247 Quotes

#1. Today the Secretary of State said that of the 247 candidates, so far 115 of them have been certified. How embarrassing is that? Imagine if you were turned down because you didn't meet the high standards set by Larry Flynt and Gallagher.

Jay Leno

#2. 6.6.19.61.247: Vulgar mispronunciations of everyday words will not be tolerated.

Jasper Fforde

#3. They couldn't him because he was Tarzan, Mandrake, Flash Gordon. He was Bill Shakespeare. He was Cain, Ulysses, the Flying Dutchman; he was Lot in Sodom, Dreirdre of the Sorrows, Sweeney in the nightingales among trees. He was miracle ingredient Z-247.

Joseph Heller

#4. Thou art standing all this while at the door of eternity, and death is waiting to open the door, and put thee in(247).

Richard Baxter

#5. To pursue wisdom is to live in such a way that one is prepared to face death when it comes. (247)

Gregory Bassham

#6. I am miracle ingredient Z-247. I'm immense. I'm a real, slam-bang, honest-to-goodness, three-fisted humdinger. I'm a bona fide supraman.

Joseph Heller

#7. Elections officials here in California are concerned that having 247 candidates would require a ballot so long it would be difficult to count. Today in Florida they said, 'What? You count the ballots?'

Jay Leno

#8. You know, this game's not very much fun when you're only hitting .247.

Reggie Jackson

#9. what I like and what I need's two different things.

J.D. Jordan

#10. Now, wilderness can be seen as a useful fiction, a fiction constructed by John Muir and his heirs and deployed to keep places from being destroyed by resource extraction and wholesale development.

Rebecca Solnit

#11. Style essentially appeared out of what I liked to do.

Robert Genn

#12. If you want people to support you, then you have to support them. You have to think long about what you did for people who voted for you, made phone calls for you, who went door to door for you.

Alan Grayson

#13. The appreciation of the merits of art of the emotions it conveys depends upon an understanding of the meaning of life ...

Leo Tolstoy

#14. The militia is our ultimate safety. We can have no security without it. The great object is that every man be armed.

Patrick Henry

#15. It was not just that he had terrible style: he also gave the impression that he was deliberately desecrating the very idea of wearing clothes.

Haruki Murakami

#16. Kisses like his should come with a warning label. They can't be good for the heart.

Colleen Hoover

#17. Love can kill you and I'd rather be alive than out there living.

Nicola Yoon

#18. The morning will come In the press of every kiss, With your head upon my chest Where I will annoy you With every waking breath Until you decide to wake up.

Coheed And Cambria

#19. A steely look of anger flared in my mother's eyes, and I thought, just maybe, I was leaving her in good hands after all. Her own.

Rick Riordan

#20. Failure is sometimes the best option if you view the process of entrepreneurship as a lifelong journey.

Brad Feld