Rattlesnakes Bite Quotes & Sayings

Our most important thoughts are those that contradict our emotions. — Paul Valery

I started writing when I was about 20, 21 maybe. — Neil Gaiman

Speculators are obsessed with predicting: guessing the direction of stock prices. Every morning on cable television, every afternoon on the stock market report, every weekend in Barron's, every week in dozens of market newsletters, and whenever business people get together. In reality, no one knows what the market will do; trying to predict it is a waste of time, and investing based upon that prediction is a purely speculative undertaking. — Seth Klarman

Robinson Crusoe, the self-sufficient man, could not have lived in New York city. — Walter Lippmann

We often miss that our "righteous acts" are "filthy" before God. Not just our bad days, but our extremely good days too! — Jefferson Bethke

Now, part of the problem with the climate debate is that so much gas board language like that [the IPCC's language] has been used and there's been too little plain, scientific, and economic thinking. And so, the entire political class has been captured by an idea, which as always with the best bad ideas has a grain of truth in it, which is then exaggerated beyond all reason. This has happened before - one thinks of the Dreyfus case, for instance. — Christopher Monckton, 3rd Viscount Monckton Of Brenchley

Use your faults, use your defects; then you're going to be a star. — Edith Piaf

You're not exempt from math if you're a Republican, and you're not exempt from math if you're a Democrat. You're not exempt from math if you're a liberal, and you're not exempt from math if you're a conservative. You still have to do math. — Dave Ramsey

The unendurable is the beginning of the curve of joy. — Djuna Barnes

For more than 50 years, men and women around the world have reported sights in the sky that are strange to their experience and understanding. Inasmuch as many of these sights appeared to be solid objects having impressive performance, they have become known as Unidentified Flying Objects (UFOs) or, colloquially, flying saucers. Their positive identification is one of the major public scientific challenges of the era, with a significant number of these sights so far defying all reasonable efforts at classification. — Don Berliner

Thousands of grasshoppers were jumping everywhere; I felt like I was walking through popping popcorn. These critters made me conscious of my surroundings, since many snakes eat grasshoppers. When it comes to rattlesnakes and copperheads, the locals there have a saying that the "Third person gets bit." The theory is: the first person gets the snake's attention, the second person gets the snake aggravated, and the third person gets bit. There were only two of us, but I didn't feel like testing the theory. — Dennis R. Blanchard