Tirador English Quotes & Sayings

In 1999 the National Research Council concluded that 'the total exposure to naturally occurring carcinogens exceeds the exposure to synthetic carcinogens.'...
The point was that even if organics were pesticide-free, the gain wouldn't make up for the downside of organic food: It's more likely to be infested with bacteria because it's grown in 'natural' fertilizer. Natural fertilizer is the health food business's euphemism for cow manure. (The much-criticized 'nonorganic' produce is grown in nitrogen fertilizers. Although organics advocates sneer at the chemicals, 'chemical' nitrogen is perfectly healthy; air is 78 percent nitrogen, after all. We have a choice between foods grown in nitrogen taken from the air, and 'organic' food grown in cow manure.) — John Stossel

And I urge upon you this - which I think is wisdom - if you find you can't make seventy by any but an uncomfortable road, don't you go. — Mark Twain

Before I joined the BBC I was, like most of the intelligentsia, prejudiced not only against that institution but against broadcasting in general. — Louis MacNeice

Any person can achieve greatness if they understand the philosophy of success and the steps required to achieve it. — Andrew Carnegie

~:.*.:~~:.*.:~May the magic always brighten your world~:.*.:~~:.*.:~
— Sheri L. McGathy

My mom says I either have to go to college or go into the military. — Camren Bicondova

I still love to love my friends, but I punctuate those moments with solitude. — Stephanie Klein

The world was full of such madmen in those days. Imprisonment is not the way to deal with such people; half measures merely feed their pride. Leave 'em alone or hang 'em, in my opinion. Or better still, pack them off to the Americas, and let them starve. — Iain Pears

When Weary was ditched, he would find somebody who was even more unpopular than himself, and he would horse around with that person for a while, pretending to be friendly. And then he would find some pretext for beating the shit out of him. It was a pattern. It was a crazy, sexy, murderous relationship Weary entered into with people he eventually beat up. — Kurt Vonnegut

Las Vegas is the expression, in glitter and concrete, of America's brittle and mutating id. — John Burdett

I'm at peace, at last. I fear nothing. I yearn for nothing. I suppose you could call that happiness — Jose Eduardo Agualusa

Could one count such dilettantes and old spinsters as that mawkish apostle of virginity, Mainlander, as a genuine German? In the last analysis he probably was a Jew (all Jews become mawkish when they moralize). — Friedrich Nietzsche

I haven't been right all year. I guess, you know, when you don't feel good, and you still get hits, that's when you know you are a bad man. — Manny Ramirez