Covered Quotes - Page 24

• We come into this world naked, covered in our own blood, screaming in terror - and it doesn't have to stop there if you know how to live right

  Dana Gould

  Blood, Naked, World

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• Abroad, they have covered pretty much all subjects, explored every possibility, every twist. So similarities between ideas you have and those filmed abroad are quite possible.

  Ajay Devgan

  Ideas, Twists, Possibility

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• If humankind - from humble farmers in the fields and toiling workers in the cities to teachers, people of independent means, those who have reached the pinnacle of fame or fortune, even the most frivolous of society women - if they knew what profound inner pleasure awaits those who gaze at the heavens, then France, nay, the whole of Europe, would be covered with telescopes instead of bayonets, thereby promoting universal happiness and peace.

  Camille Flammarion

  Teacher, Mean, Independent

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• I like all things grammatical, and I had already written several books about parts of speech, and even the alphabet, so everything that makes up a sentence and even a word was covered except for punctuation.

  Brian P. Cleary

  Book, Speech, Alphabet

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• Beauty feeds us. Anarchy is beauty. We are against the grey people. We want to decorate, like those fantastic Indian lorries which are covered with flowers. Beauty must conquer the lust for order; order is ugliness.

  Tom Hodgkinson

  Flower, Order, People

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• The city of London, within the walls, occupies a space of only 370 acres, and is but the hundred and fortieth part of the extent covered by the whole metropolis

  Henry Mayhew

  Wall, Cities, Space

  Henry Mayhew (2016). “The Morning Chronicle Survey of Labour and the Poor: The Metropolitan Districts”, p.42, Routledge

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• If you covered a broom handle with oil and shoved it up my arse, then put me on a trampoline, in a lift, I could write a better song on the walls.

  Dylan Moran

  Funny, Song, Wall

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• Instead of the bright, blue sky of America, I am covered with the soft, grey fog of the Emerald Isle. I breathe, and lo! the chattel becomes a man.

  Frederick Douglass

  Men, Fog, Blue

  Frederick Douglass (2013). “The Complete Autobiographies of Frederick Douglass”, p.262, Simon and Schuster

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• Despair kinda smells like burnt hair. Sounds great, but smells lousy. Now fear... fear you can taste! Let's see, fear kinda tastes like... like peaches, peaches covered with fresh bone marrow

  Matt Wagner

  Fear, Hair, Smell

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• As any good teacher knows, the methods of instruction and the range of material covered are matters of small importance as compared with the success in arousing the natural curiosity of the students and stimulating their interest in exploring on their own.

  Noam Chomsky

  Teacher, Teaching, Curiosity

  Noam Chomsky (1988). “Language and Problems of Knowledge: The Managua Lectures”, p.135, MIT Press

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• Lake George is without comparison, the most beautiful water I ever saw; formed by a contour of mountains into a basin... finely interspersed with islands, its water limpid as crystal, and the mountain sides covered with rich groves... down to the water-edge: here and there precipices of rock to checker the scene and save it from monotony.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Beautiful, Lakes, Islands

  Bernard Mayo, Thomas Jefferson (1988). “Jefferson Himself: The Personal Narrative of a Many-Sided American”, p.176, University of Virginia Press

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• There were horrendous, dramatic, violent quantities of green slime—oodles of it. It covered Howl completely. It draped his head and shoulders in sticky dollops, heaping on his knees and hands, trickling in glops down his legs, and dripping off the stool in sticky strands. It was in oozing ponds and crawling pools over most of the floor. Long fingers of it had crept into the hearth. It smelled vile.

  Diana Wynne Jones

  Heart, Hands, Long

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• Out there, in the world, all the walls were covered with graffiti: "Yids, go back to Palestine," so we came back to Palestine, and now the worldatlarge shouts at us: "Yids, get out of Palestine."

  Amos Oz

  Wall, Graffiti, World

  "A Tale of Love and Darkness". Book by Amos Oz, www.npr.org. November 15, 2004.

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• Pregnancy is of course confined to women, but it is in other ways significantly different from the typical covered disease or disability.

  William Rehnquist

  Pregnancy, Typical, Different

  General Elec. Co. v. Gilbert, 429 U.S. 125, 1976.

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• I have raised beds, perennial beds, cut flower beds. I have an island on a pond that's just covered in peonies. I have an herb garden, tons of vegetables, raspberries. I have everything. I'm a green guy.

  Steve Zahn

  Flower, Cutting, Garden

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• Isn't food important? Why not "universal food coverage"? If politicians and employers had guaranteed us "free" food 50 years ago, today Democrats would be wailing about the "food crisis" in America, and you'd be on the phone with your food care provider arguing about whether or not a Reuben sandwich with fries was covered under your plan.

  Ann Coulter

  Phones, Years, America

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• There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is a naked ape self-named Homo sapiens. The zoologist now has to start making comparisons. Where else is nudity at a premium.

  Desmond Morris

  Hair, Self, Two

  The Naked Ape introduction (1967)

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• Our shipment of mowers was lost at sea and while we waited, winter descended and covered our green lawns with snow. That taught me a key lesson, the importance of timing. The shipping company lost the lawnmowers! By the time they showed up no one wanted them, as you can't cut grass when it's covered with snow.

  Terry Matthews

  Mistake, Cutting, Winter

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• We covered so much ground on Thursday night that it took us half and hour. I'm not trying to look for excuses but that's the reality.

  George Boateng

  Night, Reality, Trying

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• The irony is that we've seen this model work really well in Massachusetts because Gov. Romney did a good thing, working with Democrats in the state to set up what is essentially the identical model and, as a consequence, people are covered there. It hasn't destroyed jobs. And as a consequence, we now have a system in which we have the opportunity to start bringing down costs as opposed to just leaving millions of people out in the cold." "Gov. Romney said this has to be done on a bipartisan basis

  Barack Obama

  Jobs, Opportunity, People

  "The First presidential debate between President Obama and Republican nominee Mitt Romney, in Denver". www.npr.org. October 3, 2012.

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• Silver is the best material we have. And silver has this wonderful shine like moonlight ... a light taken straight from a Danish summer's night. When covered by dew, silver can look like magical mist.

  Georg Jensen

  Summer, Taken, Night

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• History can never be covered up.

  Zhu Rongji

  Covered Up

  "china.org" by Joe Klein, www.newyorker.com. April 23, 2001.

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• O was infinitely more moving when her body was covered with marks, of whatever kind, if only because these marks made it impossible for her to cheat and immediately proclaimed, the moment they were seen, that anything went as far as she was concerned. For to know this was one thing, but to see the proof of it, and to see the proof constantly renewed, was quite another.

  Anne Desclos

  Moving, Kinky, Body

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• He who was Shri Rama, whose stream of love flowed with resistless might even to the Chandala (the outcaste); Oh, who ever was engaged in doing good to the world though superhuman by nature, whose renown there is none to equal in the three worlds, Sita's beloved, whose body of Knowledge Supreme was covered by devotion sweet in the form of Sita. (part of A Hymn To Shri Ramakrishna)

  Swami Vivekananda

  Sweet, Hymns, Three

  Swami Vivekananda (1964). “Complete Works”

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• One evening at Chequers the film was Oliver Twist. Rufus, as usual, had the best seat in the house, on his master's lap. At the point when Bill Sikes was about to drown his dog to put the police off his track, Churchill covered Rufus's eyes with his hand. He said, "Don't look now, dear. I'll tell you about it afterwards."

  Winston Churchill

  Friendship, Dog, Eye

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