Best Mastodon Quotes

#1. Statistics is the first of the inexact sciences.

Edmond De Goncourt

#2. Chaos claims the unwary or the incomplete. A true man may flinch away its embrace, if he is stalwart, and he girds his soul with the armour of contempt.

Dan Abnett

#3. If you want to be appreciated, die or travel.

Renaud Dillies

#4. Down through the years certain fads of slang had come and gone, and their vestiges could be found in Janie's and Mabel's conversation, like mastodon bones in a swamp.

Dolores Hitchens

#5. We should have done more damage to the Iraqi forces before they withdrew from the Kuwaiti theater.

Les Aspin

#6. I'm listening to so much. I looooove Alicia Keys' song, "Unthinkable." I'm blasting that all over the place, but I'm also listening to Sade, and I always have my Heavy Metal, Mastodon.

Jada Pinkett Smith

#7. We cut a few corners and brought the picture in under budget by $25,000, so Paramount let us go back to Boston with a small crew to shoot some additional footage.

Arthur Hiller

#8. But wasn't that progress too, that the elephants were killed off like the mastodon and giant rhino before them, like all other wildlife and wild places? 'We can't stop time,' MacAdam said. 'But you can change the way it goes,' Nehemiah insisted.

Mike Bond

#9. Being with him made my brain quiet.

Jonathan Safran Foer

#10. If you pretend to have authority, people never question you.

Jennifer Close

#11. We're visual creatures. Probably, when we were hunter gatherers ... that was the kind of thing that mattered. And remembering, say, phone numbers was, like, not that important when you're hunting down a mastodon or whatever.

Joshua Foer

#12. He called it a mastodon (which means, a touch unexpectedly, "nipple-teeth").

Bill Bryson

#13. Greatness is not a teachable nor gainable thing, but the expression of the mind of a God-made great man.

John Ruskin

#14. The early morning sunshine shot up the ice-covered valley. It glinted off the backs of slumbering mastodon, reflected between the antlers of caribou.

P.J. Parker

#15. I've already become a mastodon in print - I don't see a consciousness for my kind of journalism.

Hunter S. Thompson

#16. I like to think how easily Nature will absorb London as she absorbed the mastodon, setting her spiders to spin the winding-sheet and her worms to fill in the grave, and her grass to cover it pitifully up, adding flowers - as an unknown hand added them to the grave of Nero.

Edward Thomas

#17. Not only are love and hate such closely related emotions, but it's a lot easier to hate someone you've cared about than someone you never have.

Marilyn Manson

#18. I'm a huge 'Game of Thrones' fan. I'm really into the 'Colbert Report' and 'Last Week Tonight.' And I really like to get on Netflix and watch, like, TV documentaries about: What happened to the mastodon? Or who was Jack the Ripper?

Scott Michael Foster

#19. Verily, Allah lets [a person] enjoy a blessing for as long as He wills. But when He is no longer thanked for it, He turns it into a punishment.

Al-Hasan Al-Basri

#20. All things have rest: why should we toil alone, We only toil, who are the first of things.

Alfred The Great

#21. Amaranthe decided not to explain that it hadn't been a guess, that Sicarius reserved his ultra icy glare for those who threatened him, those who spoke disrespectfully about his son, and those who dared invite Amaranthe to picnic dinners in the park.

Lindsay Buroker

#22. But if these beings guard you, they do so because they have been summoned by your prayers.

Ambrose

#23. Cause there's only one reason for doing anything that you set out to do. if you don't want to be the best, then there's no reason going out and trying to accomplish anything.

Joe Montana