Covered Quotes - Page 30

• It won't be covered in the book. The source code has to be useful for something, after all.

  Larry Wall

  Book, Computer, Source

  Usenet article, 1990.

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• There are many types of preventive health care services that are covered, things like blood pressure medication, for example. And women are merely asking that their health be taken just as seriously.

  Sandra Fluke

  Taken, Blood, Example

  "CNN’s Will Cain Grills Sandra Fluke Over Contraception Op-Ed", www.huffingtonpost.com. March 13, 2012.

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• Two-thirds of the Earth's surface is covered with water. The other third is covered with auditors from headquarters.

  Norman Ralph Augustine

  Two, Water, Auditors

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• Hey, look your girlfriend is saying something. Artemis had a vast mental reserve of scathing comebacks at his disposal, but none of them covered girlfriend insults. He wasn't even sure if it was an insult. And if it was, who was being insulted? Him or the girl?

  Eoin Colfer

  Girl, Insulted Him, Looks

  Eoin Colfer (2008). “Artemis Fowl: The Lost Colony”, Miramax

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• When I got up this morning the sea was full of sun pennies - and now it all seems to be covered in lemon scrim. Writers ought to live far inland or next to the city dump, if they are ever to get any work one. Or perhaps they need to be stronger-minded than I am.

  Mary Ann Shaffer

  Morning, Writing, Sea

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• It gives a fellow an awful shiver to hear the first shovelful of dirt and gravel rattle down upon the coffin; but after it is covered, it falls gently and makes no sound. The feeling of rest is perfect. There's no more nagging, no more pain!

  William Morris Hunt

  Pain, Fall, Giving

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• We have to go along a road covered with blood. We have no other alternative. For us it is a matter of life or death, a matter of living or existing. We have to be ready to face the challenges that await us.

  Gamal Abdel Nasser

  War, Blood, Challenges

  Gamal Abdel Nasser's speech to Egypt's National Assembly in Cairo (November 6, 1969) as quoted in The Washington Post (p. 1), November 7, 1969.

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• A good Christian is a velvet-covered brick.

  Frederick W. Smith

  Christian, Velvet, Bricks

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• To read the report of a discussion in which arguments for and against are presented, in which a subject has been covered from different points of view, with new ideas advanced - this is far more instructive than to read a brief account of the resolution passed on the matter.

  Fredrik Bajer

  Ideas, Views, Matter

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• I've voted in some cases to remove and reduce tax breaks for the oil industry in other cases I've voted not to because I felt that the proposals covered too much.

  Jeff Bingaman

  Oil, Too Much, Proposal

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• Thus it cannot be denied that the masses which today form our highest mountains were originally in a liquid state; for a long time they were covered by waters which did not sustain any life.

  Georges Cuvier

  Long, Water, Mountain

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• There is a real hunger for information about Obama and a sense that information is not being covered or, in some cases, even being withheld. There is a sense that there are elements of the media that are protective of Obama, that they would rather block a story that is embarassing about Obama than let the American public decide.

  Dinesh D'Souza

  Block, Real, Media

  "Filmgoers flock to anti-Obama doc" by Patrick Gavin, www.politico.com. August 24, 2012.

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• If I never sang on a record again I can still look at my walls. They are covered floor to ceiling with gold and platinum records from all over the world.

  Don Dokken

  Wall, Gold, Ceilings

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• I have a small room to write in. One wall is completely covered in books. And I face the window with the curtain closed to stop the light hitting the computer.

  Anne Enright

  Wall, Book, Writing

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• Even Crazy Horses is a good song, by the Osmonds. I've known many bands who have covered that. It's just a great song. I bought it in a brown, paper bag because I didn't want anyone to know I had it.

  Joe Elliott

  Song, Horse, Crazy

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• My uniform is sweatpants, so crusted over with dried paint that they're as hard as a table. I wear T-shirts that are also covered in paint, and Crocs.

  Caio Fonseca

  Tables, Uniforms, T Shirt

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• I've covered Avril Lavigne. I like good pop songs, and I don't think there should be any kind of preconceptions about where good pop songs come from.

  Ben Gibbard

  Song, Thinking, Kind

  "Postal service album keeps on delivering" by Rodrigo Perez, www.mtv.com. September 16, 2004.

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• You'll notice all around the Hindu temples couples, statues and drawings, in various erotic forms of love-making. This used to give the British a lot of trouble because they were kind of white and uptight. It didn't quite fit. How could a temple of God be covered with pictures of people, in their term, fornicating?

  Frederick Lenz

  Couple, Buddhism, White

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• Smoothly and lightly the golden seed by the furrow is covered.

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

  Agriculture, Golden, Seeds

  Johann Wolfgang von Goethe (1853). “The Poems of Goethe”, p.345

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• I have seen everything possible covered in studs and grommets. Also, what I call angry shoes: those platforms with the multiple buckles and studs. I think the polished girl is back.

  Nina Garcia

  Girl, Thinking, Shoes

  "Nina Garcia So Over ‘Angry Shoes,’ Says ‘Polished Girl Is Back’", www.huffingtonpost.com. August 11, 2010.

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• Remember, the Arctic didn't have any ice. And the Northwest Passage was wide open. They were raising grapes in Scotland for God sakes, had a huge winery. Iceland was a farming community. As some of the glaciers retreated they found villages that were covered with ice.

  Don Young

  Ice, Scotland, Agriculture

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• I jump out of planes, I could be covered in cockroaches, I do all sorts of things, but I just don't like the feel of butterflies' bodies.

  Nicole Kidman

  Butterfly, Cockroaches, Body

  FaceBook post by Nicole Kidman from Sep 24, 2016

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• When you look in your mind you find it covered with a lot of rubbishy thoughts. You have to penetrate these and hear what your mind is telling you to do. Such work is original work.

  Agnes Martin

  Mind, Looks, Penetrate

  Agnes Martin, Kunstmuseum Winterthur (1991). “Writings”

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• Obama better hope a kicked ass is covered by Obamacare.

  Dennis Miller

  Obamacare, Ass

  FaceBook post by Dennis Miller from Oct 04, 2012

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• A man wants to walk across the land, but the earth is covered with thorns. He has two options - one is to pave his road, to tame all of nature into compliance. The other is to make sandals. Making sandals is the internal solution...it does not base success on a submissive world or overpowering force, but on intelligent preparation and cultivated resilience.

  Joshua Waitzkin

  Men, Intelligent, Land

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