Insular Cases Quotes & Sayings

I didn't choose to be the guy who talks about the mundane - it's just who I am and it's what kind of works for me. — Jim Gaffigan

In no way do I want to draw attention to myself. — Scoot McNairy

Celebrity or no celebrity, I think a lot of females deal with the fear of being abducted. — Elisha Cuthbert

I'll now fall back a furlong or two in me chair, while me larned but misguided collagues r-read th' Histhry iv Iceland to show ye how wrong I am. But mind ye, what I 've said goes. I let thim talk because it exercises their throats, but ye 've heard all th' decision on this limon case that'll get into th' fourth reader.' A voice fr'm th' audjeence, ' Do I get me money back ? ' Brown J. : ' Who ar-re ye ? ' Th' Voice : ' Th' man that ownded th' limons.' Brown J. : ' I don't know.' (Gray J., White J., dissentin' an' th' r-rest iv th' birds concurrin' but fr entirely diff'rent reasons.) — Finley Peter Dunne

This common body, like to a vagabond flag upon the stream, goes to and back, lackeying the varying tide, to rot itself with motion — William Shakespeare

The road to victory goes through the belly of the beast — Bangambiki Habyarimana

There's a certain way you stand to give yourself authority, which gives you the texture for the part. I chose that my character hadn't been married, he'd worked his way up the chain of command. For a small cameo role, I gave it a lot of thought. — Mark Goddard

I was faced more with apathy than opposition. — Adrian Cronauer

If you would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart wide unto the body of life. — Kahlil Gibran

Where was the "exit" sign? Why did they make it so difficult to get out of shopping center parking lots? You'd done your shopping - they weren't going to get any more money out of you. What was their objective here? — Liane Moriarty

Many faculty retreated into academic specializations and an arcane language that made them irrelevant to the task of defending the university as a public good, except for in some cases a very small audience. This has become more and more clear in the last few years as academics have become so insular, often unwilling or unable to defend the university as a public good, in spite of the widespread attacks on academic freedom, the role of the university as a democratic public sphere, and the increasing reduction of knowledge to a saleable commodity, and students to customers. — Henry Giroux

I am troubled by the lack of common sense regarding carbon dioxide emissions. Our greatest greenhouse gas is water. Atmospheric spectroscopy reveals why water has a 95 percent and CO2 a 3.6 percent contribution to the 'greenhouse effect.' Carbon dioxide emissions worldwide each year total 3.2 billion tons. That equals about 0.0168 percent of the atmosphere's CO2 concentration of about 19 trillion tons. This results in a 0.00064 percent increase in the absorption of the sun's radiation. This is an insignificantly small number. — Michael Myers

Everything has its own time — Sunday Adelaja