Ginkgoes Plants Quotes & Sayings

George Washington ordered his Thai food on a laptop? Of course not. He called on the phone and dealt with the person who didn't speak English because he was a patriot. — Jim Gaffigan

It's astonishing what some women will put up with just to have a warm body. Some of the brightest women I know are just obsessed with that search. It's very sad. — Judith Rossner

Flailing and thrashing, Buttercup wept and tossed and paced and wept some more, and there have been three great cases of jealousy since David of Galilee was first afflicted with the emotion when he could no longer stand the fact that his neighbor Saul's cactus outshone his own. (Originally, jealousy pertained solely to plants, other people's cactus or ginkgoes, or, later, when there was grass, grass, which is why, even to this day, we say that someone is green with jealousy.) Buttercup's case rated a close fourth on the all-time list.
It was a very long and very green night. — William Goldman

There is a relative order to the fossilized species of plants found in the geologic record for which Flood Geology cannot account, unless you can imagine apple and orange trees with Nike sneakers on their roots, racing past the magnolias and primitive mammals, leaving the ginkgoes back there with the dinosaurs when the Flood waters began to rise. — Frank Zindler

It's been interesting how kids have had hardly any problems watching it, but adults have more trouble. This happened way back even with Jabberwocky and Time Bandits. — Terry Gilliam

The day I arrived in Yakutsk with my colleague Peter Osnos of The Washington Post, it was 46 below. When our plane landed, the door was frozen solidly shut, and it took about half an hour for a powerful hot-air blower- standard equipment at Siberian airports- to break the icy seal. Stepping outside was like stepping onto another planet, for at those low temperatures nothing seems quite normal. The air burns. Sounds are brittle. Every breath hovers in a strangle slow-motion cloud, adding to the mist of ice that pervades the city and blurs the sun. When the breath freezes into ice dust and falls almost silently to the ground, Siberians call it the whisper of stars. — David K. Shipler

Send me all the advice you like. I'll use as much as I can. — Louisa May Alcott

We judge people until we finally find something wrong with them. — John Bailey

Before we understand science, it is natural to believe that God created the universe. — Stephen Hawking

Athletes that can't listen, can condition. — Chuck Daly

Christ died for men precisely because men are not worth dying for; to make them worth it. — C.S. Lewis

CHINA'S AMBIGUOUS ROLE — Harsh V. Pant

Why dost thou complain of this world? It detains thee not; thy own cowardice is the cause, if thou livest in pain. — Michel De Montaigne

He became fubar in the classic way, which is to say that he was the victim of a temporary arrangement that became permanent. — Kurt Vonnegut

Covetous ambition, thinking all too little which presently it hath, supposeth itself to stand in need of that which it hath not. — Walter Raleigh

I think that, given a real choice, people would like to hear something interesting, not something bland and right down the middle. — David Sanborn