All Quotes

Even the classics that we read to our young children are full of wolves' fangs and burning ovens and bloody feet and ice shards piercing hearts. Even the New Testament climaxes with an act of unspeakable torture. Might as well just read to our kids from the Amnesty Annual Report and be done with it.
‐‐ Geraldine Brooks

Even the cleanest air, at the centre of the South Pacific or somewhere over Antarctica, has two hundred thousand assorted bits and pieces in every lungful. And this count rises to two million or more in the thick of the Serengeti migration, or over a six-lane highway during rush hour in downtown Los Angeles.
‐‐ Lyall Watson

Even the closest relationships that I have I know could potentially fall away. That's not to speak pessimistically or negatively about those relationships. In a weird way, it's the opposite. I value them.
‐‐ Mark Z. Danielewski

Even the Congressional Budget Office and the Social Security trustees appointed by the president say that Social Security is financially sound, without any changes for the next 40 to 50 years.
‐‐ James Roosevelt

Even the contemporary horror authors who have seriously influenced me are a disparate bunch.
‐‐ George Stephen

Even the crudest, most derivative novel is an expression of the author's hopes and fears and ideas about good and evil.
‐‐ Steven Saylor

Even the diss tracks was enhancing 'Panda.'
‐‐ Desiigner

Even the distribution of rations leaves much to be desired; the fatigue party, well-intentioned and sympathetic though it be, often finds itself short of provisions.
‐‐ Patrick MacGill

Even the draft dodgers are not pursued and hounded. They are here on our streets, most of them... unless they are breaking Canadian laws .. are getting American dollars from Ma and Pa at home to spend here.
‐‐ Gordon Sinclair

Even the dullest bird or face becomes interesting when you give it a good look in the wild/flesh. The way the shadow drops across the cheek, the light hits an eyebrow, etc... there are many more angles, positions etc. than you can ever imagine. My heart always makes a little jump when I see things in birds or faces that surprise me.
‐‐ Siegfried Woldhek

Even the dumber parts of our government are not run by idiots. These are ordinary people like us, doing a job. By and large, they're trying to do it as well as they can. Or at least as often as people in the private sector try to do as well as they can.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Even the earliest cave paintings in France and Spain had natural motion.
‐‐ Gerald Vizenor

Even the ears must dance.
‐‐ Natalia Makarova

Even the first year of 'Columbo,' 'Columbo' was Jesus Christ, No. 1, you know.
‐‐ Peter Falk

Even the frankest and bravest of subordinates do not talk with their boss the same way they talk with colleagues.
‐‐ Robert K. Greenleaf

Even the geekiest of guys could get the girl if he read every romance novel that came out in any given month.
‐‐ Teresa Medeiros

Even the government understands that the environmental challenge is so big that no single agency can handle it. It needs collaboration among all the stakeholders - companies, governments, NGOs and the public. Public accountability will be the ultimate driving force.
‐‐ Ma Jun

Even the great bad guys in cinema history, they're likable.
‐‐ Balthazar Getty

Even the greatest actors have had dry spells where they've wondered if they were going to work again.
‐‐ Benjamin Walker

Even the greatest mathematicians, the ones that we would put into our mythology of great mathematicians, had to do a great deal of leg work in order to get to the solution in the end.
‐‐ Daniel Tammet

Even the greatest player of all times loses sets or is down in a match. It just shows that, you know, a win is never guaranteed. It shows all of us that we have to work for every point, fight for every point no matter what.
‐‐ Eugenie Bouchard

Even the greatest poets can't express tragedy in a way that is larger than their immediate circumstances.
‐‐ Andrei Codrescu

Even the greatest poets, I think, cannot quite get to the places that music can get to in the human - I was gonna say mind, but it's actually the entire body. It somehow seems to infuse the entire body.
‐‐ Hugh Laurie

Even the handsomest men do not have the same momentary effect on the world as a truly beautiful woman does.
‐‐ Jonathan Carroll

Even the heavenly powers and the angels in their splendor and the principalities, both visible and invisible, must either believe in the Blood of Christ, or else face damnation.
‐‐ Ignatius of Antioch

Even the holy men who lived before the coming of Christ understood that God had in mind plans of peace for the human race.
‐‐ Saint Bernard

Even The Impostors, as silly as it is, is a very intimate film, in a way.
‐‐ Stanley Tucci

Even the Impressionists, the most innovative artists of their time, sought to paint realistically. They believed that their freer way of portraying the visible world was truer to life than the literal realism of the 'salon painters' who dominated French art throughout the 19th century.
‐‐ Terry Teachout

Even the king of phrasing, Frank Sinatra, did not do as well as Joe Cocker with his reinterpretation of 'Something' by George Harrison, which Sinatra called the greatest love song ever written.
‐‐ Andrew Rosenthal

Even the knowledge of my own fallibility cannot keep me from making mistakes. Only when I fall do I get up again.
‐‐ Vincent Van Gogh

Even the lamest page can be saved by collaboration.
‐‐ Philip Greenspun

Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
‐‐ Vernor Vinge

Even the largest of my dreams and ambitions, I realize with increasing dismay, were puny, measly, compared to the object of my dreaming. I would not say my life to date has been built overmuch of compromise, but still, it surrounds me.
‐‐ Rick Bass

Even the Lord had skeptical members of His party.
‐‐ Richard J. Daley

Even the majority of the Sunnis have grown tired of foreign terrorists operating in Iraq.
‐‐ Peter DeFazio

Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.
‐‐ Dan Ariely

Even the most beautiful legs - Marlene Dietrich's, for instance - look better when the kneecap is covered.
‐‐ Edith Head

Even the most brilliant accomplishments on the Internet are essentially cold. Google has changed the world, but you don't snuggle up to it. YouTube is a giant carnival, filled with freaks and mountebanks, a place to gawk and laugh and get bored. Certainly not a place to feel anything.
‐‐ Marshall Herskovitz

Even the most complicated stories start with a very simple premise.
‐‐ Chris Van Allsburg

Even the most cynical can hardly be surprised by the antics of Nixon and his accomplices as they are gradually revealed. It matters little, at this point, where the exact truth lies in the maze of perjury, evasion, and of contempt for the normal - hardly inspiring - standards of political conduct.
‐‐ Noam Chomsky

Even the most despicable person is still a human being.
‐‐ Stellan Skarsgard

Even the most dishonest officer would want to be seen as a role model for his children.
‐‐ N. R. Narayana Murthy

Even the most dismal and hopeless-sounding Wilco music, to my ears, has always maintained a level of hope and consolation.
‐‐ Jeff Tweedy

Even the most fickle are faithful to a few bad habits.
‐‐ Mason Cooley

Even the most high-maintenance boss isn't going to sit and watch you the whole time, making sure you're paying attention to them, whereas with a child, it's like, 'Wait, what? You're not watching me right now? Really? Then I'm going to go spill this milk.' Even bosses from hell don't behave like that!
‐‐ Ivanka Trump

Even the most jingoistic person would have to admit that even American cultural music comes from Europe. That's what classical music is, real European music.
‐‐ Sonny Rollins

Even the most left-wing politicians worship wealth creation - as the political-action-committee collection plate is passed.
‐‐ P. J. O'Rourke

Even the most malignant gods would not continue to inflict life upon humanity, time without end.
‐‐ Taylor Caldwell

Even the most meticulous historians work subjectively. The historian's point of view, his or her selection of subject and sources, the emphasis, the tone - all of these lead to subjective history, inevitably so. I do not say this as a criticism, merely as an observation.
‐‐ David Ebershoff