Unconvincing Quotes

His [Stephen Douglas] argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by boiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

People never believe you.

Platitude: an idea (a) that is admitted to be true by everyone, and (b) that is not true.

I saw Sadat as a character out of Aida. He talked a lot but never acted. I didn’t take him seriously.

Nobody has ever convinced me that ancient aliens have visited Earth. Not even close.

Several excuses are always less convincing than one.

I was forced to say, 'I will not censor the Internet.' But I was never convinced.

I presumed the president was being truthful until a series of events undercut that confidence.

I'm not very interesting. Birds are interesting. I could stand there lip-synching all day long, but it would feel funny, and people would be able to tell. I'm not a good actress.

Jimmy Kimmel still comes across like a guy who crashed a party and got caught at it, yet adamantly refuses to leave.

I change my mind a lot. I usually don't agree with what I say very much. I'm an awful liar.

I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.

I don't know - the whole leading man, I don't buy it.

Bad excuses are worse than none.

How unconvincing. Try again.

One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.

It’s not enough to be able to lie with a straight face; anybody with enough gall to raise on a busted flush can do that. The first way to lie artistically is to tell the truth — but not all of it. The second way involves telling the truth, too, but is harder: Tell the exact truth and maybe all of it…but tell it so unconvincingly that your listener is sure you are lying.

The commitment had disappeared, and although he still watched the imagined glory of stealing, she could see now he was not believing. He was trying to believe it, and that’s never a good sign.

Bad for the sake of bad is boring to me and not believable.

Being over-rehearsed is very bad. It is stilted. The public see that.

After a while, a joke, if you say it too much, just becomes contrived, or fake-sounding.

It's not charming to go on a show and say, I dunno. It doesn't fool anybody. There's nothing glamorous about it at all.

One thing I hate in movies is when the camera starts circling around the characters. I find that totally fake.

The truth often does sound unconvincing.

The argument holds no water at all, not even a thimbleful.