Top 535 Extreme Quotes

If I’m going to do anything extreme, I want it to have consequences.

I was an extreme tomboy. I did competitive gymnastics for over 10 years. I cut my hair like Winona Ryder, with that little pixie cut.

When I went to Australia, I went shark diving. It was crazy. It was called ‘extreme’ shark diving because even though we were in cages, we literally could touch the sharks swimming by. They were huge and I’m terrified of sharks. Then I went to a wildlife park and held kangaroos. That was nice.

I’m a little more extreme than a homebody. Unless there’s some event I really have to go to, I don’t like to leave my house.

I think that being raised the way I was, where everything was so uncompromising, where, you know, we’re prepared to fight to the death for the soil that you believed belonged to you – that kind of extreme engagement is very difficult to flush out of your system – or your belief system, anyway.

Permanent bonds of culture began to be formed between the extreme East and the extreme West of Europe by intermarriage, by commerce, by the admission of the nobles of Byzantium within the orders of chivalry.

Blockchain infiltration will be met with resistance because it is an extreme change.

I remember when that Kelis song ‘Milkshake’ came out, and just how extreme it seemed in terms of that really high triangle part and then the really low subs and then her voice in the middle.

I became the master of playing the straight bat – I would go to bars with the boys, I would always be the one to start a fight, to be outrageous and drink the most. I even went to the extreme of marrying the perfect woman for me.

ICG became a dot-com joke, a one-stock example of extreme hubris on the part of its management and the investment bankers and sell-side analysts who embarrassed themselves by pumping it up.

If we wait until income inequality is much more severe, we will have a whole class of new superrich who will probably feel entitled to their wealth and will have the means to defend their interest. That’s already gone far enough. We shouldn’t let it become more extreme.

A lot of queer relationships on television and in films are met with extreme tragedy.

I like to sing covers of songs that are at the extreme ends from what I usually listen to.

Heroism often results as a response to extreme events.

The difference between rich and poor is becoming more extreme, and as income inequality widens the wealth gap in major nations, education, health and social mobility are all threatened.

Paul Verhoeven is one of my favourite directors. I love his ability to mash extreme violence with humour and satire.

Is stress always bad? No – if a stressor isn’t too extreme, is only transient, and occurs in what overall feels like a benevolent environment, it’s great, we love it – that’s what play and stimulation are.

To an extreme athlete, there’s a certain appeal to doing extreme things – seeking the most extreme physical challenges in some of the most extreme climates in the world. Testing and expanding the limits of human endurance is kind of my thing.

Being a Labour home secretary in the 21st century means fighting a constant battle against both extreme Right and Left.

While abolishing judgeships and lower federal courts is a blunt tool and one whose use is warranted only in the most extreme of circumstances… it is one of many possibilities to check and balance the judiciary.

We’ll engage in pretty extreme violence in the world but, you know, the one thing that comes to humans as easily as eating or breathing or sleeping, is sex.

Extreme poverty is extremely dangerous.

I didn’t play any extreme sports growing up. I never surfed, and I grew up in Santa Cruz. I was very good at doing what I was told, taking direction, and staying middle of the road. I mean, they called me ‘grandma’ in college.

I’ve had some wonderful successes and some extreme disappointments in my career and my life.

With marriage and fatherhood, I’ve finally found two fixed points in my life. They’ve taught me patience. They’ve also taught me that I don’t need to feel guilty about being happy. My emotional seasons are less extreme.

Surrealism – in particular with Salvador Dali – was all about ego. It was all about extreme individualism.

I think that being in an extreme natural setting, and letting the natural world and what it’s doing permeate your thoughts, is super-interesting and super-important.

When I go on stage and perform, I’m an extreme version of myself.

My guilty pleasure is I like to watch a lot of HGTV. I really like watching design shows about houses, like extreme homes. Like buying a bridge and turning it into a house or something like that. I really am interested in home design or something like that… architecture.

There are aspects of Westboro that are, of course, more extreme in the way that certain religious practices manifest. But the idea that the Bible is the infallible word of God, that it’s unquestionable – this is common.

Extreme sports tricks are becoming increasingly complex, the courses ever more challenging and crashes all too common.

I would categorize Die Antwoord as pop music: extreme, futuristic pop music.

I’d love to do a movie like ‘The Machinist.’ It’s an extreme movie but it takes you to a place that is quite impressive.

We can define the rules of police-citizen engagement, but everyday decisions will always be made by men and women in uniform, on the street, in the community, under extreme pressure, in a dangerous world where guns easily fall into the wrong hands.

Helping convene global stakeholders to establish a set of measurable, actionable and consensus-built goals focused on extreme poverty is invaluable.

The idea of the extreme makeover is disturbing.

Alternative therapists don’t kill many people, but they do make a great teaching tool for the basics of evidence-based medicine, because their efforts to distort science are so extreme.

I write for the people I grew up with. I took extreme pains for my book to not be a native informant. Not: ‘This is Dominican food. This is a Spanish word.’ I trust my readers, even non-Spanish ones.

My family believe you should never be flashy about anything. Maybe that handicapped me a little bit, that extreme humility.

The little town I was brought up in, I’d go to the film society to these very extreme sorts of films that you wouldn’t normally see in the movie houses. But I never dreamed that I would get into the position to be shooting movies equivalent to the ones I loved as a kid.

Within one’s own family, money is not the measure of things, unless the person is an absolute Scrooge. Only the most extreme kind of monster would put a price on everything.

Steve Fossett and I would share a common belief that it is possible and good to challenge yourself to the extreme.

For a successful entrepreneur it can mean extreme wealth. But with extreme wealth comes extreme responsibility. And the responsibility for me is to invest in creating new businesses, create jobs, employ people, and to put money aside to tackle issues where we can make a difference.

To my child’s eyes, which had seen nothing else, Shanghai was a waking dream where everything I could imagine had already been taken to its extreme.

Extreme multiculturalism… is not the way to build this country.

I looked over and saw this man on the extreme right aisle sort of galloping to the podium. He was tall, he was thin, and the way he was galloping it looked as though he was going someplace much more important than the podium.

PTSD occurs following a trauma that was so awful that in retrospect you don’t understand how you survived. What that causes is an extreme feeling of vulnerability that you get past but that doesn’t go away.

When I analyse the music, I can get really extreme.

I like dramatic ballets, particularly if they’re ballets in which I have a chance to go from one extreme of style or characterization to another.

Life is about balance. You don’t want to live out of whack over here or out of whack over here. I want to win and be well compensated, and I think there’s a balance to find. It doesn’t have to be one extreme or the other.

Red carpets are pretty unpredictable. You can go from one person asking you what you’re wearing to the next person asking you about the situation in Haiti. It’s the extreme juxtaposition, and some of the questions can throw me!

I know people socially who live in countries where the wealth gap is more extreme than it is in America, and they live with full-time security. They live with the threat of getting kidnapped, or they live with the threat of people invading their homes.

The Congo is so fun. The ideal body type coveted by women in the Congo is this extremely curvaceous body. They’re going through a number of extreme measures to get that kind of body form, and one of them is by using bouillon cubes.

So many want me to do another ‘Paruthiveeran’; others are fans of my ‘Siruthai’ avatar. Extreme expectations, but I have to strike a balance.

Whatever one thinks of the justifiability of drone attacks, it’s one of the least ‘brave’ or courageous modes of warfare ever invented. It’s one thing to call it just, but to pretend it’s ‘brave’ is Orwellian in the extreme.