These Days Quotes - Page 28

• The choice so often these days is to believe something that seems insane or go insane.

  Robert Breault

  Believe, Choices, Insane

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• Language is always evolving.
  It's difficult to read Shakespeare now
  because language has shifted. Similarly,
  kids these days can get to the point
  really quick in about 140 characters
  or less because of these new tools.

  Erik Qualman

  Character, Kids, Tools

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• Everything is for the eye these days - TV, Life, Look, the movies. Nothing is just for the mind. The next generation will have eyeballs as big as cantaloupes and no brain at all.

  Fred Allen

  Eye, Brain, Mind

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• I mean, first, almost all writers these days teach because they don't make enough money publishing to live on, to support themselves - people like Tobias Wolff, Anne Beattie, Amy Hempel, Stuart Dybek; a lot of short story writers, for one thing.

  Chad Harbach

  Mean, People, Support

  "Universities Gain Power In Literary World". Interview with Audie Cornish, www.npr.org. December 12, 2010.

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• The best hope is that one of these days the ground will get disgusted enough just to walk away - leaving people with nothing more to stand on than what they have so bloody well stood for up to now.

  Kenneth Patchen

  People, Leaving, Enough

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• We are all assumed, these days, to reside at one extreme of the opinion spectrum, or another. We are pro-abortion or anti-abortion. We are free traders or protectionists. We are pro-private sector or pro-government. We are feminists or chauvinists. But in the real world, few of us hold these extreme views. There is instead a spectrum of opinion.

  Michael Crichton

  Real, Government, Views

  "Mediasaurus" by Michael Crichton, www.wired.com. April 1, 1993.

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• Is there a better wrestling villain on TV these days than CM Punk? Arguable question but for my sauce, Punk is right there at the top of the heap with a handful of his peers.

  Jim Ross

  Wrestling, Wwe, Cm Punk

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• Byrd, the former Klu [sic] Klux Klan Kleagle, is taking a stand over states' rights, or his rights over State, or some such. Whatever the reason, the sight of an old Klansman blocking a little colored girl from Birmingham from getting into her office contributed to the general retro vibe that hangs around the Democratic Party these days.

  Mark Steyn

  Girl, Block, Party

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• (A)nything not acting as a propaganda arm for the Democrats or the Leftist agenda is considered conservative these days.

  Tammy Bruce

  Acting, Agendas, Politics

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• The H-bomb rather favors small nations that doesn't as yet possess it; they feel slightly more free to jostle other nations, having discovered that a country can stick its tongue out quite far these days without provoking war, so horrible are war's consequences.

  E. B. White

  Country, War, Bombs

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• I think these days an SF connection would be a boost to other books; I'm sure more people have read my two little detective puzzles because of the SF connection.

  John Thomas Sladek

  Book, Thinking, Two

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• The truth of these days is not that which really is, but what every man persuades another man to believe.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Truth, Believe, Men

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Montaigne's Essays: Top Essays”, p.701, 谷月社

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• Considering the multitude of mortals that handle the pen in these days, and can mostly spell, and write without glaring violations of grammar, the question naturally arises: How is it, then, that no work proceeds from them, bearing any stamp of authenticity and permanence; of worth for more than one day?

  Thomas Carlyle

  Writing, One Day, Authenticity

  Thomas Carlyle (1872). “Works”, p.63

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• No medicine man these days can afford to be without a portable tape recorder. Without the aid of this modern device, which may be easily concealed in the undergrowth of the jungle, the old tribal authority will rapidly become undermined by the mounting influenece of modern skepticism.

  Muriel Spark

  Technology, Men, Medicine

  Muriel Spark (1960). “The Ballad of Peckham Rye”, p.142, New Directions Publishing

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• I defy anyone to get a decision that quickly these days.

  Denis Norden

  Decision

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• A woman isn't complete without a man. But where do you find a man - a real man - these days?

  Lauren Bacall

  Real, Real Men, Men

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• I will say I love competing, and I was in a great era of playing with young Phil Mickelson and older Greg Norman and Nick Price. I don't know if YA Title could throw the ball these days, but you can play golf for a long, long time.

  Fred Couples

  Golf, Play, Long

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• Our loneliness makes us avid column readers these days.

  Edward Hoagland

  Loneliness, Avid, Columns

  Edward Hoagland (1983). “The tugman's passage”, Viking Pr

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• If the Wright brothers hadn't put their lives on the line, we would not be flying around the world these days. So we need pioneers.

  Felix Baumgartner

  Brother, Flying, Pioneers

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• That to me is a bunch of crap trying to shoot guys up into damned space. What they're going to do is they're going to wipe out half a dozen people one of these days, and that will be the end of it.

  Chuck Yeager

  Space, People, Guy

  "Chuck Yeager pulls no punches on space travel". Interview with Thom Patterson, lightyears.blogs.cnn.com. June 5, 2012.

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• These days I seem to think about the things I forgot to do for you and all the times I had a chance to.

  Jackson Browne

  Sadness, Thinking, Chance

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• Unfortunately, most college kids these days aren't coming from any place-they seem to ask the same kind of questions over and over again.

  Sandra Bernhard

  Kids, College, Kind

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• The Oscars have become such a big deal these days that it's just used as adjective.

  Mira Sorvino

  Adjectives, Oscars, Used

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• Arguably the only goods people need these days are food and happiness.

  Terence Conran

  People, Needs, Goods

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• My wife and I have mellowed out as we've gone along. With the first baby, when she cried, we'd think, Oh my God, what do we do now? But with Finley, our fourth - he's the easiest baby ever, and I think that has a lot to do with the fact that we're much more relaxed these days.

  Chris O'Donnell

  Baby, Thinking, Wife

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