Quadrillions Miles Quotes & Sayings

What's really amusing is that you see - when you look at everybody's statements that - on both sides of the aisle, they've talked out of both sides of their mouth, depending on who's in power and who's not. — Nina Totenberg

At a long meeting a man next to me, British I hope, said, "Man, I'd kill for a fag about now" I chuckled when everyone moved away from him but me.
"Why did everyone do that?"
"They say that smoking can kill, and they're just being cautious"
"What about that fellow there smiling at me?"
"Don't know, maybe he's a chain smoker ... — Neil Leckman

The fact that no one was dead persuaded him that he was on the right track — John Verdon

Nice' in a bodyguard is about as useful as the ability to regurgitate whole lobsters. — Neil Gaiman

Love, Ada thought out on the lake that first spring afternoon, is largely a matter of paying attention and good timing. — Alice Randall

It took Read some twenty years of searching to nail the matter down, but thanks to his efforts we now know that OK first appeared in print in the Boston Morning Post on 23 March 1839, as a jocular abbreviation for 'Oll Korrect'. At — Bill Bryson

There is no justice, there is no rational structure to it [life]. That is just the way it is, and each person figures out some way to cope with it ... — Woody Allen

War is often described as a law of nature-this is not true: Among the lower animals, war is unknown. — Aldous Huxley

It is not enough to profess faith in the democratic process; we must do something about it. — Ella T. Grasso

I wish to propose for the reader's favourable consideration a doctrine which may, I fear, appear wildly paradoxical and subversive. The doctrine in question is this: that it is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatever for supposing it true. — Bertrand Russell

UTOPIA When the train stops, the woman said, you must get on it. But how will I know, the child asked, it is the right train? It will be the right train, said the woman, because it is the right time. A train approached the station; clouds of grayish smoke streamed from the chimney. How terrified I am, the child thinks, clutching the yellow tulips she will give to her grandmother. Her hair has been tightly braided to withstand the journey. Then, without a word, she gets on the train, from which a strange sound comes, not in a language like the one she speaks, something more like a moan or a cry. — Louise Gluck

The greater evil who is in-
When both in wayward paths are straying?
The poor sinner for the pain
Or he who pays for the sin? — Juana Ines De La Cruz

Abstinence, being faithful and correct and consistent condom use are the only ways to successfully reach everyone when discussing HIV prevention. I believe that the abstinence message alone does not solve the AIDS epidemic. — Ashley Judd

Mountain-climbing cars are built on a slant similar to the angle of a hat-brim of a man who doesn't want to be recognized. — F Scott Fitzgerald

I always wanted to get married with just candles! I think candlelight is the most beautiful light there is and there's something very spiritual about it. — Nicole Kidman