Bret Boone Quotes & Sayings

It's spider season. Every year, right about now, thousands of the godless eight-legged bastards emerge from the bowels of hell (or the garden, whichever's nearest) with the sole intention of tormenting humankind. — Charlie Brooker

Oh, man! admire and model thyself after the whale! Do thou, too, remain warm among ice. Do thou, too, live in this world without being of it. — Herman Melville

When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street. — Paullina Simons

You can't tell what a man is like or what he is thinking when you are looking at him. You must get around behind him and see what he has been looking at. — Will Rogers

They'd stayed not because they wanted to be heroes, but because they chose to think of it as their job, and it was in front of them. — Terry Pratchett

Whenever someone says zygotes are babies, I reply: 'Imagine a thousand zygotes in test tubes in one room, and three toddlers in another. A fire breaks out, and you only have time to get to one room. Which would you save from burning - the zygotes or the children?' — Kurt Eichenwald

There are certain zip codes that generate a disproportionate share of patents, of startups, of wealth, of jobs. And it's really important if other parts of the country are going to want to create these tech centers. — Juan Enriquez

Perhaps ... some day the precision of the data will be brought so far that the mathematician will be able to calculate at his desk the outcome of any chemical combination, in the same way, so to speak, as he calculates the motions of celestial bodies. — Antoine Lavoisier

I have been up to my head just with calling people, I call about 50 to 100 people a day. — Richard Simmons

When skies are hanged and oceans drowned, the single secret will still be man. — E. E. Cummings

Part of the glamour of being a poet was always this long reach into the future. You knew you were managing time. — Eileen Myles

Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the profound - people such as my boring brother-in-law, a hearty type so concerned with normality and fitting in that he eliminates any possibility of uniqueness for himself and his own personality. I wonder if some day, when he is older, he will wake up and the deeper part of him will realize that he has never allowed himself to truly exist, and he will cry with regret and shame and grief. — Douglas Coupland

I was one of God's chosen few, no doubt about it. Not only being elected, but the joy and pleasure I derived from it. It was a wonderful life. — Edward Brooke

I once dated a weather girl, we talked up a storm. — Jay London

Even if jobless we should never be effortless. — Kenan Crnkic