Quarters Quotes - Page 22

• I think we shot the ball very well tonight, we just didn't get stops when we needed to. They hit 11 3-pointers in the third quarter. Sometimes when one person gets hot, everybody's hot.

  Shawn Marion

  Thinking, Hot, Balls

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• I’ve known people that the world has thrown everything at to discourage them...to break their spirit. And yet something about them retains a dignity. They face life and don’t ask quarters.

  Horton Foote

  People, World, Faces

  Horton Foote (1989). “Cousins ; And, The Death of Papa: The Final Two Plays of The Orphans' Home Cycle”, p.13, Grove Press

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• Three quarters of the American population literally believe in religious miracles. The numbers who believe in the devil, in resurrection, in God doing this and that - it's astonishing. These numbers aren't duplicated anywhere else in the industrial world. You'd have to maybe go to mosques in Iran or do a poll among old ladies in Sicily to get numbers like this. Yet this is the American population.

  Noam Chomsky

  Religious, Believe, Iran

  Noam Chomsky (2013). “How the World Works”, p.128, Soft Skull Press

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• Not Carnegie, Vanderbilt, and Astor together could have raised money enough to buy a quarter share in my little dogs.

  Ernest Thompson Seton

  Funny, Friendship, Dog

  Ernest Thompson Seton (1905). “Animal Heroes”

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• Yes, deficits are a problem. I've been saying so for more than a quarter of a century now. But the problem is not the size of the deficit, it's the size of government's claim on our economy.

  Ronald Reagan

  Government, Size, Problem

  United States. President (1981-1989 : Reagan), Ronald Reagan (1984). “Ronald Reagan”

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• The reality is that if we in this rich, lucky quarter of the planet cannot make a stand for the 30 million other species we share this planet with, let alone our own species, then who can?

  Bob Brown

  Reality, Lucky, Environment

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• The most unhappy thing about conservation is that it is never permanent. Save a priceless woodland or an irreplaceable mountain today, and tomorrow it is threatened from another quarter.

  Hal Borland

  Nature, Environmental, Unhappy

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• According to new research emerging from many quarters that our continued devotion to growth above all is, on balance, making our lives worse, both collectively and individually

  Bill McKibben

  Growth, Balance, Research

  "Money ? Happiness. QED." by Bill McKibben, www.motherjones.com. March/April 2007.

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• ...in just 25 years the glaciers in the Himalayas which provide water for three-quarters of a billion people could disappear entirely.

  Gordon Brown

  Years, People, Water

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• We cannot indefinitely avoid depressing subject matter, particularly it it is true, and in the subsequent quarter century the world has had to hear a story it would have preferred not to hear - the story of how a cultured people turned to genocide, and how the rest of the world, also composed of cultured people, remained silent in the face of genocide. (v)

  Elie Wiesel

  Depressing, People, Stories

  Elie Wiesel (1960). “Night”, Bantam

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• I just know there's an albino living in the colored quarters. I can feel it in my bones.

  Fannie Flagg

  Bones, Feels, Knows

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• Of the two hundred bones in the human body, more than a quarter are in the foot. It is a more complicated instrument than an automobile transmission, and it is treated with far less consideration.

  Barbara Kingsolver

  Two, Feet, Body

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• Do you know that I have undergone three quarters of this labour entirely for the sake of the fourth quarter?

  Thomas Hardy

  Three, Sake, Fourth Quarter

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Tess of the d'Ubervilles”, p.146, Xist Publishing

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• A black cat among roses, phlox, lilac-misted under a quarter moon, the sweet smells of heliotrope and night-scented stock. The garden is very still. It is dazed with moonlight, contented with perfume.

  Amy Lowell

  Sweet, Cat, Moon

  Amy Lowell (2010). “Che ore sono?: poesie”, p.133, G. D'Ambrosio Angelillo

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• Hippogriff, n. An animal (now extinct) which was half horse and half griffin. The griffin was itself a compound creature, half lion and half eagle. The hippogriff was actually, therefore, only one-quarter eagle, which is two dollars and fifty cents in gold. The study of zoology is full of surprises.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Horse, Animal, Eagles

  Ambrose Bierce (2012). “The Devil's Dictionary”, p.51, Courier Corporation

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• There is an ecstasy that marks the summit of life, and beyond which life cannot rise. And such is the paradox of living, this ecstasy comes when one is most alive, and it comes as a complete forgetfulness that one is alive. This ecstasy, this forgetfulness of living, comes to the artist, caught up and out of himself in a sheet of flame; it comes to the soldier, war-mad in a stricken field and refusing quarter; and it came to Buck, leading the pack, sounding the old wolf-cry, straining after the food that was alive and that fled swiftly before him through the moonlight.

  Jack London

  War, Thinking, Artist

  Jack London (1903). “Call of the Wild”, p.83

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• Ordinarily my mom just sunk deeper into her corner of the couch and ignored it. She had succesfully ignored a quarter of a century of entropy and decay, had sat peacefully crunching popcorn and drinking soda while the house fell down around us. If I had to guess the number of books she read during that time, I would place the number at somewhere in the neighborhood of forty thousand.

  Haven Kimmel

  Mom, Drinking, Book

  Haven Kimmel (2002). “A Girl Named Zippy: Growing Up Small in Mooreland Indiana”, p.163, Broadway Books

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• I took a wrong turn on the way to the bathroom and found myself in a beautifully proportioned room I had never seen before, containing a really rather magnificent collection of chamberpots. When I went back to investigate more closely, I discovered that the room had vanished. But I must keep an eye out for it. Possibly it is only accessible at five thirty in the morning. Or it may only appear at the quarter moon - or when the seeker has an exceptionally full bladder.

  J. K. Rowling

  Morning, Eye, Moon

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• We may sit in our library and yet be in all quarters of the earth.

  John Lubbock

  Travel, Book, Library

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• By the way, did you fellows know that a hummingbird weighs as much as a quarter? Do you think a hummingbird also weighs the same as two dimes and a nickel? But then she asked a question of her own: How do they weigh a hummingbird?

  Calvin Trillin

  Thinking, Two, Dimes

  Calvin Trillin (1992). “Enough's Enough: And Other Rules of Life”, Mariner Books

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• You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like a quarter in an unlucky slot machine.

  Rick Bragg

  Hate, Wish, Machines

  FaceBook post by Rick Bragg from Aug 10, 2010

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• We constantly see surveys that reveal this ignorance, especially among our high school students,78 percent of whom, in a recent nationwide multiple-choice test, identified Abraham Lincoln as 'a kind of lobster.' That's right: more than three quarters of our nation's youth could not correctly identify the man who invented the telephone.

  Dave Barry

  School, Ignorance, Men

  Dave Barry (2010). “Dave Barry Slept Here: A Sort of History of the United States”, p.8, Ballantine Books

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• [...] He didn't want his wife to read historical romances because it might give her unrealistic expectations. [...] If I had been him, I would have been reading your books every time you laid them down to see how I could improve my skills and please you. Second warning of the night. I bought a couple." You bought a couple of what?" Historical romances. I'm three-quarters through the first one." He flashed her a slow grin. "All I can say is, I like the way your mind works." ~Jake Coulter and Molly Wells

  Catherine Anderson

  Couple, Book, Reading

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• To Armenians, half Armenians, quarter Armenians, and one-eight Armenians. Sixteen and thirty-second Armenians, and other winners, are likelier to be happy with a useful book

  William Saroyan

  Book, Eight, Half

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• You have what I can afford to give. You are a panhandler, begging for anything, and I am the man walking briskly by, tossing a quarter or so into your paper cup. I can afford to give you this. This does not break me.

  Dave Eggers

  Men, Giving, Doe

  Dave Eggers (2014). “A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius: Picador Classic”, p.215, Pan Macmillan

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