All Quotes

How inappropriate to call this planet Earth when it is quite clearly Ocean.
‐‐ Arthur C. Clarke

How incessant and great are the ills with which a prolonged old age is replete.
‐‐ C. S. Lewis

How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
‐‐ Maimonides

How insulting is it to suggest the best thing women can do is raise other people to do incredible things?
‐‐ Jessica Valenti

How irritating it must be for people, to be bombarded with me!
‐‐ Daniel Radcliffe

'How' is a great thing to know. 'Why' is the ultimate. I'm the 'why' coach. Why are we doing this? Why are we not doing that? Why is this not working? Those are the things I want to know.
‐‐ Mike Singletary

How is AIDS research to progress when the premise of science is questioning but the premise of questioning HIV is considered so dangerous that even venturing into the facts is too great a risk?
‐‐ Nate Mendel

How is an error possible in mathematics?
‐‐ Henri Poincare

How is having every phone call that I make to my wife, to my daughter, relevant to any terror investigation?
‐‐ Blake Farenthold

How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
‐‐ Naomi Wolf

How is it macho that I like to hunt and fish? I've been doing it since I was four.
‐‐ Jim Harrison

How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesn't believe that, about other possibilities?
‐‐ Paul Auster

How is it possible that a being with such sensitive jewels as the eyes, such enchanted musical instruments as the ears, and such fabulous arabesque of nerves as the brain can experience itself anything less than a god.
‐‐ Alan Watts

How is it that, in the face of overwhelming scientific evidence, there are still some who would deny the dangers of climate change? Not surprisingly, the loudest voices are not scientific, and it is remarkable how many economists, lawyers, journalists and politicians set themselves up as experts on the science.
‐‐ Nicholas Stern

How is it that little children are so intelligent and men so stupid? It must be education that does it.
‐‐ Alexandre Dumas

How is it that mercury is not safe for food additives and Over the Counter drug products, but it is safe in our vaccines and dental amalgams?
‐‐ Dan Burton

How is it that, once victory took form and the horrible spectacle of the extermination camps was revealed, we could have shamelessly broken the promises given to the peoples in those years of ordeal?
‐‐ Rene Cassin

How is it that we remember the least triviality that happens to us, and yet not remember how often we have recounted it to the same person?
‐‐ Francois de La Rochefoucauld

How is it that you profess love for God but can't accept another human being?
‐‐ Phylicia Rashad

How is it they live in such harmony the billions of stars - when most men can barely go a minute without declaring war in their minds about someone they know.
‐‐ Thomas Aquinas

How is it we could have a system where schools could remain lousy for 50 years and yet you do exactly the same thing this year that they did 50 years ago when it didn't work then, and no one feels any pressure to change?
‐‐ Geoffrey Canada

How is justice served if the victim and the accused are working together to make it all go away? Somebody please explain that to me.
‐‐ Jane Velez-Mitchell

How is the base sequence, divided into codons? There is nothing in the backbone of the nucleic acid, which is perfectly regular, to show us how to group the bases into codons.
‐‐ Francis Crick

How is the economy supposed to recover when people can't afford to fill the tank?
‐‐ Jay Kay

How is the Empire?
‐‐ King George V

How is the government going to run without people like us? We make 35 percent of the bread in this country, and that much of the margarine, and cooking oil, and all the other things.
‐‐ Dwayne Andreas

How is the world ruled and led to war? Diplomats lie to journalists and believe these lies when they see them in print.
‐‐ Karl Kraus

How it came to pass that man, originally taught, as we doubt not he was, to know and to worship the true Jehovah, is found, at so early a period of his history, a worshiper of baser objects, it is foreign to our present purpose to inquire.
‐‐ Simon Greenleaf

How it happened that Mastro Cherry, carpenter, found a piece of wood that wept and laughed like a child.
‐‐ Carlo Collodi

How it infuriates a bigot, when he is forced to drag out his dark convictions!
‐‐ Logan Pearsall Smith

How it is that within 60 days of a general election issue, groups can no longer tell voters that a Member of Congress votes pro-abortion, against guns, against the environment or whatever else is beyond me.
‐‐ Paul Weyrich

How it works for me is that a scene comes to mind, usually a scene between the hero and heroine, that depicts the emotional conflict. From that scene, the characters come alive for me. I don't do a lot of preplanning in any way when I write.
‐‐ Lori Foster

How large and varied is the educational bill of fare set before every young gentleman in Great Britain; and to judge by the mental stamina it affords him in most cases, what a waste of good food it is!
‐‐ James Payn

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.
‐‐ Samuel Taylor Coleridge

How little do they see what is, who frame their hasty judgments upon that which seems.
‐‐ Robert Southey

How little do they see what really is, who frame their hasty judgment upon that which seems.
‐‐ Daniel Webster

How little remains of the man I once was, save the memory of him! But remembering is only a new form of suffering.
‐‐ Charles Baudelaire

How little the public realizes what a girl must go through before she finally appears before the spotlight that is thrown upon the stage.
‐‐ Florenz Ziegfeld

How little those who are schoolgirls of today can realize what it was to be a schoolgirl in the fifties or the early sixties of the last century!
‐‐ Mary Augusta Ward

How lonely it is going to be now on the Yellow Brick Road.
‐‐ Ray Bolger

How long a book tends to illustrate depends on the book. 'The Awful Aunty' took me 10 days.
‐‐ Tony Ross

How long before we have, not just homosexual marriage, but homosexual unions between adult men and small boys?
‐‐ Randall Terry

How long can men thrive between walls of brick, walking on asphalt pavements, breathing the fumes of coal and oil, growing, working, dying, with hardly a thought of wind, and sky, and fields of grain, seeing only machine-made beauty, the mineral-like quality of life?
‐‐ Charles Lindbergh

How long most people would look at the best book before they would give the price of a large turbot for it?
‐‐ John Ruskin

How long must the American community afford special treatment to blacks?
‐‐ Constance Baker Motley

How long should a man's legs be? Long enough to touch the ground.
‐‐ J. D. Salinger

How long soever it hath continued, if it be against reason, it is of no force in law.
‐‐ Edward Coke

How long was I in the army? Five foot eleven.
‐‐ Spike Milligan

How long will it take the citizens of the United States, one wonders, to recognize that the house their country bombed in Iraq is the same one they were living in until it was foreclosed?
‐‐ Alice Walker