Bucolic In A Sentence Quotes & Sayings

We have by far the most expensive health system in the world. We spend 50 percent more per person than the next most costly nation. Americans spend more on health care than housing or food. — Kathleen Sebelius

So what he supposed to do? Grab Bobbie's ax and make like Jack Nicholson in The Shinning? He could see it. Smash, crash, bash: Heeeeeeere's GARDENER! — Stephen King

(T)he cadet was too young to believe in death after life. — Lois McMaster Bujold

Have you ever wondered whether there could be a different, more positive script in which the one who feels well survives? — Vadim Zeland

Meet me at a place where the sun is silent. — Shawn Milke

Few women are dumb enough to listen to reason. — William Feather

Ask anyone on Social Security if their check comes on time every month. Like clockwork. And it comes through the so-called dilapidated U.S. mail. My dad's check literally will come on the same day every month. The government has been quite good and efficient at creating a number of systems. — Michael Moore

In those days the worst vice in England was pride, I guess - the worst vice of all, because folks thought it was a virtue. — Carol Ryrie Brink

Sometimes it was like Neil was from an alien planet, where people never asked for or shared anything emotional without deeply apologizing first. He assured me that he was simply British. And that we Americans, with all of our loud oversharing and need for random hugs and free admissions to people we've just met of deep, traumatic childhood wounds looks just as alien to them. — Amanda Palmer

I don't even know who that person was in the '80s. I see pictures of myself from back then and I don't even recognize myself. — Scott Ian

NOTE FOR YOUNG PEOPLE AND AMERICANS: One shilling = Five Pee. It helps to understand the antique finances of the Witchfinder Army if you know the original British monetary system:

Two farthings = One Ha'penny. Two ha'pennies = One Penny. Three pennies = A Thrupenny Bit. Two Thrupences = A Sixpence. Two Sixpences = One Shilling, or Bob. Two Bob = A Florin. One Florin and One Sixpence = Half a Crown. Four Half Crowns = Ten Bob Note. Two Ten Bob Notes = One Pound (or 240 pennies). Once Pound and One Shilling = One Guinea.

The British resisted decimalized currency for a long time because they thought it was too complicated. — Neil Gaiman

I shouldn't do this, Slaughter," Tom hollered down, aiming the shotgun. "But I'm going to give you one final chance to be brought in alive. I don't want to deprive the citizens of Cimarron City of the pleasure of seeing you dance in the air! — C.G. Faulkner

When I'm playing comedy, it is such a crap shoot of what will work and what won't. — Elaine Stritch

Rise early, that by habit it may become familiar, agreeable, healthy, and profitable. — George Washington