278 Quotes

#1. On 9/11, 2001, the Navy stood at 316 ships. By 2008, after one of the great military buildups in American history, we were at 278 ships and had 49,000 fewer sailors.

Ray Mabus

#2. May, I am thinking, there is something hidden like this in all of us. A small gift from the universe waiting to be discovered. (233)

Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen. (278)

Jacqueline Woodson

#3. Eugene is located in western Oregon, approximately 278 billion miles from anything.

Dave Barry

#4. Let me now praise the American writer James Dickey. In 1970, his novel 'Deliverance' was published. I found it to be 278 pages that approached perfection. Its tightness of construction and assuredness of style reminded me of 'The Great Gatsby.'

Pat Conroy

#5. It's a most serious mistake to think that learning is an activity separate from the rest of life, that people do it best when they are not doing anything else and best of all in places where nothing else is done. p.278

John Holt

#6. As the youngest of six kids, I grew up spending summers on Martha's Vineyard, and I was always topless. All the pictures are of me in jean shorts, no shirt - with my brothers, playing football.

Chelsea Handler

#7. How often misused words generate misleading thoughts.

Herbert Spencer

#8. There was so much silence. The quiet felt like a huge new country that he could wander around inside for years without ever meeting its coastlines. A silence the size of the sky.

Warren Ellis

#9. Once you get into the world of dystopia, it's hard to avoid plagiarism, because other people have had such powerful visions.

Anthony Horowitz

#10. I do not eat meat, I do not smoke, and I do not drink, and therefore, I do not feel the cold.

Percy Grainger

#11. I have always found it difficult to study. I have learnt almost entirely what I have learnt by trying it out on the dog.

Ralph Vaughan Williams

#12. I never heard my music played the way I heard it in my head.

Charles Mingus