Of ParisWalking Barefoot Author:David Guetta
“I tried to take heavy metal... and balled it up and chopped it in half and really tried to create a new form of energy. I really tried to re-shape extreme music as I see it through my eyes.” EyeFormEnergyHalfShapesHeavyExtremesMetalsHeavy MetalThrough My EyesHeavy Music Author:Phil Anselmo
“To do an extreme metal record is something that is well within my capacity as a musician to write stuff out of the box, write stuff that's probably more extreme than the band I'm in at the present time, and it's something that needs to come out of me one way or another.” WayNeedsWritingWellsStuffRecordsBandMusicianCapacityBoxesExtremesOne WayMetalsPresent Time Author:Phil Anselmo
“I fell in love at 14 and I remember that mad, tense feeling and all the mad things you do for the person - all those extremes and all the stuff you don't mind putting up with.” MindPersonsFeelingsRememberStuffMadExtremesTense Author:Douglas Booth
“In the past Berlin was much more radical and extreme and now it's becoming much more of a conventional European city.” PastCitiesBecomingExtremesRadicalConventionalBerlin Author:Olafur Eliasson
“Sometimes I just like the feeling of being a minority and seeing how far you can push yourself in extreme circumstances.” SometimesFeelingsSeeingCircumstancesExtremesMinoritiesPush Yourself Author:Tom Freston
“Yin and Yang control man's actions, and both extremes are a natural reaction.” MenActionReligionNaturalReligiousExtremesReactionsYangYin And Yang Author:Ray Davies
“You have to list all your special skills on a form when you get an agent. There's fencing, stage combat, horse riding, motorbike riding, Spanish, French, German, whatever. I just ticked everything. I talk about 10 languages according to that form. I even ticked the extreme sports box.” FormLanguageSportsSpecialStageSkillsHorseBoxesExtremesListsAgentsCombatRidingFencingHorse RidingExtreme SportsMotorbike Author:Isla Fisher
“I love being physical, but I am extreme either way. I can be superfit. And then I can be really lazy and ignore everything.” WayI CanLove IsExtremesLazy Author:Lena Headey
“There is a split between Muslims who want to practice their faith in peace and tolerance with other religions and other people, and these extreme, radical fundamentalists who have shown a total lack of tolerance for people with different views, starting with people who they don't think are good Muslims, and going on to include Christians and Jews.” PeopleThinkingWantDifferentChristianViewsPracticeStartingJewExtremesToleranceRadicalSplitsDifferent ViewsPeace And Tolerance Author:Richard Holbrooke
“There is a lot of extreme emotion in Korean film. It's because there are a lot of extremes in Korean society.” FilmEmotionExtremesKorean Author:Bong Joon-ho
“Most people call my style of dress slovenly, I call it extreme casual. If I didn't have a mother and a sister for the times I do have to get dressed, I would be absolutely lost.” PeopleIfsWould BeMotherLostStyleDressesExtremesCasual Author:Joshua Jackson
“On the broad spectrum of solitude, I lean toward the extreme end: I work alone, as well as live alone, so I can pass an entire day without uttering so much as a hello to another human being. Sometimes a day's conversation consists of only five words, uttered at the local Starbucks: 'Large coffee with milk, please.” HumansWellsI CanEndsSometimesHuman BeingsFivePleaseSolitudeConversationExtremesCoffeeLocalsBroadsMilkHelloSpectrumStarbucks Author:Caroline Knapp
“My dad thinks Obama is a socialist and all these extreme views.” ThinkingViewsDadMy DadExtremesSocialist Author:Jonathan Krohn