Acceptable Quotes

I am not opposed to the limited use of polygraphs in a case where a person is suspected of wrongdoing. But widespread use of the polygraph as a screening tool goes far beyond what is acceptable.

A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.

Writing is a socially acceptable form of schizophrenia.

We're the acceptable edge of the unacceptable stuff.

I find it difficult to judge myself, but people say that I have become a bit more socially acceptable over the years in terms of my material; which apparently at the beginning - though I never really intended it to be - was man hating and now is just a bit more cuddly.

I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.

The argument that the two parties should represent opposed ideals and policies, one, perhaps, of the Right and the other of the Left, is a foolish idea acceptable only to doctrinaire and academic thinkers.

It is no longer acceptable in British politics to be fat or eccentric or religious.

A poet or prose narrator usually looks back on what he has achieved against a backdrop of the years that have passed, generally finding that some of these achievements are acceptable, while others are less so.