630 Quotes

#1. Here's a little bit of good news. The Coast Guard says that BP is now catching up to 630,000 gallons of oil a day. The bad news is that they're capturing it with ducks.

Jimmy Fallon

#2. It quite often makes me feel sad that painting's like a bad mistress one might have, who's always spending, spending and it's never enough.. [Letter 630, Arles, 23 June 1888]

Vincent Van Gogh

#3. The oldest continuously operated aquarium in the country features 630 species and more than 8,000 animals. The walruses are especially popular.

John Grant

#4. It was such a struggle for me to make it off welfare. I was getting $630 a month for myself and my children with no support from their fathers. The rent was $600 a month, and if you got a job, they took it out of your welfare.

Allison Anders

#5. Rituals, anthropologists will tell us, are about transformation. The rituals we use for marriage, baptism or inaugurating a president are as elaborate as they are because we associate the ritual with a major life passage, the crossing of a critical threshold, or in other words, with transformation.

Abraham Verghese

#6. I'm not ready to let the youthful part of myself go yet. If maturity means becoming a cynic, if you have to kill the part of yourself that is naive and romantic and idealistic - the part of you that you treasure most - to claim maturity, is it not better to die young but with your humanity intact?

Kenneth Cain

#7. I wish there was something more that performers could do other than get out there and sing at benefit performances. I wish I felt that if I had an empty room I'd like to bring in someone and make it a hospice, but I'm not Mother Teresa. I can't do that.

Bea Arthur

#8. At its most fundamental, information is a binary choice. In other words, a single bit of information is one yes-or-no choice.

James Gleick

#9. Much of the time he lay part-dressed on his bed, sipping gin, and thinking, and thinking, - though what it was, of which he thought, he seemed not to know.

Joyce Carol Oates

#10. We're all just in the muck trying to believe we're capable of greatness, but closer to breaking than we want to admit. And we tell ourselves stories
about ourselves,but maybe also all these stories about other people, about characters
as a way to hide from how small we are.

Doug Dorst

#11. Are you a female dog?"
"What?" Massie asked. "Why?"
"Because you are acting like a real bitch!

Lisi Harrison

#12. The young who are male can never resist showing off their knowledge, no doubt because they possess so little.

Kate Elliott

#13. Don't lose out on something that could be forever because you think the timing isn't right. Don't let fate decide.

Nicole Reed

#14. I always overpay or overtip when I'm upset.

Sue Kaufman