All Quotes

A $1.7 billion average increase in electricity costs is estimated to result in a $1.3 billion decrease in personal income and a loss of 13,000 more jobs in the region.
‐‐ Greg Walden

A 10-pound sack of potatoes lasts a long time.
‐‐ Octavia E. Butler

A 1920s dress I wore on my 21st birthday... literally disintegrated on me. I had the most wild debauched night. And that disintegrated dress sits in my closet - such a great memory.
‐‐ Liz Goldwyn

A 1990 Gallup poll found that 77 percent of Americans polled said abortion was the taking of human life. I agree, and believe that taking the life on an innocent child is unjust.
‐‐ Robert Casey

A #2 pencil and a dream can take you anywhere.
‐‐ Joyce Meyer

A 20-pound weight on the back of a small horse is more damaging than a 20-pound weight on a very big horse.
‐‐ Grover Norquist

A 3-foot putt can be more nerve-racking than a 9-foot putt because a 3-foot putt you should be getting in. A 9-footer, there's a chance it won't go in.
‐‐ Lydia Ko

A 300pp novel can easily become a 200pp novel by printing with smaller type; a 100pp screenplay can potentially become a film of between 60-140 minutes in length; a 200pp stage play could be performed in anything from 30 minutes to four hours. For all these media, the script length is agnostic to the final work.
‐‐ Antony Johnston

A 41-inch bust and a lot of perseverance will get you more than a cup of coffee - a lot more.
‐‐ Jayne Mansfield

A 50-year-old company can innovate as well as two guys/gals in a garage.
‐‐ Guy Kawasaki

A 501(c)3 can't lobby. A 501(c)3 can't invest in a company or build an industry. It may be that the only way to deal with climate change is to create an industry or build companies.
‐‐ Larry Brilliant

A 527 doesn't have a wife. It doesn't have a brother-in-law who knows a lot about politics, or a union president who calls and doesn't like the color of the suit, or bimbo eruptions. It's the perfect candidate, because it has no personal characteristics.
‐‐ Roger Stone

A 65-ft.-wide screen and 500 people reacting to the movie, there is nothing like that experience.
‐‐ Michael Mann

A am a great friend of public amusements, they keep people from vice.
‐‐ Samuel Johnson

A babe at the breast is as much pleasure as the bearing is pain.
‐‐ Marion Zimmer Bradley

A babe in the house is a well-spring of pleasure, a messenger of peace and love, a resting place for innocence on earth, a link between angels and men.
‐‐ Martin Farquhar Tupper

A baby comes with such responsibility. Once you become a mother, you always have a guilt trip. You always try to do the best, but you feel you can always be better.
‐‐ Gal Gadot

A baby! I hated babies. I, who for two and a half years had been the center of a tender universe, felt the axis wrench and a polar chill immobilize my bones. I would be a bystander, a museum mammoth.
‐‐ Sylvia Plath

A baby is a loud noise at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other.
‐‐ Ronald Knox

A baby is born with a need to be loved - and never outgrows it.
‐‐ Frank A. Clark

A baby is God's opinion that life should go on.
‐‐ Carl Sandburg

A baby's existence for the first three months is a one-way street. One person is doing all the work and the other is crying, sleeping and pooping. So the first moment when you're actually able to do something and they acknowledge your presence, that's a big deal. A very big deal.
‐‐ Colin Hanks

A baby writer should take inspiration from her predecessors but also find ways to tell her own stories in her own way.
‐‐ Judith Tarr

A bachelor is a guy who never made the same mistake once.
‐‐ Phyllis Diller

A bachelor is a man who comes to work each morning from a different direction.
‐‐ Sholom Aleichem

A bachelor is a man who never makes the same mistake once.
‐‐ Ed Wynn

A bachelor never quite gets over the idea that he is a thing of beauty and a boy forever.
‐‐ Helen Rowland

A Bachelor of Arts is one who makes love to a lot of women, and yet has the art to remain a bachelor.
‐‐ Helen Rowland

A bachelor's life is a fine breakfast, a flat lunch, and a miserable dinner.
‐‐ Francis Bacon

A bachelor's life is no life for a single man.
‐‐ Samuel Goldwyn

A bad act done will fester and create in its own way. It's not only goodness that creates. Bad things create. They have their own yeast.
‐‐ Dennis Potter

A bad author can take the most moral issue and make you want to just never, ever think about that moral issue.
‐‐ Azar Nafisi

A bad book and good marketing won't work, the same way a good book and bad marketing will also not work. There is no choice in the matter that if you need to write a good book, you also need to have good marketing for it.
‐‐ Amish Tripathi

A bad book is as much of a labor to write as a good one, it comes as sincerely from the author's soul.
‐‐ Aldous Huxley

A bad book is the worse that it cannot repent. It has not been the devil's policy to keep the masses of mankind in ignorance; but finding that they will read, he is doing all in his power to poison their books.
‐‐ John Kenneth Galbraith

A bad boyfriend is someone you give everything to - you live with him, cook for him, sleep with him - thinking he is going to marry you and then he doesn't. When you are giving your all to a job and not getting credit, your job is a bad boyfriend.
‐‐ Mika Brzezinski

A bad deal with Iran on nuclear weapons is worse than no deal at all.
‐‐ Trent Franks

A bad facelift is like a bad toupee.
‐‐ Gloria Steinem

A bad guy always assumes he's going to win, whereas the good guy has to struggle with, what if I lose?, and the audience wants to struggle with him.
‐‐ David Gallagher

A bad investment is going for quantity over quality. If you're trying to be careful with your wallet, especially with the economy right now, you have to choose staple pieces.
‐‐ Christian Siriano

A bad laugh is a laugh for the sake of a laugh that's out of character.
‐‐ Scott Ellis

A bad liver is to a Frenchman what a nervous breakdown is to an American. Everyone has had one and everyone wants to talk about it.
‐‐ Art Buchwald

A bad man is the sort who weeps every time he speaks of a good woman.
‐‐ H. L. Mencken

A bad manner spoils everything, even reason and justice; a good one supplies everything, gilds a No, sweetens a truth, and adds a touch of beauty to old age itself.
‐‐ Baltasar Gracian

A bad neighbor is as great a calamity as a good one is a great advantage.
‐‐ Hesiod

A bad or mediocre meal is more than just an unpleasant taste, it is an unnecessary negation of one of life's pleasures - a wasted chance to refine our palates, learn about the world, and share a rewarding experience.
‐‐ Tyler Cowen

A bad peace is even worse than war.
‐‐ Tacitus

A bad review is even less important than whether it is raining in Patagonia.
‐‐ Iris Murdoch

A bad review is like baking a cake with all the best ingredients and having someone sit on it.
‐‐ Danielle Steel

A bad sermon is like a car wreck - everyone slows down to see what happened.
‐‐ John Ortberg